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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Pinchas H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1760)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Devorah Mann,
f| December 16, 1990.
a| New York, N.Y. :
b| A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage,
c| 1990.
a| 1 videorecording (2 hr., 36 min.)
a| Videotape testimony of Pinchas H., who was born in Kisvárda, Hungary in 1924. He recalls living in Vác and Kisvárda; working in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; returning to Kisvárda; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assignment with his father and brother to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer with his brother to Buchenwald, then to Tröglitz; slave labor; Allied bombings; his brother's hospitalization; their transfer to Berga, then Buchenwald; his transfer to Ohrdruf; public hangings; hospitalization; transfer to Crawinkel, then back to Ohrdruf; transfer to Buchenwald; learning of his brother's evacuation (he never saw him again); deciding to commit suicide; assistance from people from Kisvárda which saved his life; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; traveling to Budapest, then Kisvárda; support from the Joint; illegally traveling to Greece; British incarceration on Cyprus for illegally trying to enter Palestine; legally entering in December 1946; marriage; serving in the Israel-Arab and Sinai campaigns; and emigration with his family to the United States. Mr. H. discusses camp life, including religious observances and the impact of starvation; not expecting his children to understand his experiences; continuing painful memories; and believing it would take days and/or volumes to convey his experiences. He shows documents.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Pinchas H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1760). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
a| Birkenau (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
a| Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997
a| Berga (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003053732
a| Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068600
a| Tröglitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99030377
a| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Hungary
z| Kisvárda.
a| Fathers and sons.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455
a| Brothers.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Concentration camp inmates
x| Religious life.
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Concentration camps
x| Psychological aspects.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
a| Suicide.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129742
a| Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068706
a| Sinai Campaign, 1956.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122784
a| Kisvárda (Hungary)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81148994
a| Hungary.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053090
a| Vác (Hungary)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83173252
a| Budapest (Hungary)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691
a| Palestine
x| Emigration and immigration.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165
a| Cyprus.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055857
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Hospitals in concentration camps
a| Survivor-child relations.
a| Crawinkel (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003103663
a| Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager)
a| Mann, Devorah,
e| interviewer.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1760)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/000000005j
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/