Robert F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3985) interviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Králová

Videotape testimony of Robert F., who was born in Orşova, Romania in 1914, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his family's secularism; his father's career in a mineral oil factory; home-schooling until he was thirteen, including tutoring by a rabbi; attending high school in Timișoara; the family's move to Bucharest; completing high school; working in his father's factory; attending university in Vienna with his brother; antisemitic violence; completing university in Prague; moving with his family to Podbrezová in 1936, then to Dubova, where his father managed an oil refinery; military draft and demobilization; German occupation; working with his father; he and his brother entering into arranged marriages in 1942 to save the women from deportation, intending to divorce in the future; bombing of the oil refinery; fleeing with his family and others to the forests during the Slovak uprising in 1944, thinking they would stay a few weeks; living there for five months with about twenty people; assistance from local non-Jews; liberation by Soviet troops; the birth of a daughter; factory workers returning their valuables after the war and his long marriage. Mr. F. shows photographs.