- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Vysná Rybnica, Czechoslovakia in1921. He recalls the family move to Goronda; living in his maternal grandfather's home; learning to be a tailor in Svali︠a︡va; Hungarian occupation; living briefly in Budapest; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Püspökladány in February 1942; transfer to Hajdúhadház and Reghin; an appendectomy in Debrecen; returning home to recuperate; learning one older brother was in another battalion and the other in the Soviet Union; returning to his battalion; hearing that his parents and younger sisters were ghettoized in Munkacs; learning his battalion was to be transferred to Germany; escaping with twelve others; splitting into two groups; a Hungarian man hiding them in a bunker for two months, then hiding in vineyard shacks; arrest in summer 1944; transport to Mauthausen; a death march to Gunskirchen; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Wiener Neustadt, Budapest, and Goronda; learning no family members had survived; moving to Košice, then Teplice; living in an UNRRA camp in Germany; emigration to the United States in 1948 to join relatives; and marriage to a Polish survivor. Mr. L. discusses sharing his story with his children and grandchildren.
- Author/Creator
- L., Jack, 1921-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimones, 2001
- Interview Date
- November 27, 2001.
- Locale
- Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Vyšná Rybnica (Slovakia)
Goronda (Ukraine)
Svali︠a︡va (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Püspökladány (Hungary)
Hajdúhadház (Hungary)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Reghin (Romania)
Wiener Neustadt (Austria)
Košice (Slovakia)
Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Jack L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4149). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
