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Arnold and Lionel R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-64) interviewed by Miriam Forman and Dori Laub,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-64

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Arnold R. who was born in 1928 in a town in Slovakia, and his brother Lionel R., who was born in the same town in 1926. Both brothers describe their Orthodox upbringing; the Hungarian and German occupations; their life in the ghetto at Munkács; the liquidation of the ghetto; and widespread violence and cruelty. They relate their transport to and arrival at Auschwitz; separation from their mother; their transfer, along with their father, to Mauthausen; and their slave labor in Melk and Ebensee. They also tell of their support of each other and their father during this time; liberation; emigration to the United States; their thirty years of silence about their experiences; the lasting effects of these experiences; and their feelings about passing their memories to their children.
Author/Creator: R., Arnold, 1928-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1982
Interview Date: October 30, 1982.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Cite As: Arnold and Lionel R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-64). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Forman, Miriam, interviewer.
Laub, Dori, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Jews Hungary Munkács.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Brothers and sisters. Fathers and sons. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Slovakia. Czechoslovakia. Brothers. Oral histories (document genres) Mukacheve (Ukraine) R., Arnold,--1928- R., Lionel,--1926- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616903
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616903

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