Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alex F., who was born in Ladmovce, Czechoslovakia, in 1926. He describes the Hungarian occupation in 1938; being taken as a hostage by the Hungarian police in 1944; the relocation of the region's Jews to the ghetto in Sátoraljaújhely in the same year; his deportation to Birkenau, where he was separated from his parents; and his transfer to the labor camp of Auschwitz, where he worked making fertilizer. He relates his experience as an experimental subject in Auschwitz, after which he hid to escape a selection; the death march from Auschwitz to Breslau in January, 1945; and his transfer to the camps of Gross Rosen, Dachau, Mühldorf, Landsberg, and Kaufering. He tells of the cannibalism he witnessed in Kaufering; his and the other prisoners' escape from the train which was to have taken them from the camp; and liberation by the Americans. Mr. F. also speaks of the continuing physical and psychological effects of his wartime experience.
- Published
- Bridgeport, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
- Interview Date
- August 7, 1979.
- Locale
- Hungary
Sátoraljaújhely
Czechoslovakia
Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
Wrocław (Poland)
Ladmovce (Slovakia) - Cite As
- Alex F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-28). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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 (54 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Human experimentation in medicine. Jewish ghettos. Cannibalism. Forced labor. Jews--Hungary--Sátoraljaújhely. Czechoslovakia. Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary) Wrocław (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Ladmovce (Slovakia) F., Alex,--1926- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Mühldorf (Concentration camp) Landsberg (Concentration camp) Kaufering (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/616918
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616918
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