- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Parkan (today Štúrovo), Czechoslovakia, in 1926. Mr. S. recalls his father's imprisonment as a "Hungarian master spy" in 1937; his release when Parkan was ceded to Hungary; his parents' separation in 1940; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; returning to Parkan with his mother in March 1944; smuggling food into the ghetto; losing his exemption (as the son of a Hungarian hero) from forced labor in August 1944; railroad construction in Transylvania; work as the commandant's wagon driver; a brutal sergeant whom he helped unmask after the war; and the unit's withdrawal to suburban Budapest after Horthy's fall. He describes escaping; joining the Relief and Rescue Committee; obtaining false papers; saving a group of children from deportation; meeting Committee members in a restaurant frequented by Nazis; attending a meeting between Kasztner and Eichmann; and rewarding a Christian for sheltering an escaped Jew. He relates liberation; serving as an interpreter for Soviet troops; reunion with his father in Parkan; work as a foreign correspondent in Prague in 1948; escape from Czechoslovakia in 1954; and his journalism career since arriving in America in 1958.
- Author/Creator
- S., Frank, 1926-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- June 5, 1991.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Štúrovo (Slovakia)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Transylvania (Romania)
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Frank S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1532). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
