Arnold and Lionel R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
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 Munka?cs; 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.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Arnold, -- 1928-
- R., Lionel, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Melk (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Fathers and sons.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Munkács.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Brothers.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Munkács (Hungary)
- Slovakia.
- Munkács ghetto.
- Nove Clernovitz (Slovakia)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Slovak Republic (Czechoslovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc