Mark N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mark N., who was born in Soymy, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Czechoslovakia after World War I, presently Ukraine), in 1908, one of eight children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; joining the Czech army in 1928; serving for two years; Zionist agricultural training in Ostrava in 1936; emigrating to Haifa; returning home at his parents' request; military service in 1938; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; slave labor at various locations; returning home on leave in 1941; learning that his family had been deported; finding one sister in Khust; hiding with friends in Kam?i?a?net?s??-Podil?sk?yi?; their arrest; a German forcing him to dig his own grave; killing the soldier and escaping; forays with a partisan group against Germans for a month; joining the Czech army in Chernivt?s?i in 1944; liberating concentration camps; assisting female prisoners from one of them; finding three nephews who had survived; and illegally leaving Czechoslovakia in 1949. Mr. N. discusses losing hope during the war; persistent painful memories; and reluctance to share his experience with his wife and children, despite their interest. He shows a photograph.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- N., Mark, -- 1908-
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Hungarian occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Soymy (Ukraine)
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- Haifa (Israel)
- Austria.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat