Ezra L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0381
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ezra L., who was born in 1927, in Czechoslovakia. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1944; his father arranging for a non-Jew to take Mr. L. and his brother; ghettoization of his parents and three younger siblings in Khust; hiding in the forest with his brother; assistance from partisans; building underground bunkers; three Jewish girls joining them; a Catholic family providing food; brief separation from his brother; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to his family's home; reunion with an uncle; traveling to Bucharest and Budapest with his brother and uncle; living in a displaced persons camp in Austria, then Italy; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; their attempted illegal emigration to Palestine; incarceration in Cyprus; release prior to independence; serving in the 1948 war; living on kibbutzim; marriage; and emigration to the United States.

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

  • L., Ezra, -- 1927-

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Brothers.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Bunkers.
  • Child survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Czechoslovakia.
  • Forests.
  • Hiding.
  • Partisans.
  • Hungarian occupation.

Places

  • Austria.
  • Italy.
  • Cyprus.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Palestine.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Bucharest (Romania)
  • Czechoslovakia.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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