Sam T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sam T., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1927, the third of nine children. He recounts living in Berehove; his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expropriation of his father's business; going to Budapest in order to work and send money home to his family; his older brother joining him; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew through a Zionist organization; smuggling food into and a few Jews out of the ghetto; hiding in a bunker during searches; obtaining his brother's release using false papers; food shortages; frequent bombings; liberation by Soviet troops; illegally entering Romania, then Italy with assistance from Zionists; reunion with his brother and one sister (his parents and five siblings did not survive); 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
- T., Sam, -- 1927?-
Subjects
- Zionists.
- Brothers.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Bunkers.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Berehove (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Romania.
- Italy.
- Budapest ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat