Fred E. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1040
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Fred E., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, the oldest of four children. He recalls Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation; ghettoization with his family; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters; his father volunteering as a metal worker (he was afraid to do so); transfer to Janina coal mines; slave labor; becoming numb; friendships with other Hungarians; a death march and train transport to Flossenbu?rg; liberation from a train; hospitalization in Nuremberg; transport to Prague; traveling to Budapest; reunion with his sister; their return to Uz?h?horod seeking family (no one else survived); living in an UNRRA camp in Italy; moving to Paris; marriage; working for the Joint; and emigration to Australia. Mr. E. notes his sister remained in Uz?h?horod until her emigration to Israel ten years ago; not wanting to burden his children with his memories; and health problems due to his camp experiences.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

  • E., Fred, -- 1927-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Death marches.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Hungarian occupation.

Places

  • Ungvár ghetto.
  • Australia.
  • Paris (France)
  • Užhorod (Czechoslovakia)
  • Janina (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Italy.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  • Nuremberg (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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