John P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931. He recounts attending school; visiting his large extended family; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in March 1944; their building's designation as a yellow-star house; his father's deportation to a labor camp; his last visit before deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother obtaining Swedish papers; relocating to a safe house in November; he and his mother escaping from a round-up; returning to the safe house; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with a few surviving aunts and an uncle; hoping for his father's return; receiving documents confirming his father's death in Auschwitz; studying medicine; the revolt in 1956; escaping to Austria; emigrating to Ottawa, Canada; his mother joining him in 1958; marrying a Budapest survivor; the births of two children; divorce; emigrating to the United States; and remarriage. Mr. P. discusses a 1985 visit to his surviving uncle in Hungary; sharing his experiences with his children and wife; a recent antisemitic incident at work triggering anxiety and flashbacks; and psychological problems resulting from never having grieved for his father. He shows photographs.

2 videocassettes