Sidney M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sidney M., who was born in Chynadiyovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his father's cattle business; working in Mukacheve; returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor in Bukovina; being moved several times between Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; once seeing his brother in another battalion; escaping in fall 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been deported around Passover (they did not return); finding a cousin in Mukacheve; learning his brother was fighting with Soviet troops; visiting him; reunion with two more brothers, then a third; learning two sisters were in Sweden; traveling to Germany; living in a displaced persons camp near Munich; and emigrating to the United States in 1948 (his sisters had come in 1946). Mr. M. discusses establishing a successful butcher shop and marriage to a survivor, his sister's friend. He shows photographs.
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
- M., Sidney, -- 1921-
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Escapes.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Chynadiyovo (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Carpathian Mountains.
- Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
- Munich (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat