Ernest F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Pressburg (Bratislava), Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recalls his family of eleven children; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Nitra in 1941; hiding in Borinka with his father; assistance from a non-Jewish friend; hiding in an attic with his brother and sister when his family was deported in 1942; posing as a non-Jew in Cabaj; escape to Hungary with his siblings; returning to Nitra via Levice in 1944; fabricating false papers; deportation with his brother to Sered,? then Auschwitz/Birkenau in October 1944; slave labor in a coal mine in Charlottengrube; being inspired to go on after dreaming of his father; assistance from a German officer and a Polish woman; a death march to Leslau in January 1945; transfer to Mauthausen; reunion with his brother in Ebensee in February; his brother's death in April; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. F. recounts reunion with a brother and sister in Pressburg; returning to Nitra; emigrating to the United States in 1948; and raising his children to be religious.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Ernest, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Sered (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Death marches.
- Dreams.
- Brothers.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Hungary.
- Cabaj (Slovakia)
- Levice (Slovakia)
- Borinka (Slovakia)
- Nitra (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Leslau (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Pressburg (Czechoslovakia)
- Charlottengrube (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat