Steven P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Steven P., who was born in Cuhea, Romania in 1928. He recalls observing Shabbat; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school and cheder; relatives in the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Ti?rgu-Mures?; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in April; selection for labor with his father; his brother staying with them for three days; separation from his father after a week (he never saw him again); transfer to Buchenwald; placement in a children's block; German Jews sharing parcels from Switzerland with them; playing with Russian children; transfer to Bergen-Belsen after eight months; a camp official giving him extra food; countless deaths; cannibalism; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; attending movies in Celle; transport to England; hearing from his brother after fifteen months; learning one sister also survived; their emigration to Palestine; apprenticeship as a jeweler; marriage; the births of four children; and visiting relatives in the United States in 1959. Ms. P. discusses camp life including dehumanization, only thinking of food, and the importance of luck; and his depression when he was fifty-three, the age at which his father was killed.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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People
- P., Steven, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postar effects.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Child survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Brothers.
- Jews -- Romania -- Tîrgu-Mureș.
- Fathers and sons.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Places
- Celle (Germany)
- Romania.
- Cuhea (Romania)
- Tîrgu-Mureș ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat