Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Bodrogkeresztu?r, Hungary in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls his family's comfortable, orthodox life; attending yeshiva in Miskolc; working in his father's lumber business; his father's decision to join his fellow Jews in the Sa?toralja?ujhely ghetto despite his exemption as a decorated veteran; joining his family after he and his brother failed to find a hiding place; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with two brothers (he never saw his father again); their transfer to Schotterwerk; with his brother, becoming adjutant to the Kommandant; smuggling food; saving other prisoners; refusing to help Hungarian guards escape; their denunciation by the guards; brutal beatings; their transfer to Doernhau; the death march to Gross-Rosen; he and his brother being saved from execution by another guard; death marches to various camps, including Flossenbu?rg; posing as non-Jews among Dutch prisoners; liberation by United States troops; return to Bodrogkeresztu?r; reunion with his mother and surviving siblings; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Mr. R. discusses restoring the Jewish cemetery in Bodrogkeresztu?r and a Jewish school in Budapest and the importance of faith to his survival. He shows photographs.

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