Izidor S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3028
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Izidor S., who was born in Ulic?, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to an impoverished family. He recounts his mother's death, his father's two subsequent marriages; having about ten siblings; apprenticeship as a tailor at age twelve; dismissal because he left without permission; a three year apprenticeship as a baker in Snina; working in Humenne?, then Uz?h?horod; Hungarian occupation; military draft in 1938; basic training in Michalovce; an officer allowing him to leave; recall in October 1939; serving in Romania (he was the only Jew in his unit); placement in a slave labor battalion after a furlough; release in 1941; returning home; remobilization in 1943; serving in Kos?ice; escaping with two others during a transport; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. tells of aid from the Joint in Kos?ice; traveling to Uz?h?horod, then Ulic?; reunion with a brother and brother-in-law; traveling to Bratislava, then Uz?h?horod; joining two brothers; traveling to Bucharest, then Budapest; one brother returning to Uz?h?horod (they never heard from him again); traveling illegally to Italy; preparing for emigration to Palestine in Modena (his brother went); and emigration to the United States in 1949 to join a sister.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

  • S., Izidor, -- 1918-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Hungarian.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Places

  • Humenné (Slovakia)
  • Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  • Snina (Slovakia)
  • Ulič (Slovakia)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Modena (Italy)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Bucharest (Romania)
  • Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • Košice (Slovakia)
  • Romania.
  • Michalovce (Slovakia)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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