Peter S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935, an only child. He recounts his family's long history in Hungary; gatherings with his large, extended family; his father's military service; his transfer to a slave labor battalion as Nazism prevailed; his mother's arrest in 1944; living with an aunt; placement, through family connections with the Red Cross and using false papers, in a home for Christian children of military families; hunger, cold, and frequent relocations during the winter 1944-1945 siege of Budapest; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with his mother's sister and father's brother (the happiest moment of his life); living with his paternal grandmother; his father's return; illegally entering Austria with his father; living in Vienna; learning his mother had not survived; antisemitic harassment; emigration to the United States; attending high school and college; military enlistment; earning a doctorate; his academic career; and emigration to Canada.

2 videocassettes