Nikola V. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nikola V., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922. He recounts attending Serb schools; studying medicine in Belgrade; German invasion in April 1941; fleeing to Cetinje; Italian occupation; acquiring false papers; returning to Subotica, now under Hungarian occupation, in May 1941; moving to Budapest; weekly forced labor; acceptance to medical school in Szeged in September 1943; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; slave labor digging bunkers in Novi Sad; his mother's monthly visits; transfer to Ruthenia, then Ukraine in spring 1944; brutal beatings; deaths from malnutrition and exposure; being wounded; hiding when his unit was transferred; hospitalization; working in the hospital as a medical aide; liberation by Soviet troops in Vylok; traveling to Arad, then TimisĚŚoara; living with a Jewish family; traveling to Szeged, then to Subotica in December 1944; reunion with his sister and father; learning of the deaths of many relatives; working in a hospital in Subotica; moving to Belgrade in November 1944; completing medical school; and his marriage to a Serbian woman. Mr. V. notes suffering from occasional nightmares.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- V., Nikola, -- 1922-
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Italian occupation.
- Hiding.
- Hungarian occupation.
- False papers.
- Forced labor.
- Nightmares.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Szeged (Hungary)
- Novi Sad (Serbia)
- Cetinje (Montenegro)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
- Belgrade (Serbia)
- Yugoslavia.
- TimisĚŚoara (Romania)
- Arad (Romania)
- Vylok (Ukraine)
- Ruthenia (Czechoslovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat