Ernest F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1659) [videorecording] / interviewed by Elizabeth Jacob and Raya C. Schapiro, January 14, 1990.

Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 22 min.)

English

Associated material: Farkas, Ernest. Interview 2506. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Pressburg (Bratislava), Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recalls his family of eleven children; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Nitra in 1941; hiding in Borinka with his father; assistance from a non-Jewish friend; hiding in an attic with his brother and sister when his family was deported in 1942; posing as a non-Jew in Cabaj; escape to Hungary with his siblings; returning to Nitra via Levice in 1944; fabricating false papers; deportation with his brother to Sered,̕ then Auschwitz/Birkenau in October 1944; slave labor in a coal mine in Charlottengrube; being inspired to go on after dreaming of his father; assistance from a German officer and a Polish woman; a death march to Leslau in January 1945; transfer to Mauthausen; reunion with his brother in Ebensee in February; his brother's death in April; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. F. recounts reunion with a brother and sister in Pressburg; returning to Nitra; emigrating to the United States in 1948; and raising his children to be religious.

June 01, 2002

Ernest F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1659). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ernest F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1659). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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