Eugen V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2218) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaša Almuli, January 17, 1992.

Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 min.) : col.

This testimony is in Serbian.

Videotape testimony of Eugen V., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in approximately 1923. He recalls his orthodox home; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; graduation from business school; working in Novi Sad; Hungarian occupation; a sadistic and bloody mass killing of Jews and Serbs in January 1942, including his girlfriend and her family; fleeing with his brother to Budapest; being hidden once by non-Jews; his brother's deportation; forced service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion at the end of 1943; serving in Transylvania; beatings; having an operation on his hand in a hospital in Cluj; his father's former co-worker, a Serbian non-Jew, providing him with extra food; service in the Carpathian Mountains; an older Serbian man protecting him; being tortured when one person was missing (he later returned) which caused a permanent disability; retreating barefoot; escaping; liberation by Soviet troops; a Jewish officer taking him to a clinic; serving as a translator for the Soviets; returning to Subotica, then Novi Sad; learning his father and one brother had survived the camps, but the rest of his family was killed; and his father's remarriage and emigration to Israel. Mr. V. also discusses his career as an actor and his Jewish studies and publications.

June 01, 2002

Eugen V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2218). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Eugen V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2218). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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