Joseph S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2641) [videorecording] / interviewed by Edith Bayme and Pam Goodman, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 39 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Sollosy, Joseph. Interview 12076. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1910. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his marriage; antisemitic laws beginning in 1938; draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; forced labor in Nagyvárad (Oradea), Voronezh on the Soviet front, then Vienna; discharge for health reasons; his divorce; German occupation in 1944; selection for forced labor; transfer to Budapest; sabotaging German machinery; smuggling food into ghetto areas; transfer to Fertőrakos; deportation to Mauthausen; liberation by United States troops; convalescing from typhus in Linz; learning his brother and family had perished in Auschwitz; returning to Győr; remarriage; reopening his business; emigrating to the United States in 1956 due to the uprising; and working as a mechanical engineering supervisor. Mr. S. discusses specific wartime incidents and his determination to resist victimization. He shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Joseph S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2641). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Joseph S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2641). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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