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Imre K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4089)
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Title
Imre K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4089) [videorecording], February 20, 1997.
Created
Israel : Words & Images, 1997.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (7 hr., 56 min.) : col.
Language
Hungarian
Notes
Due to the fact that this testimony contains significant dialogue between the witness and the interviewer, two versions were produced at the time of the taping. One version has the camera focused solely on the witness; the second has two cameras alternating between the witness and the interviewer.
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This testimony is in Hungarian.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Imre K., a Nobel prize laureate in literature, who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. He recounts his family background; their assimilated, Hungarian life style; his parents' divorce when he was five; being sent to an a boys boarding school; his parents' remarriages about six years later; dividing his time between his parents; compulsory religious education in school; segregation of the Jewish students in gymnasium; German invasion in March 1944; his father's death in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald when he was close to death; the prisoner assigned to distribute bread risking his life to give Mr. K. his portion; prisoners advising him to say he was older and moving him to a protected area; living with his mother after liberation; his interest in music; beginning to write; disillusionment with communism; difficulty obtaining good literature due to censorship; easing of conditions after the 1956 revolt; and the eventual publication of his books. Mr. K. discusses many writers and their influence on him; qualities and limits of language in concentration camps, speaking, and writing; issues of translation; using life experiences in his writing, giving examples from specific books; his struggle to convey both Nazi and Stalinist totalitarian regimes through his writing; his first visit to the west in 1938 to the Goethe Institute in Germany; recognition as a writer outside of Hungary rather than in Hungary; living a normal emotional life, despite his camp experiences, due to his resilience; and his identity both as a Jew and Hungarian. He reads from several of his books.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Imre K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4089). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Imre K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4089). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Genre/Form
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