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Author/Creator:F., Ernest, 1921-
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Title:Ernest F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1659) [videorecording] / interviewed by Elizabeth Jacob and Raya C. Schapiro, January 14, 1990.
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Published/Created:Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 22 min.)
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1659)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:Associated material: Farkas, Ernest. Interview 2506. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary: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.
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Cite as:Ernest F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1659). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:F., Ernest, 1921-
Sered (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Forced labor.
Brothers.
Dreams.
Death marches.
Czechoslovakia.
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Nitra (Slovakia)
Borinka (Slovakia)
Levice (Slovakia)
Cabaj-Čápor (Slovakia)
Hungary.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Pressburg (Czechoslovakia)
Charlottengrube (Poland : Concentration camp)
Leslau (Poland : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.
Schapiro, Raya C., interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1110362