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  1. Al H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al H., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. He recounts serving in the 104th Infantry Division; landing on Utah beach; fighting as they progressed through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands into Germany; liberating Nordhausen in 1945; the pervasive stench and corpses strewn about; his uncontrollable sobbing; observing General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction; taking photographs; ordering local Germans to bury the dead; their denial of any knowledge of the camp; assisting Jewish women prisoners who had been hiding nearby; leaving after two or three days; ...

  2. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  3. Shary K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shary K., who was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia in 1918. She tells of her marriage on April 6, 1941, the day of the German invasion; living in Tuzla; leaving her mother behind (she never saw her again) to escape, dressed as a Muslim, to Mostar to join her husband; working as a nurse for the partisans; fleeing to Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States; life at Fort Ontario; and their return trip to Yugoslavia in 1991.

  4. Ida C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recalls moving to Siedlce, returning to Warsaw prior to 1938; brief German invasion while she was with her grandparents near Siedlce; Soviet occupation; traveling to Minsk; her parents and sister joining them, transport to Arkhangel?sk in late 1939, then to a labor camp in Komi; attending school while her parents worked; hunger; and transfer to Samarqand at the end of 1941. Mrs. C. recounts their return to Poland in 1945; leaving ?o?dz? intending to emigrate to Palestine, living in a displaced persons camp and in Ulm...

  5. Henry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry C., who was born in the United States. Mr. C. describes his Yiddish and Workmen's Circle background; attending college; being drafted into the United States Army in 1944; eight months of combat in Europe; working at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Headquarters; discharge from the army in 1946; working for UNRRA as a civilian, managing Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; frequent problems maintaining the physical facilities resulting in poor sanitation; an incident when U.S. soldiers harassed Jewish refugees; his attempts to improve co...

  6. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Vienna and raised in Poland. He speaks of the Russian occupation of his home town; the ghettoization immediately following the German occupation; the killing of his family; his escape to the woods, where he remained in hiding for two years; his deportation to Siberia by the Russians in 1944; and his emigration from Russia, including his stay in a displaced persons camp.