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  1. Annette G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annette G., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1937. She remembers glimpses from her life before the German occupation: her Christian governess; her mother's business; and the family's upstairs apartment. She recalls how her father rejected an offer by Polish friends to hide her and her twin brother; life in the ghetto; deportation of her father and older half-brother; and being smuggled with her nineteen year old half-sister to hide with a Christian family in 1943. She describes bewilderment at being alone in a rat-infested basement for eleven months; her half-sister'...

  2. Harold B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold B., who was born in Raczki, Poland in 1921. He recalls attending school and working in Suwa?ki; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Augusto?w with relatives; six months imprisonment in Hrodna as a German spy; returning to Augusto?w; joining his sister in Lyakhovichi; German invasion; fleeing to Zhitkovichi; doing agricultural work in another town; draft into the Soviet military; various assignments including work in an airplane factory in Kazan?; receiving extr...

  3. Tania R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tania R., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1928. She recounts living in Smorgonʹ; her family's affluence; childhood antisemitic harassment; attending a Tarbut school; Soviet occupation in September 1939; expropriation of their home and business; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing east; staying with relatives in Lebedevo; returning with her mother and sister to Smorgonʹ; her mother's return to Lebedevo, then to Smorgonʹ with her brother (her father had been killed); ghettoization; slave labor in a German officer's home; the Judenrat's refusal to supply lists for th...

  4. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1923, one of four children. She recalls her family's affluence; antisemitic street violence; attending a Jewish school; the non-Jewish caretaker protecting their house during Kristallnacht; her father and older brother leaving for France; her younger siblings being sent to Switzerland; traveling alone to Paris; her father bribing a French official to get her mother to Paris; German invasion; traveling to Vichy; an official allowing them to live in Bandol until 1942; attending a Jewish camp; being hidden by a miner in Collob...

  5. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Stanisławów, Poland (presently Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine) in 1925, the younger of two sons. He recalls his family's upper-class, assimilated lifestyle; Soviet occupation in 1939; German/Hungarian invasion in 1941; ghettoization; his father's participation in the Judenrat; escaping with his parents and brother to the Buchach ghetto; his round-up for deportation; his father bribing a guard to let him go; his mother obtaining false papers for all of them; moving to Warsaw by himself; arrest for not having travel papers while on a train; imprison...

  6. Szapsia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Szapsia S., who was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland in 1925 the oldest of four children. He recalls his large, close extended family; antisemitic violence; his father's military draft in 1939; German invasion; briefly seeing his father with other POWs; learning he had been murdered in a mass shooting; his mother sending him to his great aunt; forced labor; a brief visit to his family (he never saw them again); deportation of his aunt and relatives; living with his cousin in a ghetto; a non-Jewish worker providing him with extra food; friendship with two prisoners...

  7. Walter K. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Ro?hrenfurth, Germany in 1922. He recounts anti-Jewish laws banning him from high school in 1936; Kristallnacht; imprisonment with his father and relatives in Kassel, then Buchenwald; his father's and uncles' release as World War I veterans; his release to Erfurt two weeks later; forced labor in Kassel; emigration to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport in February 1939; entering through Oldenzaal; living in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Amsterdam; obtaining emigration documents for the United States in March 1940; transfer to Westerbork refugee...

  8. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slav...

  9. Celina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; the bombing of their home; beatings of Jews including her brother; moving to Koprzywnica with her mother; returning to Warsaw to rejoin their family; ghettoization; round-ups; deaths from starvation; deciding to escape despite not wanting to leave her family; traveling to Koprzywnica, then to Sandomierz; staying with a Jewish family; escaping during a round-up; hiding with a Polish family; returning to the Warsaw ghetto; learning her family had...

  10. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Leles, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, one of five children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's death in 1929; completing high school; learning tailoring; Hungarian occupation in 1940; deportation to Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in March 1944, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and aunt (they were gassed immediately); transfer to Buna/Monowitz with his younger brother; slave labor for I.G. Farben; receiving extra food from a kapo; sharing food with his brother; public hangings of escapees and a few ...

  11. Sara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara K., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1928, the older of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father's several businesses; moving to Warsaw in 1937 where her parents thought she and her brother would receive better educations; German invasion; she and her brother walking with her father to protect him from forced labor; ghettoization; being sent with her brother to live with an aunt in the Piaski Luterski ghetto, where it was easier to obtain food; returning to the Warsaw ghetto a year later after being warned of a round-up (her aunt ...

  12. Adela C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adela S., who was born in Jaros?aw, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1912, one of nine children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and relative affluence; attending school; working as a seamstress; marriage in 1931; living with her in-laws in ?an?cut; returning to Jaros?aw; the births of three children; her very happy life; German invasion; her husband's flight to the Soviet Union; joining him with their children (she never saw her parents again); their transport to Siberia; her husband's forced labor chopping wood and hers in a bathhouse; her daughte...

  13. Helen N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland in approximately 1925, one of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public hanging; Germans confiscating their possessions and killing her grandfather; a round-up; selection for work (she never saw her family again); forced factory labor; obtaining false papers with assistance from her father's friend, a Jewish policeman; escaping with two other girls; traveling to Warsaw; living with a non-Jew...

  14. Jewish refugees in Holland: Papers of the Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtlingen, Amsterdam

    This microfilm collection consists of an archive of correspondence and reports of a German Jewish refugee organisation in the Netherlands during the 1930s and a hard copy file of similar material.

  15. Bloch Brothers (Fond 293)

    Contains correspondence and other documents relating to Jewish emigration and Jewish refugee help.The correspondence refers often to the Dutch Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen (Committee for Jewish refugees). Max, Lippmann, and Albert Bloch, Jewish businessmen were born in Breslau, now Wroclaw, where they owned a large company until 1933. Forced by the Nazis, they emigrated to Amsterdam with their company. More or less immediately after their emigration to Amsterdam the Bloch brothers started helping other Jewish refugees who tried to leave Germany or other countries and looked for refuge...

  16. Magda Trocmé papers

    The Magda Trocmé papers comprise a letter and a framed photograph. The letter was written by Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig in 1944 in New York after the liberation of France, describes how much Elizabeth misses the Trocmé family, and tells them about her experiences as a recent refugee to the United States. The framed photograph depicts Magda Trocmé's children, Nelly and Jean Pierre, and their dog Fido at the door of the Rectory in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Magda Trocmé described this door as "one that let through many refugees and was never closed."

  17. Irving S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1924. He recalls his father's atheism despite his family's orthodoxy (one brother was a cantor); German invasion in 1941; ghettoization in 1943; transport with 600 youths for forced labor in Larisa; public hanging of an escapee; return to Salonika six months later; finding all the Jews had been deported, including his family; deportation to Birkenau three days later; encountering his older brother (all other family had been killed); transfer to Auschwitz after two weeks; transfer to Warsaw three days later with other...

  18. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in approximately 1917. He recounts the German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother to L?viv in the Soviet zone; working in coal mines in the Donets region; escaping to Kiev; involuntary transport to Siberia in 1940 for forced labor; escaping to Ternopil?, then L?viv; German invasion in 1941; forced labor; acquiring false papers from a Pole; traveling with his brother and cousin to Wolbrom in late 1941; briefly hiding in a bunker; incarceration with his brother in Stalowa Wola in 1942 for almost two years; capture during an escape attempt; t...

  19. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland (presently L?viv, Ukraine) in 1925. She recalls moving with her family to Magerov; German occupation for two weeks; Soviet occupation; reporting for compulsory forced labor for the Soviets on June 22, 1941; German bombardment; being driven eastward by Soviet troops (she never saw her parents again), then train transport from Ternopil?; escaping from the train in Kharkiv with two friends; having to retreat with Soviets as the Germans advanced; forced labor; escaping in 1944; walking for hundreds of miles; arriving in Kiev in the...

  20. Bronia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1914, the second of five children. She recounts her family moving to the Netherlands, then Berlin due to World War I; moving to Katowice in 1928; participating in Zionist organizations; vacations in Zakopane; returning to Os?wie?cim; her older brother's emigration to France; German invasion; fleeing with her mother to L?viv; Soviet occupation; one brother joining them; returning to Os?wie?cim to rejoin her father, sister, and one brother; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; h...