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  1. Anna O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna O., who was born in Hungary in 1927. She recounts pervasive antisemitism; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; German invasion in March 1944; staying with her boyfriend's family; returning home despite regulations against Jews traveling; the town's Jews being forced into one house; deportation by cattle car to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father and grandmother (she never saw them again); remaining with her mother and a cousin; transfer to P?aszo?w; assisting her mother with slave labor; return to Auschwitz; relief at being tattooed, thinking they would su...

  2. Clara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara G., who was born in Nyi?rba?tor, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her family's Hasidism; loss of their business in 1943 due to anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in March 1944; transfer to the Simapuszta ghetto; train transport from Nyi?regyha?za to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw her mother again); remaining with her cousins; briefly seeing her father and brother; lighting candles on Fridays; transfer to Stutthof, then to another camp in summer 1944; slave labor at a munitions factory; camp evacuation; disappearance of the guards; liber...

  3. Malka B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recounts her family's move to Cze?stochowa in 1928; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including prohibitions against attending schools; separation from her mother in a round-up (she never saw her again); her father and brother doing forced railroad labor; their disappearance; her subsequent state of shock; slave labor in the HASAG factory; hiding a young child in their barrack; playing and singing with him which kept her sane (he survived); loosing her will to live when she was ill; a Jewish doctor taking ...

  4. Witold F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Witold F., a non-Jew born in Pleszew, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending school in Chorzo?w, a military academy in Warsaw, and teaching in Silesia; German invasion; military service in Krako?w; being captured by Germans in Tomaszow Lubelski; attempting escape to Czechoslovakia using false papers; incarceration in Krako?w's Montelupich prison; and inclusion in the second transport to Auschwitz in 1940. Mr. F. describes camp life in detail; friends helping him to obtain a job, which included access to many areas; receiving and writing letters home (he shows them); obs...

  5. Leon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his affluent, orthodox family; antisemitic incidents; one sister's emigration to Palestine; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; joining the underground; denouncement by a Jew as a black marketeer; imprisonment; release; living with his parents in the ghetto; deportation with his family; jumping from the train after his brother did (he never saw his parents and sister again); hiding with his father's Polish friend; returning to the ghetto; reunion with his brother; their transfer to P?aszo?w; his brother s...

  6. George G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George G., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1924. He recalls his close, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; speaking Polish at home; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending gymnasium; German invasion; traveling with his father to Warsaw; returning to Be?dzin alone (he never saw his father again); joining Betar; his sister's marriage; Rosh ha-Shanah services in an orphanage (the synagogue had been burned); deportation to a labor camp in Germany in 1941 (he never saw his mother or sister again); transfer to Gross Masselwitz in December, to Klettend...

  7. Irene M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene M., who was born in Jano?w, Poland (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her family's move to Zimna Voda; attending a Jewish school in L?viv; joining Deror; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; hiding with one brother during deportations in August 1942 (she never saw her parents again); acquiring false birth certificates for them both; their flight to Krako?w, then Krosno, posing as non-Jews; refusing to follow relatives' advice to enter a labor camp; finding employment in a German...

  8. Oscar F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1921, one of eight children. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; help from a former schoolmate who was in the SS; round-ups by Jewish police appointed by the Judenrat; escaping from a labor camp with assistance from a non-Jew; moving with his family into the Podhajce ghetto; hiding with his brother during "aktions"; his mother lighting Sabbath candles despite the constant fear; escaping to the woods with friends; learning the ghetto was liquidated; seeking and finding many other escapees in the w...

  9. Max H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1936; working in the family's beauty salon; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in March 1941; working as a hospital barber; hiding his mother during round-ups; separation from her in October 1942 (he never saw her again); marriage in 1942; barbering for Germans; transfer with his wife to P?aszo?w in 1943; working as a messenger; seeing Kommandant Amon Goeth randomly killing prisoners; public hangings; arranging his wife's exemption from dep...

  10. Joshua B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua B., who was born in 1930 in Lechint?a, Romania where his grandfather was the rabbi. He recalls moving to a village; anti-Semitic incidents; Hungarian occupation; moving with his grandparents and older brother to another town in 1941; being forced to move to the Bistrit?a ghetto around Passover in 1944; and deportation to Auschwitz about a month later. Mr. B. describes separation from his grandfather, whom he never saw again; transfer to Birkenau; finding his father, who brought extra food to him and his brother; his father's transfer (he did not survive); shari...

  11. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  12. Jakob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1927, one of six brothers. He recounts attending public and Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; visiting his grandfather in Jedlin?sk; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor in a kitchen; a German soldier giving him potatoes; his father having him smuggled out of the ghetto; the ghetto's liquidation; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging production; public executions; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Auschwitz, then Vaihingen an der Enz; constructing underground airplane hangers; ...

  13. Rebeka P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebeka P., who was born in Bender, Romania (presently Moldava) in approximately 1918. She recalls growing up in Kishinev (presently Chis?ina?u); increasing antisemitism beginning in 1933; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of her father's business; working in the agriculture department; Romania allying itself with Germany; fleeing east with her parents and younger brother by train; strafing by German planes; leaving the train with her father when he was injured; joining her mother and brother in Alma-Ata; moving to Zhambyl; marriage to a Russian Jew; her brother'...

  14. Maurice E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's 1929 move to Antwerp, then Brussels, to escape from the orthodox community; their assimilated life style; attending school until age fourteen; participating in socialist groups; his family housing a German-Jewish refugee; German invasion in May 1940; he and his brother fleeing to Paris to join the military; his rejection though his brother was accepted; living in a facility for Belgians in Montpellier; working at a vineyard; incarceration at Agde; escaping with...

  15. Aliza B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1928. She recalls a happy childhood among her large, extended family; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; her brother's escape; ghettoization; her brother's return; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brother; the smell of "burning meat"; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; selection for specious medical experiments and surgery performed by Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann, Wladyslaw Dering, and Carl Clauberg; recoveri...

  16. Wolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in G?ogo?w. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separat...

  17. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1934. She recalls her parents were physicians who worked in a small village (Jews were banned from hospital positions); taking an orphan into their home; close relations with a large, extended family; moving to Gherla; Hungarian occupation; her father being taken for Hungarian slave labor battalions from 1942 to 1944; frequent visits; German occupation in 1944 (her father was home); anti-Jewish regulations; the round-up of Jews into a factory; train transfer to the Cluj ghetto; a friend warning her father not to go on transp...

  18. Yitzhak F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1916, the oldest of five children. He recalls his father's sock business; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with his father; returning to Łódź; his mother and sisters going to Warsaw (he never saw them again); ghettoization; forced labor; functions of the Judenrat; deportations; encountering Ḥayim Rumkowski; moving to avoid deportations; arrest; deportation to Częstochowa, then Skarżysko three weeks later; slave labor in camp A; transfer to Częstochowa; slave labor in the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; a severe ...

  19. Fela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fela W., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family's Hasidism; being mocked by non-Jews; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; one SS man providing help for her family; a public hanging of Jewish young men; ghettoization; transfer with her family to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family except her sister; transfer a few days later to Poppenbu?ttel-Sasel (Hamburg); clearing rubble from Allied bombings; transfer nine months later to a POW camp; treatment for blood poisoning by a prisoner doctor; tra...

  20. Rudy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. He recalls many non-Jewish friends; antisemitism following the Anschluss; implementation of the Nuremberg laws; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; joining a kibbutz to prepare for emigration to Palestine; Kristallnacht; arrest immediately after the war began; transfer to Buchenwald; slave labor; hospitalization; being saved by non-Jewish prisoners; apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which provided better rations; receiving mail from his family until August 1942; transfer to Auschwitz in October; assignment to Buna/Monowitz...