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  1. Abe A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe A., who was born in approximately 1923 in Bodzanow?, Poland, one of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his large, extended family; visiting relatives in P?ock; participating in Agudat Israel; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; forced labor; organization of the Judenrat; slave labor in Drobin in spring 1940; his cousin being shot; illness; returning home; transfer with his family to Dzia?dowo in March 1941, then four weeks later to Cze?stochowa; ghettoization; slave labor in Gidle; visiting...

  2. Bertha W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha W., one of ten children, who grew up in Mukacheve (presently Ukraine). She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Hungarian school; their move to a mixed neighborhood in 1918; cordial relations with non-Jews during the Czech period; Hungarian occupation; the draft of three brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions (another had emigrated to France); her father's death in 1941, and her mother's in 1943; ghettoization with her sisters in a brick factory for one week; deportation with one sister to Auschwitz in spring 1944; slave labor in a chemical facto...

  3. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in approximately 1921 to an orthodox, middle class family with five children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-232), Mr. K. recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; antisemitic harassment before the war; his father's death in the Pruz?h?any ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his brothers; his brothers' transfer to another work kommando (they both died a few weeks later); working with a cousin in a leather factory; hospitalization after Al...

  4. Adam P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam P., who was born in Hungary in 1938. He recounts his parents' conversion to Lutheranism when they married; living in Miskolc; his father's emigration to Chile when he was four months old; not joining him due to the war; his warm and loving extended family; German invasion in 1944; being sent to live with non-Jewish neighbors; visiting his mother in the ghetto once (he never saw her again); denunciation; deportation to Kecskeme?t; being retrieved by his foster grandfather; denunciation; deportation to Budapest; retrieval again by the grandfather; denunciation; hid...

  5. Chaim D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim D., who was born in Neresnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic harassment; his father's deportation (they never saw him again); his siblings moving to Budapest; assistance from the Joint; German invasion in spring 1944; his siblings return; deportation with his family to the Mátészalka ghetto, then five weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his brother from his mother and sisters; transfer to Buchenwald a few days later; slave ...

  6. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1911. He describes his childhood; his apprenticeship to a baker in Dzia?oszyce; the German occupation of his town; his marriage in December 1939; and the birth of his child in 1940. He speaks of his forced labor until the liquidation of his town in 1942; his and his family's unsuccessful attempts to hide; his brief stay with his wife and child in a labor camp near Krako?w; and their internment in the Krako?w ghetto, where he and his wife were separated from their child and his mother-in-law and taken to separate labor c...

  7. Lou S. and Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lou S. and Barry B., who were both born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1925. Mr. S., one of seven children, recalls Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a tailoring apprenticeship; working in Budapest; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization in April 1944; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); remaining with his father, brother, uncle, and cousin; seeing a sister for the last time; transfer to Warsaw in May 1944; a privileged assignment in the laundry; trading goods recovered in the ghetto rubble ...

  8. Josef M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef M., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1916. He recalls antisemitic boycotts; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; deportation to Starachowice in September 1942; learning his family was deported to Treblinka the next day; volunteering to return to Szyd?owiec in January 1943; reunion with a sister; jumping from a deportation train; assistance from a Polish policeman and a Polish neighbor; being hidden by non-Jews; assistance from a Polish doctor and pharmacist when he was ill; being smuggled into Wolano?w; escaping to the Radom ghetto; livin...

  9. Hyman T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hyman T., who was born in De?bica, Poland in 1926. He recounts his family's move to Drohobych; antisemitic violence; visiting relatives in De?bica in summer 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; his inability to return home; destroying valuables rather than giving them to the Germans; transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto; a friend surviving a mass shooting; transfer to Huta Kormorowska and Biesiadka; public hangings; volunteering as a shoemaker; transfer to Pustko?w; shoemakers instructing him; observing cannibalism among Russian POWs; transfer to Auschwitz/B...

  10. Solomon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon G., who was born in Nowogrodek, Poland, near the Russian border, in 1920. He describes family and community life before the war; life under Russian occupation; the establishment of German rule and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; round-ups and mass killings of Jews, including most of his family; and his confinement to a ghetto in his city. Mr. G. recalls the liquidation of the ghetto, during which most of the inhabitants were deported, and those remaining, including himself and his sister, were interned in two concentration camps established in the city. H...

  11. Allen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls fleeing to Russia during World War I; attending school in Russia and Poland; completing engineering school in Warsaw in 1935; his father's death; working in Czechoslovakia; returning home two days before the war; traveling with his mother and brother to Pruz?h?any, her hometown, in the Soviet zone; running a Jewish school under the Soviets; German invasion; his brother fleeing (he never saw him again); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; obtaining food from his boss; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz...

  12. Brenda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Brenda H., who was born in Horodenka, Poland in 1926. She recalls her mother's death in childbirth; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation in 1939; her oldest brother's draft; Hungarian, then German occupation in 1941; ghettoization; her father's membership on the Judenrat; forced labor; hiding with her siblings during a mass killing in December 1941 during which her father and grandparents were murdered; hiding in a bunker during a second mass killing; the ghetto's liquidation; being hidden with her sister and younger brother by her older brothers and uncle; being ...

  13. Shalom Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom Y., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recalls moving to Raci??; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing to P?o?sk, then G?bin; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing a round-up with assistance from the mayor and an ex-employee; staying with relatives in P?o?sk, then moving to Warsaw; escaping to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok in January 1940; joining relatives in Rivne, then Ashmi?a?ny; moving to Smarhon?; German invasion; fleeing to Kurenet?s?; contacts with escaped Soviet POWs and f...

  14. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly S., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of six children. She recalls twenty-five Jewish families in her town; her parents' grocery store; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German occupation in spring 1944; deportation to Irshava, the Munkács ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); remaining with three cousins; transfer to Płaszów; having to undress and burn corpses after a mass shooting; pointle...

  15. Max L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1923, the youngest of three children. He recounts his large extended family; his father's death in 1926; attending the Katzenelson school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; joining the Polish military; fleeing to Warsaw; fighting in Mszczonów and Warsaw; surrender; returning home; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; his sister's hospitalization; retrieving her when warned of the hospital's liquidation; selection to clean the empty ghetto; deportation to Oranienburg, then Sachsenhausen; hospitaliza...

  16. Shaul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shaul S., who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1925, one of six children. He recounts moving to Middelburg when he was a year and a half; his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage to a German non-Jew; visiting her family in Germany; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; a German soldier (his stepmother's friend) warning them to emigrate; forced relocation to Amsterdam in 1942; round-ups; his father's former customers sending them food; learning his older sister had been deported; deportation to Westerbork; assistance from an older prisoner; train transpo...

  17. Sam N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam N., who was born in Rzeszo?w, Poland in 1929. He recalls the German invasion; fleeing with his family to another town; hiding while SS troops murdered 300 Jews and burned the synagogue; their return to Rzeszo?w; anti-Jewish restrictions; an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; his mother's arrest and interrogation; and his father's death while in hiding. Mr. N. tells of the influx of Jews from surrounding areas; frequent deportations; his bar mitzvah, for which he studied in secret; transfer to Reichshof labor camp in Rzeszo?w; his sis...

  18. Cecile S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile S., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1937. She recounts her father was a jeweler; German invasion in 1940; seeing a Jew beaten in the street; her mother shielding her from the brutality; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest, beating and release; Germans looting their home; her father's deportation; an uncle's maid hiding them in Boom with relatives who were in the underground; warm relations with the family; being treated for an illness in Mechelen; her mother obtaining gold her father had hidden; illegally traveling with the Belgian underground to ...

  19. Ben A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben A., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921, one of six children. He recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; working in Hlybokaye; returning to Vilna; an influx of Polish-Jewish refugees; fleeing to Minsk when Germany invaded; returning to Vilna; forced labor; his father's arrest (they later learned he was shot); ghettoization; hiding with his mother and siblings during round-ups; conflicts between the ghetto underground and the Judenrat; learning his mother and some siblings were killed in Ponary while he was working; partisans bringing people to the woo...

  20. Hanka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka K., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1930. She recalls her traditional childhood; her parents' Zionist background; the outbreak of war; brief Soviet occupation; hiding during a pogrom; German invasion; her father's arrest during a round-up (she never saw him again); hiding with her mother and sister in a cellar; her mother's killing; escaping with her baby sister to the Rejowiec ghetto; hiding her sister while working as a maid; her sister's death; deportation to Majdanek, then Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Cze?stochowa, and Bergen Belsen; witnessing cannibalism in Belse...