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  2. Baym geto toyerl By the Ghetto Gate

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    A topical song about food smuggling in the Kovno ghetto, By the Ghetto Gate draws on the melody of the much-loved "Yiddish alphabet song," Oyfn pripetshik (At the Hearth). Lyricist Avrom Akselrod, a refugee who had fled Poland at the start of World War II, wrote a number of parodic verses in the ghetto. He was killed in July 1944, when German militiamen set fire to his underground hiding place.

  14. Omar W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Omar W., who served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He recalls his unit's arrival at Dachau shortly after its liberation; boxcars filled with corpses; emaciated prisoners; rooms full of bodies stacked like wood; and crematoria. Mr. W. recounts serving for three months as commander of a displaced persons camp near Salzburg, Austria and discusses his thoughts on hatred between peoples and the importance of his providing eyewitness proof of the Holocaust.

  15. Vincent Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent Z., who served with the United States Army in World War II. He recounts speaking fluent Polish; deployment to London; working in a press unit publishing Polish newspapers; contacts with the Polish government-in-exile and Polish resistants; transfer to Paris, then to Germany; visiting Dachau in November 1945; observing the gas chambers and crematorium; speaking with a Catholic priest and other liberated prisoners; working with UNRRA in Bad Nauheim to publish newspapers for the displaced persons camps; and assisting with displaced persons camp education programs...

  16. Harry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Poland in 1896, the youngest of three children. He recalls attending cheder in Sosnowiec; his older sisters' marriages; his parents' deaths; working in textiles; marriage; German invasion; his wife's deportation to Auschwitz; his deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Blechhammer; slave labor "digging and chopping"; public hangings; Allied bombings; hospitalization; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice, then Sosnowiec; a month later leaving for Wroc?aw, then Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949; ...

  17. Leo Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo Z., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1920 one of seven children. He recalls German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Kolmar (Chodziez?) for forced labor in 1941; transfer to Poznan?, then Auschwitz/Birkenau, in 1943; a beating for an escape attempt; transfer to Buchenwald, then Essen; slave labor in a Krupp factory for about eighteen months; liberation from a train by United States troops; returning home seeking relatives; learning no one survived; traveling to Germany; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States. Mr. ...

  18. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in ?o?dz? , Poland in 1924. He describes family Shabbat observance; his father's shoemaking shop; attending public and Hebrew schools; active participation in the Bund; learning the weaving trade; German-Jewish refugees asking for charity; German invasion; ghettoization; participating in the clandestine distribution of news by the Bund; pervasive hunger; poor sanitary conditions; frequent round-ups and deportations; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from his family upon arrival; transfer to Dachau in September; forced labor; fr...

  19. Thomas W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas W., who was born in Prague in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He recalls his parents' total assimilation; moving to Hamburg; his parents' divorce in 1934; their return to Prague; studying English literature and linguistics; teaching at a Swiss boarding school; returning to Czechoslovakia; German occupation; futile efforts to emigrate through Poland; obtaining a refugee fellowship at Harvard University; receiving exit documents; parting from his mother; traveling on a train full of German soldiers; arriving in Holland; crossing to England; leaving for the...

  20. Esther I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther I., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, shortly after her parents had emigrated from Poland. She recalls her father's death in 1928; moving to Krako?w with her mother and sister to be near family; the warmth of Jewish holidays within a close and large, extended family; remaining with relatives for two years when her mother returned to the United States to retain her naturalized citizenship status; returning to the United States in 1936 due to her mother's fear of the German situation; maintaining contact with family in Poland until 1942; learning after ...