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  1. Judita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judita K., who was born in Lušci Palanka, Yugoslavia. She recalls moving to Drvar; celebrating Jewish holidays with relatives in Sanski Most; attending high school in Banja Luka and Podravska Slatina; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning to Drvar in 1941; living freely for one year under Italian occupation; encountering Serbians covered in blood after they participated in a mass killing; deportation with her family; a prisoner escaping nightly to smuggle food; Ustaša guards raping female prisoners; train transport to Prijedor; escaping with her family; trave...

  2. Felix A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix A., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922. He describes life in Bockenheim; his family's business; elementary school in Bockenheim from 1927-1931; increasing antisemitism from 1931 on; anti-Jewish legislation resulting in greatly reduced income and lose of their house; moving to Frankfurt; SA youths attacking his father thus causing Mr. A.'s loss of faith; Realgymnasium in Frankfurt from 1931 to 1935; and the Philanthropin, a Jewish school, from 1935 to 1937. Mr. A. recalls leaving school in 1937 to learn the leather goods trade; his sister's emigra...

  3. Ya'akov G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov G., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1924, one of four children. He recounts attending a Jewish school and yeshiva; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; witnessing a mass killing of the town's rabbis; round-up to a synagogue; separation from his father (he was killed in a mass shooting); ghettoization; forced factory labor; trading goods to non-Jews for food; setting his house on fire, and hiding in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping to the forest; assistance from farmers; walking to Hantsavichy; returning to the fo...

  4. Willy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willy K., who was born in Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium in 1920, a non-Jew. Mr. K. recalls participating in a Protestant youth group; leaving school at age fifteen; working odd jobs; learning to be a baker from his father; military enlistment in September 1938; assignments in Florennes, Konigslo, Rossignol, and Bruges; a futile attempt to leave with British troops after German invasion; volunteering for the bakery when he was incarcerated; transfer to a prison in Bruges; escape; traveling to Brussels, then his home; joining an organization of war veterans; contacting a...

  5. Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel A., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his father's emigration to Belgium; joining him with his mother and brothers in approximately 1926; the births of two sisters in Charleroi; attending school; moving with his family to Antwerp in 1932; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Toulouse; draft with his father and brothers into the Polish military; posting to a nearby military base; fleeing German bombings; joining his family in Toulouse; incarceration with hi...

  6. Lev A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Perei︠a︡slav, Ukraine in 1915. He recalls attending Ukrainian school, then a technical school in Kiev; working as an electrician; moving to Crimea with his family during the famine in 1933; marriage; returning to Kiev in 1937; draft into the Soviet Army; serving in Kiev, then Z︠H︡itomir; discharge in October 1940; returning to Kiev; German invasion; evacuation east of his pregnant wife and mother; military recall; serving in Pryluky and Kharkiv; capture by Germans in 1942; forced labor as a POW in Khorol, posing as a non-Jewish Ukrainian; and e...

  7. Louis D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis D., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Russia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1911, one of six brothers. He recounts his family's poverty; working in construction in Brno; military enlistment in 1929; discharge in 1933; his successful business; German invasion; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; deportation to Velyikyy Bychkiv; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Kiev; transfer home; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; transfer with two brothers to Fu?nfteichen; slave labor in a Krupp factory; extraction of his brother's gold crowns to obtain p...

  8. Stanley O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley O., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He recounts growing up in Min?sk Mazowiecki; attending high school in Warsaw; a pogrom in Min?sk Mazowiecki in 1936; military training in 1939; German invasion; identifying himself as a non-Jew when his unit was imprisoned by Germans; escaping to Warsaw; obtaining false papers; smuggling food to his family in Min?sk Mazowiecki; his father and brothers moving to Warsaw; joining the Polish underground; arranging hiding places and false papers for his father, brothers, and other Jews; paying blackmail and bribes; delive...

  9. Salamon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salamon R., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1919, one of six children. He recalls attending printers' school; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair, Matatja, and the Communist Party; German occupation in 1941; his father's deportation to Stara Gradiška; participating in partisan activities; hiding in Sarajevo; fleeing to join partisans in Romanija; liberating Teslic; capture and torture by Chetniks; transfer in April 1942 to the First Proletarian Brigade; sabotaging railroads and battles; withdrawing to Bosanski Petrovak; meeting the writer Vladimir Dedije...

  10. Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph B., who was born in Lemberg, Austria (presently L?viv, Ukraine) in 1907. Mr. B. recalls his family's affluence; pervasive antisemitism; three years of Polish military service; marriage; the births of two daughters; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; a leadership role on the Judenrat; teaching his daughters to assume Christian identities; leaving his younger daughter in a park, hoping non-Jews would take her in; hiding his wife and older daughter; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to Janowska; learning that his wife and older daughter were kill...

  11. Michel V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel V., a non-Jew, who was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1916, one of three brothers. He recounts moving to Lier; encountering veterans of World War I; attending school; working in Anderlecht; marriage in 1936; his son's birth; serving in the military; an influx of Jewish refugees; becoming a policeman in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; arresting Communists, Rexists, and those identified as enemy aliens in Brussels; attempting to re-join his military regiment; Belgian capitulation to Germany; capture by the Germans in Antwerp; returning home; joining the undergrou...

  12. Richard H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard H., who was born in 1911 in Kandel, Germany. He relates his father's World War I German military service; observes that there was no antisemitism in Kandel (they were one of two Jewish families); and discusses anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of his family's business and car; arrest with his father and brother on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; hunger, cold and beatings; his father's release after eight weeks due to his German military service; his own release after twelve weeks providing he leave Germany; and living in Karlsruhe with his family. ...

  13. Josse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josse L., who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1915 to Belgian parents, giving him dual citizenship. He recounts living in Argentina, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro; attending school in Vanves, France; vacationing with relatives in Ostende; his bar mitzvah there; completing school in Brussels; military service in 1936; opening a business with his brother; military recall; capture by Germans on May 28, 1940 (the Germans did not learn he was Jewish); learning his parents and sister had left for Brazil; release on June 11; reunion with his brother; reopening their busine...

  14. Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in a village in Slovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death; attending school in Pres?ov and synagogue in Tern?a; participating in Maccabi; working on a hachsharah; military draft in 1936; demobilization in 1939; a sister's deportation; deportation with his family to Sabinov, then Pres?ov, in May 1942; transfer to Z?ilina, then a ghetto in Poland; selection for slave labor (he never saw his family again); receiving food from non-Jews; escaping with two others; traveling ...

  15. Gennadi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gennadi S., who was born in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg) in 1929, the older of two children. He recounts his mother was Jewish and his father was not; the family moving to Kiev when he was six months old; drills in preparation for military invasion beginning in 1940; German invasion on June 22, 1941; a notice for all Jews to report on September 29; his father deciding en route to turn back; learning thousands of Jews had been shot at Babi Yar that day; remaining in their apartment; a neighbor reporting they were illegally hiding a Jew; officers taking his mo...

  16. Nokhim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nokhim S., who was born in Mahili︠o︡ŭ, Belarus in 1923. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Jewish and Soviet holidays; his brother's military service in 1939; arrival of Polish refugees; German invasion in 1941; his brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings; his father serving on the Judenrat; his brother volunteering the two of them for a labor camp (he never saw his parents or sister again); slave labor as a blacksmith for two years; killings and hangings; transfer to Minsk, then Lublin; separation from his brother (he never saw...

  17. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  18. Joseph E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph E., who was born in Kosyny, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recalls attending a Hungarian school; living with relatives in Mukacheve to attend the Hebrew gymnasium; participating in a Zionist group; Hungarian occupation in 1938; violence against Jews; graduating in 1940; moving to Budapest; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; working in several locations in Hungary, Transylvania and Yugoslavia; transfer to L?viv, then Brody in 1942; burying dead soldiers on the Russian front; a privileged position as a mechanic in ...

  19. Ben-Zion B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben-Zion B., who was born in Domache?vo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts his father's death when he less than three; a close extended family; relatives emigrating to the United States; his mother's remarriage; the births of a brother and sister; attending cheder and Polish public school; antisemitic teachers; visits from his American uncle; his sister's marriage; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; visiting his sister in Kosiv; German invasion in June 1941; witnessing a mass killing; forced labor; smuggling food to hi...

  20. Kenneth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth F., who was born in Richtenberg, Germany in 1921. He recounts attending the local public school and religious school in Stralsund; non-Jewish friends not longer associating with him after they joined the Hitler Youth; the impact of the Nuremberg laws, including not being allowed to employ non-Jews; living with his aunt in Berlin in fall 1935 to attend a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; matriculation in 1938; masonry training in preparation for emigration; receiving permission to emigrate to Manchester, England as a trainee in 1939; working as a brick-layer trai...