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  1. Joseph A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph A., who was born in Lithuania in 1919. He recalls attending yeshiva in Kelme?; attending gymnasium; draft into the Lithuanian military in 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to the Soviet military; leaving the military; German occupation; ghettoization; being selected with other men for forced labor in Germany; a rabbi encouraging them to help each other; frequent beatings; receiving extra food from friends; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer with other non-Polish-speaking prisoners to clean up the remains of the Warsaw ghetto; observing shootings of Jews who had hi...

  2. Irwin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irwin W., who was born in Sladkow Maly, Poland in 1920. He recalls a difficult, but socially rich, life; ghettoization; escaping from a mass killing with his brother; hiding with farmers; joining the Polish underground as a non-Jew; leaving when exposure was imminent; entering Kielce concentration camp; forced labor for HASAG; sabotaging production; transfer to Cze?stochowa; evacuation to Buchenwald, then Stassfurt; working in coal mines; being abandoned by the guards on a death march in Czechoslovakia; attempting to enlist in the Soviet army; rejection due to ill hea...

  3. Lusia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lusia G., who was born in Brody, Poland in 1922. She recounts attending public school; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; her father instructing her, her brother, sister, and her sister's fiancé to evacuate with the Soviet troops; transport to Kursk; working on a collective farm; her sister's marriage; her brother's and brother-in-law's military draft; moving to Saratov; food and clothing shortages; her brother-in-law's return; his earning extra food; the birth of her sister's daughter (she died two days later); moving to Poltava; her sister's depart...

  4. Ezra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ezra L., who was born in 1927, in Czechoslovakia. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1944; his father arranging for a non-Jew to take Mr. L. and his brother; ghettoization of his parents and three younger siblings in Khust; hiding in the forest with his brother; assistance from partisans; building underground bunkers; three Jewish girls joining them; a Catholic family providing food; brief separation from his brother; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to his f...

  5. Peter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Chomonin, Czechoslovakia in 1923. He remembers antisemitic harassment; attending school in Mukacheve; membership in Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; Hungarian occupation; compulsory service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Uz?h?horod; German occupation; transfer to Baia Mare (Nagyba?nya), then Ditra?u; a beating by Hungarian police; futile escape attempts; transfer to Budapest; meeting his brother; escaping; producing false papers for the Swedish Red Cross; returning to the battalion since he was unable to hide; transfer to Szombathely; ret...

  6. Celia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia L., who was born in Bia?a Podlaska, Poland in 1922. She recalls her father's Hasidism; brief Soviet invasion; not fleeing when the Soviets left because her father thought the war would end soon; forced labor under German occupation; transfer to the Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski ghetto; a warning from a German about an impending round-up; hiding; deportation with her family to Majdanek; separation upon arrival (they did not survive); slave labor; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; improved conditions; transfer to Cze?stochowa; a Polish worker offering to hide her; liberatio...

  7. Bronia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops i...

  8. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  9. Abe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1911. He recalls moving to Bia?obrzegi; learning to be a shoemaker from his father; making boots for Nazis after German invasion; deportation with his brothers to Skarz?ysko in 1942; slave labor in Werke A, a munitions factory; transfer to Cze?stochowa; transfer with his youngest brother (the other remained) to Buchenwald in 1944; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recuperation in sanatoria in Weimar and Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald and Landsberg displaced persons camps; learning from their uncle in the U.S. tha...

  10. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She recalls the warmth of her family's observances of Jewish holidays; her father's role as the cantor; cordial relations with non-Jews; sharing their home with relatives who had fled Germany; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization for four weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival; brutal camp guards; starvation; lack of facilities for personal hygiene; frequent selections; receiving extra food from a female guard; suicides; a death march in Dece...

  11. Joseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Szczakowa, Poland, in 1922. He speaks of family life before the war; the mistreatment and killings of Jews at the beginning of the war; his 1940 deportation to Sakrau, where he was a slave laborer; and his transfer to Gross Masselwitz in 1942. He describes a typical day in Neukirch, a labor camp he was sent to in 1943, and conditions in the camps to which he was subsequently sent: Marksta?dt, Schmiedeberg, Klettendorf, and Waldenburg, where he was liberated by the Russians in 1945. He discusses his postwar return home; his reunion with his s...

  12. Linda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Linda F., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1927. She recalls her large extended family; attending public school; helping her father in the family butcher shop; assisting German Jewish refugees; believing events in Germany would not impact them; and the shock of German invasion. Mrs. F. recounts round-ups of children and men; confiscation of the family business; secretly slaughtering meat for friends; her father's beating and arrest (she never saw him again); her mother's disappearance; reporting for forced labor in 1942 in her sister's place; transport to Skarz?y...

  13. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italian...

  14. Leslie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie S., who was born in Ma?te?szalka, Hungary in 1927. He recounts his orthodox family life; childhood antisemitic harassment; inability to continue his education due to the Jewish quota; German invasion in March 1944; implementation of anti-Jewish policies; ghettoization; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); transport to Birkenau; selection for work; transfer to Auschwitz; forced labor; evacuation to Mauthausen in January 1945; loss of toes due to frost bite; hiding in the camp hospital with assistance from a fellow prisoner; liberation by United Sta...

  15. Ralph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1903. He recalls being one of the few Jews at law school in Oklahoma; military service beginning in 1941; joining the staff at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials in November 1946; visiting refugee camps near Nuremberg; prosecuting the industrialist, Friedrich Flick and Hitler's Reich Press Chief, Otto Dietrich; the unprecedented argument in Dietrich's trial that Nazi propaganda was a military weapon; interaction with chief prosecutor Telford Taylor; housing Rezso? Kasztner in their villa; visiting Vienna and Salzburg with him...

  16. Elka F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elka F., who was born in Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. She recalls meeting her future husband in 1932; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish harassment; forced labor; surviving a selection in October with her future husband and their families (almost all other Jews were killed); ghettoization with approximately 600 survivors; Magalif (head of the Judenrat) giving them permission to wed; marriage in February; Magalif discouraging people from escaping so the elderly ...

  17. Ilse W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse W., who was born in Rotenburg, Germany in 1927. She recalls anti-Jewish harassment; her older brother attending a Jewish boarding school in Kassel; moving to Frankfurt in 1936 hoping it would be safer if they were in a bigger city; attending Jewish school (the Philanthropin) with her brother; increasing isolation; a former maid who smuggled food to them; and difficulty comprehending their changing situation. Mrs. W. recounts Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Buchenwald; his release and emigration to Holland; leaving for England in June 1939 ...

  18. Rita H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita H., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1919. Mrs. H. recalls the vibrant Jewish culture; her family's involvement in Yiddish theater (her father owned a theater and she was a child actress); antisemitic harassment; living with her brother in Warsaw beginning in 1938, hoping to attend drama school; German invasion; returning with her brother to Vilna in the Soviet zone; moving to Moscow to attend drama school; spending several months in a Belarusian village waiting for documents; attending school in Moscow; German invasion in June 1941; communicating with her four b...

  19. Hana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana A., who was born in Vilna (then Russia) in 1915. She recalls her marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband being taken away (she never saw him again); a Polish neighbor who gave her food for her daughter; mass killings in Ponary, which included her mother and some siblings; a round-up of children, including her three-year-old daughter (she never saw her again); deportation with her sister and niece to Kaiserwald, then six months later to Dundangen; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberat...

  20. Paulette W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulette W., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1934. She recalls a happy childhood; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her parents to Toulouse; living in a refugee camp; joining relatives near Pau; her father's incarceration in a labor camp; his visit in 1942; being hidden in several places by a Jewish organization; her brother's birth in 1943; being hidden in a convent; her mother working for farmers nearby; assistance from teachers who were partisans; not knowing she was Jewish; her father retrieving her after the war in May 1945; returning with her parents...