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  1. Avivit K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avivit K., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1932, one of three children. She recounts her family's Zionism; speaking Hebrew at home; a trip to Palestine in 1935 with her mother and sister; her family delaying emigration to care for her developmentally disabled brother; Soviet occupation; her father's arrest and release; German invasion; her father's and uncle's arrest by Lithuanians (they were killed); ghettoization; forced labor with her sister; Lithuanians giving her food; a public hanging; her mother hiding her sister with non-Jews (she returned shortly ther...

  2. Frima L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frima L., who was born in Volochisk, Ukraine in 1936. She recounts moving to a larger city; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; being caught in a round-up; waiting near the edge of a mass grave; a reprieve when her mother convinced a German they were Ukrainian; interrogations when it was suspected they were Jewish; escaping; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors; returning to the ghetto; escaping with her mother (her father was caught and killed); hiding with non-Jewish friends while her mother escaped to Romania; being asked to leave; buying a large crucifix to wear; ...

  3. Jean M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean M., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland, in 1922 to a well-established family. She relates attending school in Marijampole? and Stanislav; anti-Semitic incidents; German invasion; forced labor; German humiliation of the Jews; her brother's death at age fourteen in a labor camp; transfer to the Podhajce ghetto; her father's deportation; and her mother's death from typhus, though she herself survived it. Mrs. M. describes "aktions"; hiding in bunkers; the resulting physical and psychological difficulties; mass killings; liquidation of the ghetto; escaping; hiding in t...

  4. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1925. Mr. K. recounts German invasion; deportation with his brother to Gross-Masselwitz; slave labor; a German anti-Nazi guard suggesting he damage goods on the loading dock; sharing food with his brother; burying dead prisoners in the Wroc?aw Jewish cemetery; transfer with his brother to Klettendorf; an SS man from his hometown protecting him and his brother; transfer to Gross-Rosen; a public hanging; transfer to another camp; a death march; liberation by United States troops in Feldafing; his brother's return to Poland; traveling t...

  5. Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in Zshet?l, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus) in 1915. He recalls attending yeshiva; being drafted into the Polish military at age eighteen; discharge two years later; a brother's emigration to Canada; military recall in March 1939; serving in P?ock and P?on?sk; German invasion; retreating to Warsaw, then Modlin; imprisonment in a stalag; separation of the Jewish POWs; forced labor in Bia?a Podlaska in 1940; transfer to Ko?nskowola, then in August 1941 to Budzyn?; deciding not to join a camp resistance group; slave labor in Wieliczka in ...

  6. Dora M. and Jaime M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora M., who was born in Be?chato?w, Poland in 1913, one of ten children. She recalls her happy youth; her mother's death in 1937; German invasion; fleeing to Pabianice with her family; returning home; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; her father's humiliation when forced to shave his beard; marriage; her husband traveling to Piotrko?w; his inability to return immediately before their deportation (she never saw him again); transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with her brother and two sisters; working in a hospital; being forced to put patients on trucks for deporta...

  7. June F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. She recounts her comfortable childhood and loving family; joining her grandmother in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941; escaping with false papers to the Aryan side; assistance from a German in obtaining a job in the Tomaszo?w ghetto; transfer with her husband to Bliz?yn in 1943, three months after their marriage; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz; communicating with him until his deportation to another camp; selections and meaningless slave labor; public hanging of those who tried to escape; cleaning sewers as a punish...

  8. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Beli Manastir, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1929, the eldest of his mother's five children (His father was previously married to his mother's sister with whom he had three children). He recounts moving to Mukacheve before he was two; attending a Czech school and cheder; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah which he barely remembers; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1944; transport to Szombathely; encountering a German soldier at a railroad station who gave him a loaf of bread; another German soldier who saved his...

  9. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Kolomyi?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1918. He recalls conflict with his Hasidic father over his Zionism; his father's death in 1930; the emigration of three sisters to the United States; antisemitic harassment; joining the Polish army; demobilization in Przemys?l; returning home; Soviet occupation; conscription into the Soviet army in May 1941; German invasion; marching through Chortkiv to Poltava; being wounded; eight months' recovery in a military hospital; working in the Ural mountains; re-mobilization; advancing to Berlin; not believi...

  10. Edith L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926. She recalls the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; her father's deportation in 1939 (she never saw him again); her mother's arrest, then hers in 1941; their release; deportation with her mother, aunt, and grandmother to Theresienstadt in October 1942; seeking "normalcy" in cultural and social activities, despite starvation, disease, and deportations; strained relations between national groups; meeting her future husband; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May 1944; living in the family camp, then a woman's la...

  11. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1936 and raised in S?iauliai. She recalls her sister's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization in August; "running wild" when they were left alone during the day; hiding when Germans entered the ghetto; in November 1943, hiding all day; leaving when it was quiet; being taken by the Germans; her cousin influencing the Kommandant to let her go; his refusal to release her sister (they never saw her again); being smuggled to a farm of non-Jews the next day; staying in a closet until she learned Catholic rituals a...

  12. David O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David O., who was born in a Polish village in 1916, one of five children. He describes his orthodox childhood, attending a local public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah in 1929; attending yeshivahs in Kielce and Be?dzin; living on an orthodox hachsharah for a year, preparing to emigrate to Palestine; working in Olkusz; conscription into the Polish military in March 1939; German invasion six months later; capture by Germans; a Polish farmer informing him Jews were being sent away; escaping with assistance from the farmer; returning home; his mother's death in 1941; h...

  13. Yehoshua L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua L., who was born in approximately 1923 and raised in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus), one of five children. He recalls attending a local Yavneh school, then yeshiva in Luninets; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; his sister's evacuation east during the German invasion in June 1941; his futile attempt to flee east; slave labor for Organisation Todt; ghettoization in spring 1942; solidarity promoted by the Judenrat led by Dov Lopatin; bringing food to Jews in a Hungarian slave labor battalion when they passed through; non-Jews informing t...

  14. Sonia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia H., who was born in Oleye?vo-Korole?vka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933. She remembers cordial relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; her father hiding to avoid deportation to Siberia; Hungarian, then German invasion in 1941; hiding in bunkers in her grandmother's house; her paternal grandparents being caught in a round-up; moving to Bi?lche to hide in a grotto; her mother and sister being caught; their release after her father bribed officials; hiding in her father's friend's barn, a forest, then another grotto beginning in May 1943; local peasants pro...

  15. Judy C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judy C., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; anti-Jewish laws; her brothers' conscription into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in May; Christians smuggling food to them; transfer to a brick factory in June; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with three sisters (she never saw her parents and other relatives again); the transfer of two sisters; brief hospitalization; her sister bringing her food; a group Kol Nidre service; separation from her s...

  16. Lev A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Mo?nchengladbach, Germany in approximately 1910. He recounts his family moving to Jelgava (his father's hometown); evacuation by the Russians to Voronezh during World War I; cello lessons; his father's arrest during the Soviet Revolution; his return a year later; anti-Jewish violence; moving to Ri?ga; attending law school in Berlin; playing in a quartet; pursuing a career as a cellist in Paris; performing in many European cities; returning to Ri?ga in 1933; becoming the principal cellist with the Liepa?ja Philharmonic; Soviet occupation; German...

  17. Rosa W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. She recalls her close extended family; attending Polish public school in Kielce; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Płaszów; slave labor with her mother in the Wieliczka salt mines; transfer back to Płaszów; her father's and brother's deportation (she never saw her father again); transfer with her mother and other relatives to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin being taken for specious medical experiments; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; enco...

  18. Fanya H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanya H., who was born in Skala, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her family's affluence; their focus on education; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation; joining Komsomol; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with eighteen family members during a round-up; her father introducing her to a Ukrainian policeman he trusted; receiving food from him; hiding with her brother in the policeman's house; his arrangement to hide her family with a farmer in Troyitsya in March 1942; hiding in a hole when the house and barn were searched by Germans; fleein...

  19. Betty B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty B., who was born in approximately 1924, one of seven children. She recounts living in ?an?cut, Poland; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; one brother's emigration to Argentina; an "atmosphere" of antisemitism; German invasion; her sister and family joining them; anti-Jewish restrictions; another brother fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; living in Ra?czyna; her father's deportation in May 1942 (she never saw him again); a round-up with her mother, two sisters, a brother-in-law and his children in July; escaping; joining two sisters in another town; hiding w...

  20. Ervin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in approximately 1915. He recounts attending public school, then yeshiva in Czechoslovakia; working in his father's business; anti-Jewish legislation; marriage in 1941; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Kiev and Belopol?ye; encountering a school friend who was an officer (he beat other Jews, but communicated to Ervin H.'s parents for him); frequent beatings and killings; being left for dead when he was ill; a doctor (a friend from home) assisting him; Italian soldiers providing e...