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  1. Martin K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin K., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1925. He recalls his father's death in 1939; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation (one sister left with Soviet troops); German return; mass killings; forced labor; hiding with his family in a bunker during a round-up in fall 1942; leaving after a local woman discovered them (he never saw his mother and siblings again); hiding on a farm; returning to Hrubieszo?w; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; seeing corpses everywhere; months of forced labor in a burial detail; transfer to Budzyn? in October 1943, then Miel...

  2. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in 1925, in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; her father's Polish friends bringing them food; a public hanging; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; separation from her family (she never saw them again); a suicide in the cattle train transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with a cousin; a friend's family sharing food with her; transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; meeting her future husband; an old...

  3. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1924, the oldest of five children. He recalls German invasion; working on a Polish farm until summer 1941; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; replacing his father for forced labor in December; returning home; his father's death from typhus; transfer to Ciechano?w in May 1942; his family's deportation from Makow; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; help from a Jewish woman after he was beaten; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; improved conditions; return to Birkenau when he had typhus; wanting to commit suicide, but not doing so...

  4. Sonia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia W., who was born in 1928 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls a wonderful childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in 1941; avoiding the children's deportation due to a document obtained by her friend's father which falsified her age as over fourteen; attending clandestine schools; selling family possessions for food; a round-up in which her mother was taken; transfer to P?aszo?w in March 1943; her sister's frequent help, which saved her life many times; random killings by the camp commander Amon Goeth; the public hanging of a boy who sang ...

  5. Alain M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain M., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's poverty; their focus on religion and learning; one sisters's death from tuberculosis; attending Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment and violence; futile efforts to emigrate; working as a furrier; German invasion; forced labor; food shortages; his mother's death; ghettoization; deportation to Annaberg; slave labor building roads; observing Soviet POWs in very poor condition; transfer to Sakrau, Faulbru?ck, Go?rlitz, then Gross-Rosen; slave labor building factories as w...

  6. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, an only child. She recalls her maternal grandparents living with them; an assimilated lifestyle; attending a secular school, then a Jewish one; her paternal grandparents and other relatives emigrating to England in 1938; her father's emigration in 1939; antisemitic restrictions; being caught in a round-up at a park forbidden to Jews; her mother securing her release; being forced to move twice; her maternal grandparents' deaths; deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in September 1942; placement in a children's b...

  7. Chiel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chiel M., who was born in Albigowa, Poland in 1910, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; working in his brother's quarry; his parents' deaths; living in ?a?cut; German invasion; fleeing to Sieniawa; returning home; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Przemy?l; moving to Berez?h?any; German invasion; working with a tinsmith; returning home with a brother and sister; deportation of one sister and her family; fleeing to Przemy?l, then Sieniawa with assistance from a Polish non-Jew; smuggling himself into the ghetto to join his brother; ...

  8. Martin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin P., who was born in Amsterdam in approximately 1928, one of three sons. He recounts attending gymnasium; weekly Hebrew lessons at home; antisemitic harassment by Dutch children; his father traveling to the United States in spring 1940 and remaining there; German invasion in May; eviction from their apartment; expropriation of his father's business; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; hiding their housekeeper (a Czech Jew) from the Germans; deportation with his mother and brothers to Westerbork; forced labor as a bricklayer; transfer to Bergen-Bels...

  9. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland. She recounts German invasion in 1939 when she was five; briefly fleeing with her family to Krako?w; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in a bunker during round-ups; fleeing to Sosnowiec; ghettoization in the Srodula section; her father arranging a hiding place for her with a Polish woman and placing her baby sister with another family; hiding in the bunker when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1943; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); escaping with her aunt; their arrest; escaping with asistance fr...

  10. Ted G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ted G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls growing up in Be?dzin; moving to Warsaw; German invasion; forced labor; a ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; being saved from deportation by a policeman (a non-Jewish friend); factory work outside the ghetto; smuggling food to relatives; his parents' and relatives deportations (he never saw them again); escaping from the ghetto with help from an aunt and a non-Jewish Pole; living with a family with underground connections; obtaining false papers; working as a German translator; meeting his future wife, al...

  11. Ernest K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest K., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919. He recounts his father had been born in the United States and retained his U.S. citizenship; speaking Esperanto at home; attending an Esperanto conference in Vienna with his younger brother and parents when he was five; speaking German, Hungarian, and Slovak; leaving gymnasium due to increased antisemitism; participating in Maccabi (wrestling and gymnastics); his father's efforts to obtain visas to the U.S.; arrest with his father and brother for defending themselves from an antisemiti...

  12. Shoshana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana K., who was born in a village near Buchach, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934, the youngest of three children. She recounts celebrating the Sabbath and Jewish holidays with her extended family; attending a Polish school; German invasion; one brother's deportation to a labor camp (she never saw him again); her other brother and uncle fleeing to the forest; hiding in a bunker; being found; the shooting of one of their group; her father encouraging her to escape when they were being transferred by foot; returning home; finding her grandmother's corpse; hiding i...

  13. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in 1926 in ?o?dz?, Poland. He recalls German invasion; being caught in a round-up in December 1939; forced labor near Hamburg; transfer to Poznan? in March 1941 when it was discovered he was Jewish; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto in February 1943; reunion with his father; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau several days later. Mr. K. tells of a privileged work assignment obtained through a friend; two weeks in the punishment camp in March 1944; transfer to the Sonderkommando; working at the cremation pits into which guards threw living childre...

  14. Leo L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-729), Mr. L. recounts working in a textile workshop in Auschwitz; privileged work transporting potatoes at Ohrdruf; protection from the German guard; hospitalization after being kicked by an Ukrainian guard; losing his privileged position; the German guard "saving his life" by reclaiming him for his group; a death march in March 1945; escaping with a Soviet POW and others; returning to Ohrdruf; liberation; traveling to Gotha; a Jewish-American soldier pro...

  15. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic incidents beginning in 1938; anti-Jewish measures in 1940; forced labor in Mokoto?w in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with his family during round-ups; being caught with his brother on the street; their deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7); separation from his brother upon transfer to Majdanek (he never saw him again); slave labor building barracks; transfer to Birkenau in 1943; pointless slave labor; encountering his other brother there and learning that his family had been deported (he never saw them ...

  16. Henry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls pervasive antisemitic violence; his father's futile attempt for the family to emigrate to Palestine in 1936; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his cousin; ghettoization; organizing clubs; working in his father's stead in food delivery; public hangings; being married by H?ayim Rumkowski in May 1943; his child's birth, and death a few days later in 1944; deportation with his remaining family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; deportation a few weeks later to Dachau, then Landsberg; slave labor in an airplane fact...

  17. Edita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her large extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; a round-up to Dunajská Streda in 1944; entrusting their possessions to non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; a women from her hometown, who had been there some time, advising her and her sister to separate from their parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); she and her sister being tattooed with consecutive numbers; remaining with her sister, aunt, an...

  18. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1928. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; Lithuanian independence; fleeing with his father and brother to Glubokoye; returning to Vilna in January 1940 to rejoin his mother and sister; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish measures; mass killings of Jews at Ponary; hiding with his father during a round-up in August 1941 (his mother, brother, and sister were taken to Ponary); ghettoization; sharing his father's identification so another family would be protected by his; liquidation of the small ghetto in late 1941; escap...

  19. Wolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf W., who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1921. He recalls attending French school; speaking Yiddish at home; living in several European cities from 1929 to 1931; settling in Antwerp; antisemitism in school; apprenticing as a diamond cutter; German invasion; fleeing to Ghent, then Saint-Vincent; living with French farmers; his parents' internment in Re?ce?be?dou in spring 1942; visiting them; arrest; imprisonment in Caussade, whose police chief had tried to warn him to hide; internment in Septfonds, then Drancy; deportation to Janislawice (Johannisdorf); singing Yiddis...

  20. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1922, the oldest of seven children. She recounts moving to Janowiec in 1925; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; brief hospitalization in Warsaw; caring for her family when her mother was ill; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; forced labor; deportation to Zwolen?; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; a Polish civilian worker giving her food and bringing messages from her fathe...