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  1. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Sinyavka, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1918, the youngest of three children. He recalls attending cheder and a Polish school; learning carpentry at age fourteen; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; Soviet occupation in 1939; draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; Soviet retreat; hiding in a forest; transfer to a munitions factory where he worked as a carpenter; moving to Tashkent; traveling to Baranovichy after the war; learning of the extermination of Jews, including his own family; living in Szczecin; not returning to ...

  2. Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1930, one of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; German bombardment on May 10, 1940; his parents paying and collecting all their debts; their flight with his uncle's family to Dunkerque, Paris, then Lacanau Océan; attending school; his father and uncle obtaining visas; traveling to Portugal; departing from Lisbon to the United States a month later; and joining relatives in New York. Mr. D. discusses the importance of luck to his and his family's survival; learning in the 1980s th...

  3. Geoffrey H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Professor Geoffrey H., a distinguished literary scholar and advisor to Holocaust testimony projects, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. He tells of assimilated relatives; curiosity about Nazi flags and parades; antisemitic restrictions; placement at age seven in a boy's home supported by the Rothschilds, where his divorced mother thought he would be safer; his mother's departure for America in late 1938; evacuation on a children's transport in March 1939; and arrival with nineteen other boys at the James Rothschild estate in Waddesdon, England. He speaks of ...

  4. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1928. He describes his parents' backgrounds; his father's decision not to return to Germany from a business trip abroad when Hitler came to power in 1933; traveling with his mother, brother, and sister to Antwerp to join his father; a happy period in Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; fleeing with his family to Brussels, then to France; returning to Antwerp after unsuccessful attempts to find his father whom they lost along the way; his father's return; hiding in Brussels to avoid deportation; fleeing to Paris; and...

  5. Alfi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfi N., who was born in London, England in 1923. He describes his childhood in an affluent family; joining Habonim when he was eleven; attending technical school; active participation in Hechalutz; working at a kibbutz with young Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria; joining the British military in 1940; fighting throughout Europe; attending a Gordonyah meeting in liberated Brussels; contacts with the Jewish brigade; entering Bergen-Belsen; posing as a Polish soldier in an attempt to locate relatives in other camps; associating himself with the Palmah? to smuggle...

  6. Elfi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elfi E., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She remembers living with her grandparents (her parents were divorced); a close relationship with her twin brother; being attacked by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; her mother's decision to send her and her brother to Belgium to join their father; the paid smuggler abandoning them in Aachen; their father finding them; placement with foster families; missing her brother; briefly seeing her mother who was emigrating to London; placement in an orphanage in Middelkerke; evacuation to an orphanage in Brussels during German in...

  7. Ilse A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse A., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany circa 1922. She recalls a happy childhood; Hitler's ascent to power in 1933; one brother's emigration to Australia; anti-Jewish laws resulting in expulsion from school; her family's move to Amsterdam; discrimination because she was German; a dressmaker's apprenticeship; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures despite sympathy from the Dutch; her grandmother's deportation; her father learning they were to be deported; contacting the underground; receiving false papers; being transported to Apeldoorn with her parents (her br...

  8. Eduard T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eduard T., who was born in Rotterdam in 1916. He recalls his secular childhood; learning of German antisemitism from German-Jewish refugees; antisemitism from Dutch Nazis; his father's death in 1937; his mother's emigration; German invasion; attending radio school; living in Utrecht with anti-Nazi students; working for a friend in Voorburg; obtaining false papers; hiding in several different houses; narrow escapes; moving to the Hague; staying with several families, including a socialist and a Dutch Calvinist; war's end; reunion with his brother (he had been in hiding...

  9. Maks B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maks B., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in approximately 1920. He recalls the successful family store; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; his father hiding when Nazis came for him; a family meeting at which many, at his father's urging, decided to leave for Palestine (most who remained were killed); traveling to Palestine via Italy; his mother's death five years later; his father's remarriage; intending to visit relatives in Europe in 1939; leaving the ship to return to Tel Aviv upon learning policies against Jews in Palestine; joi...

  10. Lois and Abraham J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lois J., who was born in a small town near Vilna, Poland in 1927, and her husband Abraham J., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1921. Mrs. J. discusses prewar Jewish life in her home town; the Russian occupation in 1939; the German takeover in 1941 and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; ghettoization of her town and conditions under German rule; and her escape into the forest, where she lived with a group of 300 partisans and refugees from other ghettos. Mr. J. describes family life before the war; the displacement of his family following Russian occupation;...

  11. Ruth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth L., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1936. She recounts frequent visits to her grandparents in Cologne; Kristallnacht; emigration to Amsterdam; her brother's birth; German invasion in 1940; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding during round-ups; a non-Jewish neighbor arranging for her and her brother to be hidden with non-Jews in December 1942; occasional visits with her parents; arrest in September 1943; transfer to the central gathering site for Jews; her brother's hospitalization for polio; being smuggled out; hiding with non-Jews in T...

  12. Leica B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leica B., who was born in Kishinev, Russia (presently Chișinău, Moldova) in 1906. She recounts visiting her uncle in prison in Saint Petersburg; attending secular and Bundist schools; her sister's emigration to Paris; Kishinev becoming part of Romania; emigration to Paris in 1929; expulsion due to leftist activities; illegally living in Brussels; marriage; becoming a citizen; birth of a son and daughter; German invasion; placing her daughter in a convent and her son in a health care facility; working for the Resistance hiding children; visiting her children once a m...

  13. Margot H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margot H., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1918. She recalls growing up in Gau-Algesheim where she was the only Jewish child her age; pleasant relations with townspeople until 1933; encounters with Nazi teachers and youth groups; her father conducting business at night to avoid the Gestapo; working near Frankfurt; returning home to escape violent antisemitism; entering a Catholic sewing school; and moving with her family to Wiesbaden where they were not known. Mrs. H. recounts working in a dress shop; her brother-in-law's suicide and her sister's death; her brother'...

  14. Rudolph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolph H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. H. recounts attending a Jewish and a German public school, then medical school; passing his state exams, but being unable to obtain his degree due to antisemitic regulations; obtaining his medical degree in Bern, Switzerland; encountering a friend there who later assassinated a Swiss Nazi leader; working in a German hospital; one sister's emigration to Paris; following her in 1937; emigration to the United States in July 1938; trying to obtain emigration documents for his parents and sister who remained in Fr...

  15. Renata M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls not understanding why she could no longer attend public school; her non-Jewish nursemaid's role in their escape to Italy in 1936; settling in Alassio; her father's and uncle's imprisonments during which she visited them; imprisonment with her mother in Perugia; transfer to Cascia under police supervision; receiving food from the villagers; transfer to Citta? di Castella, where her brother was born in 1941; and her realization that something was wrong. Mrs. M. describes moving to Bevagna; receiving orders ...

  16. Nachman T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nachman T., who was born in Goworowo, Russia (presently Poland) in 1910. He recalls attending a Jewish school; learning to be a tailor; participating in the Bund; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing with his three brothers to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; his mother's flight with an uncle; his whole family working in Orishche; being warned of Germans approaching; traveling to Kui?byshev, then to Kazakhstan; working on a collective farm; a brief trip to Alma-Ata; returning to the farm; working with coal from 1943 to 1946; returning to Poland; marriage; living in ...

  17. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in a small village in Hungary (later Slovakia) in 1894 and moved to Vienna with his family at age fifteen. He recalls serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I; returning to Vienna on October 26, 1918; marriage in 1930; divorce and remarriage in 1932; his daughter's birth in 1937; the rise of antisemitism; German annexation of Austria in March 1938; his arrest and deportation to Dachau in April; transfer to Buchenwald in October; forced labor, humiliation, and beatings; Kristallnacht; receiving food and cigarettes from a non-Jewish...

  18. Paulina I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Polish school; observing antisemitism at school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and two sisters emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; another brother's premature death; her brother's visit from Palestine in 1938 (he urged them to emigrate but her father refused); German invasion; fleeing without her parents' knowledge; living in Białystok, Minsk, and Orsha; working at a Soviet factory; returning to Białystok; deportation with her boyfriend to a ...

  19. Cecille B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecille B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austria in 1898. Mrs. B. describes her family; her brother, who left for the United States in 1907; moving to Mannheim, where her father worked for prominent relatives; meeting her husband, a Polish citizen; the birth of her son and daughter; citizenship problems due to the transfer of the city of Czernowitz from Austria to Romania; meeting Nahum Goldman in 1924, and asking his assistance in obtaining citizenship papers. She relates changes resulting from Hitler's rise to power; she and her husband losing their business in 1938;...

  20. Fred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1904. He recalls attending Gymnasium; his father's losses during the hyperinflation of the early 1920s; studying banking; moving to Mannheim in 1924 to work in a cigar factory; his mother's death; friendships with Jews and non-Jews; exclusion from his company's soccer team in 1933 because he was Jewish; marriage in 1936; futile efforts to emigrate to the United States; losing his job; returning to Schweinfurt to work for his uncle; arrest and imprisonment in Schweinfurt in November 1938; transfer to Dachau; release afte...