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  1. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. She recounts her mother was British; having three older siblings; attending private school until her mother's death in 1934; participating in the Zionist youth groups Mizrachi and Maccabi; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family, an aunt, uncle, and their two children; a non-Jewish farmer sheltering them for three weeks; staying in Lille six weeks; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; obtaining visas to Venezuela; emigration to Havana via Spain; and arrival in the United States in September 1941. Ms. ...

  2. Ralph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 1939 to German refugees. He recounts his father bringing his own and his wife's parents and other relatives from Germany; his father arranging for them to hide with a Christian friend; barely escaping when they were betrayed seven months later; the underground placing him and his sister with a family for a few months; his mother's visits; living above an ice cream store with their parents for a few weeks; hiding in several other places; living in a chicken coop near Arnhem for three years with twelve people, all fri...

  3. Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating t...

  4. Inge M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inge M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. She recalls moving to Brussels in 1939; German occupation; a humiliating antisemitic incident in school; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); a teacher arranging to hide her and her sister in a convent; Catholic baptism with her sister; transfer to a convent in the country; living briefly with a priest and his housekeeper; reunion with her mother after the war (her mother hid in Brussels); placement in a Jewish children's home in Antwerp due to her mother's financial straits; emigrating to Israel in 1949...

  5. Eric M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric M., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1907, one of five brothers. He recalls attending public school; his father's death; receiving a business degree in 1930, then a law degree in 1933; the Anschluss; efforts to obtain emigration documents for him and his mother (his brothers had emigrated earlier); incarceration in a school on May 28, 1938; transfer to Dachau; assistance from a non-Jewish prisoner when he fainted during appell (roll-call); arduous slave labor; assistance from his father's former business competitor; transfer to Buchenwald; obtaining a visa fro...

  6. Esther L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther L., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1926. She recounts visits from her father who worked in Pirmasens; attending a Jewish school; Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents; belonging to Betar; Kristallnacht; assistance from their non-Jewish neighbors; joining her father in Holland in 1939 with her mother and sister; her father arranging her grandparents' illegal immigration to Brussels; attending school in Tilburg; German invasion in 1940; attending high school in Rotterdam, then in Oss; the Tilburg police chief warning her parents of a deportation; obt...

  7. Bella C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She describes her family's prewar life; German occupation; serious injuries from being beaten by a German while trying to protect her mother; fleeing with her father and her younger sister to Bia?ystok to obtain medical attention (she lost an eye); meeting her future husband; traveling with her father and future husband to Omsk; marriage; birth of her daughter; working as a waitress; her husband's return to Omsk after a year of service in the Soviet army; returning to Poland; learning her mother and sisters had been ki...

  8. Manfred M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manfred M., who was born in Marxheim, Germany in 1919, one of two children. He recounts living with his grandparents; moving to Ho?chst an der Nidder in 1933; the erosion of his friendships with non-Jews; being stoned; expulsion from school in 1935 (he was the only Jewish student); working in a shoe factory; receiving an affidavit from relatives in the United States; emigrating to the United States via Hamburg in 1936; meeting his future wife in 1937 (also a German-Jewish e?migre?); working hard to have his parents, sister, and grandparents join him in 1938, following...

  9. Edith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Babenhausen, Germany in 1918. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment prior to Hitler; helping victims of Nazi violence; Nazis frequently vandalizing the family business starting in 1931; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933; emigration of several siblings to the United States; her father's severe beating by Nazis; receiving affidavits from her siblings to emigrate to the United States; traveling to Stuttgart with her parents in July 1933; emigration to the United States with her father in October; her mother...

  10. Paul M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Berlin, Germany to Polish immigrants in 1922. He recalls involvement in Zionist organizations; attending a Jewish school; the decision of some relatives to emigrate in 1933; a beating by Hitler Youth in 1934; his parents' decision to leave following a Gestapo interrogation in 1936; their journey to Palestine via Austria and Trieste (his parents had money smuggled to them in Italy); their emigration to the United States in 1938; attending high school; cessation of communications from family in Europe after 1939; being drafted in 1942; encounter...

  11. Gys L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the ant...

  12. Edith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, the older of two children of Polish émigrés. She recounts attending Jewish summer camp; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to France; living on a non-Jewish family's farm; attending school; traveling to Toulouse; incarceration in Claremont-Ferrand; escaping approximately six weeks later after her father bribed a French guard; walking to Paris; returning to Brussels; expulsion from school; being sent with her brother to a summer camp in Uccle; returning; hiding with her parents; their arranging ...

  13. David L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David L., who was born in Sadgora, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1910, one of four children. Mr. L. recounts his family fleeing the Russians during World War I to Vienna, via Budapest; his father's and uncle's military service in the war (his uncle was killed); his family's orthodoxy; participating in Zionist groups; visiting relatives in Palestine in 1920; completing gymnasium and medical school; frequent antisemitic harassment; Austrian receptiveness to the Anschluss in March 1938; dismissal from his research position; his father's and grandfather...

  14. Helen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen W., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was about two; living with her paternal grandparents in Proste?jov, Czechoslovakia; her father's weekly visits; a close relationship with her non-Jewish governess; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Easter and Christmas as "national" holidays; attending synagogue; a close relationship with her uncle; her father moving funds out of Austria after the Anschluss and obtaining documents for the United States for himself and her; her grandparents...

  15. Yakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school;...

  16. Roni B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roni B., who was born in 1930 in Berlin, Germany. She recounts antisemitic harassment and restrictions, including her father not being able to treat non-Jews (he was a dentist); some non-Jews sneaking in for treatment; a non-Jewish butcher providing them with meat; changing schools frequently; Kristallnacht; relatives emigrating to several destinations; the war's outbreak; bribing an official to obtain visas; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, San Sebastia?n, and Barcelona; emigrating by ship to the United States in August 1941; and receiving letters from relatives via the...

  17. George A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George A., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He describes his family's move to Brno in 1920; his rebellious youth; working until 1936; moving to Prague; realizing the danger following the 1938 Munich agreement; registering for emigration to the United States; German occupation in March 1938; arrest; release with assistance from a police official, his father's friend; obtaining a temporary French visa; attempting to escape with assistance from non-Jews; brief imprisonment; traveling to Paris; incarceration as an enemy alien after the war began; transfer to Borde...

  18. Ruth N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth N., who was born in Ansbach, Germany in 1931. She recounts her father's position as a rabbi; antisemitic harassment; cordial relations with a neighbor who belonged to the SS; her father's job offer from Paris; their emigration in 1937; birth of a sibling; her father's enlistment in the Foreign Legion in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; traveling with her mother and siblings to Albi, where her father was stationed; living in Milhars and Toulouse; her father's discharge; moving to Nice in 1941; benign conditions under Italian occupation; the birth of twin sibling...

  19. Israel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Slonim, Poland (today Belarus), in 1937. Mr. M. tells of being sent by his family (whom he never saw again) to visit his uncle in 1941; fleeing east from the German attack with his uncle and family; traveling through Minsk to Kiev, where they entrained for Soviet Central Asia; German air attacks en route; and arrival in Samarqand, Uzbekistan in late 1941. He recounts the lack of food and poor sanitation; the deaths of his relatives from disease; placement in a Russian orphanage in 1942; returning to liberated Poland in 1945; anti-Semitic tau...

  20. Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to...