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  1. Ferdinand H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ferdinand H., who was born in Alba Iulia, Romania in 1907 and moved to Košice in 1911, one of four sons. He recalls his mother's death in 1914; his father working as a third generation cantor; attending synagogue with his father; attending music conservatories in Prague and Vienna; singing in traveling choirs; serving in the Czech military; discharge; Hungarian occupation; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; returning home several times; placing his youngest brother on an illegal children's transport from Budapest to Palestine; his father's ...

  2. Rene D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1923. He recalls his family's Catholic, right wing orientation; exposure to his grandfather's more liberal perspective; attending high school in Liège; joining the military during the German invasion in 1940; returning home after German victory; resuming his studies; learning his grandfather was hiding a Jewish family; being asked to join the Resistance; distributing pamphlets and tracking train movements; hiding to avoid forced labor; arrest; incarceration for five months at St. Leonard prison; transfer to Esterwegen as a "N...

  3. Esfira F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esfira F., who was born in Belopol?ye, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls friendly relations with non-Jews; attending Ukrainian school; German bombardment and invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; translating to the Germans for her kolkhoz director; refusing a marriage offer from a German soldier; ghettoization in Berdychiv; escaping; returning to Belopol?ye; escaping a mass killing with her family; escaping a mass killing by Germans and Ukrainian police in May 1942 with help from a German who pushed her into a pit (her mother and broth...

  4. Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recounts his father's military draft immediately before the war; his capture by the Germans; a one hour visit when he was en route to Germany as a POW; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; non-Jews assisting their move to Mogiła to avoid ghettoization; forced relocation to the Weiliczka ghetto; his grandmother's hospitalization (he never saw her again); relocating to the Kraków ghetto with assistance from German soldiers; slave labor at an airport; his mother...

  5. Ita M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ita M., who was born in approximately 1928, and lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. She recounts having two brothers and two sisters; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; her father's deportation for forced labor in Germany; ghettoization; forced labor manufacturing military uniforms; receiving food from Polish friends; deportation to Graeben; slave labor in a spinning factory for twelve hour shifts; receiving food from Soviet and Polish POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; observing cannibalism; encountering her sister; con...

  6. Isaac E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac E., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls moving to Baranowicze when he was seven; attending religious school; military enlistment in 1937; German invasion; returning to Baranowicze; Soviet occupation; confiscation of his father's shoe factory (he was designated a Kulak); German invasion; ghettoization; a mass killing including his mother, brother, and sister; forced labor in the ghetto; the Judenrat not allowing him to leave the ghetto to work; separation from his father and brothers; working for the SS making shoes; arranging a Jewish child's adop...

  7. Simon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon B., who was born in Berlin in 1909. Mr. B. recalls his family's close relationship with the non-Jewish family who lived in the apartment above his; his father's military service during the first World War; quitting school in order to help his ailing father with the family business; his attempt to emigrate to Israel; and the totally transformed attitude of his German "friends" after 1933. He describes anti-Jewish measures to which he was subjected; Kristallnacht; hiding from the police; being smuggled, with his wife, into Belgium, and arranging for his parents to...

  8. Hetty D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hetty D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1930. She recalls close relations with her extended family; her sense of Dutch, not Jewish, identity; German invasion; unsuccessfully attempting to flee with her parents; gradual implementation of anti-Jewish laws; deportations; brief arrest with her parents; their release by Ferdinand aus der Fu?nten because they were considered non-Jews due to their descent from Marranos; her father's decision to flee from the Jewish quarter; being taken from Amsterdam by a member of the underground; hiding with a Protestant family...

  9. Yosef F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef F., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1921, the older of two brothers. He recounts his elaborate bar mitzvah; cordial relations with non-Jews; summer vacations in Bukovina; visiting an uncle in Bucharest; antisemitism in the late 1930s; completing lyceum in 1940; teaching Latin; forced labor for the Romanian military; round-up with his family to the police station in 1941; his mother's release; deportation in crowded trains to Tîrgu Frumos; being beaten by a police officer; continuing to Stamora Română; jumping from the train en route to obtain water; sharing...

  10. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony, Ms. S. discusses her illness immediately after liberation; returning to Brussels; reunion with her mother and grandmother; learning to live again through a Jewish youth group; being brought by them to Paris where she surrendered her passport; working with autistic children in a Jewish orphanage; emigration to Israel in September 1948; military training; participating in the Israel-Arab war; marriage in 1953 to a German survivor; her son's birth; living on a left-wing kibbutz; leaving the kibbutz; moving to another, the birth of ...

  11. Aron E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron E., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1934, one of two brothers. He recalls living among his large, extended family; speaking Yiddish at home; Soviet occupation from 1939 to 1941; German invasion; his father being taken for forced labor (he never returned); anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; ghettoization; living with relatives; selling cigarettes to help support his family; hiding during round-ups; his aunt giving him her son's work papers after he was killed; briefly leaving the ghetto with his mother when she ne...

  12. 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 ...

  13. Hertha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hertha B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recounts her parents' strong German identity; her father's service in World War I; studying with Regina Jonas, a female rabbi; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish seminary to train as a kindergarten teacher; employment in a children's camp near Schmiedeberg (presently Kowary, Poland) and Hirschberg (presently Jelenia Góra); locals breaking all the windows on Kristallnacht; returning with the children to Berlin; preparing for emigration to Palestine with a group in Havelberg;...

  14. William P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. William P., who was born in Prague in 1906. Dr. P. describes his family's background; its move to Vienna in 1910, where he lived until 1938; and his education there. He recounts his involvement in Zionism; the rejection of his offer to Adolf Eichmann to transport Viennese Jews to Palestine; and his involvement in the illegal transport of Jews into Palestine. He relates the mechanics of these transports; British efforts to halt the smuggling; his repeated arrests by the British; and his moves to Greece, Italy, Portugal, Mozambique, and the United States. He recalls...

  15. Moshe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe G., who was born in Borșa, Romania in 1925, the ninth of ten children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder; some of his siblings' emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; Hungarian occupation in 1940; forced labor clearing snow from roads; German invasion in 1944; deportation on foot to the Vișeu de Sus ghetto; his father crying when he was forced to shave his beard; deportation to Birkenau; separation from his parents and two sisters (he never saw them again); transfer to Auschwitz, then Lagisza; slave labor building a factory; transfer to Jawor...

  16. Juraj B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juraj B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. He recalls extreme poverty in his childhood; harassment against Romanies; observing arrest of Jews; military draft in 1940; assignments in Trnava, Rimavská Sobota, and near the Polish border; the Germans confiscating their rifles and impressing them into forced labor; particularly harsh treatment by the Hlinka guard; having to wear different uniforms; being sent to work for private farmers where they received better food; inadequate clothing for the harsh winters; esca...

  17. Samuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel G., who was born in Szastarka, Poland in 1926. He describes his large family; forced relocation after German occupation; taking his older brother's place as a slave laborer; his family bribing a Pole for his release after three months; hiding with his family for two weeks with help from a Pole; their capture; about two years in Budzyn? concentration camp; atrocities committed by camp commander Reinhold Feiks; incidents of mass punishment after escape attempts; transfer to Ostrowiec; and a mass killing including his father. He recalls transfer to Auschwitz in 19...

  18. 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...

  19. Jetse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jetse S., a Protestant, who was born in the Netherlands in approximately 1926 and raised in Hilversum. He recounts cordial relations with Jews; German invasion in 1940; rationing; his father warning Jewish friends in 1941 not to register; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father serving in a civil defense unit that was a front for the resistance; hiding a Jewish friend in their home for several months; his father obtaining false papers for his friend and arranging a hiding place in Amsterdam; receiving a postcard from him from Westerbork (he did not survive); seeking hidi...

  20. Alexander M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander M., who was born in 1929. He recalls a happy, comfortable childhood in Sharhorod; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; antisemitic measures; his mother's death; his arrest; convincing the Germans he was not Jewish; forced labor cooking and cleaning for German troops; billeting of German soldiers in his family's home; one German providing them with food; occupation by Romanian troops; their refusal to murder Jews on German orders; ghettoization; overcrowding; starvation; hiding to avoid forced labor; deportation to Odesa; escaping and returning...