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  1. Norbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Bad Homburg, Germany in 1927, one of two brothers. He recounts beatings by a Nazi teacher in 1933, resulting in his parents transferring him and his brother to a Jewish school in Frankfurt am Main; their move to Frankfurt in 1936; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; his father and uncle being arrested and deported to Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; seeing the synagogue burning while the fire department stood idle; his father's release four weeks later due to his status as a World War I veteran and his pledge to leave Germany within six months...

  2. Lea A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929. She recounts that her father was Jewish and her mother Christian; their affluence; her father leaving for Paris in January 1933; she and her mother joining him in May; their impoverishment; moving to Saint-Ouen in 1935; her parents opening a restaurant in Paris; attending school; a Jewish organization sending her for summers to a Jewish family in Zurich, then to another in Thun for several years; her parents managing the Bund canteen in Paris; German occupation; feeling excluded when she was told she was not Jewish and ...

  3. Mary L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. She recalls her large, extended family; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; one sister's emigration to Palestine; observing the destruction after Kristallnacht; being sent with her older sister to the Netherlands (her parents planned to join them); placement in a children's home; her sister leaving since she was too old; transfer to a refugee home in Rotterdam, where her sister lived; placement with a foster family in Haarlem; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; transfer to a Jewish home for girls in Amsterdam; ...

  4. Peter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. He recalls his parents' divorce; childhood poverty; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish violence; leaving for Czechoslovakia in summer 1938; his mother's successful application as an au pair in England; traveling with her and his sister to Brussels; staying there with his grandmother; obtaining tickets to join their mother on May 17, 1940; German invasion on May 10 ending their plan; their grandmother's death; living as street children, stealing food; his arrest in 1943 (his sister subsequently was hidden in a convent); deport...

  5. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recalls encountering "genteel" antisemitism before 1933; moving to Amsterdam immediately after Hitler's election; getting his parents and younger brother to Holland (his mother died prior to German invasion, his father in a concentration camp, and his brother emigrated to the United States); joining the Dutch military; escaping with a friend in 1941; traveling to Geneva via Lyon and Lons-le-Saunier; imprisonment; release after intervention by the Dutch consul; traveling to England using false papers via Marseille, B...

  6. Shalom T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom T., who was born in 1921 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He recalls his family's move to Antwerp in 1936 and to Brussels three years later; their move to southern France in 1940; arrest in Lyon; two months incarceration in Rivesaltes; joining his parents in Nice; their escape to Italy; German occupation; being protected by the town's mayor; arrest and transfer to Borgo San Dalmazzo, Nice, and Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; forced labor at Buna/Monowitz; receiving food from non-Jewish co-workers and Wehrmacht officers; public hangings; being i...

  7. Tibor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He describes participating in Zionist organizations; the influx of Austrian refugees in 1938; German invasion; obtaining false papers in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; compulsory service in a Slovak forced labor battalion in Sva?ty? Jur in 1941; learning his parents were deported in June 1942; returning to Bratislava in March 1943; escaping to join the Slovak uprising in Banska? Bystrica in August 1944; being wounded; fighting in Donovaly in September; surrendering in October; escaping with his friend to Banska? B...

  8. Milton L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton L., who was born in Ulanów, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls working in the family bakery business; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; two brothers emigrating to the United States in 1939; German invasion followed by Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviet forces; traveling to Młodów; two brothers and his sister returning home; deportation by the Soviets to Siberia in fall 1940; working with his brothers cutting trees; moving with his mother and brothers to Samarqand two years later; separation from his family whe...

  9. Benno S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benno S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. He recounts his family's move to Paris during the Anschluss; his father's deportation to Pithiviers in 1941; his mother's friend bringing him and his older brother to live with a non-Jewish woman in Meudon in 1942; four or five other children living there; attending church (he did not know he was Jewish); his mother's sister retrieving them in 1945; reunion with their mother in Grenoble; learning his father had been killed in Auschwitz; his mother's remarriage; the birth of a half-brother; living with his aunt in Lond...

  10. Stephen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen L., who was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. He recalls his mother's death in 1931; living in a Jewish orphanage; his father's two month incarceration in Oranienburg; his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage to a Jewish woman in 1938; violent harassment by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; his father losing his business; his parents sending him to France; attending public school; German invasion in 1940; Quakers transporting his group to unoccupied territory; assistance from OSE and ORT; learning from the Red Cross that his parents ...

  11. Bente T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bente T., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1935. She recalls attending services on Saturday mornings and celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion on April 9, 1941; many German soldiers on the streets; attending a Jewish school beginning in 1941; in September 1943; her father telling them they were leaving; hiding in a summer cottage on the coast in Hornbæk for nine days with sixteen other Jews, including her relatives; being taken at night by a fishing boat to Ven Island, Sweden; placement in a hotel near Norrköping; attending school; moving to an apartment...

  12. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Khmelʹnik, Ukraine in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recounts relatives emigrating to the United States and Palestine, including a great-grandmother who returned in 1929 and lived with them; attending school in a nearby village; his father's military draft in 1939; an influx of Jewish refugees; his father's return in 1940; attending a camp in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Kiev; returning home; his father's remobilization in July; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing in August; hiding with his family during a mas...

  13. Felix A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix A., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922. He describes life in Bockenheim; his family's business; elementary school in Bockenheim from 1927-1931; increasing antisemitism from 1931 on; anti-Jewish legislation resulting in greatly reduced income and lose of their house; moving to Frankfurt; SA youths attacking his father thus causing Mr. A.'s loss of faith; Realgymnasium in Frankfurt from 1931 to 1935; and the Philanthropin, a Jewish school, from 1935 to 1937. Mr. A. recalls leaving school in 1937 to learn the leather goods trade; his sister's emigra...

  14. Rebeka P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebeka P., who was born in Bender, Romania (presently Moldava) in approximately 1918. She recalls growing up in Kishinev (presently Chis?ina?u); increasing antisemitism beginning in 1933; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of her father's business; working in the agriculture department; Romania allying itself with Germany; fleeing east with her parents and younger brother by train; strafing by German planes; leaving the train with her father when he was injured; joining her mother and brother in Alma-Ata; moving to Zhambyl; marriage to a Russian Jew; her brother'...

  15. Maurice E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's 1929 move to Antwerp, then Brussels, to escape from the orthodox community; their assimilated life style; attending school until age fourteen; participating in socialist groups; his family housing a German-Jewish refugee; German invasion in May 1940; he and his brother fleeing to Paris to join the military; his rejection though his brother was accepted; living in a facility for Belgians in Montpellier; working at a vineyard; incarceration at Agde; escaping with...

  16. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. L. recalls her family's move to Berlin when she was five; losing her Christian governess because of the Nuremberg laws; withdrawing from gymnasium in 1937 when Der Sturmer was placed on her desk; and enrolling in a Jewish school where she excelled in foreign languages. She tells of her parents' friendship with her future in-laws; her future father-in-law's professional relationship with Hjalmar Schacht; her sister's departure for the United States in 1938; her father's deportation to Dachau after Krist...

  17. Paul K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul K., who was born in Bad Berleburg, Germany in 1928. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic incidents in school; confiscation of his father's cattle business in 1935; arrests and destruction on Kristallnacht in November 1938; his father avoiding arrest because he was hospitalized; expulsion from school; traveling with his sisters on a children's transport to Belgium; living with relatives in Mechelen (Malines); attending school; briefly fleeing during German invasion in May 1940; returning to Mechelen; traveling with one sister and his cousin to Cologne; l...

  18. Hedy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. She recalls a happy childhood in an affluent, assimilated home; studying in Lausanne; her brother's service in the Austrian army; marriage in February 1937; the Anschluss in March 1938; obtaining documents to emigrate to the United States in two years; moving to Krako?w in October 1938 to wait; German invasion; their flight to L?viv in the Soviet zone in November 1939; refusing Soviet citizenship; deportation to a forced labor camp in Siberia; harsh conditions; German invasion in June 1941; release; moving to Bukhoro; ...

  19. Walter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. He describes his family background; the Anschluss and resulting terror; losing his job; unsuccessful escape attempts through Luxembourg to Brussels; returning to Vienna; the terrorism and destruction of Crystal Night; his arrest and transfer to Dachau; slave labor and his efforts to remain unnoticed; and release in April due to membership in a Zionist organization which obtained emigration papers for him to Great Britain as a farm laborer. He describes arrival in London; transfer to Wales; several farm jobs; internme...

  20. Stephen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen D., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1918. He describes comfortable relations with non-Jews; working in the family textile business; joining a Zionist organization; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1936; incarceration in 1938 in Bereza Kartuska, a Polish government camp; fleeing with his brother to Lut?s??k, Ukraine after the outbreak of war; a brief return to Poland to marry; his parents and sister joining them in Lut?s??k; his father's return to Poland (they never saw him again); German invasion; separation from his mother, sister, and bro...