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  1. Peter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936. He recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; frequent military parades; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Latvia in November 1941; their privileged status because his father headed a team of skilled mechanics needed by the German army; living in and near the Ri?ga ghetto; transfer in February 1943 to the Eastern front; his father rescuing a German officer in a partisan attack; imprisonment in Ri?ga from October 1943 to January 1944; being smuggled into Germany, probably by the officer his father had saved...

  2. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Holešov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910. He recalls a pogrom in 1918; his family fleeing to Vienna; his father's death in 1928; attending medical school; two years of Czech military service beginning in 1936; assignments in Prague and Brno; demobilization after the Munich agreement; marriage; living in Brno; German occupation; his brother's deportation; deportation with his mother. sister, and wife to Theresienstadt in April 1942; his privileged position as a doctor; his sister's voluntary deportation (he never saw her again); his son's b...

  3. Meir G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1929, an only child. He recounts attending a secular Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's arrest by Lithuanians (they released him because he was a Lithuanian army veteran); ghettoization; attending a vocational school; deportation to Stutthof, then Landsberg in July 1944; separation from his father; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor; a friend arranging to have his number removed from a selection list; a death march and train transfer to Mauthausen; observing cannibalism; a death march ...

  4. Maurice K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice K., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1924, one of ten children. He recalls antisemitic harassment from age four; his observant home; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; one brother's emigration to Switzerland; protection due to family political connections; German occupation in April 1944; anti-Jewish measures; his mother arranging hiding places for him and his siblings in May; hiding on a farm; ghettoization of his parents, two brothers, and sister-in-law (he never saw his parents and one brother again); taking food to other...

  5. Roger V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger V., a Catholic, who was born in Bredene, Belgium in 1920. He recounts moving to Nieuwpoort in 1926; attending a Catholic, then a public school; working in his mother's store; military draft in 1940; service in Ghent for three months; transfer to Montpellier, France; the Nieuwpoort mayor bringing them home; working for the resistance recording truck and car traffic in Ostend to convey to the Allies; obtaining false papers indicating a younger age so he could travel freely; arrest in 1942 for black market activity; release six months later; arrest in April 1944 fo...

  6. 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...

  7. Esther and Charles G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Soko?y, Poland, in 1924, and her husband Charles, who was born in Lublin in 1916. Mrs. G. describes prewar antisemitism and pogroms in Poland; the German takeover in 1939; Soviet occupation and German reoccupation; the destruction of Soko?y, upon which she escaped to the forest and hid for several days; her transfer to the Bia?ystok ghetto, where she worked making military clothes; and her deportation to Auschwitz. She recalls in detail her arrival at Birkenau; her work in an ammunition factory; atrocities she witnessed in Auschwitz; her tra...

  8. Pepo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pepo S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916, one of six children. He recalls attending French and Jewish schools; participation in Maccabi; his father's death in 1931; leaving school to work in the family business; German invasion; his brother's military service and resulting combat injury; working for the Jewish council; helping Jews escape; distributing food from the Red Cross in the Baron Hirsch quarter; observing abuses by the Jewish police, including Vital Hasson and Edgar Chounio; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor with one brother; witnessing his m...

  9. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  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. Jeannine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeannine A., who was born in Paris, France in 1932. She recalls the outbreak of war; her father's military draft; moving, with her mother and brother, to Avignon to join her father when he was decommissioned; being told not to reveal they were Jewish; assuming a false name; their parents placing them with a Catholic woman in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt, who was unaware they were Jewish; participating in Catholic services; attending public school; returning to their parents when the daughter suspected they were Jews; meeting their infant brother; their parents placing them in L...

  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. Meir T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir T., who was born in Jonava, Lithuania in 1920, one of nine children. He recounts attending a Yavneh school; moving to Kaunas in 1937; joining Komsomol; attending school, taking voice lessons, and working; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; draft into the Soviet military; posting at Telšiai; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Jonava; meeting his wife there; futile efforts to flee east; detention with his wife by Lithuanians; escaping; assistance from a Lithuanian in the forest; returning to their residence in Kaunas; a German bringing them food; ghettoiza...

  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. Paul P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul P., a twin, who was born in Mikulov, Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recounts attending German and Czech schools; antisemitic harassment; involvement in Zionist youth groups; moving to Brno after German occupation; his mother "forcing" his father's illegal emigration to Palestine in 1939; his departure for England and his mother and sister leaving for Yugoslavia on August 31, 1939; their return to Prague due to the outbreak of war; forced labor in coal mines; hospitalization; refusing a nun's offer to hide him; returning to Brno; deportation with his mother and sister...

  16. 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...

  17. Roger C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger C., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. He recounts the important influence of scouting; apprenticeship as an electrician; enlisting in the French military; retreating to Tarbes; demobilization; working as an electrician; his family and fiancee joining him; creating false papers for the Resistance in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; an unsuccessful attempt to illegally enter Spain; joining Sixie?me, a network rescuing Jewish children in Rodez, Clermont Ferrand, and Aix-les-Bains; arrest in Lyon in May 1943; transfer to Montluc prison; digging graves for executed prison...

  18. Larry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry R., who was born in Lez?ajsk, Poland, in 1929. In this exceptionally vivid and detailed testimony, Mr. R. describes his privileged childhood; his family's move to Zakliko?w in 1937; and the outbreak of the war in 1939. Mr. R. recalls seeing his father beaten; his family's eviction from their estate; their eventual betrayal and arrest; and the deportation of Jews from Zakliko?w. He describes conditions in the freight cars to Budzyn? and in the camp, where he arrived with his brother in April 1943. He tells of witnessing a mass murder and his consequent desire to ...

  19. Arthur R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur R., who was born in Derecske, Hungary in 1928, one of seven children. In a reflective and detailed testimony, he remembers centering their life on the synagogue, religious school, Sabbath, and Jewish holidays; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; rescinding of Jewish business licenses, including his father's; increasing poverty; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in Nagyva?rad (Oradea); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and younger brothers (they perished); pervasive hunge...

  20. Baruch H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch H., who was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1924, one of four children. He recounts his happy childhood; his father's secularism and Zionism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's illness; his father's military draft as a veterinarian in 1940; German invasion in May; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school, his father's dismissal from his job, confiscation of valuables and compulsory wearing of the yellow star; his father's decision to hide the family in different locations in summer 1942; entrusting valuables ...