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  1. Moshe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Rymanów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; his brothers studying in Pinsk (they were exiled to Siberia by the Soviets); German invasion; selection for forced labor; his family's deportation; transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto; deportation to Pustków in 1943; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944, then Buna/Monowitz two weeks later; train transfer to Mauthausen; many deaths en route; Czechs throwing them food; transfer to Han...

  2. Shmuel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918, one of two sons. He recalls his parents moving to Łódź in 1933; studying at university; antisemitic harassment; a close friendship with Yitzhak Zuckerman, who recruited him as an officer in Deror; joining his parents to head Deror in Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with friends in October; crossing the border at Małkinia to Slonim in the Soviet-occupied zone; teaching in Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; sending packages to his family; visiting a friend in Kobryn; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Minsk to en...

  3. Jack T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack T., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1930. He recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; his brother's transfer for forced labor; his mother selling their house to "buy back" his brother; being caught in a round-up in October 1942; escaping; finding his brother's body; he and his sisters burying him; deciding not to tell their mother; incarceration in the newly established Bełżyce concentration camp; one sister's deportation; hiding during a mass killing (his mother and other sister were killed); transfer to Budzyń; slave labor for Heinkel; transfer to W...

  4. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1931, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending school; visiting relatives in Vilnius; Soviet occupation; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; returning weeks later; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; becoming religious; his bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; digging a bunker with his brother; round-up in July 1944 (his brother was killed in the bunker); deportation with his parents to Stutthof; transfer with his father to Landsberg; transfer with a group of children to ...

  5. Edo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edo S., who was born in Avtovac, Yugoslavia in 1922. He recounts moving to Sarajevo as an infant; his father's death in 1932; arrest by Ustaša in August 1941 for communist activities; imprisonment with his older brother; their transfer to Jasenovac; starvation; sadistic mass killings; a privileged position as a locksmith; brief assignment digging mass graves; witnessing his younger brother's murder with a hammer blow, people burned alive in the crematorium, and cannibalism; sham improvements for international commission visits; transfer to Fericanci via Osijek, where...

  6. Max G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in Grenchen, Switzerland in 1920 to Polish immigrants. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva as a pageboy; completing medical school in 1945; employment as a physician for UNRRA; assignment to a displaced persons camp for Poles; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in May 1946; gaining the trust of the residents who had difficult relations with the British and UNRRA administrators; working closely with the Jewish Committee and its head, Joseph Rosensaft; working with UNRRA and Joint medical staff and the ...

  7. Reuven C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuven C., who was born in 1924 in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus), one of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his father's poor health; his mother's strength; attending cheder; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending a Soviet school; cessation of most Jewish life; evacuation of one brother and one sister; German invasion; establishment of a Judenrat; his father's death; ghettoization; forced labor outside the ghetto; an unsuccessful escape attempt resulting in a severe beating; contacts with partisans; learning trenches were dug for a mass killing in Sep...

  8. Nathan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan S., who was born in Li?u?boml?, Poland in 1929. He recalls vibrant Jewish life; attending Polish and Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; looting and killing of Jews by Ukrainians and Poles; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; mass murder of Jews by Ukrainian policemen; ghettoization; his father and brothers' privileged positions as skilled workers; constructing hiding places; escaping with his family to the countryside; hiding on a Polish farm; his father's and sister's arrest (he never saw them again); hiding with his ...

  9. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921 and raised in Vienna. He recalls his affluent childhood; his family's assimilation, emphasis on Viennese culture, and education; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; his older sisters' emigration; traveling to Prague to continue school; arrest; returning home; being sent to Paris in September 1938; internment in Melsay-du-Maine as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war in September 1939; release and emigration to the United States in January; assistance from HIAS in New York; being drafted in 1942; special tr...

  10. Albin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albin W., who was born in Opato?w, Poland, in 1914, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending a Jesuit high school; becoming a civil engineer in Warsaw; German invasion; his brother's death in the infantry; fleeing to Lut?s??k, in the Soviet zone; teaching mathematics in Sofii?vka; German invasion; being compelled with others to dig a large trench; a mass killing at the trench; escaping into the forest; obtaining weapons to join the Soviet partisans; blowing up German trains; working as a non-Jew in Lut?s??k, then teaching in Rivne; liberation by Soviet troo...

  11. Khaiem D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Khaiem D., who was born in Starobin, Belarus in 1922. He recalls German invasion in 1941; a brother's birth; a forced march to the Slutsk ghetto in July 1941 during which his infant brother died; forced labor; the Judenrat collecting valuables from the Jews; a mass killing in 1941 (his parents and five siblings were murdered); smuggling food into the ghetto with assistance from non-Jews; joining Soviet POWs in a revolt in February 1942; escape with his sister; joining the partisans; military actions, including one in Pogost when his older brother was killed; rescuing ...

  12. Raymond H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond H., a non-Jew, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1919. He recounts moving to Nice after eighth grade; training as a pilot in Clermont-Ferrand; enlisting in the Belgian military in 1938; various assignments, including in Namur; German invasion; returning to his parents' home (they had returned to Belgium); hiding when Germans came for him; joining the Resistance in the Ardennes; delivering documents to a French aviator in Paris; observing Jews with yellow stars; his aunt hiding Jews; denouncement, arrest, and interrogation; transfer to prison in Arlon; being...

  13. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919, one of ten children. He recalls his family's poverty; their secularism but observing Jewish holidays; the family's communist leanings; attending selective schools in Nitra and Prievidza, the only high school graduate in his family; draft into a labor brigade of the Slovak military in 1940; deportation with his family to Nováky in June 1942; slave labor in a quarry; his sister arranging his exemption from deportation through her influential dressmaking position; prisoners organizin...

  14. Dora S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913, the younger of two daughters. She recounts her father's emigration to the United States; his return; their move to Essen; vacationing in Sylt; attending private school; an antisemitic teacher giving her poor grades; joining the Jüdischer Jugendverband; her family's refusal to emigrate; her emigration to Amsterdam; assistance from the Jewish community; working as a maid, then a furrier; meeting her future husband, a Communist; working for Rote Hilfe/Roode Hulp; moving with him to Paris; his arrest by the French police;...

  15. Yoseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoseph M., who was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his father's mobilization two days before German invasion in April 1941; Ustaša severely beating him and his brother; German soldiers billeting in their house; a German protecting them from Ustaša; his father's arrest; futile attempts to secure his release; arrest with his brother by Ustaša; their transfer to a prison in Zagreb, then to Jadovno and Gospić; slave labor harvesting wheat; transfer to Jasenovac; slave labor felling trees; Ustaša bruta...

  16. Fanny W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny W., who was born in Paris, France to Polish immigrants in 1925, one of five children. She recalls membership in a communist youth organization; resigning due to antisemitism; joining the Bund; her father's military draft in 1939; his demobilization; German invasion; one brother's arrest in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding with her parents in Orly; her arrest in Paris; prostitutes in jail with her warning her parents to hide; transfer to Drancy in March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau three months later; slave labor breaking stones; hospitalization;...

  17. Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in 1909, one of six children. He recounts moving from Radomys?l Wielki to work in Krako?w; starting a shirt factory; anti-Jewish boycotts; draft into the Polish military; German invasion; being wounded and captured; escaping; returning to his family home in Radomys?l Wielki; brief arrest in Tarno?w while smuggling food; ghettoization in Radomys?l Wielki; hiding with his family in the forest during a round-up; walking to the De?bica ghetto; bribing the Judenrat to obtain documents so they could remain; slave labor on a railroad; transfer with his...

  18. Matilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matilda Z., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1926, the third of six children. She describes her father's death in 1937; their subsequent impoverishment; support from relatives and the Ashkenazi community; their home being bombed in April 1941; living with relatives; anti-Jewish restrictions; going without her armband with Serbian friends; a German patrol identifying her as a Jew; forced labor washing toilets for a day; another older brother being shot in a mass killing; another older brother being caught and killed in 1942; orders for her family to report to th...

  19. Tauba B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tauba B., who was born in Zamos?c?, Poland in 1918. She recalls German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; reversion to German authority; fleeing with her family to Hrubieszo?w, then Volodymyret?s??; Soviet authorities settling them in Dubno; marriage; her family's flight to Russia in 1940; her husband's draft into the Soviet military (she never saw him again); her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; her baby's death; being smuggled out by a Ukrainian (her husband's family perished in a mass killing); traveling to Ternopil? as a non-Jew; working f...

  20. Edwin O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edwin O., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. He recalls his father's career as a physician; an assimilated lifestyle; attending medical school in 1936 under a Jewish quota; affinity for leftist organizations; street attacks on Jewish students; German invasion; briefly fleeing east; returning home; working in the Jewish hospital; obtaining food from non-Jewish friends; ghettoization; round-ups and deportations; transfer with his family to P?aszo?w; volunteering for transfer after two weeks; working with medical staff in Szebnie; deportation to Birkenau in Novembe...