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  1. Miriam O. and Ilona S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam O., who was born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, in 1930. Mrs. O. recalls her father's departure for military service in 1941; fleeing to Sarajevo with her mother, grandmother and sister; air raids; returning to Croatian-occupied Osijek; harsh anti-Semitic measures; eviction from several apartments; and public harassment. She relates being sent with her sister to Sarajevo to live with a Christian aunt; reunion with her mother and grandmother; their flight to Mostar; Italian internment on the island of Lopud; her grandmother's death; transfer to a camp on the island of R...

  2. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in approximately 1925, one of eight children. He recounts living in Tarnowo, Poland; his family's orthodoxy; attending school in Ostro?e?ka; his father's death when he was nine; transferring to school in ?omz?a; antisemitic harassment; one brother's military draft (he never saw him again); Soviet occupation; working as a carpenter; German invasion; forced relocation with his family in 1942 to the ?omz?a, then Zambro?w ghettos; his brother's escape (he did not survive); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1943; separation from his mother ...

  3. Celina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina L., who was born in Zbaraz?h?, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's Zionist commitment; her father's military career; German invasion; Soviet occupation; fleeing to L'viv with her parents in 1940 to avoid Soviet deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to her father in Janowska; her mother arranging her escape to Zbaraz?h? with a non-Jew; living with her uncle and aunt; hiding during round-ups; her uncle arranging to hide her with a Ukrainian woman in Mala Berezovyt?s?i?a?; leaving when villagers became suspicious; rejecting an...

  4. Henry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry M., born in approximately 1915, one of nine children. He recalls living on a farm in Ti?a?chiv, Czechoslovakia; his family's orthodoxy and Zionism; apprenticing as a tailor; cordial relations with non-Jews; draft into the Czech military in 1937; German annexation in 1938; returning home; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Kyjov and Dormitz; returning home in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his father, brothers, and uncle; slave labor cutting hay; seeing his sisters in an...

  5. Rudy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy R., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1930. Mr. R. describes not knowing he was Jewish until 1935; his parents' marital problems, many due to gambling; moving to Namur, then Brussels; his parents placing him and his sister in a Protestant orphanage, where they were later converted; German invasion in May 1940; returning home when his father's black marketeering could support them; anti-Jewish laws; harassment by other children; his mother's friendship with an SS officer; plastic surgery to minimize his "Jewish" ears; being hidden with his sister by friends in...

  6. Charles V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. He recalls feeling Belgian rather than Jewish; military service beginning in 1937; German invasion; capture; one year imprisonment as a Belgian POW; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; forced closing of the family business; hiding with his parents and sister; denunciation as a Jew in June 1944; imprisonment; transfer to Malines, then Auschwitz (his family remained hidden); slave labor; fierce struggles for food; his sense of complete isolation; willing himself to forget his past and f...

  7. Dov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov D., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending Hebrew school; summer vacations in Kulautuva; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his family's property; summering with an uncle in Jieznas; German invasion; ghettoization; working as a carpenter; his family surviving the large Aktion of October 1941; his sister smuggling food for them; his mother's deportation; witnessing Germans and Lithuanians killing infants during another Aktion; his brother serving in the Jewish police; hiding wi...

  8. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...

  9. Isaac B., Boris L., and Isiya M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimonies of Isaac B., Boris L., and Isiya M. Isaac B. recalls his large, extended family in Tulʹchin; deportation to Peciora in December 1941; his mother's death; surviving because his grandfather was selected as a skilled craftsman, hid him, and his older siblings, and smuggled them food from outside the camp; his father's military service; and not being able to locate his mother's burial site after the war. Isiya M. recounts deportation from Tulʹchin to Peciora (she was about four years old); her older brother leaving the camp to bring them food; and Isaac's mother being take...

  10. Isaac M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Issac M., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1912. He recalls living in Lida, Belarus; participating in Maccabi; working in his family's fur business; marriage in 1939; ghettoization; escaping with his wife from a mass shooting to a forest on May 8, 1942 (fifty relatives including his two children were killed); being hidden by hunters who had done business with his family; obtaining a gun from them; trying to help others escape; joining partisans who were escaped Soviet POWs; assisting women and children in the Bielski brigade; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; jo...

  11. Zvi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bu...

  12. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending public school; marriage in 1939; her husband's draft into the Polish military; his return in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding with her son, husband, and aunt in a bunker with a hundred others; their discovery; the Germans taking her son (she never saw him again); her aunt committing suicide; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her husband; beatings from guards from which she still bea...

  13. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  14. Dan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dan Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's move to Poprad in 1920; attending public school, then a German high school in Kežmarok; the family move to Žilina; matriculation from a Slovak high school in 1936; returning to Poprad; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working at a Zionist summer camp, then living on a Zionist training farm; military conscription in 1941; his commander, a former classmate, arranging his transfer to Bratislava; living in Zionist movement communities; returning to Poprad in 1942; marria...

  15. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1913. He recalls becoming a tailor; marriage; the births of two sons; German invasion; ghettoization; organizing tailor shops; measuring Himmler; making him a leather coat; measuring Hans Frank and Adolf Eichmann for leather coats; witnessing a mass killing of children from the orphanage; transfer to Majdan Tatarski ghetto; preparing a hiding place for his wife and sons; transfer with them to Majdanek, then alone to Lublin (Lipowa 7); being shot while visiting his wife (he shows the scar); retrieving his wife and one son fro...

  16. Rachel and Rafael A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel and Rafael A. Mr. A. was born in Pirot, Serbia in 1920. He recounts his family moving to Belgrade, Niš, Jagodina, and other places; attending high school in Belgrade; speaking Ladino at home; participating in Tchelet Lavan and Hashomer Hatzair, including a training camp for emigration to Israel; and cordial relations with non-Jews. He discusses his family's Sephardic history and traditions and shows photographs. Rachel A., was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1926. She recounts her family's move to Slavonski Brod; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and another Zion...

  17. Kalman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kalman W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending a local Bundist school and summer camp in Vilnius; joining Bundist protests against antisemitic laws; an accounting apprenticeship in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; orders to report for military service with his father in Warsaw; German bombings; returning home; ghettoization; teaching in a ghetto school; his family concealing his grandmother's death to obtain her rations; round-ups and deportations; work in the ghetto finance office; listening to a clandestine radio and disseminating t...

  18. Malka R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka R., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's relative affluence, orthodoxy, and closeness; attending Jewish and public schools; loss of her father's business due to antisemitism in 1937-1938; one brother's military draft in August 1939 (he eventually traveled to Israel); German invasion in September; ghettoization; visiting her brother's family in ?owicz (she never saw them again); pervasive hunger; a public hanging of ten innocent people; the ghetto's liquidation; separation from her father (she never saw him afterward); transfer to ?o...

  19. Pol R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pol R., a Catholic, who was born in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, Belgium in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts growing up in Amay; German invasion in May 1940; immediate military draft; transfer to Cazères in July; returning to Amay in March 1941; distributing underground newspapers, burning mills, and damaging trains; avoiding forced labor in Germany by obtaining a factory job; sabotaging production; hiding after he was denounced; learning his father and brother were held hostage; surrendering to free them; imprisonment in Huy in November 1943; transfer to ...

  20. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recounts his father's career as a concert violinist; attending public school; piano lessons; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in factories; relatives dying of starvation and disease; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; their transfer to Gleiwitz; slave labor digging ditches; his father's death in November; a death march to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet...