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  1. Irma M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma M., who was born in Forchheim, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Catholic school; her sense of isolation, despite kindness from nuns; wanting to be part of the pervasive Nazi youth culture; living with an aunt in Bamberg; attending a Jewish boarding school in Horburg; being forced to break the school windows and march through town to have rocks thrown at them during Kristallnacht; returning home; finding her home vandalized and her father gone (he was in Dachau); their non-Jewish maid and doctor assisting them; her fath...

  2. Pauline B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline B., who was born in Li︠u︡bomlʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the fifth of six daughters. She recounts attending Yiddish, then public school; antisemitic harassment; her mother's death when she was six; moving to her grandparents with an older sister; one aunt, who was like a mother to her, emigrating to Argentina; Soviet occupation; placement with her sister in an orphanage; evacuation by Soviet troops when the Germans invaded; being wounded en route; staying in Volgograd (Stalingrad) for a week; transfer to Siberia; living in an orphanage; moving with ...

  3. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  4. Julianna L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julianna L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. In this exceptionally detailed testimony, she recalls a comfortable lifestyle; special privileges due to her father's distinguished service as an officer in World War I; Austrian Jews' disdain for Polish Jews; her family's inability to emigrate to Czechoslovakia after the Anschluss (her mother's family was Czech) due to German occupation of the Sudetenland; watching torchlight Nazi parades; and compulsory "Heil Hitler"'s in school. Mrs. L. remembers her father obtaining United States telephone books and writing let...

  5. Hugh J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugh J., who was born in Leicester, England in 1916. He relates being a pacifist; assignment to agricultural work as a conscientious objector; volunteering for relief work with the Friends Service Committee; assignment to a team of twelve in continental Europe; driving a truck; being sent to Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation; shock at seeing corpses everywhere and the debilitated state of some prisoners; first bringing the children to a nearby hospital camp, then the other prisoners, the healthiest first since they had the best chance of surviving; driving hi...

  6. Georg P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georg P., who was born in Rakovni?k, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending high school; visiting Prague frequently; his family's desire to leave after the Munich agreement; arranging to attend New York University with assistance from his uncle in New York; obtaining a visa from German authorities in Prague in September 1939; emigration to the United States; and corresponding with his family until the United States entered the war in 1941. Mr. P. discusses learning from a cousin that his parents and sisters were killed in Auschwitz; receiving his sister's diary...

  7. Rolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recounts his assimilated family's affluence; his parents' divorce; attending gymnasium; business training in Breslau, Du?sseldorf, Berlin, and Bremen; termination because he was Jewish; working in his father's business in Auerbach; his father's death in 1934; economic and social problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; returning to Berlin; a warning about Kristallnacht; hiding with his brother's friend; obtaining immigration papers for San Salvador from his half-brother who was there; his brother's emigration to ...

  8. Karolyn F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karolyn F., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria) in 1909. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; the Anschluss; observing a speech by Hitler; assistance from their non-Jewish building superintendent; joining a group emigrating to Palestine; their failed attempt to enter Italy, then a difficult ship journey to Palestine; reunion with a brother on one of the ships; living on a kibbutz; difficult relations with the British; attacks by Arabs; the births of two sons; and emigration to the United States to joi...

  9. Nelly M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nelly M., who was born deaf in Vienna, Austria in 1929. Mrs. F. describes her household comprised of her deaf uncle, mother, and younger sister, and her hearing grandmother; attending a school for the deaf at about age three; learning to read lips; and her mother's divorce (her father was deaf). She recalls the Nazi arrival in Vienna; being forced to leave school; teachers advising her mother to leave Austria; seeing signs in parks and movies reading "Jews forbidden"; an assault by a Nazi youth; witnessing the public humiliation of older Jewish men; learning to read E...

  10. Rose M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose M., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1933. She recalls moving to Brussels in 1938; German invasion in 1940; fleeing on foot to Paris with her mother; returning to Brussels; learning her sister had been killed with relatives in France; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish day camp; her mother's friend meeting her when she returned home to take her away (their apartment had been sealed by the Nazis and she never saw her parents again); placement in a convent in Louvain; nuns tutoring them to participate in mass (there wer...

  11. Herbert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert F., who was born in Michelstadt, Germany in 1910. He recalls the family moves to Bad Mergentheim, then Gelsenkirchen; his father's enlistment in the German military during World War I; attending the Hebrew School of Gelsenkirchen; joining his father's business in 1928; and his fear after hearing Hitler speak. Mr. F. recounts the 1933 Nazi takeover of his father's business; the family's move to Frankfurt; his decision to emigrate to Palestine; seeing his sister in Genoa on his way; and living in Petah? Tik?v?ah, then Haifa; his parents' emigration to Palestine ...

  12. Fela F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fela F., who was born in Poland in 1923 and moved with her family to Brussels in 1926. She recounts her father's orthodoxy; a brief flight to France before German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in 1941; her parents and two siblings reporting for deportation in 1942 (she never saw them again); she and her husband hiding with non-Jews in Uccle, using false papers; receiving information from the people hiding them about smuggling herself to Switzerland; interment in a refugee camp in Switzerland; her husband being turned back when he followed her (she never...

  13. Wadja K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wadja K., who was born in Granice, Poland in 1896. He recalls the first World War; Germans confiscating food in 1915 and 1916; working on road construction; his family's move to Z?elecho?w; working briefly in Warsaw; returning home; working with his father making leather boots; marriage; six weeks compulsory army service; participation in the Jewish Worker's Party; and attending their night school classes. Mr. K. describes emigrating to Luxembourg in 1928 to escape antisemitism; visiting his parents in Poland in 1935; assisting his brother to emigrate to Argentina (an...

  14. Ilse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her assimilated family background; expulsion from public schools; joining the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement; anti-Jewish laws; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her father's decision to leave after a legal prohibition against Jews practicing medicine was passed; emigration with her family from Hamburg to Havana via Amsterdam in 1939; adjusting to life in Cuba; emigration to New York in 1940; joining Hashomer Hatzair; attending school; working at Hadassah; and her marriage to...

  15. Fritzi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fritzi S., who was born in Sadagura, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls the family's move to Cerna?uti in 1932; antisemitism; Soviet occupation; leaving school because she did not know Russian; expropriations of jewelry from the family store; fear of arrest and deportation to Siberia; marriage in May 1941; German invasion; her parents encouraging her to escape with her husband; their train journey to Kam?i?a?net?s?'-Podil's'kyi?; walking to Vinnyt?s?'ka and traveling by train to Rostov; working on farms; friendly Russian farmers; fleeing the German advan...

  16. Hélène A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène A., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending Czech public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in March 1939; her parents sending her with a sister to Budapest in 1942; working for a tailor; anti-Jewish restrictions; a Hungarian soldier from their hometown assisting them; obtaining false papers; hiding in their apartment during Allied bombings; denouncement; arrest and interrogation; transfer to Gestapo custody; deportation to Kistarcsa; re...

  17. Gabriel D., Sylvain D., and Danielle H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of three siblings born in Paris, France: Gabriel D. (1937), his brother Sylvain D. (1939), and their sister Danielle H. (1936). They recount their grandparents' emigration from eastern Europe; their father's United States citizenship and their mother's British (she was born in Palestine); German invasion; their father's arrest in December 1941, after the U.S. entered the war; his privileged status as a U.S. citizen; visiting him; receiving financial support from relatives in Palestine; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; applying to join their grandparents in Palestine...

  18. John P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904. Mr. P. describes the atmosphere and political conditions in Vienna; prewar antisemitism; his family's desire to assimilate; his marriage in 1933; early observations of changing conditions; watching a boycott against Jews from a rooftop in 1938; his mother's refusal to leave because she was the widow of a World War I veteran, was married to another at that time, and was reluctant to leave her art collection; and his escape with his wife to Paris. He relates their incarceration in a French jail for one month; release and...

  19. Esther H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther H., who was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1927. She recounts her parents were Polish immigrants; seeing Hitler twice; anti-Jewish restrictions; visiting her grandparents in Poland in 1934; visiting an aunt in Berlin; her father being beaten and their home and store plundered on Kristallnacht; traveling to Antwerp via Aachen to live with a maternal aunt; her parents joining her; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Paris via Lille; assistance from the Joint; moving to Toulouse, then Saint-Loup; French soldiers being billeted in the house where they were st...

  20. Henri S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri S., who was born in Aurich, Germany, the younger of two children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; moving to Norden around 1935; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's deportation to Buchenwald and his grandfather's arrest on Kristallnacht; their release; smuggling themselves to Brussels via Aachen; German invasion in 1940; hiding with non-Jews during round-ups; his parents contacting the underground to hide him and his sister; placement with a farmer in Grendel; hearing from his sister through a priest (he did not know where she was...