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  1. Ruth N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth N., who was born in Ansbach, Germany in 1931. She recounts her father's position as a rabbi; antisemitic harassment; cordial relations with a neighbor who belonged to the SS; her father's job offer from Paris; their emigration in 1937; birth of a sibling; her father's enlistment in the Foreign Legion in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; traveling with her mother and siblings to Albi, where her father was stationed; living in Milhars and Toulouse; her father's discharge; moving to Nice in 1941; benign conditions under Italian occupation; the birth of twin sibling...

  2. Arnold L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold L., who was born in Polzin, Germany (presently Po?czyn-Zdro?j, Poland) in 1919. He recalls attending public school; expulsion in 1935 due to antisemitism; attending a Zionist agricultural school near Berlin with his brother; visiting his parents in Berlin, where they had been forced to move after confiscation of their assets; moving to a kibbutz in Hessen in 1937, then to another in Gru?sen; emigration in 1938 to a town outside Amsterdam in order to leave for Palestine; illegally traveling by ship to Palestine with 1500 other people in 1939 (his brother had emi...

  3. Tamar S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tamar S., who was born in Berlin, Germany. She recounts her family's Dutch citizenship; spending summers in Amsterdam, where she met Anne Frank; being sent to boarding school in Holland while her parents moved to Paris in 1933; joining the Scouts; assisting Belgian refugees through the Scouts, after German invasion; moving to Moulins with her family; attending school in Lyon; her parents and younger siblings being forced to move to Grenoble; joining the Jewish scouts which rescued Jewish children; the family's arrest; leaving her three-year-old sister in hiding with a...

  4. Israel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Slonim, Poland (today Belarus), in 1937. Mr. M. tells of being sent by his family (whom he never saw again) to visit his uncle in 1941; fleeing east from the German attack with his uncle and family; traveling through Minsk to Kiev, where they entrained for Soviet Central Asia; German air attacks en route; and arrival in Samarqand, Uzbekistan in late 1941. He recounts the lack of food and poor sanitation; the deaths of his relatives from disease; placement in a Russian orphanage in 1942; returning to liberated Poland in 1945; anti-Semitic tau...

  5. Rabbi Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Rabbi Alexander A., who was born in Hungary in 1906. Rabbi A. recounts moving to Salzburg, Austria, then Trier, Germany where his father served as rabbi. He relates studying at Yeshivas in Cologne, Bratislava and Berlin; receiving his Ph.D. and rabbinical ordination in Berlin; serving as a rabbi at orthodox synagogues in Berlin; his marriage in 1932; and the difficulties he and his congregants experienced as Hitler rose to power. Rabbi A. describes Jewish community life; the attempts of almost all Jews to leave Germany; the cultural responses of the Jewish community which...

  6. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, the sixth of sixteen children from her father's third marriage and her mother's first. She recalls their relative affluence; believing she was protected by God from age eight; attending public school; being tutored in Hebrew; living with an uncle in the next village when she was sixteen; her brothers' drafts into Hungarian slave labor battalions; deportation with her parents and some siblings to Auschwitz in August 1945; separation from her parents, brother, sister and her children; encountering another sis...

  7. Egon and Mina H. and Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon and Mina H. Egon H. was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He recounts his family's proud German identity; destruction of their business on Kristallnacht; his father's decision to emigrate to Shanghai, the only place open to them; his father opening a grocery store; working in a metal factory; Japanese occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including ghettoization; assistance from the Joint and HIAS; food shortages and lack of sanitation; Allied bombings in July 1945; learning of the Holocaust after the war; and emigration to join uncles in the United States. Mina H...

  8. Dmitrii M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dmitrii M., who was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine in 1927. He recalls his prosperous family; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in 1941; the influx of refugees; fleeing, with his parents and sister, to Kremenchuk in July and Poltava in August; his father's draft; German occupation in September; fleeing alone to Gradizhsk, then Cherkasy; losing contact with his mother and sister; living with his grandmother and cousin; learning his grandmother was shot in November and of the Babi Yar massacre; living in an orphanage in Kiev as a non-Jew; acquaintances who did not r...

  9. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  10. Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to...

  11. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1923 and lived in Za?bkowice. She describes moving to Sosnowiec at age four; her family's affluent lifestyle; education in Catholic and Jewish schools; increasing antisemitism, including boycotts and school quotas; exclusion of her Jewish group from a Polish independence parade; an influx of Jewish German refugees; German invasion; balking at wearing an arm band; ghettoization in Srodula (suburb of Sosnowiec); forced labor outside the ghetto; avoiding labor camps due to her boyfriend's influence; liquidation of the ghetto ...

  12. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in 1920, the youngest of four children. She recalls childhood in an affluent, traditional family in Warsaw; attending private school; her parents' disbelief that the events in Germany would affect them; German invasion in September 1939; her brother and fiance? fleeing to L'viv in the Soviet zone; illegally traveling to L'viv with her sister in December 1939; marriage in 1940; fleeing to Vilna with her husband; obtaining a Japanese transit visa from the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara; traveling to Moscow, then Japan, in January 1941; obtaining...

  13. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1926, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his family's 1929 emigration to Antwerp to join relatives; their orthodoxy; attending Agudat Israel on weekends; the births of two younger siblings; attending a commercial school in Berchem; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Brussels via Ostende, then to De Panne and Adinkerke, intending to leave for France; not being able to cross the border because they were Polish citizens; traveling to Eeko, Bruges, then Ghent; working in Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; visi...

  14. Victor B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934 and has vague memories of being smuggled to Antwerp. He recounts bombings when Germany invaded in spring 1940; an unsuccessful attempt to escape to France; brief hospitalization for measles; returning to Antwerp; his father being taken to a labor camp (he shows postcards from him); moving with his mother to Brussels; his father's return; his parents placing him in hiding with non-Jews in a village (his parents remained in Brussels); transfer to an orphanage; living with a widow; being protected by all the non-Jews in ...

  15. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She speaks of her childhood; the rise of antisemitism in prewar Berlin; escape from Germany through Holland in 1938; her family's emigration to the United States after being detained in an internment camp in Bonaire, Netherlands West Indies; and her adult life in the United States.

  16. Gertrude K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, one of five children. She describes her close, observant family; the March 1938 German annexation of Austria; forced transfer to a Jewish section; round-ups; her family's employment in a soup kitchen; her emigration to Palestine through Hashomer Hatzair with her father's encouragement; writing to and receiving letters from her family; and learning of their emigration to Yugoslavia. Mrs. K. recalls being joined by one of her brothers; life with other children on a kibbutz; joining her aunt's household in Haifa in 19...

  17. Isaac Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac Z., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1920, the oldest of four children. He recalls living in Li?va?ni; antisemitic harassment; participation in Gordonyah; leading Gordonyah in Daugavpils and Ri?ga; Soviet occupation in 1940; returning to Li?va?ni; German invasion in June 1941; escaping to the Soviet Union; deportation to Cheli?a?binsk; forced labor; transferring to Alma-Ata; teaching in western Kazakhstan; enlisting in the Soviet military; serving in Stalingrad; transfer to forced labor in coal mines in Novosibirskai?a? because he was born in a capitalist countr...

  18. Walter K. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Ro?hrenfurth, Germany in 1922. He recounts anti-Jewish laws banning him from high school in 1936; Kristallnacht; imprisonment with his father and relatives in Kassel, then Buchenwald; his father's and uncles' release as World War I veterans; his release to Erfurt two weeks later; forced labor in Kassel; emigration to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport in February 1939; entering through Oldenzaal; living in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Amsterdam; obtaining emigration documents for the United States in March 1940; transfer to Westerbork refugee...

  19. Richard H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard H., who was born in 1911 in Kandel, Germany. He relates his father's World War I German military service; observes that there was no antisemitism in Kandel (they were one of two Jewish families); and discusses anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of his family's business and car; arrest with his father and brother on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; hunger, cold and beatings; his father's release after eight weeks due to his German military service; his own release after twelve weeks providing he leave Germany; and living in Karlsruhe with his family. ...

  20. Sophie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. She recounts her family history; antisemitic incidents at school; her family's efforts to emigrate to the United States after German annexation; violence and terror during Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Dachau; emigration, with her younger brother, to the United States in 1938; her father's release; and her parents' arrival in 1939. Mrs. S. discusses the importance of an aunt in the United States to her family's ability to emigrate; the deaths of extended family members during the Holocaust; ...