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  1. Benjamin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918. He describes his family's move to Belgium; his father's successful business in Brussels; attending school in Anderlecht; German invasion; his family's arrest attempting to enter Switzerland; arrest with his wife in the Pyrenees fleeing to Spain; internment in Gurs; his release through Abbe? Alexandre Glasberg; obtaining false papers; joining FTPF (the French communist underground movement); his second arrest; torture during interrogations in Limoges; transfer to Compie?gne, then Buchenwald; and slave labor in Gustlo...

  2. Marc S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marc S., a Catholic, who was born in Mons, Belgium in 1922, one of five children. He recounts growing up in Lie?ge; German invasion in May 1940; illustrating and distributing anti-Nazi literature; hiding a downed Allied aviator; traveling to Charleville, France in October 1942, intending to go through Spain to join the British military; obtaining false papers as a French citizen; traveling to Villers-Farlay; joining a group to enter Spain; their capture; imprisonment in several towns ending in Dijon; transfer to St. Gilles; his mother's visit; deportation to Dachau in...

  3. Frances H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances H., who was born in Hungary in 1918. She recalls her childhood in Moha?cs; not attending university due to anti-Jewish quotas; moving to Budapest with her family in 1935; marriage; her brother, father, and husband being drafted into Hungarian forced labor battalions; learning of her brother's death in 1943; German invasion; traveling with her mother to join her father-in-law per her husband's instructions; their arrest; incarceration in Kistarcsa; psychological devastation when her mother had to undress in front of young policemen; deportation to Auschwitz/Bir...

  4. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in Dobromyl?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1906. He recalls speaking Yiddish and German at home; his mother's death; his father's service in the first World War; abuse by Russian forces; becoming part of Poland after the war; antisemitism; moving to Berlin in 1926; the emigration of two siblings to Palestine; living in Ostende and Antwerp; expulsion because he was Polish; moving to Barcelona; burying dead from the civil war; moving to Paris in April 1939; German invasion; traveling to Orle?ans, Bordeaux, and Toulouse; arrest ...

  5. Aaron K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. He recounts traveling to Cologne in 1938 with his parents, grandmother, and two uncles; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Paris, Marseille, Nice, then Luchon; his uncles being smuggled to Spain; arrest with his parents and grandmother; imprisonment in Saint Gaudens; his release; visiting his parents and grandmother a few times; living with a family friend; placement in many towns by the Jewish underground, then with a non-Jewish family in Toulouse (they were in...

  6. Fredrich H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredrich H., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He recalls participating in a socialist youth group; his sister's marriage to a non-Jew; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; a futile attempt to smuggle himself to Czechoslovakia; obtaining a visa for Luxembourg; being refused entry; brief imprisonment in Germany; release on the condition he leave Germany; smuggling himself to Luxembourg; his parents joining him; moving to Brussels with his parents, sister, and her husband; arranging emigration to the Dominican Republic; German invasion preventing their departur...

  7. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1920, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family moving to Trier in 1925; attending school; antisemitism beginning in 1932; moving to Barcelona, then Palma de Mallorca; moving to Marseille, then Paris in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War; participating in Betar; organizing illegal emigration to Palestine; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father and brothers to Pithiviers in May 1941; his mother's visit; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; obtaining a privileged office position because...

  8. Emanuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel R., who was born in approximately 1911 in Moscow, Russia. He recounts a pleasant pre-revolution life; his bar mitzvah in 1924; emigration to Paris after Lenin's death; his family's Zionism (his father purchased land in Palestine in 1925 where he lives today); attending boarding school; marriage in 1927; French military enlistment; his daughter's birth; posting to the German border in 1939; retreating during German invasion; traveling to Vichy with an admiral; military discharge; reunion with his wife in Toulouse; registering as a non-Jew; joining the undergrou...

  9. Julius G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius G., who was born in Scharnhorst, Germany in 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death from World War I wounds; attending public school; his family's move to Hamm in 1924; participating in a leftist Jewish club, then a socialist group (SAJ); harassment by an antisemitic teacher; joining a communist youth group (KJV); expulsion from school for communist activities; attending gymnasium in Münster from 1931-1933; his bar mitzvah; visiting his nanny's family in Scharnhorst; narrowly escaping arrest; traveling to Cologne; living with relatives in Tr...

  10. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's socialist activities; his mother's death in 1935; his family fleeing to Antwerp; his father's death while a physician in the Spanish Civil War; his brother's service in Spain; working in Brussels, then France; incarceration after war began in 1939; release; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers; organizing a children's home near Montpellier with assistance from Cardinal Pierre Gerlier; imprisonments and escapes; arrest at the children's home; incarceration in Vénissieux, then Drancy ...

  11. 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...

  12. Norbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Bad Homburg, Germany in 1927, one of two brothers. He recounts beatings by a Nazi teacher in 1933, resulting in his parents transferring him and his brother to a Jewish school in Frankfurt am Main; their move to Frankfurt in 1936; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; his father and uncle being arrested and deported to Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; seeing the synagogue burning while the fire department stood idle; his father's release four weeks later due to his status as a World War I veteran and his pledge to leave Germany within six months...

  13. Shaul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shaul S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the second of three children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending a Jewish school; his father purchasing property in the Netherlands; moving to Oosterbeek after Adolf Hitler's 1933 election; moving to Arnhem; joining Maccabi Hatzair; attending the Berlin Olympics in 1936; his maternal grandparents joining them after Kristallnacht; his grandparents' relocation to Westerbork as German refugees; their release to Amsterdam; working in his father's poultry business; moving to Amsterdam; German invas...

  14. Peretz L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz L., who was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1903, the oldest of four children. He recalls completing gymnasium; a year of military service; apprenticing in a large factory for two years; disillusionment with the German political situation after the assassination of party leaders in 1919; forming a Zionist group in Fröndenberg in 1921; living on a hachsharah in Wartenberg in 1923, then in Zwickau to learn technical skills; moving to Frankfurt; meeting his future wife's parents in Munich; marriage in Nuremberg in 1926; traveling to Vienna; living in Berlin; organiz...

  15. Hilde G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year si...

  16. Selma A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma A. who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905. She recounts moving at age one to Halberstadt; her father volunteering during World War I; their assimilated lifestyle; attending high school; working in Hamburg; her mother's death in 1927; marriage in 1932 (her husband's father was American); anti-Jewish restrictions starting in 1933; her son's birth; leaving for Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; her husband's arrest and incarceration in Gurs; his release when his father sent United States citizenship papers; his emigration to the U.S.; traveling to Marseille; payi...

  17. Marcel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1920, one of two children. He recounts his parents' staunch Catholicism; attending school in Liège; joining a socialist youth group in 1937; volunteering to fight in Spain; rejection due to his age, but working there with children in a refugee camp for two months in 1938; German invasion in 1940; fleeing with his brother to Aube; returning home; some of his friends wearing yellow stars to protest anti-Jewish measures; joining the Front de l'Indépendance; obtaining weapons; sabotaging phone and rail lines; his brother's arre...

  18. Josse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josse L., who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1915 to Belgian parents, giving him dual citizenship. He recounts living in Argentina, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro; attending school in Vanves, France; vacationing with relatives in Ostende; his bar mitzvah there; completing school in Brussels; military service in 1936; opening a business with his brother; military recall; capture by Germans on May 28, 1940 (the Germans did not learn he was Jewish); learning his parents and sister had left for Brazil; release on June 11; reunion with his brother; reopening their busine...

  19. Lydia C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia C., who was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the direct...

  20. Juliette D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juliette D., a Catholic, who was born in Sougné-Remouchamps, Belgium in 1917. She recalls attending school in Aywaille, then boarding school in Liège; attending nursing school; marriage in 1938; German invasion; enlisting with the Belgian Red Cross; caring for the wounded; passing letters among French and English soldiers; returning home; working with the resistance; escaping through France to Spain with her mother and sister; arrest by Spanish police; expulsion to Saint-Gaudens (they had false French papers); joining a resistance group; smuggling people to Montauba...