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Displaying items 521 to 540 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Rosy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosy S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. She recounts her family's move to Luxembourg when she was a baby; her father's Zionist and anti-German activism; an influx of German and Polish Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Antwerp; her brother's bar mitzvah; joining relatives in De Panne, then traveling to Spain via Royan and Hendaye; her father's arrest on a train to Madrid; living in Fuentes de O?noro; futile attempts to obtain her father's release; moving to Lisbon; assistance from HIAS; working for HIAS, then the Red Cross; her grand...

  2. Nathan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan K., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1923. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; non-Jewish neighbors who hid his family during a pogrom; German invasion; fleeing to Minsk; returning when unable to reach Soviet territory; ghettoization in 1942; forced labor; and learning of the murder of "small ghetto" residents at Ponary. He recounts transfer with his father to Ereda, Narwa and another camp in Estonia (he never saw his mother and brother again); a Jewish doctor who treated his infected knee; officers celebrating Christmas by beating prisoners; returning to Ere...

  3. Samuel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel M., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania (presently Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine) in 1930, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school from age six; antisemitic harassment en route to school; beginning violin lessons; Soviet occupation; studying violin at the conservatory; his father not allowing him to be sent to study in Moscow; German invasion in 1941; murders and rapes of Jews; ghettoization; his father refusing when his German friend offered to help them escape and hide them; deportation with his family in cat...

  4. Benjamin V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin V., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1936, one of four children. He recounts his parents living in Palestine in the 1930s; their return to Holland; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-up to a synagogue; deportation with his family to Westerbork; hunger and lack of sanitation; his father sabotaging deportation lists when he cleaned the offices; celebrating Hanukkah; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; looking for extra food; his father obtaining school books for him; his mother making matzo and his father reciting the Haggadah in their bar...

  5. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., a non-Jew, who was born in Stargard in Pommern, Germany (Stargard Szczecin?ski, Poland after 1945) in 1922. She recalls the important contributions of Jews to the community; cordial relations with the local Jews; her father helping a fellow Jewish physician emigrate in 1935; Gestapo threats against her father for his efforts on behalf of Jews and other victims of the Gestapo; and his succesful efforts to hide another Jewish family and arrange for the escape of their child to South America. Mrs. K. recalls replacement of local officials by Nazis; her marriag...

  6. Ze'ev R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev R., who was born in Manevichi, Poland (presently Prilesnoye, Ukraine) in 1923, one of two children. He recounts attending Polish public school, then gymnasium in Lʹviv; Soviet occupation in September 1939; he and his sister attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hiding with Ukrainian neighbors; other Ukrainians stealing their possessions; hiding in a Ukrainian friend's barn; leaving his family to escape to the forest with a group; joining a partisan group; learning that his family had been shot in a mass killing; receiving food from a family fr...

  7. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. The information in this testimony is all contained in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1434).

  8. Charlotte J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charlotte J., who was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1908 to a Jewish father and Christian mother, the youngest of four children. She describes being raised in both faiths; a sheltered life prior to the rise of Nazism; termination from her job in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; her boss clandestinely bringing her food; being smuggled with a group in 1942 through Graz to Zagreb; being caught; imprisonment in Zagreb, then Graz; release and return to Frankfurt; she and her fiance volunteering to accompany her debilitated father (he was eighty-seven) to Theresienstadt; marria...

  9. Margot S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margot S., who was born in Berlin, Germany to Polish parents. She recounts attending a Jewish school; losing her job in 1934 due to anti-Jewish measures and in 1938 after Kristallnacht; her parents' return to Poland (her five siblings all emigrated); joining them in Tarno?w in 1939; ghettoization; forced factory labor; hiding with her future husband during round-ups; seeing her sister and niece for the last time; incarceration in P?aszo?w; selection for Schindler's factory; transfer to Auschwitz, then Brne?nec; reunion with her future husband; liberation by Soviet tro...

  10. Donia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donia M., who was born in Krystynopil?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Chervonohrad, Ukraine) in 1912. She recounts her mother's death when she was three weeks old; living with her aunt and two cousins; attending school in Sokal?; marriage in 1936; her son's birth; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Peremyshli?a?ny with her husband, aunt, cousins, and mother-in-law; German invasion; a German who knew her husband giving him a privileged position; ghettoization; mass killings including her aunt and mother-in-law; hiding with her cousins, their children, a...

  11. Jack A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack A., who was born in Be?chato?w, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recounts a happy childhood; attending public and Hebrew schools; anti-Jewish violence; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; his older brother fleeing to ?o?dz?, then Warsaw (he was killed in a bombing); public hanging of ten prominent Jews, including his uncle; ghettoization; his sister's marriage; a round-up; his brother's and grandmother's deportation to Che?mno; forced labor with his father cleaning the ghetto; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto with his parents and sister; slave...

  12. Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Újfehértó, Hungary in 1926, the eighth of sixteen children in a Hasidic family. She recounts her grandfather's affluence; his obtaining papers for them to emigrate to the United States; not going because an uncle believed they had "everything here"; her brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; forced relocation with her family to Nyírbátor, then the Simapuszta ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with a friend when she was separated from her family; selection with other Hungarian women, including her friend, for slav...

  13. Bernard and Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard and Henry S., twins who were born in Lie?ge, Belgium in 1935. They detail their close, extended family; the German invasion; their escape; and settling in Saint-Etienne, France with the families of two uncles. They describe changes in 1942; being placed with a non-Jewish family; their father's and uncle's arrest and mother's evasion of a German round-up; their cousin's release from Drancy with fifty other children through intervention of the Cardinal of Lyon; living in an orphanage in Saint-Etienne, on a farm where they were mistreated, and an orphanage in Gre...

  14. Hela V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela V., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1927, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; her father dying from a police beating; buying food posing as a non-Jew (she was blond); selling family belongings to non-Jews; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation; her deportation to Oberaltstadt; slave labor in a weaving factory; better treatment by a German guard after she knit her a sweater; other guards giving them extra food; a prisoner nurse helping them; assistance ...

  15. Most Rev. Albin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albin M., a Roman Catholic bishop, who was born in Kocon?, Poland in 1917. He recalls his family purchasing a business from Jews; friendship with that family; attending seminary in Krako?w; respectful treatment from Jews because he was a priest; Polish hostility toward Jews due to economic reasons; his chaplaincy at a nursing home staffed by the Sisters of Charity; German invasion; hiding Jews in the nursing home; the Mother Superior providing false papers; relocation of the nursing home to Szczawnica by the Germans; realizing many townspeople knew Jews were hidden an...

  16. Irma F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma F., who was born in Lobens, Germany (presently ?obz?enica, Poland), the youngest of six children. She recounts expulsion from school as a Jew; her parents sending her to live in ?o?dz? in 1939; her mother joining her with her youngest brother and a sister in August; her mother leaving to retrieve possessions from their home; German invasion; learning from her mother's correspondence that her father had been taken to a concentration camp; traveling to Bydgoszcz, posing as a German, to visit her brother; learning he had been killed; traveling to ?obz?enica; finding...

  17. Simon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon H., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes the prewar Jewish community; his widowed mother's efforts to support five children; his Jewish and secular education; leaving school in 1920 to support himself as a barber's assistant, then a barber; being drafted and discharged; his marriage; and the birth of his two daughters. Mr. H. relates the historical background of the German invasion of Greece; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization and deportation; "volunteering" in Lancut in order to save his family (they perished); working as a barber; his relati...

  18. Sarah F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah F., who was born in Jaros?aw, Poland in 1923. She recalls being raised in Krako?w; pervasive antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; ghettoization; food distribution by the Judenrat; her mother's death; her father's and siblings' deportation (she never saw them again); one of her brothers escaping from the train; transfer to P?aszo?w; slave labor at an ammunition factory; assistance from a Pole; smuggling bullets to the camp underground; public hangings; cleaning Kommandant Amon Goeth's house; transport to Pionki, Auschwitz, and Gleiwitz; assistance f...

  19. Moshe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe S., who was born in Kon?skie, Poland in 1912. He tells of the strong influence of Judaism on life in the town; a 1934 Polish boycott of Jewish stores; running from the town when the Germans invaded and returning a few days later; formation of the Judenrat; public execution of seventy Jewish men in retribution for an anti-German action of the Polish military; ghettoization; and fleeing with his family to the Krako?w ghetto. Mr. S. recalls incarceration in P?aszo?w; liquidation of Krako?w, including his parents; atrocities in P?aszo?w, particularly on Jewish holid...

  20. Stefan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan S., who was born in Košice, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1916, one of two brothers. He recalls that his father was chief medical doctor of a large hospital; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Slovak high school; starting medical school in Prague in 1934; returning to Košice when the Hungarian occupation occurred; completing medical school in Zurich in 1940; working in a clinic in Budapest, then as a physician in Košice; his and his family's conversion to Christianity in 1942 by an evangelical priest, his father's friend, in the...