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  1. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. He recalls anti-Semitic violence in school; active participation in a Zionist organization; German occupation; destroying Zionist documents with Jacob Edelstein; Edelstein's concept of avoiding death transports through internal deportations; a leadership position under Edelstein in Theresienstadt; compiling lists of deportees under duress; attempting to save children, providing education and medical care; public hangings, starvation, and fear; Edelstein's anguish when forced to attend executions; Edelstein's deportatio...

  2. Hildegard S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hildegard S., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1924. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; a Kindertransport to the Netherlands in 1933; homesickness; returning home in 1936; destruction of their home and business on Kristallnacht; her father's and brother's arrest; their release; her mother smuggling her and her sister to the Netherlands; living in orphanages, ending in Driebergen; German invasion; evacuation to Amsterdam; living with a Dutch family; her foster parents arranging for a time to remove her name from deportation lists; deportation to Barneveld, th...

  3. Myron B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myron B., who was born in Poland in 1926. He recalls growing up in a family of nine children in Sosnowiec; belonging to a Zionist youth group; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor; moving to Katowice to work with his older brother; deportation of three brothers and one sister; deportation with his brother to Blechhammer in 1942 (he never saw his parents and younger siblings again); dehumanization as prisoners became "numbers"; the supportive relationship with his brother; the death march and train transport to Gross Rosen in January...

  4. Dora C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora C., who was born in Io?annina, Greece in 1921, one of three children. She recounts her pleasant childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; the benign Italian occupation; German invasion; one brother joining the underground; round-up and transfer to Larisa; assistance from the Red Cross; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her mother and younger brother (they were killed); severe swelling in her feet; constantly crying, but maintaining her faith in God; hospitalization; another patient giving her food; returning to her barrack; slave labor in a munitions fac...

  5. Simone C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simone C., who was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1922. She recalls fleeing to Paris in 1933 when the Gestapo came to arrest her father and brother; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; her older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; her father volunteering for the French military; fleeing with her mother and younger brother to Toulouse; their return to Paris; her internment in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver, then Gurs; her mother and brother moving to be near her; a guard allowing her to visit them; not returning; living in Pe?rigueux with her family (her ...

  6. Michael S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael S., who was born in the outskirts of Czernowitz, Romania (presently Chernivt?s?ii, Ukraine) in 1931, one of six children. He recalls attending public school and cheder; Soviet occupation in 1940; attending a Russian school; German and Romanian invasion in June 1941; round-up to a school; a forced march via Luzhany, Bershad?, and Berezne to Mohyliv; killings and deaths from starvation and exposure en route; joining relatives in the Bershad? ghetto; his uncle's and parents' deaths in 1942; assistance from the Joint; his bar mitzvah; transfer with his brother and...

  7. Oscar R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar R., who was born in Vienna of Hungarian parents in 1910. He describes Vienna on the eve of the German invasion; his medical studies in an atmosphere of increasing antisemitism; his marriage to a fellow medical student in 1937; and his emigration to the United States (via Copenhagen) in 1938. He tells of his voluntary enlistment in the American army after he became a United States citizen and his 1945 arrival at Mauthausen, after the Germans had already fled, where he remained for a month. Showing photographs which he took at the time, he discusses the condition ...

  8. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She speaks of her sheltered childhood in a middle-class, orthodox home; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures; clandestinely observing holidays and conducting services at home; her father's being "taken away" (they never saw him again); moving with her mother and sister to a Swedish safe house established by Raoul Wallenberg; her uncle bringing potatoes during the bombing of Budapest; Raoul Wallenberg delivering food; crowded conditions; never feeling safe; and the deportation of the occupants of anoth...

  9. Sharon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sharon B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1922, one of four sisters. She recalls belonging to Zionist youth groups; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family store; attending Soviet public schools; German invasion in June 1941; a futile attempt to flee; returning home; ghettoization; her mother sending her and a sister to Polish peasants; returning to the ghetto fearing exposure; visiting Catholic friends outside the ghetto; being taken with her family in a round-up; escaping with help from a Lithuanian guard; hiding at a friend's house; obtaining false ...

  10. Germain C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Germain C., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1914. She recalls attending French high school; cordial relations with non-Jews; marriage; ghettoization after German invasion; obtaining false papers and a place to live in Athens from a non-Jewish friend; staying briefly in a monastery; sending her children to a Catholic school; her husband's arrest after denunciation by a former neighbor from Thessalonike?; his revealing her location under torture in such a way as not to compromise their children's location; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her husband, sis...

  11. Arnold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, one of six children, to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He describes his family's poverty; resisting segregation of Jewish pupils in school; active involvement in the Social Democratic Party; anti-Jewish violence and humiliation; assistance from a non-Jewish co-worker; arrest with two sisters; their deportation to Theresienstadt; slave labor doing construction; his brother's arrival; smuggling food to him and others who were ill; choosing not to escape, fearing retribution toward others; helping a priest and ot...

  12. Rose I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose I., who was born in Vis?eu de Sus, Romania in 1923, one of seven children. She recounts her mother's death; visiting relatives in another town; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; witnessing an execution; joining her cousin in another barrack; her cousin's transfer; slave labor digging ditches; transfer in December 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; reunion with her sister; her sister's transfer three weeks later; liberation by British troops; observing Kommandant Josef Kramer's capture; spitting at him from a distance; living in Bergen-Be...

  13. Harold B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold B., who was born in Raczki, Poland in 1921. He recalls attending school and working in Suwa?ki; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Augusto?w with relatives; six months imprisonment in Hrodna as a German spy; returning to Augusto?w; joining his sister in Lyakhovichi; German invasion; fleeing to Zhitkovichi; doing agricultural work in another town; draft into the Soviet military; various assignments including work in an airplane factory in Kazan?; receiving extr...

  14. Jaffe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaffe M., who was born in Onod, near Miskolc, Hungary, in 1931. She describes prewar family and community life; Hungarian anti-Jewish legislation; and her family's transfer to Diosgyor, where her father was made head of the ghetto. She relates her parents' futile attempt to secure a hiding place for their children; life in the ghetto; the deportation of her father and brother in May 1944; the liquidation of the ghetto three days later; and transfer to a brick factory in Miskolc. She remembers the journey from Miskolc to Auschwitz; separation from her mother upon arriv...

  15. Amalia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalia K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. She describes learning about her family's restaurant business; marriage; her husband's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; last seeing him when her daughter was six months old; learning of his deportation to Germany and subsequent death; German invasion; living with her parents and daughter in a Jewish designated house; escaping from incarceration in a brick factory; acquiring false papers for her family with assistance from her manager's wife; living with her parents and daughter, posing as non-Jews, with assi...

  16. Joseph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph G., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1929. He recalls a comfortable childhood; studying music; ghettoization after German occupation; deportation in June 1943 to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister and mother (he never saw them again); his music teacher arranging for him to work in the prisoner orchestra, a privileged position; his father's death despite efforts to help him; observing the Sonderkommando uprising; his sense of pride that Greek prisoners were involved; transfer to a camp in Germany; liberation in May 1945 by United States troop...

  17. Eliezer L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliezer L., who was born in Dyatlovo, Russia (presently Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) in 1908, one of three brothers. He recounts living in Baranavichy; German occupation during World War I; working with the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution; his father's death in 1920; participating in Hechalutz; marriage in 1930; the births of two children; Soviet occupation in 1939; banishment by the Soviets to Valozhyn; frequent secret visits to his family; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Minsk; arrest; posing as a non-Jew when Jews were separated; forced labor; escaping to Baran...

  18. Marcel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel F. He recalls his family's farm; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending high school in Pres?ov; graduation in 1939; joining Betar; obtaining a Paraguayan passport in order to leave for Palestine with a group; embarking on a ship in Budapest in spring 1940; 100 released concentration camp inmates boarding in Yugoslavia; assistance from a Catholic bishop and the Jewish community in Ruse, Bulgaria; being barred from landing in Istanbul due to British communications identifying them as illegal; receiving food on a Greek island, in Piraeus, and from the Italian ...

  19. Nat G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nat G., who was born in Pabiance, Poland in 1922. He recounts German invasion in 1939; fleeing to ?o?dz?; returning home; expropriation of his father's factory; working there; ghettoization in 1940; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; selection with his family to remain behind to clean the empty ghetto; transfer to ?o?dz? ghetto; forced factory labor; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from his mother and sisters; seeing victims of medical experiments; separation from his brother and father after volunt...

  20. Arthur P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur P., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1927. He recounts beginning school in 1932; moving to Wielun?; antisemitic harassment; being sent with his brothers in 1939 to his grandparents in Piotrko?w Trybunalski; German invasion; his parents' arrival; fleeing to Lublin, then returning with his parents to Wielu?n (his brothers remained in Piotrko?w); finding their home confiscated and their possessions gone; his father returning to Piotrko?w; he and his mother supporting themselves teaching languages; non-Jews assisting them to send food to their family in Piotrko?w...