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  1. Margarita F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margarita F., who was born in 1925, one of four children. She recalls her father was a miller in Minsk; his atheism (he was in the Communist Party); her mother's orthodoxy; being sickly until age four; attending a Russian school; her father's arrest during the 1937 "purge"; his release after six months; attending college; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing with her parents and two siblings; being wounded; receiving medical treatment in Chervyenʹ; reaching Mahili︠o︡ŭ (Mogilev); ghettoization; round-ups for mass killings, including her father; her mother ordering he...

  2. Esfira F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esfira F., who was born in Belopol?ye, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls friendly relations with non-Jews; attending Ukrainian school; German bombardment and invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; translating to the Germans for her kolkhoz director; refusing a marriage offer from a German soldier; ghettoization in Berdychiv; escaping; returning to Belopol?ye; escaping a mass killing with her family; escaping a mass killing by Germans and Ukrainian police in May 1942 with help from a German who pushed her into a pit (her mother and broth...

  3. Jay M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jay M., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland. He recounts growing up in a Jewish neighborhood; his father's emigration to the United States; German invasion; Soviet occupation a week later; German invasion in June 1941; a mass killing; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and sister during mass killings; working with his mother and sister at a munitions factory; hiding with his mother and sister in bunkers after liquidation of the ghetto was announced on August 16, 1943; constant fear of discovery; escaping to the forest in November 1943; learn...

  4. Jozef W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jozef W., who was born in Pušovce, then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in 1916. He recounts his father's death in World War I; his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; visiting his grandfather in Chmelov; attending yeshiva in Gelnica, then teachers academy in Prešov; an antisemitic professor; teaching in Levoča; working with Hashomer Hatzair preparing youths to emigrate to Palestine; traveling to Berlin in 1939 to obtain funds to rescue Polish children; smuggling them to Čadca; organizing a communal farm; teaching in Trenčin in 1940; marriage in M...

  5. Jacques F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques F., who was born in Paris, France in 1938. He reflects upon how few memories he has of his childhood, among them he and his younger sister living with a Catholic family on a farm outside Paris, probably in 1942; the father of the family hiding with Mr. F. and his sister in a ditch and seeing soldiers and dogs; associating with nuns; Allied soldiers parading through town throwing candy; living happily in an OSE home near Normandy from 1946 to 1947 and in Taverny from 1948; and first learning he was Jewish there. He recounts being adopted with his sister by an A...

  6. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in approximately 1930 in Cra?ciunes?ti, Romania, an only child. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a happy childhood; attending theater in Sighet; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's trip to Kos?ice in 1944 (she never saw him again); transfer to a ghetto in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); crying all the time; losing her belief in God; smuggling herself to her cousins' block; transfer a month later with four friends to a camp in Germany; slave labor in a muni...

  7. Sam N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam N., who was born in Rzeszo?w, Poland in 1929. He recalls the German invasion; fleeing with his family to another town; hiding while SS troops murdered 300 Jews and burned the synagogue; their return to Rzeszo?w; anti-Jewish restrictions; an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; his mother's arrest and interrogation; and his father's death while in hiding. Mr. N. tells of the influx of Jews from surrounding areas; frequent deportations; his bar mitzvah, for which he studied in secret; transfer to Reichshof labor camp in Rzeszo?w; his sis...

  8. Cecile S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile S., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1937. She recounts her father was a jeweler; German invasion in 1940; seeing a Jew beaten in the street; her mother shielding her from the brutality; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest, beating and release; Germans looting their home; her father's deportation; an uncle's maid hiding them in Boom with relatives who were in the underground; warm relations with the family; being treated for an illness in Mechelen; her mother obtaining gold her father had hidden; illegally traveling with the Belgian underground to ...

  9. Ilona G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilona G., who was born in Putnok, Hungary in 1921. She recalls her family's comfortable life; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school until age ten, then a secular school; studying languages in Czechoslovakia for a year; learning dressmaking; deportation with her family in 1941 as non-Hungarian citizens; an officer verifying their Hungarian citizenship at the border; returning home; her sister's marriage; draft of her father and brother-in-law into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; German invasion in 1944; deportation with her family to Auschwitz (her gran...

  10. Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recounts his father's military draft immediately before the war; his capture by the Germans; a one hour visit when he was en route to Germany as a POW; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; non-Jews assisting their move to Mogiła to avoid ghettoization; forced relocation to the Weiliczka ghetto; his grandmother's hospitalization (he never saw her again); relocating to the Kraków ghetto with assistance from German soldiers; slave labor at an airport; his mother...

  11. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. She recalls German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jews; forced relocation to another home; hiding in a storage room with her family during round-ups; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during a major round-up; hearing shooting in the streets; leaving the bunker to join her father when he was caught; detention in the ghetto; separation from her father; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; meeting two aunts and a cousin; forced labor in a munitions factory; giving extra food from her aunt to a...

  12. Albert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1932. He recounts living in a Jewish neighborhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; the outbreak of war; his father's enlistment and internment as a prisoner of war; anti-Jewish measures; release with his mother and brother from a round-up in 1942 due to his father's military status; their arrest with other veterans' families in February 1944 (presumably as hostages for German POWs); deportation to Drancy for three months, then to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to a men's barrack (he could visit his mother); forced labor in a chil...

  13. Henny G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henny G., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She recalls the musical focus and talents of her parents, brother and sister; attending the music conservatory; antagonism from non-Jews when she sang Christian songs; family celebrations of Jewish holidays; Polish youth beating Jewish children; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; maintaining cultural life in the ghetto; performing in a musical production composed by her brother; overcrowding; obtaining work permits to avoid deportation; her father's arrest and death; performing with orchestras in Stuttho...

  14. Saul J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul J., who was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1915, the elder of two brothers. He recounts his father's death when he was six; his mother's remarriage; living with his wealthy grandfather; attending religious and public schools; joining Hashomer Hatzair; clashes with his grandfather over his secular beliefs; moving to Warsaw; fighting against antisemitic violence; working and learning to be a mechanic; German invasion in September 1939; returning to Chmielnik; forced labor clearing snow from local roads; learning he was to be deported; escaping to relatives in Klimont...

  15. Betsy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betsy S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1928. She recounts that her parents were Polish immigrants; German invasion in May 1940; her father continuing his business until 1942; meeting her future husband who was involved in the Resistance; going into hiding with her family; their arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her father and brother (they did not survive); the trauma of not recognizing her mother after they were shaved; singing French songs while marching to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she did n...

  16. Dori L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. Dori L., who was born in Czernowitz in 1937. Charting his awareness of change through childhood memories, Dr. L. describes his religious education; the German occupation in 1941; and his brief stay in the Czernowitz ghetto. He tells of his deportation, with his parents, to Transnistria; camping near Mogilev; and living in a labor camp built in a quarry near the Bug River. He relates his unsuccessful attempt to convince his parents to let him return to Czernowitz; his parents' disagreement regarding the trustworthiness of the Germans; being spared from the liquidat...

  17. Edita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her large extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; a round-up to Dunajská Streda in 1944; entrusting their possessions to non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; a women from her hometown, who had been there some time, advising her and her sister to separate from their parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); she and her sister being tattooed with consecutive numbers; remaining with her sister, aunt, an...

  18. Elvira F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elvira F., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918. She recalls attending an Italian school; working in a bookstore; marriage in 1943; her brother escaping to the partisans; she and her husband hiding with a non-Jew; escaping to their hosts' parents' home in a village; fleeing to Kozanē, then Polikástanon; assistance from ELAS; helping them, but not participating in military incursions; posing as non-Jews using false papers; her husband's arrest and one month imprisonment (the Germans didn't know he was Jewish); liberation; returning to Thessalonikē; learning...

  19. Fred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1909. One of nine children, he recalls his father owned a tailor shop which employed twenty-two workers; attending school; learning tailoring from his father; antisemitism; marriage at age twenty-seven; enlisting in the Polish army reserves; and the German invasion. Mr. B. recounts ghettoization; forced labor assembling army uniforms; the round-up of elderly and children, including his two-year-old son; learning they had all been gassed; receiving food and information from a German officer they had known before the war; depor...

  20. Philip W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip W., who was born in 1922 in Wadowice, Poland, one of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending school for two years in Skawina; antisemitic harassment; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his family to Skawina, Krako?w, Lubaczo?w, then Rava-Rus?ka; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; three days in prison; deportation to Sosnowiec in April 1941; transfer to Gogolin; slave labor building the Reichsautobahn; receiving packages from his parents for six months; transfer to Gross Masselwitz; praying d...