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  1. Fiszel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fiszel K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1911, the oldest of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Polish school and yeshiva to age fourteen; pervasive antisemitism; working in his father's business and other jobs; becoming less religious; military service as a medic; marriage; his daughter's birth in 1937; military recall in 1939; discharge in Brest; traveling to Bia?ystok; meeting his brother; their deportation to Kyrgyzstan by the Soviet government; forced labor in Komi; release from labor camp; wandering the area; enlisting in the Polish a...

  2. Moshe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe G., who was born in Końskie, Poland in 1928, the fifth of six sons. He recalls his father was Hasidic; a comfortable life; German invasion; attending cheder; his father's arrest, then release weeks later; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father hiding his store merchandise with a non-Jewish friend; his bar mitzvah in 1941; forced labor; the Polish supervisor who knew his father safeguarding him; former Polish customers continuing to buy merchandise from his father, which provided them with food; losing his belief in God; hiding with his...

  3. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene W., who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia in 1930. Mrs. W. describes her childhood; the German occupation of the Sudetenland and her subsequent fear; the liquidation of her town; her family's deportation, first to Munka?cs, then to Auschwitz, where they were separated upon arrival; and her sustaining relationship with her sister, with whom she survived the war. She tells of working in the "Canada" kommando in Auschwitz; the death march from Auschwitz; starvation; and liberation. She also recalls her ability to survive by dissociating herself from the horrors to...

  4. Stefan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan R., who was born in a small city in Romania in 1914 and spent most of his prewar life in Oradea Mare. He tells of his family life without his father, who died when he was six years old; his service in the Romanian army (1934-1936;) his conscription in 1942, after the Hungarian takeover, into the Jewish brigade of the Hungarian army, from which he repeatedly escaped; and his hiding in Budapest, at times with the aid of the Communist and Jewish undergrounds, and for a time in a Swedish safe house, until the city's liberation by the Russians.

  5. Sabina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sabina G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She describes returning to Warsaw from vacation on September 1, 1939; three weeks of merciless German bombing; friends shunning her when the Germans arrived; moving to the ghetto; her close relationship with her father; working in the children's hospital and the feeling of hopelessness at her inability to help the sick and dying children; smuggling herself to relatives in Kozienice where conditions were better; worsening conditions there; efforts to help starving children; and receiving a letter from her father in War...

  6. Claire K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1925 to Polish parents. She recalls increased antisemitism in 1933; their flight to Holland; moving to Poland in 1935, then Brussels, Belgium; unsuccessful emigration attempts; an influx of refugees after Kristallnacht; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups and deportations; and her mother arranging for Mrs. K. to spend nights hiding with non-Jews. Mrs. K. remembers the deportation of her parents and one brother; receiving a postcard her mother sent from Malines (her last contact with them); her you...

  7. Moses L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, a Polish citizen and one of three children. He recounts attending public school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; visiting his wife's family in Os?wie?cim in 1938; Poland revoking his Polish citizenship; being declared stateless; hiding during Kristallnacht; obtaining visas for the United States; being ordered to leave Germany; arrest with his father; his release because he had a U.S. visa; his father's deportation to Sachsenhausen; one sister's emigration to England; deportation to Sachsenhausen; staying in the ...

  8. Jaffa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaffa K., who was born in Veľká Lominca in 1920, the youngest of four children. She recounts her father's death the year of her birth; her family moving to Poprad in 1925; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and her sister emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; living on a hachsharah in Bratislava, preparing for emigration to Palestine; her mother's marriage in 1936 to a Slovak who had converted to Judaism; anti-Jewish restrictions when Slovakia became independent; her step father's efforts to protect them; hearing young people woul...

  9. Suzy G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzy G., who was born in Paris, France. She recalls a close and large extended family; her father serving in the military; her mother's miscarriage during the German invasion in 1940; visiting her father in the hospital after he was wounded; remaining with her grandmother when her mother hid with a non-Jewish policeman; her mother's return; her father's discharge in Limoges; she and her mother joining him using false papers; protection by non-Jewish neighbors; being sent away to hide with non-Jews; being moved several times; visits from her mother; seeing the smoke af...

  10. Suzanne H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne H., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her grandfather living with them; attending a Jewish school; her brother's birth in 1937; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; imprisonment with her mother, brother, and grandfather; separation from her grandfather (they never saw him again); release with assistance from her father's supervisor; transfer to Keilis; her father working in his former factory; clandestine schooling; transfer to the ghetto; hiding with her family during its liqui...

  11. Sara L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara L., who was born in Sokole, Poland in 1922. She recalls a happy childhood; a very orthodox home; moving to Bia?ystok; increasing antisemitism in 1937; brief German occupation in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; another brother's round-up (she never saw him again); ghettoization; forced factory labor; hiding during round-ups; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); the ghetto's liquidation; a selection with her brother and father; being chosen for labor (she never saw her father or brother again); train...

  13. Mady D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mady D., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls her close family; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization in April; deportation to Auschwitz two weeks later; separation from her father and brother; her mother's efforts to always stay with her; their transfer to Peterswaldau one week later; forced labor in an ammunition factory for almost a year; digging fox holes for German soldiers; her mother sharing her bread; disappearance of guards on May 8, 1945; arrival of Soviet troops; their return home; learning her father ...

  14. Eric K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric K., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish father and a mother who had converted to Judaism in 1929. He recalls attending an orthodox synagogue and celebrating holidays; expulsion from public school in 1935 due to the Nuremberg laws; growing isolation from non-Jews; his father's incarceration in Dachau in November 1938; assistance from his non-Jewish grandparents; deportations; receiving mail from friends in Terezi?n; and transport with his father, brother, and aunt to Terezi?n in February 1945. Mr. K. recounts hunger, overcrowding, and poor sanit...

  15. Grace D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace D., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls being the youngest of ten siblings in an orthodox home; German invasion; ghettoization a few weeks later; separation from her family in the October 1942 deportation; her sister-in-law's refusal to give up her child to save herself; and her pain at not having said goodbye to her family. She describes work making dresses for German women from October 1942 until February 1943; deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; work in Camp B making artillery shells; Polish civilian workers who brought her food...

  16. Andreja P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreja P., who was born in Pécs, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recounts his family's move to Zagreb; mobilization when Germany attacked in April 1941; traveling to Sinj and Split; troops deserting when Croatian independence was declared; Split's occupation by Italy; working as a musician; obtaining false papers to bring his parents and sister there; a non-Jewish friend bringing his sister; his parents' arrest by Ustaša en route; using influence to obtain their release; their return to Zagreb; his father's and uncle's deportation to Jasenovac (they were kill...

  17. Esther and Charles G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Soko?y, Poland, in 1924, and her husband Charles, who was born in Lublin in 1916. Mrs. G. describes prewar antisemitism and pogroms in Poland; the German takeover in 1939; Soviet occupation and German reoccupation; the destruction of Soko?y, upon which she escaped to the forest and hid for several days; her transfer to the Bia?ystok ghetto, where she worked making military clothes; and her deportation to Auschwitz. She recalls in detail her arrival at Birkenau; her work in an ammunition factory; atrocities she witnessed in Auschwitz; her tra...

  18. Rina E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rina E., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1936. She recounts German invasion in April 1941; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); escaping to Split in the Italian zone with her mother and grandparents; one year in an Italian camp; transfer to Rab Island; relatively benign conditions; singing Italian songs for extra bread; Italian guards leaving after German invasion in 1943; hiring a boat to return to Yugoslavia; hiding in forests; leaving her grandparents in a village; joining partisans; her mother working as their cook and translator; being smuggled to...

  19. Clara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara M., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland (then Russia) in 1915, one of four children. She recalls her father's work as a Hebrew educator and his strong Zionist commitment; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; her leadership role in Hashomer Hatzair; attending university in Warsaw; interning at Janusz Korczak's orphanage; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; directing a Zionist summer camp in Zakopane in 1939; German invasion; walking to Rzeszów via Kraków; futile attempts to escape to the Soviet zone; forced labor with her sister; escapi...

  20. Reuven F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuven F., who was born in Lille, France in 1925. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; difficulties communicating with his parents (they spoke only Yiddish and he mostly French); his father's draft into the military in 1930; their false sense of security due to their confidence in France and strong French identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; humiliation at wearing the yellow star; the mayor's wife (who was Jewish) gluing pages of the lists of Jews together to prevent deportations; arrest and imprisonment in Cherbourg in November 1943; crue...