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  1. Marguerite M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., a Christian rescuer, who was born in Groningen, Netherlands in 1921. She recalls German occupation in 1940; moving to Haren with her parents and brothers; hiding a Jewish convert to Catholicism, who had escaped from Amsterdam; the family's experiences hiding fifteen other Jews; a train trip with a hidden child who inadvertently revealed she was Jewish and the other passengers promising not to report them; working as a courier for the Dutch underground; one brother being shot by Germans for breaking curfew; and the death of her youngest brother, who was ...

  2. Chanan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan A., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1927, the youngest of four children in a wealthy, religious family. He recounts his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending a Romanian school; his sister's marriage; Hungarian occupation in 1940; attending a Jewish high school in Budapest, then in Uz︠h︡horod; German occupation in March 1944; immediately returning home; hiding family valuables in their cellar and with non-Jewish friends; refusing their non-Jewish maid's offer to hide the children, wanting to stay together; ghettoization; assistance from ...

  3. Edith L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith L., who was born in U?sti? nad Labem (Aussig), Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; studying in Prague; her sister's emigration to the United States in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's death; deportation with her husband to Terezi?n in 1941; the fraudulent staging of "good conditions" for a Red Cross delegation; deportation to Birkenau in May 1944; her husband's transfer to a work camp (she never saw him again); transfer to Christianstadt six mont...

  4. Maria G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, one of five children. She recalls living in a Jewish area; her parents realizing Kristallnacht was the end of German Jewry; German invasion; one sister fleeing east; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; starvation; smuggling food; escaping; assistance from her father's former business colleague; posing as a non-Jew; obtaining papers as a non-Jew when she traded her pocketbook (the owner did not realize her papers were in the traded pocketbook); volunteering for forced labor in Germany as a Pole; working in a garden-nursery...

  5. Antonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Antonia R., who was born in Lipany, Czechoslovakia. She recalls attending school in Pres?ov; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportion with her sister from Poprad to Auschwitz in March 1942; an SS officer taking special notice of her hair; slave labor in a mine, then in Canada Kommando; learning her brother had arrived; a futile attempt to see him; their transfer to Birkenau; the same SS asking about her hair; obtaining a privileged job because of him; the officer beating her sister, then transferring her to a better job upon learning who she was; losing their will to live;...

  6. Pepo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pepo S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916, one of six children. He recalls attending French and Jewish schools; participation in Maccabi; his father's death in 1931; leaving school to work in the family business; German invasion; his brother's military service and resulting combat injury; working for the Jewish council; helping Jews escape; distributing food from the Red Cross in the Baron Hirsch quarter; observing abuses by the Jewish police, including Vital Hasson and Edgar Chounio; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor with one brother; witnessing his m...

  7. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (presently Gusev, Russia) in 1922, the second of four children. He recounts living in Šiauliai; his father's executive position at a large leather factory; participating in Maccabi; summer vacations in Palanga; attending a Jewish elementary school, Hebrew high school, then a Lithuanian gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in spring 1941; briefly fleeing east; he and his brother being forced by Lithuanians to bury corpses of Soviet soldiers; arrest by one former classmate and relea...

  8. Edita Š. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita Š., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recalls growing up in Košice; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in spring 1944; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); remaining with her sister and two friends; transfer three days later to Kasierwald, then to Rīga, Dundangen, and Stutthof; slave labor; walking to other camps; being injured in January; her sister and friends assisting her; hiding from the Germans; being shot while escaping (her sist...

  9. Karl W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl W., a Romani, who was born in 1931, one of ten children. He recalls his father's death; deportation with his family from Kiel to Majdanek in 1940; separation from his older brothers (they went to the men's camp); remaining with his mother and sisters; public hangings; slave labor; good relations with Polish and Jewish children; returning to Germany after liberation in 1945 (five siblings had perished); marriage to another survivor; and continuing hostility to Romanies. He discusses the importance of marrying a survivor; observing that the Jews received the worst ...

  10. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public and Jewish schools; participating in Akiva; apprenticing as a painter; Soviet occupation in 1939; his stepbrother's deportation to Siberia (he survived); his older brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in June 1941; a pogrom by Ukrainians; antisemitic restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor as a painter; deportation of his mother, father and youngest brother; receiving a letter from his fat...

  11. Joshua B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua B., who was born in 1930 in Lechint?a, Romania where his grandfather was the rabbi. He recalls moving to a village; anti-Semitic incidents; Hungarian occupation; moving with his grandparents and older brother to another town in 1941; being forced to move to the Bistrit?a ghetto around Passover in 1944; and deportation to Auschwitz about a month later. Mr. B. describes separation from his grandfather, whom he never saw again; transfer to Birkenau; finding his father, who brought extra food to him and his brother; his father's transfer (he did not survive); shari...

  12. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  13. Robert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929. He recounts his parents were orthodox, but had secular educations; speaking German at home; cordial relations with non-Jews; antisemitic laws beginning in 1940, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; eviction from their house; protection from deportations due to his father's position; Hlinka guard rounding-up relatives for deportation, including his grandmother; arrival of Germans during the Slovak uprising in 1944; deportation with his parents to Sered; volunteer...

  14. Leslie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie R., who was born in approximately 1925, in Oradea, Romania. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungarian occupation; his brother's conscription into a slave labor battalion; ghettoization in May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); separation from his father (he never saw him again); slave labor in a munitions factory; a black market in his barrack with prisoners from other kommandos; his group of seven friends from Oradea; stealing food as a group; e...

  15. Elisheva Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisheva Z., who was born in 1931 to a Vishnitz Hasidic family in Sighet, Romania. She recalls Hungarian occupation; general disbelief of reports of annihilation of Jews from a man returning from Poland; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her family in May 1944; prisoners informing them how to survive selection; encountering Gisella Perl, whom she knew in Sighet, and who often helped her in camp; separation from her mother (whom she never saw again); saving her shoes (she still has them); her sisters trading their food for medicin...

  16. Renee C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renee C., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts having no memories prior to being sent to London on a train when she was four; living in an orthodox Jewish orphanage; evacuation to small towns after war began in 1939; a visit from her brother (he was thirteen years older than she); living in several foster homes of non-Jews; hearing stories of Jewish persecution in Europe from other orphans; completing high school; living in a Sephardic community in Manchester; no one telling her anything about her family, although they seemed to know something; lear...

  17. Stephen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen L., who was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. He recalls his mother's death in 1931; living in a Jewish orphanage; his father's two month incarceration in Oranienburg; his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage to a Jewish woman in 1938; violent harassment by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; his father losing his business; his parents sending him to France; attending public school; German invasion in 1940; Quakers transporting his group to unoccupied territory; assistance from OSE and ORT; learning from the Red Cross that his parents ...

  18. Leon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon R., who was born in Ostrowiec, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with his father and brother to a labor camp; escaping; learning his mother and sisters were deported; a non-Jewish neighbor offering help; rejoining his father and brother; transfer to Bliz?yn; public hangings; his brother's transfer; his father giving him his bread ration, telling him it was extra; his father's death; hardening himself; stealing food...

  19. Judita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judita K., who was born in Lušci Palanka, Yugoslavia. She recalls moving to Drvar; celebrating Jewish holidays with relatives in Sanski Most; attending high school in Banja Luka and Podravska Slatina; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning to Drvar in 1941; living freely for one year under Italian occupation; encountering Serbians covered in blood after they participated in a mass killing; deportation with her family; a prisoner escaping nightly to smuggle food; Ustaša guards raping female prisoners; train transport to Prijedor; escaping with her family; trave...

  20. Freda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Freda S., who was born in Turulung, Romania (presently Ukraine), in approximately 1923, one of six children. She recounts her family's affluence and orthodoxy; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; expropriation of her father's business; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (she never saw him again); German invasion; non-Jewish neighbors hiding her and her sisters; deportation with her family to the Sevlus? (Vynohradiv) ghetto; living with relatives there; deportation four weeks later to Auschwitz/Birken...