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  1. Henry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry T., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls a comfortable childhood; antisemitic violence in school and on the streets; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his father; anti-Jewish restrictions including forced labor; ghettoization in March 1941 with his parents and sister; his mother's deportation in October 1942 (he never saw her again); transfer to P?aszo?w in January 1943 with his father and sister; assignment to a privileged work brigade under Oskar Schindler; receiving extra rations; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Mauthausen in S...

  2. Felix A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix A., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922. He describes life in Bockenheim; his family's business; elementary school in Bockenheim from 1927-1931; increasing antisemitism from 1931 on; anti-Jewish legislation resulting in greatly reduced income and lose of their house; moving to Frankfurt; SA youths attacking his father thus causing Mr. A.'s loss of faith; Realgymnasium in Frankfurt from 1931 to 1935; and the Philanthropin, a Jewish school, from 1935 to 1937. Mr. A. recalls leaving school in 1937 to learn the leather goods trade; his sister's emigra...

  3. Doris W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris W., who was born in Teplice-S?anov, Czechoslovakia in 1925, the only child of an affluent family. She recounts her parents' vote for Sudetenland to join Germany in 1933; moving to Prague after German occupation in 1938; attending an English school; German invasion; deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; harsh conditions; starvation; her mother's hospitalization and surgery; her own work with children; her hospitalization with tuberculosis and anemia; meeting her future husband; transport with her parents to Auschwitz; learning about 'the chimneys'; and select...

  4. Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his strict Orthodox family; attending Jewish and secular schools; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; his father's escape to the Soviet zone; fleeing to Koluszki with his mother; returning to ?o?dz?; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; working as a courier for the Jewish council; deportation to Auschwitz in fall 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); selections in Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; sharing food and helping other prisoners; the...

  5. Zeev S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev S., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1921, the second of seven children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; the Jewish community's rich cultural life; caring for his chronically ill mother from age thirteen; participating in Hechalutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; returning to Sochaczew; slave labor with his brother in the Kampinoska Forest; their escape to Soviet-occupied Białystok; returning home after three months; forced labor constructing an airport; deportation with his family to the Warsaw gh...

  6. Ya'akov G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov G., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1924, one of four children. He recounts attending a Jewish school and yeshiva; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; witnessing a mass killing of the town's rabbis; round-up to a synagogue; separation from his father (he was killed in a mass shooting); ghettoization; forced factory labor; trading goods to non-Jews for food; setting his house on fire, and hiding in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping to the forest; assistance from farmers; walking to Hantsavichy; returning to the fo...

  7. Nina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing with her parents to Katowice, then Warsaw, in December 1939; returning to Łódź; her father's work for the Judenrat; attending school; cultural events; working at a factory after school; pervasive filth and starvation (many in her family starved to death); a public hanging; her father's deportation in July 1944 (she never saw him again); deportation in August to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother upon arrival (she never saw her again); transfer twel...

  8. Rejsi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rejsi K., who was born in Botraj, in the Carpathian region of what was then Hungary, in 1914. She discusses her mother's death in 1935; her father's debilitation from a stroke in 1939 and his death in 1944; and, a few weeks later, the removal of the town's Jews to the town hall and their subsequent transfer to the Munk?acs ghetto. She describes her four week stay there with her sisters and other relatives; her transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; and the selections there, after which all of her relatives present were killed. She recounts her experiences in the camp, wh...

  9. Bronia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia S., who was born in Zolochiv, Poland in 1915. She recounts moving to Vienna; their Austrian patriotism; the Anschluss; her father having them smuggled to ?o?dz? in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; working as secretay to H?ayim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; seeing Hans Biebow, the German ghetto administrator, beat Rumkowski; public hangings; round-ups; marriage in 1943; her sister's deportation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her husband and father; transfer with her mother to Stutthof; reunion with her sister; assisting her sister whe...

  10. Henry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in Meerholz, Germany in 1919. He recalls his father, a kosher butcher, his mother, a dressmaker and an older brother; attending a Jewish school for the deaf in Berlin from the age of five for ten years; Nazi harassment; graduation in 1935; and apprenticeship to a tailor in Frankfurt, despite his desire to become an engineer, because of anti-Jewish restrictions. He describes his brother's emigration to the United States in 1937; knowing many deaf people who were sterilized by Nazi law; moving to Mannheim; difficulties obtaining documents (he show...

  11. Harry E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty; their move to Kuro?w, then Zwierzyniec; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; their return to Warsaw in 1925; participating in S.K.I.F., the Bund youth group; attending a Yiddish Bund school; working as a floorer; German invasion; a bombing killing his mother, sister, and baby niece; working with his wife and sister in a Bund sanatorium/orphanage in Miedzeszyn near Falenica; support from the Joint; bringing his younger brother there; leaving eighteen m...

  12. Meir T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir T., who was born in Jonava, Lithuania in 1920, one of nine children. He recounts attending a Yavneh school; moving to Kaunas in 1937; joining Komsomol; attending school, taking voice lessons, and working; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; draft into the Soviet military; posting at Telšiai; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Jonava; meeting his wife there; futile efforts to flee east; detention with his wife by Lithuanians; escaping; assistance from a Lithuanian in the forest; returning to their residence in Kaunas; a German bringing them food; ghettoiza...

  13. Anna Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna Z., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926. She describes her assimilated family; frequent, cordial relations with non-Jews; European vacations; summering in Ustronie in 1939; German invasion; moving to Sro?dboro?w; her father, brother, and uncle fleeing east; moving to Warsaw in October; return to Cze?stochowa; German confiscation of their house; living with her uncle; attending Polish school; receiving religious instruction and converting to Catholicism in January 1940; moving to the open ghetto; her father's and brother's return; being sent to her Polish...

  14. Hilda P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda P., who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I, then in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia (Karolovy Vary). She recalls moving to Prague; working as a tutor; German occupation; marriage in 1940; her husband's internment; deportation to Theresienstadt in February 1943; slave labor in a uniform factory; transfer to a prison in Prague in February 1944, then to Vittel; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation; traveling to Paris, then to Prague; reunion with her husband; living in Munich, then in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United Stat...

  15. Sarra K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarra K., who was born in Lipenสน, Russia in 1915, one of eight children. She recalls her family's poverty; one brother's emigration to Palestine; leaving school at fifteen to help support her family; her father's death; marriage to a non-Jew at age eighteen; the births of a son and daughter; German invasion in 1941; many Jews fleeing, including some of her siblings; mass killings, one including her mother; her exemption because she was married to a non-Jew; staying inside at all times; learning they were scheduled to be killed; hiding in a forest with her husband and...

  16. Rebeka P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebeka P., who was born in Bender, Romania (presently Moldava) in approximately 1918. She recalls growing up in Kishinev (presently Chis?ina?u); increasing antisemitism beginning in 1933; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of her father's business; working in the agriculture department; Romania allying itself with Germany; fleeing east with her parents and younger brother by train; strafing by German planes; leaving the train with her father when he was injured; joining her mother and brother in Alma-Ata; moving to Zhambyl; marriage to a Russian Jew; her brother'...

  17. Margaret S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret S., who was born in Velikiy Rakovets in Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of four children. She recounts her family's move to Khust when she was an infant; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943 (he did not survive); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a Telefunken factory for eight months; a death march to another camp, then Salzwedel; liberation by United States troops; returning to ...

  18. Luna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luna H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the only child of Turkish parents. She recounts speaking French at home; her father annually renewing their Turkish citizenship; visiting relatives in Antwerp and France; German invasion; her father hiding a non-Turkish Jew; her father's belief they were protected by their Turkish citizenship; being rounded-up to the theater in Amsterdam; deportation to Westerbork; attending school and a cabaret; deportation a year later (September 15, 1944) to Bergen-Belsen; assignment to the Star camp, then the neutrals camp; hunger; ...

  19. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Koszyce, Poland in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-2670), Mr. H. recalls living in Łódź with his fellow escapee after its liberation; returning to Paris on the last transport of deportees in July 1945; reunion with his siblings; marriage to a fellow Resistant/survivor in 1946; his daughter's birth in 1949; various careers; continuing commitment to leftist causes; and he and his wife speaking at schools about their experiences. He discusses his nightmares resulting from the war years; reluct...

  20. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whi...