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  1. Hence H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hence H., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts military draft in 1944; deployment to Europe; landing in Le Havre; entering Buchenwald; a prisoner showing him the crematoria; corpses stacked like wood; lampshades made of human skin; burying corpses; the pervasive stench, which he remembers to this day; Eisenhower visiting the camp; marching local Germans through the camp; returning to the United States; and military discharge.

  2. Ennio O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ennio O., a non-Jew, who was born in Italy in 1924. He recounts that his father fled to the United States immediately prior to his birth due to his anti-fascist activities; his return in 1928; living in Genoa; meetings of anti-fascists in their home; fascists burning his father's store; working in a factory to support his family; arrest for not reporting for weekly pre-military service; military draft; training in Genoa; German invasion; joining the Resistance; moving to Alessandria, then a mountain village; fighting Germans with the Resistance; being wounded and capt...

  3. Paul P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul P., a twin, who was born in Mikulov, Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recounts attending German and Czech schools; antisemitic harassment; involvement in Zionist youth groups; moving to Brno after German occupation; his mother "forcing" his father's illegal emigration to Palestine in 1939; his departure for England and his mother and sister leaving for Yugoslavia on August 31, 1939; their return to Prague due to the outbreak of war; forced labor in coal mines; hospitalization; refusing a nun's offer to hide him; returning to Brno; deportation with his mother and sister...

  4. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Ganichi, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1923. He recalls attending school in Sighet; cordial relations with non-Jews; belonging to Betar; his sister's and brother's emigration to Palestine; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Mukacheve, Kisvr?da, and Korice; returning home; learning his other sister and her children had been shot; he and his parents hiding during a round-up with help from their maid's husband; the same man surrendering them; ghettoization in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his p...

  5. Avraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Tykocin, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts attending cheder, then yeshiva; increasing antisemitism; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; visiting Białystok; German invasion; round-up with his family; his father sending him home; hiding with a friend; hearing the mass shooting of all the Jews while escaping to the forest; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; traveling to his grandparents' in Knyszyn; a round-up nine months later; escaping with his aunt a...

  6. Rosa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa K., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1921. She describes prewar life; German bombardment in 1939; fleeing east with her family; returning home three months later; anti-Jewish laws; Himmler's visit to Os?wie?cim; construction of Auschwitz concentration camp at a Polish army garrison; the Judenrat supplying Jews for forced labor; learning of extermination of prisoners in Auschwitz; and the 1940 transfer of all Jews not in the concentration camp, including her family, to Sosnowiec. Mrs. K. recalls telling others of the exterminations in Auschwitz and their refu...

  7. Maurice E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's 1929 move to Antwerp, then Brussels, to escape from the orthodox community; their assimilated life style; attending school until age fourteen; participating in socialist groups; his family housing a German-Jewish refugee; German invasion in May 1940; he and his brother fleeing to Paris to join the military; his rejection though his brother was accepted; living in a facility for Belgians in Montpellier; working at a vineyard; incarceration at Agde; escaping with...

  8. Josef H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef H., a Romani, who was born in a small village in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1911. He recalls his large family; he and his brothers training with their father to be blacksmiths; playing music with his siblings at weddings to earn extra money; meeting his future wife in Prešov; marriage; the births of his children; living in Kapušany; hostility from the local population toward Romanies; internment by Hlinka guard and Germans in a labor camp; hunger, lack of sanitation, and frequent beatings; transfer to another location where condition...

  9. Vladislav H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladislav H., who was born in Senta, Yugoslavia in 1920 to an assimilated family. He recalls his father's family's long history in Senta; attending high school in Senta and Subotica; working for a lawyer; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; losing his job; his parents going to Szeged to live with his paternal grandmother; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; good treatment by his commanders; being turned over to the Germans in Szeged (the last time he saw his parents); slave labor in the Bor mines; harsh conditions; assistance from Serb workers in escapin...

  10. Rosalyn R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalyn R., who was born in Tarn?ow, Poland in 1932. She recalls starting school; German invasion; she and her older brother being tutored; her mother's United States citizenship (she was born there); her mother's refusal to leave her children when she could have gone; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; non-Jewish friends hiding her father and brother; hiding with relatives during round-ups; ghettoization; learning that U.S. citizens and their families would be exchanged for German prisoners; surrendering for exchange; transfer to Montelupich prison...

  11. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-301), Mrs. S. recounts her father's struggle to support the family after anti-Jewish restrictions resulted in confiscation of his business; a public hanging in the Kos?ice ghetto; slave labor in Markkleeberg with her sister; her sister sharing extra food received from a civilian worker; escaping from a death march with her sister and two others; liberation by Soviet troops; staying near Dresden; identifying a former Hungarian soldier who had beaten her; revoking her accusation after ...

  12. Ilse M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse M. who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her father's incarceration in Dachau for a year starting in 1938; his departure for Italy immediately upon release; leaving a few weeks later on a 1939 children's transport to England; her unhappy life with a childless couple in Prescot; avoiding the husband's sexual advances; cessation of correspondence from her mother in 1941; several live-in jobs; and continuing school while working in Manchester, then London. She describes a visit from her mother's brother after the ...

  13. Aaron B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recalls German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; digging ditches near the Soviet border in November 1939; escaping to Warsaw two weeks later; unloading trains; obtaining a privileged position with assistance from a German officer; ghettoization; his parents and sister escaping to Bia?obrzegi in 1942; the German officer helping him to escape to Bia?obrzegi; forced labor at a munitions factory in Radom; public executions; learning his family was deported; escaping execution with assistance...

  14. Rella E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rella E., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. Mrs. E. tells of the death of her father during her infancy and her mother's remarriage; her family's move to Khust; staying with her religiously observant grandmother in Uz?h?horod when her family moved to Yugoslavia (she was thirteen); Hungarian occupation; joining her family in Yugoslavia in 1940; her father's removal to a labor camp; and the family's deportation, after being confined at home for eight days, to the ghetto in Szeged, Hungary, where they lived in a former pigsty. She speaks of disregarding soldiers' w...

  15. Dorothy P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy P., who enlisted in the United States Army Nurse Corps on February 15, 1943. In a very detailed testimony, she recalls treating traumatic wounds in Belfast, Ireland in January 1944; wading ashore on Utah Beach in July 1944 with Patton's 3rd Army; treating wounded soldiers in field hospitals; working day and night during the Battle of the Bulge; moving through France and into Germany with the front line troops; and finding a mass grave where 200 Americans had been buried alive. Mrs. P. recalls first hearing about the killing of Jews from a German-Jewish colleag...

  16. Zalman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalman H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, the youngest of six brothers. He recounts being the sole Jew in his public school class; antisemitic harassment; his oldest brother's draft in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death; two brothers escaping and working as non-Jews; smuggling food into the ghetto with Peretz, his next oldest brother; arrest by Polish police; escape; his father's non-Jewish friend once providing food; his mother's death; escaping with Peretz; moving from place to place; entering the ghetto often...

  17. Julia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia S., who was born in Amsterdam, in 1937. Mrs. S. describes her German Christian mother's marriage to a Dutch Jew (her "legal father"); their move to Amsterdam in 1933; their estrangement and her mother's relationship with another Dutch Jew (Julia's "biological father"); and her mother's liaison with a third Dutch Jew (her "stepfather") after the occupation of Holland. She recalls her stepfather's acquiring false papers from the Resistance; the family's relocation to Blaricum to avoid the Germans; and discovering, at age four, a hiding place for Jews in their hous...

  18. Rachel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel G., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. She recounts attending Montessori, then a Tarbut school; her older brother's death; anti-Jewish harassment; participating in a Zionist youth group; assisting Jews expelled from Germany in Zbąszyń in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; slave labor in a forest; transfer back to the ghetto; producing homemade bombs for the underground; her father volunteering for transfer to a labor camp (they never saw him again); an unsuccessful ...

  19. Nathan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recounts his nanny in Warsaw; visits with his grandfather to a country home; his family's move to join relatives in Antwerp in 1930; attending school in Berchem; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in May 1940; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; deportation with his father to Malines in 1942; transfers to Ottmuth, Kleinmangersdorf, Babitz, and Trzebinia; slave labor; receiving help from friends; a privileged position due to his fluency in several languages; Jews from the Chrzano?w ghetto giving t...

  20. Eta N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eta N., who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, one of three children. She recounts her mother's death when she was twelve; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1942; an inside work assignment due to a cousin's influence; learning her brother and father had arrived (they were killed); working in the laundry with her sister; sorting deportees' belongings in Canada Kommando (she found her brother's suit); frequent selections; smuggling medicine from Canada to a sick friend; smuggling money she found to the camp undergro...