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  1. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's Hasidism; attending yeshivot in Tomaszo?w and ?o?dz?; harassment by non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in September 1939; deportation to Cze?stochowa a few days later; slave labor constructing a concentration camp; his anguish at being forced to work on Yom Kippur; transfer to Go?rlitz, then Rawitsch; praying for help; transfer to Buchenwald; sleeping next to a rabbi; a non-Jew smuggling medicine to him; sharing it with others; suffering after the rabbi died; observing Hanu...

  2. Renata M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls not understanding why she could no longer attend public school; her non-Jewish nursemaid's role in their escape to Italy in 1936; settling in Alassio; her father's and uncle's imprisonments during which she visited them; imprisonment with her mother in Perugia; transfer to Cascia under police supervision; receiving food from the villagers; transfer to Citta? di Castella, where her brother was born in 1941; and her realization that something was wrong. Mrs. M. describes moving to Bevagna; receiving orders ...

  3. Luna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luna K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1926. Mrs. K. vividly portrays her childhood; her father's pro-German sympathies after serving in World War I in the Austrian army on the Russian front; prewar Polish antisemitism; conditions following the German invasion; being forced out of Krako?w to a small village; and a Polish butcher who gave her family extra meat. She recounts being sent with her mother to the Krako?w ghetto; working in a brush factory; losing contact with her father and sister (who were in a logging camp); liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to ...

  4. Ernest S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Czechoslovakia in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; his sister's marriage and move to Plzen? in 1933; German annexation in 1938; immediately moving to his sister's (Plzen? was not annexed); German invasion; his parents sending him on an illegal Youth Aliyah transport to Palestine in 1940; his sister's emigration to England in 1941; enlisting in the Jewish Brigade of the British army; transferring to the Czech army in exile; transport to England; training there and in Scotland; moving through Germany to Czechos...

  5. Kochevit P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kochevit P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1931. She tells of her family's move to her grandmother's farm outside Krako?w after the first Aktion in 1942; the murder of her mother and brother in 1942, which she witnessed from a neighbor's cellar; hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw from 1942 until the end of 1944; and her adoption by a group of nuns, who, thinking she was Catholic, placed her in a convent where she remained until the end of the war. She discusses her awareness of being Jewish and of the need to hide that fact; her postwar reunion with an aunt; a...

  6. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Vranov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1910, one of four siblings. She recounts her mother's death in childbirth; her father's extraordinary devotion to his children; his death at age thirty-eight; her marriage in Kos?ice; Hungarian occupation; disbelief upon hearing of the fate of Jews elsewhere; concentration of Jews from the surrounding area in Kos?ice; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); selection; regret that she was chosen to live; witnessing atrocities; transfer after three...

  7. Solly I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solly I., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1930 to a Hasidic family. He recalls his four sisters; isolation from the outside community; speaking only Yiddish; pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Z?elecho?w; returning home; his father arranging his and one sister's escape to hide with a non-Jewish farmer; having to leave the farm; living with a cousin in De?blin; their escape during the liquidation; a farmer catching his sister (he never saw her again); wandering the forest for six months; entering the camp in De?blin; living with his aunt; publi...

  8. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Bad Friedrichshall, Germany in 1911. Her recalls a pleasant childhood; his father's service in World War I and his strong German identity; boycott of his father's business in 1933; arrest with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; destruction of their home and business; his incarceration in Buchenwald; beatings, starvation, and illnesses; release after five weeks; a contact arranging for a Jewish family to sponsor his emigration to Scotland; reporting to the Nazi party in Darmstadt and Bad Friedrichshall until his ...

  9. Ann H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in seve...

  10. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Žlkovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. He recalls living in Hrkovce; staying in underground shelters during bombings; harassment by the Hlinka guard; his grandmother's abduction by them; deportation of a Jewish family and of his uncle; vandalism of houses by the Hlinka guard; liberation by Soviet troops; playing music for them; receiving a horse from a Soviet soldier, which was taken by a Hlinka guard; the Soviets providing them with food; moving to Prague; military enlistment; returning home after two years...

  11. Odette H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1927, one of three children. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Toulouse; attending school; her brother fleeing to Spain, and ultimately to Israel; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; going into hiding with her family in November 1942; obtaining false papers; arrest in 1944; incarceration in Avenue Louise; transfer to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother and sister; hospitalization; avoiding selection...

  12. Shalom K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom K., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, one of four children. He recounts his father's death; his mother running his father's factory; attending school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; Germans killing his mother when she tried to keep them from taking his older brothers, then killing his brothers (he and his sister were hiding under a bed); transfer to an orphanage; slave labor in a shoe factory; his sister's transfer to a hospital; her murder there; living at a former Hechalutz hachsharah; deportation to Birkenau in 1943; transfer...

  13. Benzyon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benzyon W., who was born in Sieniawa, Poland in 1928, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; participating in a Zionist youth movement; moving with his family to Jumet in 1936; attending a public school and cheder; German invasion; briefly fleeing to France; anti-Jewish restrictions; his bar mitzvah at home since the synagogue had been closed; his father and brothers volunteering for forced labor in 1942, hoping to save him and his mother (he never saw them again); he and his mother hiding wiith non-Jews in early 19...

  14. Henny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henny S., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1925. Mrs. S. relates warm childhood memories; her father's profession as a master painter; building interiors which he designed; expulsion from school in 1935; attendance at a Jewish school; athletic competitions; Kristallnacht; a year's attendance at school in Hamburg; her father's emigration to Shanghai, where she and her mother were to have joined him upon receiving their documents; and their 1941 deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto. She recalls forced labor; the record cold winter of 1941-1942; her mother's illness; a se...

  15. Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in a Hungarian village in 1915. She recalls life in the village and Budapest; attending boarding school in Budapest; marriage in 1937; the births of her sons in Novi Sad in 1938 and 1941; anti-Jewish measures; going to Budapest with her older son in 1942; learning her husband was killed in December; having her younger son brought to Budapest; German occupation; her arrest in Budapest (she never saw her mother and children again); transport to Kistarcsa, then Auschwitz; digging ditches in Birkenau; working in the Canada Kommando; assistance fr...

  16. Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph B., who was born in Tripoli, Libya (then Italian) in 1928, the youngest of four children. He recounts his family's British citizenship based on their roots in Gibraltar; their orthodoxy; attending cheder and Italian school; anti-Jewish laws with the rise of fascism; the outbreak of war; his father's imprisonment as a British national; his aunt's death in an Allied bombing; their move to the countryside to avoid bombings; their arrest as British nationals, then transfer to an internment camp in Civatella del Tronto; his father joining them in March 1942; receivi...

  17. Maurice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice P., who was born in Brussels, Belgium to Polish immigrants in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recalls a happy childhood despite his family's poverty; the sacredness of Friday nights despite their general secularism; cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in Zionist and socialist organizations; leaving school to begin work at age twelve; non-Jewish friends attending his bar mitzvah; German invasion; traveling to Gravelines intending to enlist; returning after encountering German troops; obtaining authentic papers as a non-Jew; distributing Resistance...

  18. Max T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max T., who was born in Buchach, Poland in 1901. He recalls fleeing with his family to Vienna in 1914; attending business school; joining a sports club in 1921; his father's death in 1926; marriage in 1928; his activities in the socialist uprising in 1934; the Anschluss; arrest on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; his wife obtaining visas to Sweden, with assistance from the trade union, resulting in his release; their emigration to Sweden then, with assistance from his uncle in the United States, to America ; his daughter's birth in 1946; and his subsequent care...

  19. Stanley W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley W., who was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1923. He recalls being called into military service in December 1941; posting to England; training as an intelligence officer; arriving in Celle, Germany via Belgium and Holland; hearing about Bergen-Belsen nearby; a Jewish friend who encouraged him to visit; disbelief at the mass graves and condition of the survivors; his friend organizing aid for the survivors; Josef Rosensaft organizing the displaced persons camp; his friend organizing other soldiers to write home for packages and delivering them to the DP cam...

  20. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Felso?ce?ce, Hungary in 1914 and grew up in Abau?jsza?nto?. He recalls a comfortable childhood within a large, extended family; moving to Miskolc in 1930; marriage in 1938; war mobilization; anti-Semitic regulations; his son's birth in 1940; compulsory service in a labor battalion in 1942 (two of his brothers perished); returning to Miskolc; German occupation in 1944; his parents' deportations; ghettoization; avoiding deportation by enlisting, with a brother, in a labor battalion; working under a protective commander in Jo?svafo? and on the...