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  1. Suzanne W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne W., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1919. She recalls expulsion from public school due to antisemitism; attending a private school; leaving in 1938 to join an aunt in the United States; efforts to bring over her family; her older brother joining her around 1940; her younger brother living with an aunt in Belgium, then returning to Mannheim immediately after their parents were deported to Gurs (he went to an orphanage in Frankfurt); receiving some correspondence from her parents; losing contact during the war; learning after the war that her parents had be...

  2. Vincent C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent C., who enlisted in the United States Army in 1937. He recalls landing in Normandy on D-Day; transfer from a ranger to a tank battalion; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; liberating Ahlem; encountering sick, emaciated prisoners left to die; sharing K rations with them, which resulted in several deaths; entering Gardelegen; observing buildings where prisoners had been machine-gunned and confined while the buildings were burned; liberating Salzwedel; observing carts piled with corpses; shooting German personnel; and local civilians claiming no knowledge ...

  3. Tadeusc D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tadeusc D., a Roman Catholic, who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1921. He recalls growing up in ?uko?w, Kock, and Torun?; separation from Jews in elementary school; admiring the vitality of the Jewish community; antisemitic incidents; German invasion in 1939; arrest of Polish leaders; anti-Jewish measures; printing leaflets for the underground with his brother; their arrest; interrogations in Warzyn; transfer to prison in Lublin where he and his brother were sentenced to death; their transfer to Auschwitz in January 1941, and several weeks later to Flossenbu?rg; forced...

  4. Lillian N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lillian N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933 to an assimilated, wealthy family. She recalls German invasion while visiting her grandfather; returning to Warsaw with her mother and one-year-old sister to join her father; ghettoization; becoming sad; always being terrified of round-ups; her parents sending her sister to non-Jews; being smuggled in 1942 to her grandmother, whose second husband was not Jewish and no one in the village knew she was; being hidden in a hole during a German raid; her parents retrieving her two years later; being informed her sister was ...

  5. Batya L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Batya L., who was born in Berdychiv, Ukraine in 1926. She recalls her parents' religious observances; German invasion; ghettoization in August 1941; a round-up in September; standing in line while hearing gun shots nearby; escaping (her parents and sister were killed and a brother survived); hiding with a non-Jewish friend of her brother, then with relatives in Raygorodok; being warned of a mass killing by a non-Jew; hiding with non-Jews during the killing; working in another village; moving to Samgorodok; living with and working for a pig farmer until liberation by S...

  6. Ida S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida S., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her father working as a kosher slaughterer and rabbi; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father illegally continuing kosher slaughtering; a sister and brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; deportation of three brothers in June 1942; hiding in sewers, then with her brother-in-law in a cellar; deportation in cattle cars; escaping (she had false papers); returning to the Tarno?w ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w in 1943;...

  7. Lola S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her childhood in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's prewar death; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her sisters' deportations (one of whom she never saw again); her older brothers' deportations (she never saw them again); her mother's death; forced labor and starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; reunion with her sister who had learned of the ?o?dz? ghetto transport from an SS woman who frequently helped her; receiving extra food from her sister; transfer with her sister to Bergen...

  8. Felicia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She describes her affluent and protected childhood; involvement in Zionist youth movements; participation in student demonstrations against antisemitic violence at the university in Krako?w in 1933-1934; one year at university in Vienna; marriage in 1936; moving to Os?wie?cim; helping Jews expelled from Germany; her family's disbelief that this could happen in Poland; traveling with her husband to the New York World's Fair in July 1939; confiscation of their returning ship by the British due to the outbreak of war; travelin...

  9. Israel M. Holocaust tesimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1922; moving to Antwerp; his father's bankruptcy in 1930; being supported by his fourteen year-old brother; working as a diamond cutter; German invasion; working with a German refugee (his future wife) smuggling Jews to Belgium; marriage; arrest; incarceration in Antwerp, then Malines; an encounter with Mala Zimetbaum; choosing to remain with his wife when he could have left; his deportation to Laurahu?tte; a Jewish funeral when the first prisoner died, but none thereaft...

  10. Emmy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmy K., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1939. She recounts her parents' active support of the Social Democrats; her father losing his job after the German invasion; the birth of a sister in 1942; being placed in hiding, separated from her family, with a minister in Wieringermeer Polder; having to change hiding places several times; the terror of waiting alone in a dark room between hiding places; liberation by Canadian troops in May 1945; reunion with her mother and sisters; and learning her father had been deported and killed. Mrs. K. discusses the experie...

  11. Edita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita W., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. She recalls pleasant visits to her grandparents in Dovalovo; working for the Bata shoe company in Zlín and studying; participating in Maccabi ha-Ẓair; returning to Liptovský Mikuláš; working for a local leather company; marriage in August 1939; anti-Jewish laws; obtaining false papers; her employers negotiating to save her from deportation; a policeman warning her family in order to save them from deportation; a friend who was married to a Hlinka guard helping her; hiding...

  12. Haim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents an...

  13. Etta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in her village; attending a Christian school; joining a Zionist group against her grandmother's wishes; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; leaving for Budapest in 1939; emigration to Palestine using the passport of another person; joining the British army as a nurse; serving in Italy; assisting survivors to emigrate to Palestine after the war; learning most of her family and people from her village had perished; discharge...

  14. Yvette B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette B., who was born in France. She describes attending school in Paris; German invasion; her decision, along with her sister, not to declare themselves as Jews; obtaining false papers; joining her family in Lyon; entering the Resistance through Bertie Albrecht; activities in Vitteaux; providing social services for several Resistance groups; coordinating with Resistance leaders (she names many); secret marriage to a Resistance leader; arrest with her husband in January 1943; imprisonment in Blois; torture and interrogations; suffering a stillbirth; transfer to a ho...

  15. Alex W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex W., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1923. He describes his father's orthodoxy and resulting antisemitic attacks; attending public school; German invasion; their belief that nothing worse than forced labor would be imposed upon the Jews; fleeing with his family to Dyno?w; returning when the Germans caught up with them; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; his family's privileged position due to his father's glass business; ghettoization in 1942; his mother's and sister's deportation; hiding with his father, brother, and relatives during the ghetto's liquidation i...

  16. Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel A., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his father's emigration to Belgium; joining him with his mother and brothers in approximately 1926; the births of two sisters in Charleroi; attending school; moving with his family to Antwerp in 1932; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Toulouse; draft with his father and brothers into the Polish military; posting to a nearby military base; fleeing German bombings; joining his family in Toulouse; incarceration with hi...

  17. Adolf J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf J., who was born in 1924 in Germany. He describes his family's move to Belgium; poverty in Antwerp until the late 1920s, then affluence; involvement in leftist organizations; antisemitic incidents in school; his family's fleeing to Dunkerque to escape the German invasion; their return to Belgium; joining the Resistance; hiding in Charleroi; his father's arrest; joining the Resistance in Brussels; moving to Tournai; arrest as a Resistant (he had false papers) in April 1944; and confessing to be Jewish, thinking it would help him. Mr. J. recalls transfer to Maline...

  18. Semtov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Semtov H., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece, one of five children. He recalls speaking Ladino at home; attending a Jewish elementary school; family Sabbath dinners and attending synagogue; Zionist activities (he sings a Ladino song); ghettoization; escaping with one brother when ordered to report for forced labor; returning home after a few weeks; he and his brother bribing a boat captian to take them to the Italian-occupied area; returning to Salonika; obtaining false papers from a railroad employee when deportations started; escaping to Athens; being joined b...

  19. Lev A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Perei︠a︡slav, Ukraine in 1915. He recalls attending Ukrainian school, then a technical school in Kiev; working as an electrician; moving to Crimea with his family during the famine in 1933; marriage; returning to Kiev in 1937; draft into the Soviet Army; serving in Kiev, then Z︠H︡itomir; discharge in October 1940; returning to Kiev; German invasion; evacuation east of his pregnant wife and mother; military recall; serving in Pryluky and Kharkiv; capture by Germans in 1942; forced labor as a POW in Khorol, posing as a non-Jewish Ukrainian; and e...

  20. Ernest S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1925. Mr. S. recalls the gradual development of the Nazi ideology and program in Hildesheim; his public school education; the initial absence of anti-Semitic acts against his family; and the Nuremberg laws which partly influenced his parents' decision to emigrate. He relates his father's arrest in 1938 for attempting to send money out of the country; the killing of an uncle during Kristallnacht; the burning of the local synagogue; seizure of the Jewish-owned bank where his father worked; and his transfer to the local ...