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  1. Lorna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lorna B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1921. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview. Additional topics discussed include her beautiful childhood; her family's prewar life; relations with their non-Jewish neighbors; ghettoization; her father's severe beating by Germans resulting in insanity; his death from a lethal injection; becoming the head of her family; her younger brother's arrest and deportation; killings, starvation and deportations; writing a letter to H?ayim Rumkowski asking for help; obtaining a job; deportation with her ...

  2. Kurt H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt H., who was born in a small town in Germany in 1928. He recalls that his was the only Jewish family in town; being protected by the townspeople on Kristallnacht; people from another town destroying the family's property; their move to Cologne in 1939; deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; working for the ghetto commander; the sadistic behavior of the commander; the importance to their survival of sharing smuggled food and clothing; deportation by boat with his father and siblings to Stutthof on Yom Kippur 1944 (his mother remained in Ri?ga); separation from his sister...

  3. Rosa J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa J., who was born in Khotin, Besserabia in Romania (now Ukraine), one of three children. She describes her extended family including several who had emigrated to the United States; her father's death in 1939; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her family to wander and beg in villages; the deaths of her mother, brother, and sister in Popovtsy; several non-Jews who assisted her; placement with other orphans in Bi?rlad, then Bucharest; living with a foster family; and transfer with other "Soviet" children to an orphanage in Odesa in 1944. Mrs. J. recounts her post...

  4. Sybilla F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sybilla F., who was born in Deventer, Netherlands in 1933, the youngest of four children. She recalls their affluence; the influx of relatives from Germany after Kristallnacht; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restriction including expulsion from school; non-Jewish teachers instructing her at home in defiance of German orders; the trauma of wearing the yellow star; her brother's deportation for forced labor; non-Jewish friends warning them of an impending round-up; hiding overnight with a neighbor; traveling to Amsterdam using false papers; her family, includi...

  5. Catharina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Catharina K., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929. She recounts that her father was a widower with two children when he married her mother; their diamond business; being spoiled until the war; their assimilated lifestyle and large extended family; attending a French public school; German invasion; fleeing to Ostend, Paris, Roaillan, then Lisbon; their emigration to Jakarta a few months later to join her half-brother; living in Bandung; her father and brother starting a diamond business; attending a Christian school; Japanese invasion; confiscation of their posses...

  6. Mary G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935, an only child. She recounts that her great-grandmother was not Jewish; an idyllic childhood; frequent visits to her grandparents' villa outside Budapest; attending a Jewish school; an uncle, his family, and other relatives moving to England in 1939; moving to the villa in 1943 to avoid Allied bombings; attending school in Szentendre; German invasion in spring 1944; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; returning to Budapest with her mother; her family obtaining false papers for her; hiding with a...

  7. Estelle A. and Regina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Estelle A., who was born in Berchem, Belgium in 1936. She recalls celebrating Jewish holidays with her uncle's family; her father's conscription for forced labor (she never saw him again); seeking places to sleep with her mother and sister, fearing arrest; her mother placing them in a convent; the kindness of many nuns; her mother's visits; transfers to several foster homes and orphanages; receiving false names and instructions to pose as Catholics; placement in a Jewish children's home in Wezembeek; attending school; placement in another orphanage; its occupation by ...

  8. Judy J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judy J., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1937. She recalls summers with her maternal grandparents in Be?ke?s; her uncle's conscription into a forced labor battalion around 1941 (she never saw him again); her father's conscription two separate times and the loss of his medical practice; German invasion in March 1944; increased anti-Jewish restrictions; relatives moving to their home in a designated Jewish area; leaving Budapest with her parents on June 30, 1944 on the Kasztner train, ostensibly for Portugal; a brief layover in Linz, Austria; arrival at Bergen-Bels...

  9. Mania W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, one of six children. She recalls her large, extended family; their textile businesses and affluence; holiday and Sabbath gatherings; German invasion; fleeing with her father, brother, and one sister to Warsaw; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; starvation; hiding during round-ups; a neighbor saving her baby sister during a selection; her father's death; her work manager supplying extra food when she was sick; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; remaining with one sister (the others did not surviv...

  10. Vladka M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladka M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She speaks of her prewar family life; the beatings of her father and brother by the German police; and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. She recalls her involvement in a socialist youth organization which was forming illegal groups; her job as an underground courier between Warsaw and Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, a nearby ghetto; the establishment of an illegal Jewish cultural group in the Warsaw ghetto; and the maintenance of illegal schools and public kitchens there. She discusses the Judenrat; the Jewish po...

  11. Matilda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matilda H., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of eight children. She recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair and a communist youth group; deportation in March 1942 to Poprad, then Auschwitz; slave labor; transfer to Birkenau; various assignments, including the Canada Kommando; joining a resistance group; contracting typhus; organized distribution of "stolen" food and medicine by the resistance; her eldest sister's arrival, then selection for gassing; the death march to Ravensbrück; assisting her friend; posing as non-Jewish political prisoners; e...

  12. Arie T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arie T., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1925, the fourth of six children. He recalls a large and close extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews until the rise of a fascist party in the 1930s; his mother's death in 1937; working in a carpentry factory to help support his family; his older brother's marriage and the births of his two children; military draft of two brothers; German invasion; a round-up of Jewish men over eighteen in July 1942 for forced labor, including two brothers; a non-Jew taking one of them to his workshop to protect him; ghettoiz...

  13. Anna J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna J., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1924. She recalls family celebrations of Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; rising antisemitism in the late 1930s; her father's emigration to Palestine in 1938 and return six months later; German invasion; deteriorating conditions; moving with her family to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; severe overcrowding; selling her dowry for food; escaping with help from a non-Jewish woman from W?oc?awek; traveling to a village by train; a Jewish doctor operating on her severe infection; recovering with a friend's family; l...

  14. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in approximately 1921 to an orthodox, middle class family with five children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-232), Mr. K. recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; antisemitic harassment before the war; his father's death in the Pruz?h?any ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his brothers; his brothers' transfer to another work kommando (they both died a few weeks later); working with a cousin in a leather factory; hospitalization after Al...

  15. Gizella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gizella K., who was born in Budapest in 1907. She recalls her affluent childhood; pervasive antisemitism; her mother managing the family factory after her father's death; marriage; a daughter's birth; divorce and remarriage; her mother and daughter visiting the United States in 1939; difficulties getting them back after the war began; her second daughter's birth in 1943; learning her younger brother was killed in a forced labor battalion; her husband coming home almost nightly from his forced labor; placing her daughters in a convent; getting the younger child back; G...

  16. Claire S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1935 to Polish parents. She recalls her parents' divorce; her father's remarriage; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her mother requesting that non-Jewish neighbors care for Mrs. S.; her mother's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw her again); her father visiting prior to being deported (he perished); a loving relationship with her foster family; not attending school for fear of discovery; and traveling to Lie?ge and Verviers to avoid Gestapo searches. She recounts her aunt's legal action to obtain custody o...

  17. Lucia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucia K., who was born in Rajcza, Poland in 1929, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish school; participating in a Zionist youth group; antisemitic violence; emigration of aunts to Mexico, Palestine, and London; German invasion; forced labor; forced relocation to Sucha; ghettoization; a selection in July 1942; separation from her parents and youngest brother (she never saw them again); deportation with sixty others from her town to Freiberg; separation from her brother; slave labor in a fabric factory; civilian workers giving th...

  18. Bella L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella L., who was born in Shyrokyy Luh, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1922, one of twelve children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; older siblings' marriages; attending public school; visiting a sister in Nove? Za?mky; Hungarian occupation; forced relocation to Budapest because she was not a resident; not being able to return home for nine months; attempts in Budapest to obtain Hungarian papers for her father to prevent his deportation; arrest and incarceration in a Budapest prison in 1943; transfer to a labor camp; working in a knitting factory; assistan...

  19. William M. and Leonard S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard S., an African American, who enlisted in the United States Army in November 1941. He recalls encountering discrimination for the first time during tank training in the south; deployment to England in 1944; embarkation in France; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; fighting their way into a fenced area (he later learned it was Dachau); cessation of German firing; observing naked, severely emaciated men falling out of the barracks; offering them food; being told not to feed them since it could do more harm than good; securing the outer area; the stench of ...

  20. Margaret W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret W., who was born in Izki, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, the third of four children in an Orthodox family. She recalls attending a Czech school; Hungarian occupation; her father sending her and her sister to Uz?h?horod; returning home in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her family; transfer to Kaufering with some friends from Izki; slave labor; some Wehrmacht guards giving them extra bread; transfer to Dachau; heavy construction work; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; corpses strewn everywhere; starvation; lib...