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  1. Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who lived in Vilna, Poland among a large extended family. She recalls seders in her grandmother's village; her half-sister's and father's emigrations to Palestine; belonging to Betar; Lithuanian, then Soviet rule; German invasion; ghettoization; escaping; traveling to her grandmother's village; learning her grandmother had been killed; hiding with her grandmother's friend; traveling by night to another town; meeting her future husband; contact with partisans; hiding with her husband in a bunker in the Naroch forest; receiving food from local farmers; joinin...

  2. Simcha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simcha S., who was born in Pu?awy, Poland in 1914. He recalls working in Warsaw; antisemitism stimulated by Nazi propaganda; participation in the Polish Socialist party and Worker's Theater; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet occupied Poland; working in Lv?ov, then in a coal mine; becoming a Soviet citizen; being drafted and wounded after the German invasion; demobilization; and moving to Tashkent. Mr. S. recounts learning one brother had been killed by Ukrainians; enlisting in Anders' Polish army which went to Palestine, then Italy; enlisting in Britain's Jewish Brig...

  3. Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Marion P., whose first testimony was recorded in 1986. Mrs. P. notes that some memories seem engraved in spite of large gaps. She recounts assisting in rescuing a child, Katinka; persuading some SS to free children; inconsistent behavior of the Germans, killing some resistants and letting others go; six months in jail for being with others who distributed bulletins of BBC broadcasts; release for no reason; problems between rescuers and hidden Jews due to living in very close quarters; religious faith helping her deal with constant fear; killing t...

  4. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of twelve children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending school; a local priest and teacher taking an interest in him; continuing school in Banská Bystrica; persecution of Romanies after the formation of the Slovak state; forced labor with his father building roads under harsh conditions; threat of deportation by the Hlinka guard; commiserating with the Jews; observing their deportations; his family hiding a Jewish girl; her discovery; joining the partisans; b...

  5. Cipa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antis...

  6. Heinz W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz W., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1920, the second of three sons. He recounts his father's World War I service in the Russian army and capture in Germany as a prisoner of war (he remained there and established a successful tailoring business); difficulties finding a quorum for his bar mitzvah due to laws against Jews gathering together; his father's trip to Palestine in 1934, then sending his older brother to school there; antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school and an electrician's apprenticeship due to anti-Jewish laws; reluctantly jo...

  7. Estera K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Estera K., who was born in what was to become Poland in 1915. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; trying to persuade her family to emigrate (they had lived there for generations); joining a cousin in the Netherlands; enjoying the lack of antisemitism; receiving mail from her mother until 1941; deciding to go into hiding when ordered to report to Westerbork; hiding with her husband's non-Jewish friends in the Hague; placing her two-year-old son elsewhere; visiting him occasionally; moving several times; obtaining false papers from the underground; reunion with her son ...

  8. Zlata G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in...

  9. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1924. Mr. R. recalls his childhood in a predominantly Chrisitian neighborhood; the outbreak of the war; his family's forced relocation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; slave labor under the Germans; the liquidation of much of the ?o?dz? ghetto and the resulting formation of the small ghetto; sneaking food to his parents in hiding; the death of his sister; the Jewish police; and his father's death in a mass shooting. He describes his evacuation in September 1944 to Cze?stochowa; slave labor in a bullet factory; liberatio...

  10. Georges J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges J., who was born in 1927. He recalls growing up among extended family in Oradea, Romania; Hungarian occupation; little impact on his family from anti-Jewish laws; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau in May; selection for labor with his father (he never saw his mother and brother again); their transfer to Buchenwald, then a nearby camp; forced labor in a petrol factory; sharing extra potatoes with other prisoners; their return to Buchenwald; separation from his father (he never saw him again); posing as a Russia...

  11. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1926. He recounts his parents' and their siblings' emigration from Poland during World War I; speaking Yiddish at home; a priest espousing antisemitic ideas during religious instruction in public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Revelles, France; after three months, round-up with other non-citizens in Cape la Hague for six months; internment in Rivesaltes; release in February 1942 due to his Parisian aunt's bribes; returning from Vierzon to Brussels, using false papers; his sister's deportation (he neve...

  12. Trude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trude S., who was born in Gmunden, Austria in 1929. She recalls being ordered to leave Gmunden a day after the Anschluss; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; living with relatives in Vienna; her father's release based on his promise to emigrate; his departure for Italy (she never saw him again); briefly living in an orphanage; her sister's emigration to Palestine; deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in 1941; her mother's death in 1943; a man from the orphanage delaying her deportation to Auschwitz by almost a year; deportation to Auschwitz in late 1944...

  13. Oscar F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland to a family of seven children. He recounts Soviet occupation at the outbreak of war; German invasion in 1941; his oldest brother's draft into the Soviet army (they never saw him again); hiding with his brother to avoid round-ups; escaping to the woods with his brother after his family was taken into the ghetto; joining a group of Jews; digging bunkers in various locations; avoiding Ukrainian partisans who killed the Jews in hiding; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; traveling with Soviet troops to Buchach; fleeing wit...

  14. John L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John L., who was born in 1925 and served with the United States Army 45th Infantry Division in World War II. He recalls participating in several major battles; approaching Dachau on April 29, 1945; railroad cars overflowing with emaciated corpses outside the camp; the soldiers' responses, including silence, disbelief, tears, and anger; capturing Wehrmacht and SS troops; observing inmates killing German guards; "ghostlike" inmates emerging from barracks; piles of dead bodies; the sickening stench; and advancing toward Munich the next day. Mr. L. notes he was totally un...

  15. Hanoch V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanoch V., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1920, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; working in a leather store; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair (Abba Kovner was his group's leader); Lithuanian independence; fleeing briefly to relatives in Lida and Maladzechna; returning home; German invasion; killing of Jews; fleeing to Ashmi︠a︡ny; returning when he was caught; ghettoization; forced labor in a dairy factory; smuggling food; obtaining a pistol; participating in the organiz...

  17. Nina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina K., a non-Jew, who was born in 1923 in Malines (Mechelen), Belgium. She describes involvement with the Resistance from the beginning of the war; working as a courier between Brussels and Malines; arrest in June 1942; imprisonment in Antwerp for six weeks; transfer to Aachen, then Essen; sabotaging her assigned work; discussing survival strategies with friends; transfer to Zweibru?cken, then Esterwegen; her trial; being sentenced to forced labor; transfer to Gross Strehlitz; an aborted escape attempt with a friend; being helped in solitary confinement by a friend'...

  18. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Martin S., whose first testimony was recorded in 1986. Mr. S. notes his first testimony was primarily for his children; hope that future scholars can discover the basis for extreme cruelty; meaninglessness of time in concentration camps; being kept alive in Skarz?ysko as a model factory worker because he ran so many machines at once; an SS officer saving his mother and brother to reward him, but randomly killing others; believing "they made an animal out of" him which still governs much of his present behavior; becoming completely introverted, ob...

  19. Renee G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renee G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy youth; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in bunkers; her parents' deportation to Treblinka in 1940; living with her brother and posing as his wife; hiding in a chimney during a round-up; her brother's arrest; joining the underground; arrest with her sister while hiding in a bunker following the Warsaw ghetto uprising; two days on the Umschlagplatz followed by deportation with her sister to Majdanek; slave labor and selections; transport to a HASAG ammunition factory, then to Leipzig at the en...

  20. Girsh K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Girsh K., who was born in Minsk, Russia in 1914, the fourth of seven children. He recounts his family moving to Moscow in 1916 to avoid the German invasion; returning to Minsk in 1918; hardships under German and Polish invasions; attending a Jewish school; Soviet elimination of Jewish cultural and religious institutions in the 1930s; training as an engineer in Moscow; working in a shoe factory in Minsk; his brothers serving in the military; German occupation; ghettoization with his parents and sisters; round-up of all Jewish men; a mass shooting of all professionals i...