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  1. Leona K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leona K., who was born in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, Poland in 1926, one of five children. She recalls her large and close extended family; antisemitic policies at school; German invasion; she and her family visiting her married sister in Warsaw; ghettoization; their return to Nowe Miasto; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto as a maid for a German family; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in November 1942; remaining with two sisters and cousins when separated from her family; slave labor digging ditches in bitter cold; carrying the dead back to camp; learning of t...

  2. Lea B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea B., who was born in Paris, France in 1931 to Polish immigrants. She recalls hearing antisemitic remarks directed at her family; her father serving in the French military when war began in 1939; his return in 1940; his detention in Beaune-la-Rolande in 1941; visiting him; his gifts of hand-carved items; finding he was not there when they visited in 1942; her mother's illness; placement with her brother in a children's home; hiding with her brother when police took all the children and staff in 1943 (no one returned); taking the subway home after everyone had left; ...

  3. Yvonne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Paris in 1933; a comfortable life in Neuilly; attending Catholic school; her parents' divorce; moving to Holland with her mother and sister in 1938 to join her grandparents and other relatives; a brief stay in Paris; return to Amsterdam; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures including compulsory wearing of the yellow star and expulsion from school; attending Jewish school; disappearances of schoolmates; her grandparents' arrest and deportation (she never saw them again); going into hi...

  4. Cecile J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile J., who was born in Anderlecht , Belgium in 1931, one of three children. She recalls moving to Woluwe?-Saint-Pierre; her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending public school; antisemitic insults; vacations in Ostend; German invasion in May 1940; briefly fleeing to Lille; memorizing addresses of relatives in the United States; expulsion from school and wearing the star; round-ups in September 1942; her parents hiding her younger brother in a sanitarium; their arrest in January 1943 when she and her older sister were not home; being hidden by neighbors, then i...

  5. Bluma B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bluma B., who was born in Warsaw (Praga), Poland in 1922. She recalls graduation from gymnasium in June 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; a Judenrat member helping her family locate living quarters; round-ups by Jewish police; streets strewn with corpses; her mother's and sister's deportation (she never saw them again); forced factory labor; living with her father at Mila 5; youth activities; surviving the big selection at the end of 1942; hiding with her father in a bunker during the winter; the Jewish uprising in 1943; being burned out; deportation to Majdanek; ...

  6. Klara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recounts attending a Jewish school; her father's medical practice; bombing of their building during German invasion marking the end of her childhood; illegally entering Soviet-occupied territory with her mother in November; living with relatives in Białystok; her father joining them in spring 1940; arrest by Soviets while illegally attempting to enter Lithuania; brief imprisonment with her mother in Lida; her father's imprisonment in Baranovichi; returning to Białystok in May; living in Slonim; attending a Soviet s...

  7. Leon Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon Z., who was born in Poland. He speaks of the German takeover in 1941; daily incidents in the ghetto such as a massacre of fifty people in the town center while an orchestra was playing; and his escape from the ghetto and hiding in the woods with his brother to avoid a round-up for deportation. He relates his later transfer to a labor camp, where he was reunited with his brother; avoiding a selection in the camp by hiding in a barrel and being spared by the Nazi who found him there; his escape from the camp back to the ghetto; and his escape from the ghetto to joi...

  8. Sophia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophia R., who was born in L?viv, Ukraine in 1941. She recounts her father's incarceration in Janowska; her mother obtaining false papers from non-Jewish friends; living as non-Jews in Zimna Voda; her father's escape and her mother hiding him in their attic without her knowledge; his emergence and being told not to reveal his presence; her sister's birth; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to L'viv; his sister's death from whooping cough at about a year old; living in Paris for five years; learning she was Jewish; emigration to the United States; and surprise at m...

  9. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Jewish school through eighth grade; his father losing his business and their landlord forcing them to move due to antisemitism; round-up to Trnava in 1940; working as a non-Jew to support his family; deportation to Sered in fall 1941; beatings by the Hlinka guard; transfer to Majdanek; encountering a cousin and his brother-in-law; volunteering as a German translator; transfer to digging anti-tank trenches, then to Auschwitz/Bir...

  10. Zyna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zyna K., the youngest of seven children. She recalls the emigrations of three siblings; her mother's death in 1939, before the war; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; a futile attempt to flee to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; mass killings and burials; and liquidation of the ghetto. Mrs. K. recounts transport to Ri?ga; working in an ammunition factory; transfer after six months by ship with her sister to Stutthof; learning of her father's death; forced labor in Torun?; a death march in 1944; and liberation. She tells of being cared for by a Jewish family in...

  11. Beatrice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls her affluent home; the Anschluss; her father's deportation to Dachau, then Buchenwald, in 1938; sending him packages; her mother liquidating their assets; purchasing her father's passage to Shanghai to obtain his release; his emigration to Shanghai (her mother followed); her mother placing her on a children's transport to Paris; pleasant conditions in a castle; German invasion; transfer to another home; receiving false papers; transfer to a girls' religious home; deportations; her breakdown after many c...

  12. Shlomo Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo Y., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. He recounts working in Hrodna; returning to Vilnius in 1937; brief Soviet occupation; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings at Ponary (he worked nearby and observed the piles of corpses, including his sister, her husband, and infant); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; sneaking out to avoid round-ups and to buy food; arrest by a German; two friends being killed when they protested his arrest; a Jewish official secur...

  13. Vladimir P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir P., who was born in Chemerivtsi, Ukraine in 1925. He recalls his father's imprisonment for "Trotskyism" from 1937 to 1939; moving to Kam'i?a?net?s??-Podil?s?kyi? ; fleeing during the German invasion in June 1941; separation from his father; returning home with his family; the arrival of Hungarian Jews; a forced march to mass graves in August; a non-Jewish neighbor assisting him to join a work group; saying goodbye to his mother, brother, and relatives (they were all murderd); escaping from a forced labor camp; posing as a non-Jew; deportation to Vienna in Mar...

  14. Peretz M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz M., who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He recounts his Yiddish background; marriage in 1938; serving in the United States army beginning in 1943; landing in Europe in August 1944; encountering concentration camp survivors near Remse, Germany in April 1945; providing food for them; speaking to them in Yiddish; compiling a list of their names; sending the list to his wife who had it published several places in New York (there was a tremendous response to it); receiving small gifts from the former prisoners; visiting his relatives in Brussels and Paris; visiting ...

  15. Dorothea A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothea A., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. She recounts her parents had emigrated from Poland; her father's service for Austria in World War I; two significantly older brothers; her father's forced return to Poland for much of her childhood, due to citizenship issues; studying piano privately, then in conservatory; the Anschluss; expulsion from conservatory due to anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of the family business; one brother's flight to England; her father's hospitalization and death in October 1938; protection by the building superintendent on Kristal...

  16. Nathan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan R., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1928, the older of two children. He recounts his aunt's emigration to Palestine in 1933; attending cheder and public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's work as a blacksmith; his bar mitzvah; attending gymnasium in Berehove; returning home after Hungarian occupation; attending a Zionist gymnasium in Mukacheve from 1942 to 1944; German invasion in March; returning home; ghettoization; his aunt's non-Jewish boyfriend smuggling food to them; his mother entrusting valua...

  17. Henry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. He recalls growing up in a large family; their poverty (his father was disabled in World War I); the day Hitler became chancellor; one sister's emigration to England; stores and synagogues being burned on Kristallnacht; forced labor in a munitions factory in 1940 and 1941; one sister's deportation with her family to Ri?ga (he never saw them again); deportation with his mother and other sisters to Theresienstadt; volunteering for forced labor in Wulkow to exempt his family from deportation out of Theresienstadt; return...

  18. Marianne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1933 and raised in Steinsfurt, where all the Jews were her relatives. She recalls her uncle's emigration to St. Louis in 1936; her father's reluctance to leave; the wanton destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau; the remaining Jews moving into her family's house for safety; receiving food from a non-Jewish tradesman; her father's release from Dachau; harassment by officials as they traveled through Germany in 1940 to leave for the United States; Italian soldiers harass...

  19. Simone G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simone G., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1931. She recounts vague memories of her parents and older brother; going to live with an aunt in Paris in 1936 (she never saw her family again); German invasion; her uncle's draft into the French military; his return; her aunt arranging to send her to an orphanage; learning her uncle had been deported; living with a family in central France, posing as a non-Jew; reunion with her aunt and uncle after liberation; living in Septeuil; returning to Paris; their emigration to the United States in 1957; marriage; and her child...

  20. Marc S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marc S., who was born in 1922 in Kielce, Poland. He recalls antisemitic incidents in his childhood; participating in Zionist activities; his grandmother and older brother emigrating to the United States; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; burying his father who was killed as a hostage; ghettoization; smuggling food which kept him from starving to death; his family's deportation in a round-up; hiding three children his brigade found; disbelief when a returned deportee reported gassing at Treblinka; deportation in 1944 to Auschwitz, then Birkenau; improved condit...