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  1. Stephen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen F., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1912. He recounts his father's leaving for military service in 1914; his return four years later and death shortly thereafter; turmoil during the Nazi takeover in 1933; attending medical school; being warned to leave prior to a raid (his older sister and brother had already emigrated); an unsuccessful attempt to attend medical school in Strasbourg; studying in Amsterdam; joining his brother and sister in the United States; graduating from Harvard Medical School; getting his mother and grandparents out in 1938; ...

  2. Jacques R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques R., who was born in Paris, France in 1941. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; different versions of his experiences that he has learned from relatives (he was too young to remember); being captured; a Jewish woman taking him; his parents' deportation to Auschwitz (they were killed); his grandmother convincing the woman to let him go; living with his aunt; hiding on farms and in children's homes; his grandmother's and aunt's successful efforts to reclaim his parents' apartment after the war; living in a children's home from 1949 since his relatives...

  3. Louis H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis H., who was born in Flehingen, Germany in 1918. He recalls his family's all-embracing Jewish life prior to Hitler; expulsion from school in 1933 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's death in 1936; emigrating to Antwerp in 1936, then to the United States in March 1937 to join his sister; bringing his brother and mother to the States; enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1942; serving in France, Holland, and Belgium; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; concerns about being mistaken for a German due to his accent; combat in Germany; entering Nordhausen; shock at t...

  4. Rabbi David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi David K., who was born in Grimaylov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1903. He recalls attending cheder and yeshiva; studying in Ternopil?, Breslau (Wroc?aw), and Vilnius; receiving rabbinical ordination and a doctorate in philosophy; teaching Judaism in L'viv public schools beginning in 1929; Soviet occupation in 1939; teaching history in Yiddish; marriage and his daughter's birth; Ukrainian violence against Jews as the Soviets retreated; German occupation; public executions; working in industrial jobs; ghettoization; changes in administration of the Judenrat due ...

  5. Dori L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dori L., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1937. Dr. L. describes the large population and rich cultural life of prewar Czernowitz; the Russian occupation; his brief stay in the Czernowitz ghetto; and his deportation, along with his parents, to a camp in Transnistria in spring, 1942. He recalls the five or six months he spent in this camp, a former Russian penal colony on the Bug River known as the "stone quarry". He describes the liquidation of the camp and tells how he and his parents were spared, noting their relative freedom as "illegals" in the deserted camp...

  6. Raysa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raysa K., who was born in 1921. She recalls growing up in Kiev; marriage to a Soviet officer in February 1940; working for the Soviet army in Pryluky; German invasion; returning to Kiev in October after the mass killing at Babi Yar; observing posted notices dated September instructing Jews to assemble with warm clothing and their valuables; posing as a non-Jew using false papers; denouncement by a former housekeeper; incarceration, still as a non-Jew; forced labor; assistance from a Ukrainian policeman who recognized her; observing the brutal beatings and killing of J...

  7. Miki H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miki H., who was born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of nine children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Hebrew and Czech schools, then gymnasium in Munka?cs; membership in Betar; his father's death in 1931; Hungarian occupation followed by violent antisemitism; working in 1941 as a watchmaker in Budapest; a year later being drafted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Puspoek Ladany; transfer to Sziylagy-Falu, Hajdubo?szo?rme?ny then Nyi?regyha?za; escaping and hiding in the fall of 1943; liberation by Soviet troops; joining a Jewish...

  8. Gunter N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gunter N., who was born in Filehne, Germany (presently Weiluń, Poland) in 1913 and raised in Schneidemühl (Piła, Poland) and Berlin. He recalls his family's distinguished rabbinical lineage; attending gymnasium and university; antisemitic violence; participation in leftist organizations (SAJ, SPD, SAP); marriage in 1934; expulsion from university; continuing illegal political activities; arrest with his wife; imprisonment in Moabit and Brandenburg; restrictions on Jewish prisoners after Kristallnacht; meeting Bruno Baum; their release contingent upon leaving Germany...

  9. Dov L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov L., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1925. He recalls his family's Zionist commitment; attending Hebrew school with his twin sister; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; joining the underground; his family's deportation in October 1943; hiding with underground fighters in bunkers; escaping to partisans in the forest on March 9, 1944; relying on Z?egota for food; moving with partisans to Vilna to join Soviet troops; the killings of German collaborators after ...

  10. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911. He recalls vague memories of World War I; his father's successful lumber business; his father's death in 1929; attending Cambridge University from 1930 to 1934; visiting Palestine in 1932; his mother's emigration to France in 1934; establishing a lumber business with his brother in 1936; marriage; his brother's emigration to London in 1938; awareness of the danger for Jews due to business trips to Germany; German invasion in September 1939; escaping to Lublin with his wife and her family; assistance from Polish officers...

  11. Jacob P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob P., who was born in Viseu de Jos, Romania in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Jewish and Romanian schools; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in 1944; transfer to a ghetto in a larger town; deportation several months later with his family to Auschwitz; separation from all but one brother; transfer to Birkenau; his brother helping him; their transfer to Doernhau, Wu?stegiersdorf, and Waldenburg; separation from his brother in Flo?ssenburg; evacuation of the camp in April 1945; disappearance of the guards; and l...

  12. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in Prague in 1922. He recounts his family's strong Czech rather than Jewish identity (he was not circumcised); cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death in 1936; support from Czech friends when anti-Jewish laws were passed; his mother's suicide after he and his brother received transport notices; their transport to Theresienstadt in April 1942, then to Auschwitz in October; difficulty believing that people were being gassed; assignment to the I.G. Farben plant in Buna/Monowitz; admission to the hospital, then release; readmission; telli...

  13. Bienvenida M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bienvenida M., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918, one of five children. She recalls her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; her father's death; never attending school (she worked to help support her family); German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother, siblings, and their children (she never saw them again); slave labor demolishing nearby houses; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; wishing for death; transfer after nine months to block 10 for specious medical ex...

  14. Margit M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit M., who was born in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia in 1929 to a Jewish father and a Czech mother who had converted to Judaism. She describes her parents' concerns about growing German nationalism; German occupation in 1938; harassment at school; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; a German girl assisting them; learning her father was in Sachsenhausen; his release on Christmas; her mother agreeing to divorce him to protect them, but never following through; her father moving to Prague, thinking it safer; remaining with her mother, sister and maternal grandmother; e...

  15. Naftali W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls beatings by non-Jews; visiting grandparents in Se?dziszo?w; German invasion; returning home; his father's departure for Soviet territory; his family's return to Se?dziszo?w; incarceration in a forced labor camp; escape; his father's return; ghettoization; a round-up; selection with one brother (he never saw his family again); transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto; deportation to Mielec without his brother; a privileged position; receiving food from a German engineer and Polish civilian work...

  16. Sara B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara B., who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Mrs. B., one of nine children, tells of her youth; her observant and locally prominent parents; the sympathy of young people for communism; her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1930; marriage; and the birth of her daughter in 1933 and son in 1939. She recalls her husband's internment as a foreign Jew at Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; smuggling false papers to him; his escape in 1942 with a fellow prisoner to Sancerre in Vichy France; her own flight with their children from Paris to Sancerre; her husband's activity as ...

  17. Cecile H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile H., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1923. She recounts her father's ancestors were Moses and Felix Mendelssohn (Nazi policy categorized him as "three-quarters Jewish"); being raised as a Protestant; her father's death in 1930; not being allowed to join the female Nazi youth due to her Jewish ancestry; her half-brother and fiancé serving in the Wehrmacht (they both died); expulsion from school due to a suggestive photograph, not due to racial reasons; hospitalization in Altdorf for tuberculosis; attending university as a "guest student"; doing dissertation...

  18. Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's bir...

  19. Shlomo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recalls his father's pharmacy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; having to billet a German officer; his father's arrest and execution; transporting his body to the cemetery on a sled; ghettoization; forced labor; Rumkowski scolding his work group for supporting a strike; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer to a coal mine after two weeks; slave labor in an I.G. Farben facility; receiving extra f...

  20. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Tros?ku?nai, Lithuania in 1924. She recalls antisemitic hostility increasing in the 1930s; attending school in Paneve?z?ys; returning home for holidays; Soviet occupation; being sent to school in Kaunas; receiving a letter from home instructing her not to return after German invasion; murders and violence in Kaunas; staying with a cousin; being saved from a mass killing by a non-Jewish janitor; ghettoization; learning from escapees of mass killings in the Seventh and Ninth Forts; her future brother-in-law's escape; volunteering to go to Kaue...