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  1. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1932. She tells of her mother's marriage, against her parents' wishes, to a non-Jew who converted to Judaism; her mother's father living with them after her grandmother's death; a close relationship with her grandfather; her mother and grandfather having to wear the yellow star after German invasion; continuing to attend school as a non-Jew; her grandfather being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her mother going into hiding; her mother's deportation in 1943; hiding her cousin in her house; her father threateni...

  2. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Velykyi? Bereznyi?, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. B. speaks of her early family life; her Orthodox upbringing; and the absence of prewar Czech antisemitism. She recalls the effects of the Hungarian occupation in 1939, including anti-Jewish regulations and a Jewish census in 1942; and continued Czech benevolence under Hungarian rule. She recounts the German occupation, during which she had to hide; the rumor-filled environment of Passover in 1944; the round-up of the town's Jews in a synagogue; and her deportation with her...

  3. Anne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne B., who was born in Rexingen, Germany in 1931, the elder of two children. She recounts her mother confining them to their home on Kristallnacht; viewing the destroyed synagogue the next day; expulsion from school; her father's arrest; his return from Dachau four weeks later; expulsion from their home in 1939; a German woman who helped them obtain food; living with her grandparents; her father obtaining documents for him and her mother to emigrate to the United States; her mother's arrest in 1940; her release, conditional upon her leaving Germany within four days;...

  4. Edward H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Sevlus?, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in approximately 1930. He recounts his father being sent for forced labor in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization with his mother and extended family; deportation by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to German soldiers in Kos?ice; arrival at Auschwitz in April; selection with his brother for work; volunteering for transfer (his brother did not, wanting to stay with an uncle); train transport three weeks later to Dyhernfurth; slave labor; his father's best friend "watching over" him; ...

  5. Clara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara S., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine). She recalls her father's Zionist beliefs; attending a Zionist Hebrew school; Hungarian occupation; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1938; hiding in Budapest with her family in 1941; returning to Uz?horod; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family upon arrival; transfer to Ri?ga with her friends; slave labor on a farm; recovering from typhus with assistance from her friend's sister; transfer to Stutthof in December 19...

  6. Viola G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viola G., who was born in Kosyny, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921, one of four children. She recalls attending Hungarian and Czech schools, then Hebrew gymnasium in Mukacheve; her parents joining her; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; assistance from neighbors; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her sister from her family (she never saw her parents again); assistance from a friend; slave labor digging ditches in a nearby area; receiving extra food and medication from civilian w...

  7. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in 1924, the youngest of eight children. He recounts living in Miecho?w, Poland; his family's orthodoxy and Zionism; recovering from polio in 1935; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in 1941; the role of the Judenrat; forced labor making German uniforms; smuggling out to get food; round-up to a train in 1942; a Polish neighbor bringing him water; he and two brothers arriving at Prokocim; slave labor; transfer with one brother to P?aszo?w, Oskar Schindler's factory, Wieliezka, then ba...

  8. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1912. He recalls his family's long history in Holland; holiday and Sabbath observances; their Zionist affiliations; meeting his first wife at Mizrachi summer camp; believing events in Germany would not impact them; German invasion in May 1940; his mother's non-Jewish friends offering to hide them; marriage; round-ups; constant fear; being caught and released in 1942; assistance from his non-Jewish boss; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; learning his parents had just been deported east (he never saw them again); ...

  9. Minna D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Minna D., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916. She recalls going to Paris to study; her marriage; moving to Montpellier; completing her studies; her husband being drafted into the French army in September 1939; and her employment in a government office. She describes joining the Maquis; working as a Maquis courier; receiving equipment by parachute from the Free French; deciding not to wear the yellow star; changing her name, living under false papers, and attending church; Maquis sabotage against the Germans; several episodes in which she was almost caught by the G...

  10. Blanche C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Blanche C., who was born in Oster, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1906, one of six children in a wealthy family. She recalls attending gymnasium; graduating from nursing school; cordial relations with non-Jews; marriage in 1929; traveling with her husband in Italy and France; her brother-in-law's role as an attorney in the Beilis trial; the births of three children; German invasion in 1941; her husband dying of a heart attack when the Germans entered their home; escaping from a mass killing with her two year old daughter (the rest of her family was killed); forced labo...

  11. Alexander R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending an orthodox school; pervasive antisemitism; his family's relative affluence; German invasion; briefly moving to Opato?w; a mass shooting which included his father; ghettoization; small favors from H?ayim Rumkowski due to his father's killing; slave labor in a clothing factory; his mother and brother being taken in the round-up of the children; joining them with his sister; their escape; hiding during subsequent round-ups; his mother and brother being listed for deportation; using their influenc...

  12. Yehuda B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda B., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; summers with his family in Birštonas and Panemunė; attending Lithuanian school; participating in Betar; Soviet occupation in 1940; attending a Soviet camp in Palanga in 1941; German invasion; separation of the Jewish and non-Jewish children; confinement of the Jews in a synagogue; abuse and beatings by Lithuanians; return to Kaunus with the other Jewish children; his parents taking a boy whose parents had fled east; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization...

  13. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1939. She recounts her father going to France before her birth; German invasion in September 1939; memories of the Warsaw ghetto; being smuggled into a convent; a non-Jew helping her mother escape a month later; refusing to eat and sadness because she missed her mother; finding comfort in Catholicism; her mother's arrival six months before war's end (she had been hiding in the woods); recovering from a serious illness; feeling privileged because she had a mother; their move to Warsaw; meeting her future stepfather; moving to...

  14. Lee R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lee R., who was born in Olkusz, Poland, in 1905. He recalls his prewar life and speaks of the rise of antisemitism before the war. He relates his separation from his wife and small son when the Jewish men of Olkusz were sent to Katowice and from there to Siberia, where he remained from 1939 until 1945. He describes his return to Olkusz after the war, where he learned that the rumors of the murders of his wife and son were true; and he tells how, upon his return, he made arrangements for the restoration of the cemetery, which had been vandalized. Though he appears to b...

  15. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1912, one of four children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-1758), he recounts postwar hospitalization for typhus; traveling to Trier and Hannover; return to the Netherlands; marriage; and encountering antisemitism. Mr. P. discusses the deaths of many relatives and his strong will to survive in the camps. He shows photographs, documents, and the yellow star he wore.

  16. Larry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry G., who was born in Kozyany, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1928, one of five children. He recounts his father's tailor shop; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Tarbut school, then Catholic school; Soviet invasion; collectivization of his father's store; German invasion; a mass killing; escaping a round-up with his family and others; hiding in an abandoned mill; escaping deeper into the forest when they were discovered; his older brother and sister joining the partisans; stealing food and supplies from farmers; standing guard; constructing bunkers; foragi...

  17. Hannah T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah T., who was born in Halberstadt, Germany in approximately 1922. She recalls her father's death; moving to Hannover in 1933; living with her maternal grandfather; his orthodoxy; attending pubic school; expulsion as a Jew in 1936; living in an orphanage in Hamburg for a year; learning domestic skills and English; working at a resort outside Hamburg; her brother's emigration to the United States; learning of Kristallnacht through the media; returning home; working as a maid, then in a knitting company; assistance from some non-Jews; the outbreak of war; receiving ...

  18. Elisabeth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth F., a Catholic, who was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest w...

  19. Moussa and Odette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moussa and Odette A. whose individual testimonies were previously recorded. Mr. A. describes the uncertain situation in Nice; meeting Bishop Paul Re?mond through Gustave Cohen; Odette joining him in November 1941; their futile attempt to flee to the United States; observing a Milice beating a Jewish woman in front of her child in April 1942; determining to help save such Jewish children; benign Italian occupation; obtaining ration cards with assistance from two Vichy officials to support Jews in hiding; acquiring false papers for themselves; assistance from Bishop Re?...

  20. Yehuda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda M., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1914, the only child of an eighth generation Dutch-Jewish family. He recalls moving to Hilversum at age fourteen; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, then Betar; working in steel production; enlisting in the Dutch military; marriage in Rotterdam in 1940; capitulation to Germany; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; living as non-Jews; working with the underground to hide other Jews; his mother's death in Eindhoven; her Christian funeral; being shot when fleeing f...