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  1. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919, the youngest of six children. She recounts her family's move to Brussels in 1923; her happy childhood; their assimilated lifestyle; working in her father's business from age thirteen; one brother's emigration to Lyon; becoming more religious after marriage to an orthodox man in 1937; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to Paris, then Buzet; one brother fleeing to England; returning to Brussels a year later; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; she and her husband hiding with a family in...

  2. Bernice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice S. who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1923. She recalls her traditional orthodox family; Russian occupation; her father losing his job; her brother's arrest and exile to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto for a German who protected her (he was honored as a "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem); formation of an underground; and deportation to Majdanek, then Bliz?yn. Mrs. S. decribes transfer to Auschwitz; the death march to P?aszo?w, Gross Rosen and Ravensbru?ck in 1945; release of the prisoners; wandering through Germa...

  3. Tomaš S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tomaš S., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Slovak school; Hungarian occupation; transfer to a Hungarian school; loss of his father's factory; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in March 1944; their exemption from deportation due to his father's World War I service and false claim to a particular medal; his father and sister bringing soup to those rounded-up for deportation; visiting Streda nad Bodrogom and Budapest with his family; apprenticing ...

  4. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's assimilated life and strong German identity; his father's service in World War I; experiencing bombardments during the First World War; playing field hockey in London, Paris, and Berlin; rejection from Germany's Olympic field hockey team in 1936 and law school due to antisemitism; emigrating to the United States in 1936 after bribing an official for a visa; sponsoring his sister's and brother's emigration; his parents' arrival; volunteering for military service in 1942; marriage in 1943; serv...

  5. Ela L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ela L. who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in approximately 1924. She recounts German invasion; wearing the yellow armband and forced labor clearing rubble; Germans killing 100 Jews as retribution, including her grandfather; non-Jewish friends hiding her father; obtaining false papers; traveling by train with her parents and sister to the Toplice region in November 1941; living in Kurs?umlija; assistance from non-Jews; leaving in 1942 when Germans were approaching; living in a village with a Serb for more than a year; leaving when warned the Gestapo knew of them; fle...

  6. Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a r...

  7. Eva Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes feeling both Hungarian and Jewish before the outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; living in a house designated for Jews; hiding under false papers in Budapest during a round-up; working at a munitions factory; arrest during a round-up in November 1944; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; working at the factory; witnessing a childbirth and the Germans killing the mother and her baby; liberation by United States troops; her emotional reunion with her parents in Budapest (they did not know she had survived); ...

  8. Buntea C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Buntea C., who was born in Soroca, Russia (presently Moldova) in 1911, one of five children. She recounts fleeing a pogrom with her family when she was six; Romanian occupation after World War I; one brother moving to the Soviet Union; her arrest at sixteen for communist associations; her father obtaining her release through a bribe; expulsion from school; emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1929; visiting her parents for two weeks prior to their emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university and working in factory; particip...

  9. Chaim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in ?omz?a, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a sp...

  10. Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in 1923 in Odrzywo??, Poland, the fifth of nine children. She recounts antisemitic violence leading to their moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; ghettoization; her parents returning to Odrzywo?? with her four younger siblings (she never saw them again); one brother escaping; another dying from physical exhaustion; working as a tailor; marriage in 1943; pregnancy; giving birth prematurely (the baby was not alive) which resulted in illness; her sister's deportation; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation of ...

  11. Anna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in B...

  12. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1923. He recalls his intellectual home life; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1931; his mother's emotional breakdown; living with a family in Berlin while she recovered; returning to her; beatings by Hitler Youth; their emigration to Italy, then Palestine; living with foster parents so his mother could earn a living; his emigration to New York in 1938 to join his mother's sister; attending Columbia; his mother's suicide in Palestine; being drafted into the United States Army; training as an intelligence in...

  13. Jeanette E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette E., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; attending boarding school in Cze?stochowa; German invasion; confiscation of her father's coal mine; moving to the Zawiercie ghetto; forced labor with her sister in a camp; joining her family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; forced labor in the Be?dzin ghetto; obtaining false papers; hiding during a round-up; escaping to the Kamionka ghetto; being hidden by her future husband; their escape with help from the underground; hiding in bunkers; being smuggled to Hungary with help from Poles a...

  14. Suzanne N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her comfortable, assimilated family; her father's law practice; the outbreak of war; an influx of Jewish refugees; a non-Jewish doctor helping her father avoid service in a forced labor battalion; deportations of Jewish, non-Hungarian citizens; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; her father obtaining false papers for them; hiding in a client's apartment; Allied bombings; moving to the basement; her father's murder on January 3, 1945 when he was searching for a safer place; moving with her ...

  15. Rachel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel B., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1925. Mrs. B. recalls the strong Hasidic influence in the town; attending services with her father; her older sisters' involvement in Mizrachi and Betar; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation of her sister's two-year-old child; her father arranging hiding places for them; being selected (due to a bribe by her father) to remain behind with a group to clean the ghetto after the last deportation; being sent for by her sister; hiding in a barn with her sister's in-laws, with assistance from non-Jews; her sister's death i...

  16. Jack W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack W., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Czechoslozakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1927, one of eleven children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; his father's and older brother's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; his father's release; German invasion; deportation with his family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in May 1944, then to Auschwitz six weeks later; selection for work with his father (his mother and younger siblings were killed); briefly seeing two older sisters; praying secretly daily; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager...

  17. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Mielec, Poland in 1921 and raised in Jarosław. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; emigration to Brussels at age nine; no discrimination; assisting German-Jewish refugees; German invasion; leaving for France with his parents and brother; living in Bordeaux; fleeing to Montpellier upon German arrival; moving to Agde; his father's return to Belgium and subsequent deportation in 1942 (they never saw him again); joining Mouvement des jeunesses sionistes; organizing escapes for Jews to the free zone; being warned of his own arrest;...

  18. Molly I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly I., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1920. She recalls marriage at age seventeen; her daughter's birth a year later; German occupation in 1941; her husband's murder; ghettoization; frequent round-ups; escaping a mass killing with help from her father-in-law; volunteering for deportation to Estonia to save her daughter when the children were to be liquidated; escaping from the train; sneaking into a camp since she could not obtain food; continued efforts to save her daughter in Vaivara and Ereda with help from her father-in-law; witnessing atrocities by Helmut Sc...

  19. John P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931. He recounts attending school; visiting his large extended family; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in March 1944; their building's designation as a yellow-star house; his father's deportation to a labor camp; his last visit before deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother obtaining Swedish papers; relocating to a safe house in November; he and his mother escaping from a round-up; returning to the safe house; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with a few surviving aun...

  20. Odette J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette J., who was born to Polish immigrants in Paris, France in 1923, the middle of three children. She recalls her close and happy family; centering their life on the Bund; attending Bund youth group (S.K.I.F.) camps and gatherings, including one in Brighton, England; aiding Polish refugees in La Rochelle; returning to Paris with her family in 1940; losing her citizenship in 1941; hiding with a non-Jewish neighbor during the July 1942 round-up, later with another family; moving to the unoccupied zone with Bund help; living with her brother in Lyon, Dax, Pau, Bordeau...