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  1. Sheima L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sheima L., who was born in Grodno, Russia (now Hrodna, Belarus) in 1912. He recalls moving to Kirovohrad when World War I began; his father's death; a pogrom; returning to Grodno (then in Poland); the deaths of two sisters; living in an orphanage with another sister; attending a Jewish boarding school; military draft; German invasion; serving in Vilnius; capture by Soviets; returning to Skidelʹ seeking his wife and daughter; their return together to Grodno; Soviet occupation; recall into the military; German invasion; capture; escape to Grodno in August 1941; ghettoiz...

  2. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Teaca, Romania in 1932. He recounts his large, extended family's orthodoxy; moving to Maros-Va?sa?rhely (Ti?rgu-Mure?s); Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization in January 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May 1944; assignment with his uncle to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); sudden disappearance of the Romanies; learning his mother had been killed; transfer to the children's camp; work assignments collecting garbage and ...

  3. Lily C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. She recalls her affluent and secular home; the Anschluss; her father's refusal to emigrate; his arrest on Kristallnacht and release due to his Czech citizenship; obtaining Hungarian citizenship; their move to Budapest in May 1940; becoming a milliner's apprentice; strained finances; German occupation; a forced move into designated Jewish housing; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); her own arrest; internment in a brick factory; starvation and exposure during a forced march; escape with two friends; hiding wi...

  4. Liliane L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liliane L., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. She recalls leftist activities; marriage; German invasion; joining the Resistance; arrest in 1941; solitary confinement in Sante?; her mother's visit, arranged by a German guard; transfer to La Roquette in March 1942, then Les Tourelles; organized solidarity among the resistants in several camps; escaping with a friend's assistance in December 1943; arrest and incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Birkenau in January; slave labor and selections; assignment to the Union Kommando, providing better food and conditions;...

  5. Piotr R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3304), Mr. R. recounts is mother giving him the family photographs to save; his German supervisor hiding him after the October 1942 mass killing and instructing him how to act as a non-Jew; marriage in 1949; the births of his children; attending a survivor conference in Warsaw in 1996; and his attempts to locate and honor the German who saved him. Mr. R. notes that only two of his five siblings survived. He shows photographs and d...

  6. Richard F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard F., who was born in approximately 1936. He recounts fleeing Warsaw with his parents when Germany invaded; his and his mother's capture by the Soviets; his father arranging their transfer to Moscow; traveling to Shanghai via Vladivostock and Kōbe; living in the French section; an Indian friend giving him a crucifix; his parents informing him for the first time that they were Jewish; attending an American then a Jewish school; Japanese invasion; attending a French-Catholic school; participating in Soviet youth activities and Betar; his father's hospitalization...

  7. Amalia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalia P., who was born in Vištuk, Czechoslovkia (presently Slovakia) in 1922, one of six children. She recounts her family's move to Modra; living with her grandfather to attend school in Hustopeče; German occupation; moving to an uncle in unoccupied Kyjov; attending gymnasium until the expulsion of Jews in 1940; returning home; her mother's death in 1940; working in Bratislava; her father arranging to have her smuggled to Hungarian-occupied Nové Zámky, then Budapest; returning home to take her brother and two sisters with her after hearing of deportations from S...

  8. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1914. He recounts his mother's death when he was five; his father's remarriage; an unpleasant childhood; moving with his family to Warsaw in 1921; working in his father's sign painting business; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; fleeing six weeks later to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; deportation to Siberia; forced labor; being allowed to leave after Germany invaded the Soviet Union; traveling to Uzbekistan; working in a produce business; learning in 1944 there were virtually no Jews left alive in Polan...

  9. Tibor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor G., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1923. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; attending public and Jewish schools; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1938, which precluded his university attendance; apprenticing to an upholsterer; German occupation in March 1944; confiscation of the family business; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in April; receiving a letter and package from his mother; a guard agreeing to accompany five of them to Budapest in December; entering what they thought was a safe house; deportation to Bergen-Belsen the nex...

  10. Ladislav T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ladislav T., a Romani, who was born in Krásna nad Hornádom, Czechoslovakia in 1923, the oldest of six children. He recalls attending two years of school; becoming a musician; supporting his family from age fourteen; Hungarian occupation; deportation with his family to Komárno; escaping to his hometown; his mother and siblings returning; his father's deportation (he never returned); public hangings of men who did not volunteer for military service; volunteering; serving in the Hlinka guard in Červená Skala; kind treatment by Soviet troops after the war; returning ...

  11. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school; his mother's death from a stroke; deportations of Jews; the family's exemption due to his father's business; moving to Nitra, thinking it safer; a Catholic man hiding his father, sister, and two brothers in his home for several months; moving to a bunker their rescuer built when it became more dangerous; liberation by Soviet troops four weeks later; returning to Bardejov; emigration to the United States in...

  12. Halina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She recalls her father's Swiss watch import business; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a former housekeeper; returning to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, posing as non-Jews using false papers; assistance from two Polish women, the Swiss counsel, and his secretary; her father helping relatives escape; moving to Podkowa Leśna, then the woods near Pruszków; hiding in a bunker; their rescuers bringing food and books; threats of exposure from the Polish underground; returning to...

  13. Gijsbertus V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gijsbertus V., a non-Jew, who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1915. He recounts attending school until age twelve; working for the Holland-America Line on ships, traveling many places; in 1939 working in a Rotterdam restaurant; German bombardment in 1940; losing his job due to the massive destruction; baptism as a Jehovah's Witness in June 1940; working as a preacher in Haarlem; arrest in Heemstede; incarceration in Scheveningen; his refusal to cease proselytizing in order to obtain his release; three months in solitary confinement; deportation to several prison...

  14. David H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David H., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1923, the ninth of ten children (four died before his birth). He recalls three years of high school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working until April 1941; briefly fleeing during German bombardment; German occupation; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; encounters with a Ustaša; a non-Jew warning them of a round-up; his brother's friend hiding him, his brother, and younger sister; his older sister, a dentist, obtaining false papers for the entire family from a patient; one brother not evadin...

  15. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Poland in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls his large, extended family; their orthodoxy; working with his father as a shoemaker; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; deportation with his father to Radom; his father being buried alive; escape home; a non-Jewish friend smuggling him into the ghetto; their forced relocation to Zwolen?; deportation to De?blin, then another camp (he never saw his family again); escaping while digging a mass grave; capture; placement in Budzyn?; public hangings; a severe beating; transfer to Majdanek...

  16. Margita D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Pusté, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, one of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; the family working for a woodsman and cleaning roads; her job as a housekeeper for their landlord; persecution and harassment by Hlinka guards; Germans burning their village; a Slovak soldier helping them to hide in a stream; villagers hiding them in their cellars; Germans rounding up those who assisted the partisans; her family bringing them food before they were killed by the Germans; helping to bury them; later ...

  17. Rosie L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosie L., who was born in Poland in 1933. She recalls growing up in Brussels; their secularism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; their flight to Lille, then a town in the Pyrenees; her father's military draft; France's surrender; her father's demobilization; returning to Brussels in August 1940 via Toulouse and Paris; antisemitic regulations; her sister's conscription for labor; being hidden with her brother on a farm; her mother retrieving them; seeing Germans near her house and assuming her parents had been taken; being sent to a Resistance member; his inabi...

  18. Perla Lina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Perla Lina K., who was born in Corfu, Greece in 1928. She recalls her wonderful youth; six months of bombing by Italy in 1940; the benign Italian occupation; German occupation in 1943; her father's decision to hide when the Germans registered all Jews; dividing the family to hide in monasteries and homes; her mother deciding that they should come out of hiding in order to be together; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; and separation from her family upon arrival (she never saw her mother again). She recounts a dog attacking her and killing her brother when he attempte...

  19. Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He describes his middle-class, orthodox family; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; helping Jews forced into the ghetto from surrounding villages; overcrowding, starvation, isolation, and deportations; refusing to believe rumors about concentration camps; working as a mechanic repairing sewing machines; his father's death from hunger; hiding his mother during round-ups; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau (he never saw her again); stealing ...

  20. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Chorzo?w, Poland in 1926, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Krako?w; deportation of his father and uncle for forced labor (they never saw them again); forced relocation to Sosnowiec; his brother's return; forced labor in a German uniform factory for two years; public executions; deportation to a labor camp (he never saw his mother and brother again); slave labor constructing roads; transfer to Graeditz, Laurahu?tte, and Chorzo?w; corresp...