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  1. Shmuel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1926, the sixth of seven children. He describes his large, extended family, half of which were assimilated, half orthodox; his family's focus on music and humor; wonderful Sabbath dinners; his father's death in 1934; resulting pressures on his immediate family, particularly financial; his mother taking in boarders and Jewish refugees; assistance from some uncles; participating in Mizrachi; his bar mitzvah in 1939; one brother's emigration to Palestine; believing they were safe despite the war; German invasion in May...

  2. Theo Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theo Z., who was born in Kovelʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, the younger of two siblings. He recounts moving to Brussels in 1929; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning tailoring from his father after completing high school; German invasion; fleeing to Revel; delivering to customers in Toulouse; briefly being drafted into the French army in Bressuire; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; briefly hiding; deportation to Malines in August 1942; transport the next day to Cosel, Ottmuth, then Klein Mangersdorf; slave labor co...

  3. Alina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She recalls attending an ORT school; German invasion; ghettoization; hunger and round-ups; marriage in 1941; jumping from a train to Treblinka with her husband, having been warned by a Pole of their destination; hiding with a farmer; returning to Warsaw because they feared exposure; living on the Aryan side; returning to her parents in the ghetto because of blackmail threats; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; and deportation to Majdanek in May 1943 and Birkenau several months later. Mrs. Z. recalls her realization...

  4. Isak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isak S., who was born in 1916 in Thessalonike?, Greece, the oldest of four children. He recounts his family's return to S?tip when World War I ended (his family had been in S?tip for generations); working in a bank in Ljubljana; moving to Sarajevo after the war started in Yugoslavia in April 1941; Bulgarian occupation; volunteering for military service; anti-Jewish restrictions; leading an underground group in S?tip; a raid on underground members in November 1942; asking non-Jews for hiding places based on military surrounding the town; a round-up of all Jews in March...

  5. Marion F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930. She recalls her happy childhood; a summer visit to her uncle in Krako?w; antisemitic harassment by playmates; expulsion from public school; being sent to Strasbourg with her sister in January 1939 (her parents went to Frankfurt); living in a Jewish orphanage (she remained with her sister); visits from distant relatives; the outbreak of war; evacuation with the orphanage to southern France; refusing to be adopted; one year in a children's home in Arcachon; transfer to Bergerac, then an OSE children's home; police visi...

  6. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close and large, extended family; an affluent home; attending school in Sosnowiec; Zionist activities; German invasion; forced relocation; a German who opened a factory in order to help Jews; separation from her parents during a round-up; securing her parents' release; ghettoization; separation from her brother during a round-up (he later perished); her release; round-up and separation from her parents; hiding in a bunker with her sister during the ghetto's liquidation; surrendering fearing they would p...

  8. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Nemšová, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls growing up in Nová Baňa; pleasant relations with non-Jews; attending school in Levice; returning home when Hungary occupied Levice; anti-Jewish regulations after Slovakia became independent; marriage; a Hlinka Guard leader attempting to deport them with unmarried people; escaping to Budapest via Kálna with help from a Slovak farmer; living with relatives and in parks; obtaining false papers; moving frequently to avoid discovery; her parents coming to Budapest; receiving packages from school fr...

  9. Rubin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rubin P., who was born in Dyatlovo, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus). He describes his Orthodox family; attending yeshiva in Dvorets; antisemitic incidents in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish laws; a mass killing on July 15, 1941 including his parents and younger sister; ghettoization in November; Alter Dvoretski, a Judenrat leader, organizing partisans; smuggling arms into the ghetto; hiding with his older sister during a mass killing on August 6, 1942; their escape; learning Dvoretski was murdered by non-Jewish partis...

  10. Sara T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara T., who was born in Lapus, Romania in 1924. She describes her town of 1,000 with about twenty-five Jewish families; family and religious life; local antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; and subsequent antisemitic legislation and harassment by Hungarian soldiers. She recalls German occupation; transfer to a camp near Dej; receiving food and aid from peasants; transport to Ko?sice, Czechoslovakia for transfer from Hungarian to German custody; transport to Auschwitz; a last minute reprieve from the gas chamber; collecting unburned bones from a crematorium; the sustai...

  11. Jacobo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacobo B., who was born in Ma?kow Mazowiecki, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Jewish and secular schools; stoning by Polish children; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; work in a forced labor camp, then with his father in the Mako?w ghetto; transfer to the M?awa ghetto; some relatives' deportation to Treblinka; deportation to Auschwitz with his mother, father, and sister; gender separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); digging canals in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Auschwitz; hospitalization; help from a Polish doctor; r...

  12. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916, one of five children. He recalls attending a Jewish school; his large extended family; working at his family's grocery business; one sister's emigration to Israel; German occupation; forced labor; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; his sister sending him food (she was a block commander); returning to Thessalonike? after liberation; learning only he and his sister had survived the camps; reopening his family's business; his sister's emigration to join their ...

  13. Avri F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avri F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1935, an only child. He recounts his family's move back to Bratislava when he was two weeks old; his father being a respected and beloved pediatrician; observing marches of Hlinka guards; attending school until anti-Jewish laws forbade it; having to move several times; studying with five other boys in private classes; his uncle being beaten to death and his wife committing suicide; frequent visits with his aunt, Gisi Fleischmann; his parents deciding he would not wear the yellow star; walking separately from them in public w...

  14. Hanni L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanni L., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her father's strong sense of German identity (he served in World War I); her expulsion from public school in 1934; attending Jewish school; Kristallnacht; outbreak of war in 1939; her father's death in January 1940 resulting from forced labor; her forced labor at a munitions factory beginning in July 1940; reluctance to leave her mother, who was ill; her mother's death in April 1942; her grandmother's deportation in September; escaping from a round-up in 1943; non-Jewish friends placing her with anothe...

  15. Mimi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mimi O., who was born in approximately 1926. Ms. O. recalls growing up in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia; her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth organization; destruction of Jewish stores during Kristallnacht; traveling with her parents to Prague the next day; living in Koli?n; German invasion; a non-Jew deceiving Germans who wanted to arrest Ms. O.'s father; traveling on a children's transport to England; living on a Zionist organization farm; receiving letters from her family through the Red Cross; the group moving to a castle in Wales; learni...

  16. Piotr R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923, one of six children. He recounts living in Mokraya Dubrova; attending school in Lahishyn and Pinsk; his family moving to Pinsk in 1938; German invasion; Soviet occupation; one brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; brief evacuation with two brothers; a mass shooting in which two brothers were murdered; ghettoization; his German supervisor's offer to help him; liquidation of the ghetto in October 1942 (his remaining family was killed); his supervisor giving him false pa...

  17. Frieda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda S., who was born in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 1936. She recounts her family's emigration to Holland in 1935; hospitalization in Leiden for a congenital problem; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures which resulted in the postponement of her surgery; her parents arranging to hide her in the hospital in 1942 (her younger sister was hidden in a convent); with assistance from her parents' non-Jewish friend, leaving the hospital due to a Nazi doctor; placement in a convent; transfer after challenging the Mother Superior's statement that the Jews crucified Jesus; hid...

  18. Menachem S. edited testimony

    Menachem S., a child survivor relates his vivid memories of Kraków, the German occupation, and moving to the ghetto and to Płaszów concentration camp. He tells of being smuggled out of the camp and surviving as a street child from ages four to seven, with the aid of several Polish women. He reflects upon his postwar reunion with his parents, the psychological effects of his experiences, and the possible effects on his own children and the next generation.

  19. Hersch A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hersch A., who was born in Brzez?h?any, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine) in 1931. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; his father's arrest and disappearance on Yom Kippur; fleeing with his sister during an Aktion the following Yom Kippur; their capture; his escape (he never saw his sister again); ghettoization; the murder of his two other sisters; hiding with his mother and relatives in a sub-basement; escaping from the ghetto; returning again since no one would help them; and his mother's capture during another escape. Mr. A. recounts hiding ...

  20. Karol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karol P., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1931, one of seven children. He recalls summers with his paternal grandparents in Wodzisław; antisemitic harassment in public school; German invasion in 1939; round-up with his family; escaping with his sister; her deportation (none of his family survived); imprisonment; escape with assistance from a Polish inmate; entering the ghetto in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; escaping the group selected for death; a privileged assignment as a messenger; receiving a tailored uniform; assignment to the privileged prisoners'...