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  1. Sidonia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidona B., who was born in 1924 in Ca?ra?s?eu, Romania, one of eight children. She recounts her family was Hasidic; her father serving as a shoh?et; attending public school; working on the family farm; delivering kosher butter to Satu Mare; her sister's marriage in 1937; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; round-up, then transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; remaining with two sisters after selection (she never saw the rest of her family again); slave labor with two Czech women; d...

  2. Morris R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in a village near Krosno; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Russia; deportation to the Krosno ghetto; his father's death from a beating; transfer to Rzeszo?w labor camp; escaping with his mother back to the Krosno ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w (he never saw his mother again); slave labor in a shoe factory; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk one month later; slave labor digging tunnels; a death march to Ebensee in 1945; Allied bombings; liberati...

  3. Fenya B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fenya B., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1932. She describes hiding from bombardments in catacombs during the German invasion; evacuation with her mother, brother, and aunt to Novorossii?sk; living for a month in Krasnodarskii? krai?; renting an apartment in Makhachkala; traveling to Tajikistan; living for six months near the Afghanistan border; traveling to live with her grandparents in Krasnoarme?isk; and returning to Odesa in 1944. Mrs. B. recalls attending school; marriage; the birth of her sons; and emigration to the United States.

  4. Ferdinand B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ferdinand B., who was born in Sec̆ovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending the local school; cordial relations with non-Jews; receiving religious instruction with his brother from a tutor; the whole town attending his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish restrictions after Slovak independence; pervasive presence of Hlinka Guards; draft into the forced labor Sixth Battalion; working in tunnels in several locations, including Sabinov; being moved to Humenné, then Svätý Jur; remaining with a group from S...

  5. Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in Poland in 1927 and grew up in ?o?dz?. She recalls her happy youth as the eldest of six children; German invasion; a public hanging; transport with her father and siblings to Krako?w; smuggling themselves back to ?o?dz? to rejoin Mrs. K.'s mother; ghettoization; hiding during deportations; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and youngest siblings; hearing her father was alive; transfer twelve days later with two sister to Stutthof; frequent deaths including one sister's; a death march in February...

  6. Martin B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin B., who was born in Za?luzs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He describes his family farm; their orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; deportation to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; briefly staying with his father; transfer as a slave laborer to coal mines; the death march to Gliwice; assistance from a prisoner when he could not walk; train transport to Nordhausen; forced labor in a V2 factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; some prisoners taking revenge; leaving with friends; replacing thei...

  7. Charles B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles B., who was drafted into the United States military in 1941. He recalls attending officer's training school; fighting in Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany; liberating Ohrdruf as part of the 89th Division; total lack of preparation for encountering a concentration camp; smelling it for two days prior to arrival; stacks of corpses; his strong physical response; liberating Weimar and Zwickau; former prisoners and U.S. troops killing German guards; assisting emaciated prisoners; and later interrogating German POWs.

  8. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., a well-known writer, who was born in Tunisia in 1920 to a family of eight children. He recounts the influence of his father's rigor and his mother's laughter, dancing, and singing; speaking Judeo-Arabic; his diverse neighborhood; joining a Marxist youth group that included Arabs and Jews at age twelve; attending a Jewish school which exposed him to French culture; German occupation in November 1942; his uncle being taken hostage; executions and rapes; a German officer forcing his father to make a bag from a piece of Torah scroll; forced labor in concentrati...

  9. Erika J. and Marvina E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marvina E. and her daughter, Erika J., who were born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1901 and 1928. They recall their sense of Hungarian identity; faith in the Horthy regime; disbelief that events in Germany and Poland would affect them; and German invasion in March 1944. Mrs. J. describes prewar antisemitic incidents; her uncles' draft into Hungarian labor battalions; German occupation; her brother's draft; ghettoization; confinement with her parents in a brick factory; her revulsion at the lack of sanitation; her grandfather's arrival; helping sick people and children; separ...

  10. Sarah M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah M., who was born in Dereczyn, Poland (now Derechin, Belarus) in 1926, the fifth of eight children. She recounts her father's emigration to Paris in 1932; the family joining him in 1937; their poverty; difficulties as foreigners; German invasion; being harassed when wearing the required yellow star; her mother's arrest, imprisonment in Drancy, and release; and her mother separately hiding her children, hoping some would survive. Mrs. M. recalls working in a village until 1942 (everyone knew she was Jewish and assisted her); returning to her parents who were hidin...

  11. David R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1925, the youngest of thirteen children. He recalls antisemitic violence; two siblings emigrating to the United States; German invasion; his father obtaining false papers for him; obtaining food for his family; the family's move to Szyd?owiec; smuggling goods to the Krako?w ghetto; traveling to Warsaw; briefly staying in a monastery; a failed bribery attempt to obtain one brother's release from a labor camp; escaping the liquidation of Szyd?owiec (he never saw his family again); witnessing deportation trains; traveling to t...

  12. Erich L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erich L., who was born in Ostrava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1911, one of four children. He recounts attending German school; his father's death when he was nine; studying to be a window decorator, then working in 1930 as a decorative painter in Hamburg; experiencing antisemitism there; returning to Ostrava; working as a poster painter; participating in Tehelet-Lavan; military service; his uncle's emigration to Palestine; meeting his wife in 1934; marriage in Andrychów (her hometown) in 1937; his mother's deportation to Poland in 1938; m...

  13. Regina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls the family move to Aleksandro?w Kujawski; the successful family business; their affluent and happy life; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization in 1940; her father's and sister's deportation; her mother's and brother's deportation; going to Mila 18 in 1942 and discovering her grandmother and siblings, who had been hiding; hiding in a bunker; discovery and deportation to Majdanek with her sister; their transfer to Auschwitz; a guard allowing her sister to remain with her...

  14. Edo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edo S., who was born in Avtovac, Yugoslavia in 1922. He recounts moving to Sarajevo as an infant; his father's death in 1932; arrest by Ustaša in August 1941 for communist activities; imprisonment with his older brother; their transfer to Jasenovac; starvation; sadistic mass killings; a privileged position as a locksmith; brief assignment digging mass graves; witnessing his younger brother's murder with a hammer blow, people burned alive in the crematorium, and cannibalism; sham improvements for international commission visits; transfer to Fericanci via Osijek, where...

  15. Mira R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recounts her family's relative affluence; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her father and brother fleeing east; not being able to join them because she was ill; their return; ghettoization; a round-up on August 14, 1942; her mother sending her to the infirmary at the Umschlagplatz, thinking she could escape; later going to her father's workplace; finding him (her mother and brother were deported to Treblinka); her father arranging several futile attempts to hide her with non-Jews outside the ghetto; hiding d...

  16. Sophie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie W., who was born in Liège, Belgium in 1928, the daughter of Polish immigrants. She recounts her father's ethnic, rather than religious Jewish identity; his participation in Jewish leftist organizations; attending primary and high school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family; her father's return to Liège after three months; she and her mother living with relatives in Bergerac for another three months; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; her teachers' sympathetic response; her father's arrest as a Belgian whi...

  17. Gaston S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gaston S., who was born in Metz, France in 1933. He recalls his mother's death in 1938, his father's remarriage in 1939; fleeing to Angoule?me at the outbreak of war with his sister, father and stepmother; learning of round-ups and deportations in Paris which included family members; living in Montbrun, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Tho?nes, and Charavines-les-Bains; hiding during raids on local resistants and the Maquis; and his brother's birth while in Tho?nes. Mr. S. describes fleeing to Aix-le-Bain in March 1944; being left there with his sister; crossing the Swiss border; ...

  18. Regina W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1903, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death in 1904; her family's poverty; working for her aunt; marriage to a shoemaker; the deaths of one sister and her mother; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Grodno; deportation to Kazakhstan; her husband's forced labor cutting trees, then in a brick factory; his transfer to Arkhangel?sk; sending him food, then joining him; deportation to Siberia; her husband's work in a coal mine; their repatriation to ?o?dz? in 1945; traveling to Germany; reunion with a neph...

  19. Olga S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to a non-Jewish father and Jewish mother. She recounts being baptized; she and her mother being beaten by a Nazi "Brownshirt" (SA) in 1932; several forced relocations because her mother was Jewish; her mother's arrest and release six weeks later; briefly staying with her mother's relatives in Poland; their return to Berlin; her father's dismissal from the police force due to the Nuremberg laws; attending school with the school director's help; her father rejecting offers of emigration for her and her brother so the fami...

  20. B. family Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of the B. family: Lorna B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland; her husband Max, who was born in ?o?dz? in 1914; and their daughter Ruth and son Teddy, who were born after the war and speak only occasionally. Mr. B. remembers eluding the Russians after the outbreak of the war; living in the ?o?dz? ghetto until 1940, when he was taken with the first labor transport to build roads; the liquidation of his labor camp and his two years of work in an I. G. Farben synthetic rubber factory under the jurisdiction of Auschwitz; and the death march from there to Gleiwitz, from where he...