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  1. Rosalyn O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalyn O., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1925. She recalls her comfortable childhood; being taunted by non-Jewish students; her father reporting for army duty after the outbreak of war; his capture and imprisonment in a camp near Ostende, Belgium; and her mother's belief that as a POW's wife she was protected by the Geneva Convention. She describes the requisitioning of part of their apartment for a "decent" German couple; moving to the Krako?w ghetto; her mother's and two aunts' deportation in 1942; her transport to P?aszo?w in January 1943; witnessing executi...

  2. Lili I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lili I., who was born in Pribeni?k, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls a comfortable and happy life as one of five children; Hungarian occupation in 1938; cancellation of her father's business license; her brother's conscription for forced labor; transfer to Sa?toraljau?jhely for six weeks; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her parents, whom she never saw again; selection of one sister for gassing; transport five months later to Lichtwerden-Freudenthal with another sister; work in a military uniform factory; kindness from civilian German workers; a Jewish docto...

  3. Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in 1909, one of six children. He recounts moving from Radomys?l Wielki to work in Krako?w; starting a shirt factory; anti-Jewish boycotts; draft into the Polish military; German invasion; being wounded and captured; escaping; returning to his family home in Radomys?l Wielki; brief arrest in Tarno?w while smuggling food; ghettoization in Radomys?l Wielki; hiding with his family in the forest during a round-up; walking to the De?bica ghetto; bribing the Judenrat to obtain documents so they could remain; slave labor on a railroad; transfer with his...

  4. Vera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera B., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922, the oldest of six children. She describes the German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving with her family into the ghetto; hiding her father during round-ups; mass killings on the ghetto streets on March 2, 1942, when hospitals and orphanages were liquidated; forced labor in a laundry outside of the ghetto; returning to the ghetto after a round-up on July 28, 1942 to learn her entire family was taken (later she learned they were killed in Maly Trostinec); the arrival of transports of German Jews after local Jews...

  5. Lisa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa C., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1922, the youngest of four children. She recalls a large and close extended family; observing Jewish holidays; attending public school; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school from 1939 until German invasion in June 1941; fleeing east; German troops overtaking them in Stolbt︠s︡y (Stoŭbtsy); bringing food and water to captured Soviet POWs; traveling with her siblings and their families to Baranovichy, Slonim, then Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; returning to Grodno in November; ghettoization; hiding during rou...

  6. Andre M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre M., who was born in Paris, France in 1931, the second of four children, to Polish immigrants. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's military service; German invasion; his father's return; anti-Jewish regulations; support from friends and teachers; his father's arrest and acquittal (they did not know he was Jewish); his father moving to unoccupied France, thinking it safer; being smuggled with two siblings to Mont-de-Marsan, then Grenade-sur-l'Adour; reunion with their father and sister in Pau; their mother joining them; German occupation of th...

  7. Shlomo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo K., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending a Bund school; joining Hashomer Hatzair, in spite of his family's and school's Bundist beliefs; completing school in 1939; joining a Hashomer hachsharah in Kalisz; German invasion; fleeing with his group to Łódź, Warsaw, then returning home; Soviet occupation; attending a Jewish technical school; clandestine Hashomer activities led by Abba Kovner; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and killings; ghettoization; forced labor w...

  8. Nathan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan G., who was born in Guttenberg, New Jersey in 1913. He recalls growing up in a liberal orthodox home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis; active participation in labor Zionist organizations including editing "Jewish Frontier"; visiting Israel and Europe in 1938; speaking publicly in the United States about the Nazi danger; induction into the Army in 1943; one year's training in Mississippi; landing in Marseille in December 1944; moving through France into Germany; encountering a train of prisoners who had been headed for Dachau; visiting Buchenwald in May 1945; talking...

  9. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., a non-Jew, who was born in Weissenstadt, Germany in 1927. He recalls being impressed by a torchlight parade for a relative who was a leader in the SA; membership in the Hitler Jugend; attending gymnasium in Wunsiedel; relatives in California wanting to adopt him; rumors of Kristallnacht (there were no Jews in his town); a teacher who was a high ranking SA member; propaganda which aroused pro-war, anti-American sentiments; emphasis on Hitler's life and greatness; his American aunt arranging for his emigration; being unable to leave after war broke out; his h...

  10. Peter V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter V., who was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, an only child. He recalls his father's position as a bank director; his family observing major Jewish holidays within their assimilated lifestyle; attending an orthodox day school; participating in Zionist youth groups; establishment of the Slovak state; anti-Jewish laws preventing his entry to public school and expulsion from their house; deportations beginning in 1942; their official exemption due to his father's expertise; recognizing that the arrival of Germans in 1944 imperiled them; hi...

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  12. Matilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matilda Z., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1926, the third of six children. She describes her father's death in 1937; their subsequent impoverishment; support from relatives and the Ashkenazi community; their home being bombed in April 1941; living with relatives; anti-Jewish restrictions; going without her armband with Serbian friends; a German patrol identifying her as a Jew; forced labor washing toilets for a day; another older brother being shot in a mass killing; another older brother being caught and killed in 1942; orders for her family to report to th...

  13. Benjamin J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin J., who was born in Dobra, Poland in 1919, the youngest of three children. He recalls antisemitic harassment; attending one year of dental school; German invasion; ghettoization; assistance from a few Polish friends; deportation with his father in 1941 to Poznan?; slave labor for Hoch und Tiefbau; receiving extra food from a Polish woman who also smuggled mail to him; a severe beating for smuggling bread; transfer with his father in 1943 to a nearby camp; public executions; assignment to the hospital as a dentist and medical assistant; learning his mother and...

  14. Chana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana B., who was born in Chop, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1931. She tells how her family and other Jews were affected by the Hungarian occupation in 1938 and, using the Jewish holidays to define her chronology, she vividly recalls her experiences of the German occupation. She also recalls her deportation, with her family to the Uz?h?horod (Ungva?r) ghetto, where she was separated from her father, and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her mother but managed to be "adopted" by a cousin, the first of many older women who cared for he...

  15. Hedy W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She recalls studying piano at the conservatory; marriage in 1928; the births of two sons; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish regulations; her husband's imprisonment in Dachau for a year; transferring funds to Switzerland; obtaining Yugoslavian papers (his parents were Yugoslavs) resulting in her husband's release; traveling via Koprivnica to Zagreb, where they remained for two years; German invasion; fleeing to Split; returning to Zagreb; obtaining Bolivian papers; crossing from Sus?ak to Abbazia (now Opatija) in Italian terri...

  16. Paulina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina R., who was born in Veškovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922, the youngest of ten children. She recalls her father was a Talmud scholar; cordial relations with non-Jews; commuting to high school in Uz︠h︡horod; Hungarian occupation; the school principal accommodating the Jewish students despite anti-Jewish laws; the draft of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; her father's death in 1940; round-up with her family to a brick factory in Uz︠h︡horod; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother and sisters' children upon arrival...

  17. Tamara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tamara K., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922 and raised in Seirijai, Lithuania. She describes her family's strong Zionist commitment; school quotas due to antisemitism; being sent to Kaunas to attend school; German invasion in 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; losing contact with her family; living with her fiance?'s parents; exemption from forced labor and receiving extra food because her fiance? was in the Jewish police; deportation to Stutthof in June 1944 (she never saw her fiance? or family again); starvation and cold leading to her wish to die; evacuation...

  18. Lily M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily M., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1924. She recalls an assimilated, affluent home; antisemitism beginning in 1935; her father losing his state job; moving to a village; her mother's death from cancer; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization with her father and sister and other relatives in Vilna; obtaining essential jobs; attending music and poetry performances; a woman who escaped mass shootings in Ponary (she went mad); singing partisan songs at work at Porobanek airfield; deportation with her aunt, sister, and cousins to Kaiserwald; s...

  19. Cela L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cela L., who was born in Kielce, Poland, circa 1932. She describes completing first grade in 1939; German invasion; her nanny leaving; ghettoization; smuggling food from Polish friends; killings during round-ups in 1942; transfer to the slave labor camp with her family; her father saving her from a children's round-up; her shame at being one of two children left alive; being hidden during roll calls; her parents' futile attempt to arrange her escape; her joy at not being separated from them; public hangings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; remaining with her mother ...

  20. Lucille M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucille M., who was born in Zboro?w, Poland (presently Zboriv, Ukraine) in 1930. She recalls Jewish communal life and Zionism; her affluent family; antisemitic harassment by children; German bombardment in 1939; Soviet occupation; confiscation of her father's business by Soviet authorities; German invasion in June 1941; her father and uncles hiding during a mass killing of Jewish men; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; having extra food and protection due to her father's membership on the Judenrat and his non-Jewish associates; incarceration in the Zboro?w labor ...