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  1. Agnesa U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnesa U., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. She recalls a pleasant childhood; attending a Jewish school for three years; her family convering to Protestantism, thinking it would help; hiding with a friend in Čemice, then in Bobrovček; escaping to the nearby forest in October 1944 when a neighboring village was burned (her grandmother and disabled cousin remained using false papers); being caught in December; imprisonment in Liptovský Mikuláš, Ružomberok, then deportation with her mother to Sered, and ten days lat...

  2. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R., a historian and research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Mr. R. discusses his decision in the 1970s to research the economic history of Vichy; writing his doctoral dissertation on that topic, and incorporating the study of antisemitism and collaboration; initial difficulties obtaining access to the archival material and publishing his book; changes in attitudes resulting from the trials of French collaborators in the 1980s, questions posed by those born after the war, and the changing demographic of French Jewry; open discussion...

  3. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia in 1914. He describes his family's completely assimilated life; medical studies in Prague; participation in socialist and anti-Nazi groups; German occupation in 1938; brief arrest due to his political activities; rearrest at the outbreak of war; deportation to Dachau as a Czech political prisoner; sensing he would not survive slave labor; pretending to be ill in order to remain in the hospital; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to several prisons, then to Auschwitz in 1943; volunteering to work as a doctor; transfer to ...

  4. Milan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milan K., who was born in Požarevac, Yugoslavia, one of four children. He recalls cordial relations with Serbs; moving to Belgrade in 1923; marriage to a Serbian; traveling to Sarajevo, intending to emigrate; German invasion in 1941; his daughter's birth in June; returning to Belgrade; forced labor; a round-up from which 120 volunteers were solicited; learning the next day they were shot; two German soldiers giving him bread; a failed escape attempt; being allowed to join his wife in another city; a beating by Germans; escaping; joining the partisans; serving in Vrnj...

  5. Videli Sme Holokaust

  6. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Súlovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, one of five children. He recalls his father was a musician; moving to Žirany when he was six; attending a Hungarian school; learning to play the violin; caring for his younger siblings when his parents worked; joining a band when he was seventeen; German troops entering the village; being forced to dig trenches; playing for the Germans; observing Jewish women fleeing from Nitra; his mother hiding them briefly in their home; evacuation to Jelenec; assistance from the lo...

  7. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in New York in 1920. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army at age twenty-one; assignment to the 101st Cavalry Reconnaissance; entering Europe shortly after D Day; receiving radio orders to proceed to a concentration camp in April 1945; prisoners wearing striped uniforms; mounds of smoldering bodies; smoking chimneys; giving the prisoners food; leaving the camp when they were relieved by other soldiers; and learning later that it had been Landsberg concentration camp. Mr. K. recounts his reaction of disbelief upon entering Landsberg and...

  8. Josif P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif P., who was born in Derventa, Yugoslavia in 1924. He recalls cordial relations between the Serbs and Jews; his father's observant Judaism and acts of charity; inclusion of Derventa in Croatia (a German ally) in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and terrorism by the Ustas?a; deportation with his family to Zagreb; returning to Derventa; his mother's bribe resulting in his release from a month's imprisonment; escaping to Banja Luka; traveling to Italian-occupied Split using false papers and bribery; resistance activities; joining partisans in the Mosor Mountains after...

  9. Helene R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helene R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, into a large Orthodox family. Mrs. R. remembers attending a Polish school, yet not considering herself a Pole; the German occupation in 1939; being a nurse during the typhus epidemic in the ghetto; deportations of the sick in 1941; and moving with some of her family away from the ghetto to the forest, where they lived with a group of underground Jews and acquired false papers. She recalls her arrest while acting as a courier for the Wieliczka ghetto and her and her sister's leaving the underground group and the rest o...

  10. Mira B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira B., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She describes her parents who were both teachers in Jewish schools; her and her brother's education; their Zionist activities; the difficulties of life as Jews in Vilna; the outbreak of war; Russian occupation; the return of Vilna as capital of Lithuania; having to learn Lithuanian at the university; German occupation two years later; the first round-ups of Jews, including her brother, when they were taken to Ponary, forced to dig their own graves and shot; formation of the ghetto and the Judenrat; obtaining a job outside the gh...

  11. Marie P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie P., who was born in Albi, France to Polish immigrants in 1941. She recounts living with her parents in Milhars (her father was in hiding while her mother posed as a French peasant); her sister's birth; often staying with other families (she later realized it was during German raids); learning never to talk about her parents during these stays; attending Catholic services; not attending school; the war's end; moving to Paris; emigrating to the United States in 1951; learning she was Jewish; trying to be as American as possible; and marriage at nineteen. Mrs. P. d...

  12. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

  13. Werner G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; participating in socialist Jewish youth movements; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; leaving school to help support his parents; an aborted attempt to escape to Czechoslovakia in 1936; traveling to Amsterdam via Luxembourg with assistance from a Jewish organization; his parents' emigration to Bolivia; his mother obtaining a Bolivian visa for him; emigration to join them; participating in anti-Nazi movements; his career as a publisher an...

  14. Anna N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna N., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her father's wholesale dairy business; German invasion; ghettoization; remaining in Krako?w when her parents moved to another city; obtaining false papers to visit them; working in the Madritsch factory; the brutal mass transfer to P?aszo?w; Madritsch choosing her to work, which afforded better food and conditions; escaping with help from a Polish co-worker; joining her boyfriend in Rzeszo?w; working for the railroad using false papers; fear of denunciation; her friend's arrest; returning to Krako?w; and receiving ...

  15. Jannushka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jannushka J., who was born in Paris, France in 1933. She recounts her parents' eastern European backgrounds; their secularism (she did not realize she was Jewish); German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brother to Pithiviers; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish harassment at school; being sent to Drancy; their escape; assimilating Nazi propaganda thus believing Jews were ugly and usurious; her parents placing her and her brother with the Resistance; being hidden outside Paris; living with a woman who treated them cruelly; converting to Catholicism; carrying messages...

  16. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1929. He recounts his family's affluence; his parents' emphasis on education; confiscation of their property and expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish laws; he and his family's conversion to Reformed Evangelicism due to the kindness of the pastor, despite objections from his orthodox grandparents; moving to Liptovský Mikuláš; leaving his family to work in the Bata shoe factory in Partizánske using false papers; escaping when exposure was imminent due to the Slovak uprising; traveling from Topol̕čany to Br...

  17. Rasela K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rasela K., who was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (presently Macedonia) in 1925. She recalls attending public school; her family being the only Jews in their neighborhood; German, then Bulgarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; round-up to a tobacco factory (Monopol) on March 11; starvation and lack of sanitation; arrival of Jews from surrounding areas; deportations beginning March 22; the release of Italian and Spanish citizens after twenty days, including her family and other paternal relatives, due to assistance from Spanish and ...

  18. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Kuro?w, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recounts antisemitic harassment at school; his father's Polish military service; German invasion; briefly fleeing with his mother and siblings; his father's return; forced labor in Janiszo?w; he and his brother escaping a round-up in Kon?skowola (he never saw his mother and sister again); returning home; reunion with his father; hiding by himself on farms and in fields, then in a forest with other Jews, including an aunt; leaving to find food; learning the others had been killed; recei...

  19. Andreas S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreas S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1929, an only child. He recalls ghettoization; obtaining false papers from his grandfather's friend, a police officer; escaping by train to his relatives in Athens to live under the benign Italian occupation; his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their children escaping to Chalkis on Euboea Island, then joining him in Athens; German invasion; fleeing to Argos with assistance from his father's client; their rescuer's death in an Allied bombing; living on a farm for fourteen months; hiding during conflicts; an...

  20. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts antisemitism after the Anschluss; her father's arrest; his departure for Antwerp; illegally entering Belgium with her mother to join him; attending a Flemish school; fleeing when Germany invaded in 1940; arrest in Tournai; release with her mother; going to Brussels; learning her father had been killed by Belgian soldiers as a suspected spy; hiding with non-Jews; deciding not to enter a Catholic institution, not wanting to be separated from her mother; distributing leaflets for the underg...