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  1. Emil L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emil L., who was born in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder; emigration with his family to Antwerp in 1930; moving to Brussels; attending a Flemish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; participating in the Young Socialists (JS); participating in a meeting in Louvain to unite socialists and communists; arrest at an anti-Rexist demonstration; release; briefly fleeing to France; apprenticeship as a tailor; German invasion; fleeing with his family to France; his aunt's death and his...

  2. Leon P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon P., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1920. He recalls studying Hebrew, French, and Greek in a private Jewish school; German invasion; his brother's emigration to Palestine; increasing hardships in the Salonika ghetto; arranging to join the partisans in the mountains; deciding to remain with his parents when they wept at his impending departure; their deportation to Birkenau; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); assistance from a Polish block commander; transfer to Auschwitz; slave labor in a Krupp munitions factory, then in the Union Kommand...

  3. Meyer K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meyer K., who was born in Poland in 1920. He discusses living with his family in the Starachowice ghetto; his parents' killing during the ghetto's liquidation in October 1942; selection with his five brothers for forced labor in a munitions factory; his older brother's death; transfer with his brothers by train to Birkenau in June 1944; claiming, with one brother, that they were blacksmiths (he never saw the other two brothers again); waiting for work assignment in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); helping his brother during the death march on January 18, 1945; transfe...

  4. Lea W. and Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Sinsheim, Germany in 1933 and her sister Lea W., who was born in Mannheim in 1932. Most of the information is included in previous testimonies. Ruth S. discusses recent trips to Germany and France during which she reconnected with her own past; the importance of learning while in Israel in 1981 that her parents had been deported to Auschwitz and gassed; active participation in a survivors' group; and sharing her experience with her children after 1981. Lea W. discusses her sense of responsibility for Ruth, as the older sister, and both sisters...

  5. Valentina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valentina S., a non-Jew, who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1912. She recounts her family's evacuation to Chuhuïv, then Z︠H︡ytomyr, in 1914; her father's death resulting from Russian army service in World War I; pleasant childhood memories; her grandmother hiding Jewish neighbors during pogroms after the revolution; working in an orphanage during the famine in 1933; marriage in 1934; the arrest of Jewish doctors during purges in 1936-1937; German invasion in June 1941; her husband's military draft (he was killed during the 1941 offens...

  6. Salo F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salo F., who was born in Poland in 1919. He recalls attending a yeshiva; German invasion; ghettoization; public hangings to discourage escapes; arrest following a failed escape (he never saw his parents or siblings again); incarceration in Auschwitz and Flossenbu?rg; a beating which resulted in permanent back injuries; transfer to Dachau; liberation two days later; living in Munich; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; marriage to an Auschwitz survivor; living in Bayreuth; his son's birth in 1947; his strong desire to leave Germany; and emigrating to Bolivia in 1953. ...

  7. Manuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manuel G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls working as a master weaver; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation; his arrest and trial for smuggling food; forced labor in Radogoszcz and Schieratz; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; organizing a textile factory; arrival of family members in a transport from ?o?dz? (his wife and children had already been killed) in September 1944; saving three of his sisters (the remainder of his family were killed); refusing to select prisoners for death resulting in a severe beating; a prison...

  8. Berek O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berek O., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his father's modern orthodoxy; wonderful holiday and family gatherings; attending public school and cheder; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; his older brother escaping east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; pervasive starvation and disease; slave labor disposing of human waste; his illness resulting in chronic health problems; deportation to Birkenau; separation from his family (he never saw them again); friends hiding his wounds during ...

  9. Lipa A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lipa A., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1927. He recalls a wonderful childhood; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; persecution as factory owners; learning his father's arrest was imminent; moving to Vilkavis?ykis; German invasion; moving to Narva, then the Bia?ystok ghetto; attending a school organized by the ghetto head, Barash; smuggling food for his family; the birth of his brother's daughter; building a bunker; hiding during round-ups; his brother, his wife, and daughter not hiding during the final liquidation in August 1943; being discovered...

  10. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1927. He recalls his orthodox family; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; destruction of the synagogues; anti-Jewish regulations; his older brothers working as tailors for the Germans; his family's exemption from deportation due to his brothers' jobs; his deportation to Auschwitz, Neukirch, Gross Rosen, and Wu?stegiersdorf; receiving extra food from one foreman; being beaten when the extra food was discovered; forced labor burning bodies, making caskets, and working in the kitchen; recovering from a severe burn in a...

  11. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Zolochiv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1919, one of five sons. He recounts studying in a yeshiva; mobilization shortly before the war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; hiding with Jews and non-Jews in several locations; his brother suggesting he hide elsewhere; learning his brother and mother had been killed; visiting his wife who was hiding elsewhere; and liberation by Soviet troops.

  12. Samuel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel M., who was twelve when World War II began . He recalls being confined in a Christian orphanage prior to the war for illegally riding the streetcars; transfer to a Jewish orphanage after ghettoization in 1941; learning of his mother's death from his father; living with Jewish foster parents; smuggling food into the ghetto; escaping to Ma?kinia in August 1942 with his foster mother and her younger son; hiding in the forest; living in the ?omz?a ghetto; returning to Warsaw after his foster mother and her son were arrested; obtaining false papers with assistance f...

  13. Agnes G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls living with her mother (her parents were divorced); attending Hebrew, then public, school; the beating of Jews by Hungarian Nazis; German occupation; having to wear the star; her father's draft into a labor battalion (he perished); ghettoization; round-ups; her mother arranging to hide her with non-Jews; running away because she missed her mother; being sent to hide with her father's friends in a Swedish house; fear of raids; extreme hunger; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. G. recounts fleeing with ...

  14. Alegre T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alegre T., who was born in Drama, Greece in 1922, one of seven children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2414), she recounts a happy childhood; attending Jewish school; working at her sister's beauty salon; Bulgarian occupation; slave labor in the Auschwitz shoe kommando; fasting during Yom Kippur; a public execution; Allied bombings; a death march and train transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops; contacting her cousin via the Red Cross; and traveling with her sister to Brussels, Athens, then Thess...

  15. Meir R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir R., who was born in Ia?si, Romania in 1931. He recounts his parents' deaths; placement in a Jewish orphanage when he was five; attending Romanian school; antisemitic incidents; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; witnessing a mass killing of Jews by Romanians; forced labor; relative safety in the orphanage due to Red Cross protection; being terrorized by an SS soldier; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; placement with a family in Bucharest; acting as a courier for the underground; traveling to Constant?a in order to emigrate to Palestine; joining an illega...

  16. Celia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. She recalls her large family; her father's death in 1930; German invasion; ghettoization resulting in overcrowding, starvation, cold, epidemics, and frequent deaths; her older brother's deportation; and deportation to Auschwitz with her family in 1944. Mrs. M. recounts meeting her older brother; separation from her mother, two sisters and a nephew (they were gassed upon arrival); the importance of remaining with her two sisters; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer four weeks later to Neustadt; work in a munitions...

  17. Celina H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina H., a twin, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933. She remembers an assimilated, affluent life; German invasion in 1939; fleeing to her mother's family in Bia?ystok in the Soviet-occupied zone; her father's deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; roaming the ghetto and outside with her sister (they looked "Aryan"); hiding during the first Aktion; her mother sending her to a farm family and her sister elsewhere; returning when it seemed safe; her mother obtaining false papers for them; she and her sister being smuggled out; living with a Catholi...

  18. Azriel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Azriel L., who was born in Klaipėda, Lithuania in 1923, and raised in Skaudvilė, the oldest of four sons. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's Zionism; attending cheder, public school, yeshiva, then a Hebrew gymnasium in Tauragė; the family moving to Kaunas; Soviet occupation; remaining in Kaunas when his family returned to Skaudvilė; clandestinely participating in a Zionist youth group; visiting Vilnius; German invasion; Lithuanian violence against Jews; receiving a letter from his parents (he never saw them again); ghettoization; forced labor at the ...

  19. Fred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. He recalls antisemitic incidents; the boycott of Jewish businesses, including his family's, in 1933; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; his brother's and sister's emigration; non-Jews bringing them food; arrest with his parents in February 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); transfer to Monowitz; return to Auschwitz; a variety of work details; contacts with women who worked in the Union Kommando and who sabotaged munitions they produced; rejecting homosexual adva...

  20. Yochanan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yochanan K., who was born in a village near Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland, in 1923, the second of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, school, and synagogue in Nowy Wiśnicz; antisemitic harassment; leaving school at thirteen to become a cattle merchant; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; he and his older brother smuggling food to several ghettos; denouncement by a Jew; arrest and release; volunteering to enter Płaszów in his brother's place; slave labor laying rail lines; escaping after a severe beating; fleeing to the forest with his ...