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  1. Arthur P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, one of three children. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; attending a Jewish school; participating in leftist youth groups; apprenticing as a merchant in 1928; non-Jewish friends shunning him starting in 1933; his sister's emigration to Australia and his brother's to Holland, and later Palestine; working for a Jewish social welfare organization where he met Recha Freier, a founder of Youth Aliyah; escorting kindertransports to Denmark and Sweden; Kristallnacht; leading a hachsharah in Havelberg...

  2. Helen M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen M., who was born in Przytyk, Poland in 1920. She recalls German invasion; forced relocation to Wierzbica; forced labor; escaping to local partisans; being hidden by a Polish farmer; the farmer asking her to leave fearing exposure; moving to another farm, then Szyd?owiec; hiding during a round-up; arrest; escaping by bribing a policeman; learning her older brother was killed; hiding with a Polish man; traveling to Radom; entering the ghetto; forced labor in Ostrowiec; transfer to Auschwitz; separation from her younger brother (she never saw him again); evacuation...

  3. Alex R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex R., who was born in Bukachevtsy, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1913, one of twelve children. He describes the family farm; attending public and Jewish schools; serving in the Polish army; recall in summer 1939; incarceration in a POW camp; escaping after two weeks; walking to Soviet-occupied L?viv, then home; German invasion in 1941; deportation to a labor camp in May 1942; escaping; working in Terebovli?a? as a non-Jew; leaving, fearing denouncement; hiding with a non-Jewish friend for a few months, then in the forest; liberation by Soviet troops; ...

  4. Hans and Ruth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) in 1928, and his wife Ruth F. In addition to information in a subsequently recorded testimony, Mr. F. notes visiting Chile after the war, where he met his wife, and his belief that the refusal of the United States to allow entry of the St. Louis passengers was a test in which Hitler determined no one would assist Europe's Jews. Ruth F. recalls her uncle's brother-in-law emigrating to Chile from Germany in the early 1930s; her uncle joining him in 1936 (he later arranged for her and her parents' emi...

  5. Chanah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanah G., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1926. She recounts her father's death when she was an infant; being sent to a foster family in a village when she was two; returning to Cluj to learn a trade from her sister; engagement in spring 1944; German invasion in March; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz with her fiancé, his brother, her sisters, and mother; separation from her fiancé (she never saw him again); contemplating suicide, but not wanting to do so in front of her mother and sisters; their transfer to Hainichen in October; improved conditions; slav...

  6. Celia O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia O., who was born in Dubienka, Poland in 1928. She recalls antisemitic incidents; German invasion in 1939; a German soldier assaulting a Polish child; her mother convincing her father that they should flee; being smuggled with her family to the Soviet zone; living with an uncle for several months; round-up by Soviet soldiers; their two-month train trip to Siberia with 1,500 others; incarceration in a camp in Irkutsk; forced labor, starvation, and cold; her brother's death in 1941; prisoner solidarity; transfer to Kazakhstan (only 750 remained); improved, but hars...

  7. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in Tyszowce, Poland in 1915. She recalls moving with her parents to Zamos?c?; engagement to her future husband; living with her older brother in ?o?dz?; returning home; German invasion; going to her fiance?'s small village for two weeks; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; receiving a letter from her fiance? asking her to join him in Soviet territory; her parents encouraging her to go; meeting her fiance? in Lut?s??k; marriage; being sent to Kazan?, then to Siberia; living in Asino; volunteering for transfer after German invasion of the Sov...

  8. Josephine B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josephine B., who was born in Amsterdam in 1932. She recalls her youth in a prosperous family; German occupation; her father's activities in the resistance; his escape from the Netherlands; attending a Jewish school; transport to Westerbork with her mother, brother and sister in November 1942; and living in the orphanage when their mother feigned illness to delay deportation. Mrs. B. recounts their transfer to Bergen-Belsen fifteen months later; living conditions; transport east as the Allies approached; liberation from the train in April 1945; her mother's, brother's...

  9. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Żychlin, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; German invasion; forced construction labor; ghettoization; his father's deportation; transfer to forced labor constructing roads with his father; their transfer to another camp; his cousin freezing to death; transfer to Poznań, then Kreuzsee; his father's deterioration since he was doing much of his (Harry's) work; his father's transfer to Auschwitz (he never saw him again); losing his will to live; transfer to Auschwitz five months later, then to...

  10. Rene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene G., who was born in Luxembourg in 1934 to Polish refugees. He describes German invasion; moving to Brussels; wearing the yellow star; moving to southern France; detention by French police in Poligny; transfer to a refugee hotel in Lons-le-Saunier; being placed in a deportation train with his mother (his father had left the hotel); removal from the train through the intervention of his aunt while his mother was brutally forced to board; staying with his aunt in Limoges (his father hid in Lyon); brief placement in a Jewish orphanage outside Limoges; staying with Fr...

  11. Kurt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt G., who was born in a small town in Westphalia, Germany in 1917. One of fifteen children in a poor family, he recalls leaving home at age fourteen; an apprenticeship in Upper Silesia until 1937; his close friendship with the owner of a Berlin factory where he worked; Nazi attacks on students; fending off an SS assault; avoiding arrest during Kristallnacht by hiding in various locations in Berlin; escaping with three friends to Ter Apel, Netherlands; capture and return to Germany; five weeks in prison in Emden, then Berlin; emigration to England in March 1939; wor...

  12. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, an only child. She recalls a comfortable childhood in an assimilated family; attending private school, then at age ten, public school; observing Hitler marching from their balcony; close relations with their maids, which ended abruptly after the Nuremberg laws; the trauma of being shunned by former friends; hiding during Kristallnacht; her parents sending her to England in March 1939; working as a maid in London, and as a secretary in Epsom and at a paper factory; her parents emigrating to the United States, with assist...

  13. Madelyn L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madelyn L., who was born in Dereczyn, Poland (now Dzi?a?re?chyn, Belarus)) in 1933, the seventh of eight children. She describes their poverty; her father's emigration to Paris to obtain a rabbinical position; traveling to join him a few years later (1937); a week's stay in a Berlin convent waiting for their documents from Poland; settling in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Normandy to avoid bombings; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; her mother's detention in Drancy; her older's sister's efforts to obtain their mot...

  14. Regine K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regine K., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1920, one of three children. She recounts her family's move to Brussels; vacationing with her maternal grandparents in Holland; her mother's death; her father's remarriage; studying to become a nurse and passing the exam; traveling with her father to Boulogne; German invasion; returning to Brussels; obtaining false papers; working as a hospital nurse; joining a resistance group; her family going into hiding; distributing resistance materials and trying to persuade German soldiers to desert; arrest; interrogation and tor...

  15. Reuben N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuben N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He recounts his parents' deaths; living with relatives in M?awa; visiting his sister in P?onsk; antisemitic harassment; participating in Betar; volunteering for the Polish military during the German invasion; traveling to P?onsk, then Ciechano?w; a public hanging; forced labor; assistance from a Pole in escaping; joining Armia Ludowa in Praga; obtaining false documents and authentic baptismal papers; capture in Pu?tusk in spring 1943; imprisonment in Pawiak and Szczecin; deportation to Auschwitz; learning his sister w...

  16. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

  17. Jack T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack T., who was born in a small town near Vilna, Poland in 1918. Mr. T. describes his observant parents; living in Vilna from 1921 on; graduation from Vilna's Hebrew Academy; German invasion in June 1941; round-ups by Lithuanian police for mass killings of Jews at Ponary; ghettoization; removing his star to smuggle food into the ghetto; obtaining a job in the H.K.P. camp which gave him some protection; and escape, with his future wife and her family, to a bunker. He recalls liberation by Soviet troops; emigration to the United States with his wife and child with assi...

  18. Freda T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Freda T., who was born in Lask, Poland, the oldest of seven children. She describes her large, extended family; their orthodoxy; moving to ?o?dz?; antisemitic boycotts; German invasion in September 1939; her mother and siblings returning to Lask (she remained with her father); ghettoization in 1940; her mother's return; forced factory labor; hiding during round-ups; her mother's and sister's deportation; receiving a letter from her mother; pervasive starvation and death; H?ayim Rumkowski's speech in August 1944 when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Auschwitz/...

  19. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913 to a family of ten children. He recounts attending yeshiva in Warsaw; working for a bank in Sosnowiec from 1935 to 1938, then in businesses in Katowice and Be?dzin; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; hiding in a bunker with his fiancee and siblings during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; separation from his sisters and fiancee upon arrival at Auschwitz; a privileged office job; visiting his fiancee in the women's camp; transfer with his brother to Sachsenhausen in Oc...

  20. Henny G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henny G., who was born in Vilna, Poland. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1774), Ms. G. recounts forced labor in the ghetto; a public hanging (she later learned they were partisans); deportation with her sister to Kaiserwald; slave labor in Duenawerke; the brutality of the Nazi female guards; participating in the camp concerts and plays; transfer to Landsberg, then Dachau; liberation by United States troops from a death march; performing with Leonard Bernstein at displaced persons camps, including Feldafing, in 1946; support from the ...