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  1. Yehuda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda M., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts attending Hebrew school; participating in a Zionist group from age ten; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including schools closing; attending clandestine classes; joining Akiva; ghettoization; volunteering as a locksmith for Organisation Todt; sabotaging the work; establishing a Zionist training farm with Szymon Draenger in Nowy Wiśnicz; becoming a Judenrat courier; forming a Jewish resistance unit with Adolf Liebeskind and others in summer 1942; meeting outside the ghetto ...

  2. Thea S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thea S., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. Her mother was Catholic and her father Huguenot. She recalls little change during the first two years of German occupation; her father joining the Dutch underground and falsifying passports for Jews; hiding a Jewish woman and her son in their attic; frequently talking to the boy late at night; being told they would all be killed if she told anyone they were hiding Jews; her uncle's execution by the Germans as a spy; her sister's hospitalization and evacuation to Belgium after the hospital was bombed; her father'...

  3. Amos T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amos T., who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine in 1926 and raised in Zawiercie, Poland. He describes his Hebrew education; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee east with his father; the Judenrat's role in organizing the ghetto and supplying forced labor; hiding to avoid deportation; attending the Judenrat's electricians' training; forced labor at an ammunition factory; separation from his parents during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943 (he never saw his mother again); assistance from the factory administration; obtaining documents as a non-Jew from a ...

  4. Hella B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hella B., who was born in Neuss, Germany in 1915. She recalls living in Berlin; her father's position for Siemens in Spain; living in Seville; her older brother's death at a boarding school when she was five; moving frequently and attending boarding schools; living in Lu?denscheid, Cologne, and Nuremberg; antisemitic harassment; a book burning; finishing gymnasium; attending art school in Berlin; her parents obtaining emigration documents for her to join an uncle in New York; staying in England for six weeks with an aunt; arrival in the United States; learning her unc...

  5. Salomon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon K., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1926, one of four children. He recounts a happy childhood; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau; an older man compelling him to separate from his family; pointless slave labor moving stones; volunteering as a machinist; a privileged position as a mason; a French-Jewish prisoner helping him; remaining with him throughout his experience, to which he attributes his survival; seeing two of his sisters from a distance; transfer three months later to Warsaw; clearing rubble; improved foo...

  6. Luba Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luba Z., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1914, one of nine children. She recounts visits to Warsaw; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Sarny; fleeing further with one sister (she never saw her family again); hiding in various places, including Zhadova; marriage; traveling to Germany; living in Lechfeld displaced persons camp; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. Z. notes her son does not want her to discuss her experiences because she becomes too upset. She shows photographs.

  7. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Moscow, Russia in 1906. He recalls arrest in 1925 due to his leadership of Hashomer Hatzair; being condemned to death; transport to Odesa; exile to Palestine with his mother and sister (his mother had arranged it); working in Haifa, ?Afulah, and Zikhron Ya?ak?ov for two years; admission to engineering school in Paris; arriving in Marseille in 1928; studying in Toulouse; graduation; working in a coal mine, a hotel, and for a Swiss company in Paris; dismissal due to the depression; working as a salesman; establishing a lucrative textile compa...

  8. Martin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. He recounts his maternal grandparents' anti-Nazi activities; joining them when they moved to Holland, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia; returning to Berlin; his father's death; joining his grandparents in Milan, with his mother and brother, in December 1939; his mother's remarriage; his mother's and stepfather's emigration; joining an uncle in Brussels; internment with his grandparents and brother in Marneffe as illegal immigrants; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; returning to Brussels; he and his brother deciding no...

  9. Erna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in Lich, Germany in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Giessen; visiting relatives in Ludwigshafen when Hitler came to power; her parents' business being ruined due to antisemitism; traveling to Venice in 1934, realizing there was no future in Germany; moving to Rotterdam three weeks later, then to Amsterdam; her father's death in 1936; her mother and siblings leaving for the United States by 1938; and her emigration to join them. Ms. S. notes her brother was beaten by Nazis and briefly incarcerated in a concentration camp before she went...

  10. Rafi B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rafi B., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1920, the youngest of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; moving to Timis?oara; attending a Romanian school; speaking German, French, Hungarian, and Romanian; moving to Bratislava; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair beginning in 1933; working for his aunt as a photographer; being sent to Prague in 1938 by Hashomer Hatzair to organize there; his brother's emigration to London; working for Hechalutz and continuing as a photographer; changing his name to a non-Jewish one; obtaining false papers...

  11. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Gerolzhofen, Germany in 1924. He recalls his father's death in 1931; significant local support for Nazism; anti-Jewish restrictions; attacks by other children when returning from school; his grandfather being marched through town to be cursed and spat upon; moving to Buttenhausen in 1936; expulsion from public school in 1937; his bar mitzvah; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; forced labor in a nearby town; moving to Cologne; receiving emigration papers through relatives in Palestine; traveling to Haifa under the auspices of Youth Al...

  12. Karl K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1916, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school, then gymnasium; playing sports for Maccabi; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; military draft in 1937; the Anschluss; expulsion from the army with other Jewish soldiers two months later; increasing antisemitism; round-up with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; deportation to Dachau; slave labor cleaning nearby houses; assistance from the non-Jewish blockaltester; release on June 6 based on his pledge to emigrate w...

  13. Solomon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon M., who was born in Je?drzejo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls the family farm; attending Polish school and cheder; serving in the Polish army from 1937 onward; German invasion; three months as a prisoner of war; returning home; finding the town ghettoized; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; six months of railroad work at Se?dziszo?w; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; eighteen months in werke C; clandestinely receiving food from non-Jewish workers; transfer to Cze?stochowa in late 1943, then to Buchenwald in mid-1944; clearing corpses from the ba...

  14. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1931. He recalls attending public school; studying with his father, a rabbi; his grandfather's arrival from Austria in 1938; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with his family to France; living at a refugee shelter in Saint-Pourc?ain-sur-Sioule; moving to Vichy; living at a hotel which housed OSE offices; moving to Nice in August 1940; his grandfather's death; hiding after foreign Jews were required to report to authorities; living openly during Italian occupation; German occupation in September 1943; he and his broth...

  15. Ann B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann B., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1928. She recalls an idyllic childhood in a large, extended family; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family, then returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; two brothers being taken to a labor camp; their weekend visits in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with her parents and remaining brother during round-ups; forced factory labor with her mother; replacing her mother when she was sick; a public hanging in 1942; separation from her parents during the ghetto's liquidation in February 1943 (she never saw them again); depo...

  16. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Megyaszo?, Hungary in 1926. She recalls a wonderful childhood; attending a Protestant school; changes beginning in 1942; German occupation in 1944; orders from the mayor to all Jews to gather in the synagogue; transport to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; total chaos; separation from her family, except her sister; a baby's birth in her barrack (the baby and mother "disappeared"); managing to remain with her sister even when officially separated; the disappearance of those in the Czech family camp one night; separation ...

  17. Maren F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maren F., who was born in Kiel, Germany in 1938, the second daughter of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. Her war memories are primarily of bombings and running. She tells of her maternal family's emigration; her father's military service protecting them; her mother wearing a star, doing forced labor, and observing all the laws and regulations; destruction of their home in a 1943 bombing; hospitalization; hiding on a farm; leaving, fearing exposure; returning to Kiel; living in the apartment of evacuees; believing if her father returned, everything would be fine;...

  18. Anton and Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anton and Marion P., who served in the administration of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Jewish displaced persons camps in Germany in 1945-1947. Mrs. P. reflects on her wartime life in Holland and the subtle effect of antisemitic propaganda on even anti-Nazi audiences; serving as translator in a postwar trial of fourteen Dutch Nazis in Wolfratshausen; being sent by UNRRA as a welfare officer to a Jewish displaced persons camp at Fo?hrenwald; learning Yiddish to better communicate with refugees; and the difficulties of dealing with v...

  19. Nikola V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nikola V., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922. He recounts attending Serb schools; studying medicine in Belgrade; German invasion in April 1941; fleeing to Cetinje; Italian occupation; acquiring false papers; returning to Subotica, now under Hungarian occupation, in May 1941; moving to Budapest; weekly forced labor; acceptance to medical school in Szeged in September 1943; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; slave labor digging bunkers in Novi Sad; his mother's monthly visits; transfer to Ruthenia, then Ukraine in spring 1944; br...

  20. Gustav R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustav R., who was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1929. He speaks of his childhood in pre-war Germany; differences in the attitudes of his parents towards Judaism; the rise of Nazism in Germany; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald in the wake of Kristallnacht; the difficulties encountered by his family in attempts to leave Germany; the family's eventual emigration to the United States after spending one and one-half years in Cuba; and the influences his wartime experiences had on his later life, particularly on his relationship with his children.