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  1. William F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William F., who was born deaf in a small town near Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary, in 1910. Mr. F. describes his childhood in a large family (two brothers were also deaf); learning from his father to read Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; being self-taught because he lacked a formal education; becoming a leatherworker; his pride at living independently in Budapest at age eighteen; growing antisemitism; fleeing to Czechoslovakia in late 1937; courtship and marriage; and establishing a business in Pies?t?any. He recalls a Christian maid who helped him and his wife avoid deportati...

  2. Elbridge H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elbridge H., who was born in 1924 and served with the United States Army 20th Armored Division in World War II. He recounts entering Dachau immediately after it was liberated; being overwhelmed with grief; the pervasive stench; piles of corpses; emaciated, dazed inmates; and leaving shortly thereafter. Mr. H. discusses his inability to believe the "inhumanity" of the camp; visiting Dachau with his family in 1964; and recently speaking publicly about his experience at Dachau.

  3. Celina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She recalls the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to Lv?iv; Soviet occupation; returning to Krako?w in December 1939; fleeing to Wieliczka to escape ghettoization; her father's deportation and subsequent death; forced relocation with her mother and brother to the Krako?w ghetto in 1943, then to P?aszo?w in March; her brother's deportation with the children's transport (she never saw him again); working with her mother in an upholstery shop; hiding during Goeth's visit; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz;...

  4. Milan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milan S., a Romani, who was born in Jelšava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia). He recalls providing information about Hlinka guard movements to partisans; arrest with others; deportation to Komárno; transfer ten weeks later to Dachau; being marked as a partisan; slave labor in an airplane factory; a guard killing a Jewish prisoner for not working; meeting Romanies from throughout Europe; transfer two weeks later to Hamburg; shootings of Romani friends; placement in barracks with Jews; little communication among ethnic and national groups; one German giving him ex...

  5. Dori K. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Dori K., whose first testimony was recorded in 1979. Ms. K. notes that she does not remember what she said in her testimony, but it was the first time she had spoken at length of her experiences and it was very painful. She recounts that the 1979 testimony freed her to explore her past by visiting the home where she was hidden and an archive in Brussels which contained records of her, her father, and family photographs. She also discusses clarifying some of her own memories; encountering a neighbor who said everyone knew she was Jewish and kept q...

  7. Achille D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Achille D., a non-Jew, who was born in Harelbeke, Belgium in 1924, one of two children. He recounts being orphaned when he was eight; living with loving grandparents; attending school to become a textile engineer in Kortrijk (Courtrai); distributing Resistance publications and doing reconnaisance for the Front de l'indépendance; arrest in April 1942; incarceration in Courtrai prison; a public trial; a five-month prison sentence; incarceration in St. Gilles and Merxplas; receiving Red Cross packages; visits from his aunt; attending classes; release in August; continu...

  8. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of David K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls moving to Gdan?sk in 1928; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; pervasive antisemitic harassment; their return to ?o?dz?; moving to Radogoszcz; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; the siege; returning to Radogoszcz; traveling to Warsaw with a neighbor; returning to ?o?dz?; public hangings; joining his mother in the Krako?w ghetto; moving to Rzeszo?w; posing as a non-Jew and selling merchandise outside the city; illegally entering the Soviet-occupied area from ?an?cut with help from a non-Jew...

  9. Seeing

    Survivors and witnesses describe their experiences during the Holocaust period. This edited program includes a Jesuit priest who was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia; a Jewish woman who was a young girl in Locise, Poland; another who was deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek; a Jewish male survivor of Skarżysko-Kamienna; and a woman survivor of Auschwitz.

  10. Bertha H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha H., who was born in Szatma?rcseke, Hungary in 1920 to a family of ten children. She recalls a happy family life; working as a dressmaker; marriage in 1942; her husband's deportation to a work camp six weeks later; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; separation from her older sister and mother upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer with her two younger sisters to P?aszo?w; concealing her younger sister's deafness; working with her sister in a tailor shop; transfer...

  11. Thomas B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1927. He recalls deteriorationg conditions after German invasion; Jewish refugees in 1941 who spoke of gassings at Che?mno and the inability to believe this; Izbica's use as a collection point for Jews starting in 1942; the first round-up and transport, ostensibly to L'vov; learning it had gone to Belzec, where there was a big fire and terrible smell; round-ups thereafter; obtaining Polish papers; and attempting to escape to Hungary in January 1943. Mr. B. relates capture and imprisonment; returning to Izbica; transport to ...

  12. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, the elder of two sons. He recounts his family moving to Prague when he was four years old; their relative affluence; summer vacations with grandparents in Bratislava and other locations; his and his brother's b'nai mitzvah; Passover celebrations in their home with extended family; attending a German gymnasium; German invasion on March 15, 1939; his father leaving for Hungary, due to his Hungarian citizenship, intending to send for them; having to vacate their apartment; deportation to...

  13. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls Hitler's warm reception during the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her parents sending her younger sister to relatives in Czechoslovakia; Nazis vandalizing their apartment during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Dachau; she and her mother moving in with relatives; emigration to Palestine with a Youth Aliyah group; a painful parting from her mother; living on a kibbutz; contacts with Henrietta Szold; visiting her parents and sister in the United States in 1947; serving in the Magen DavĚŁid ado...

  14. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1937. She recalls her parents' comfortable, bohemian life; her father's residency at the Jewish hospital; moving into the hospital with the families of other staff members in October 1941; friendship with two girls (Eva and Rita); the Gestapo presence; monthly deportations; food shortages; her parents' strained marriage; remaining underground during the Battle of Berlin; spending a summer recuperating in Switzerland; her father's death in 1947 after delaying surgery, which she believes was a form of suicide; living in the hos...

  15. Ada A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada A., who grew up in Krako?w, Poland. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; her father fleeing east; learning he was killed; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization with her mother and grandmother in March 1941; her grandmother's death; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w in March 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assisting a friend; transfer to Lichtewerden; slave labor in a textile factory; liberation by Sovie...

  16. Hanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls her family's affluent life; her brother and father reporting for military service before German invasion; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and food scarcity; learning her father and brother were alive and fleeing to the Soviet zone; using false papers to join them in Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; moving to Orsha; attending Russian school; fleeing east after the German invasion; her father working as a bookkeeper on a collective farm near the Urals; her brother's draft; moving to Ukraine near the war...

  17. Ilse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Grottkau, Germany (presently Grodko?w, Poland) in 1925. She recalls attending Catholic schools; street fights between the Socialists and Nazis; moving to Leobschu?tz due to antisemitism; anti-Jewish boycotts of the family business; antisemitism at school; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; her mother's breakdown; failing to recognize her father when he returned; her parents arranging her emigration to England with a children's transport; their instruct...

  18. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1923. She recalls her happy childhood in Bratislava; observing Jewish holidays; attending a German school; religious instruction by a Jewish teacher; German occupation in March 1939; harassment by Hitler Youth; transferring to business school; making corsets to support herself; antisemitic restrictions; avoiding round-ups when her home was quarantined because she had rubella; a warning of an imminent round-up; illegally traveling to Budapest in 1942; living with her uncle's family; denunciation as an illegal immigrant; deport...

  19. Raymond F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond F., who was born in Kazimierza Wielka, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls attending public school; antisemtic harassment; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat; forced labor; killings of Jews; bringing a message to the Miecho?w ghetto and food to Jews in S?omniki; the mayor warning his father all Jews were to be killed; the family hiding in several places with non-Jews; learning his mother had been shot; hearing a mass killing; escaping to Krako?w with his brother; entering the ghetto; volunteering for forced labor else...

  20. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Martynuv Stary, Poland (now Ukraine), one of twelve children. He recalls attending a Catholic school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; posing as a non-Jew and joining Ukrainian partisans in Bukachevtsy with his two brothers and a sister; killing a Jewish policeman in self defense; joining Soviet and Polish partisans; armed conflicts between partisan groups; moving to Stanis?awo?w; burying Jews shot in a mass killing; working on a farm; bringing his sisters and their children to work there; being saved from exposure because his nephe...