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  1. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., a non-Jew, who was born in Passau, Germany in 1960. Ms. A. recounts not learning about World War II; winning an essay contest which required research on local war history; learning of the Nazi past and the existence of a camp in Passau; being sued for libel as a result of her research; assistance from a supreme court judge who later wrote the preface to her book; settling the suit upon his advice; local people openly admitting their Nazi pasts; local hostility; protesting large neo-Nazi meetings (David Irving was a featured speaker although it was illegal for...

  2. Sora M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sora M., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928. She recalls living near Brest-Litovsk; moving to Paris with her parents in 1930; antisemitic incidents; visiting Poland with her mother in 1937; outbreak of war in 1939; evacuation to Mers-les-Bains; living in an OSE home on the Riviera while attending school in Boulouris; German invasion; returning to Paris in September 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; seeing her father in Yonne (he escaped from Pithiviers); incarceration in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver with her mother on July 16, 1942; escaping; hiding with non-Jewish frien...

  3. Ernest E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest E., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1915. He describes his observant family of seven children; the family's kosher restaurant; education; their strong zionist leanings; working as an engineer; Hungarian occupation resulting in the loss of his job; and emigrating to Czernowitz in the Soviet zone. Mr. E. recalls his marriage; German invasion; ghettoization; transport with his wife to Transnistria; horrendous living conditions in Mogilev; meeting a Romanian officer whom he had known and who offered him a job as an engineer; building a bridge with sixty Jews, who ...

  4. Fiszel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fiszel S., who was born in Kras?nik, Poland in 1923 to a Hasidic family. He recalls attending yeshiva in Jano?w; a brother and three uncles emigrating to Bolivia; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his family for a year; transfer to Budzyn?, where his father and brother were shot; a privileged factory position; transfer to Mielec; obtaining extra rations from the Swiss; transfer to Wieliczka in 1944, then to Flossenbu?rg, Litome?r?ice, Mauthausen, and Gusen; assistance from the Red Cross shortly before liberation; liberation by United States troops; living in ...

  5. Marek S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marek S., who was born in 1912 in Kamionica Strymonylova, a small town near L?vov, Poland. He describes his early family life; the outbreak of the second world war; his army transfer from L?vov to the battle front; and his return home to occupation by the Russians. He tells of the deportation of many Jews to Siberia; the German occupation in 1941; his flight to L?vov, where he was captured by Ukrainians; and his work in the L?vov ghetto, where his sister also lived. He recounts being jailed for several days; his work as a camp gardener in Janowska Road, a camp within ...

  6. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., a Dutch Seventh-Day Adventist, who was born in approximately 1910. He recalls being taught great respect for Jews by his father, a minister; living in Paris in 1940; German invasion; moving to Lyon; joining Amities chre?tiennes, an underground organization to save Jews; organizing a network to assist Jews to escape to Switzerland; his arrest in 1942; torture and interrogation in front of Klaus Barbie; release for lack of proof; involving his friends and family in the network; his father's arrest in Holland for speaking against the Nazis; smuggling American pi...

  7. Boz?o S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boz?o S., who was born in approximately 1920. He recalls his arrest in Zagreb in spring 1941; slave labor in Danica; receiving food from the Zagreb Jewish community; transfer to Jadovno a few months later; being sent to Gospic? by a Ustas?a, a former schoolmate, with ten other prisoners (also former schoolmates) while everyone in Jadovno was being killed; their transfer to Jasenovac in August; volunteering as an electrician, a privileged job; being assigned to collect hundreds of corpses when nearby Krapje was liquidated; Ustas?a viciously killing those not already de...

  8. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia in 1922, the tenth of eleven children. She remembers one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws resulting in confiscation of her father's business; moving to Budapest, then Debrecen; returning to Seredne in 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory in Ungva?r (Uz?h?horod); deportation to Auschwitz in spring 1944; passing through a selection with her mother, sister, and other relatives; her sister, mother, and sister-in-law being taken in subsequent selections; pledging to remain...

  9. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in approximately 1918 in a small town near Uz?h?horod. She recounts her mother's widowhood from her first marriage, from which she had two sons; her mother's marriage to her father; his death when she was ten months old; her mother's third marriage; living in Velikaya Dobron?; difficult relations with her stepfather; placement in a Joint orphanage in Mukacheve when she was fourteen; returning home; Hungarian occupation; German occupation; deportation orders during Passover; a brief trip with her mother to Uz?h?horod, seeking an exemption but not...

  10. Rachel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel K., who was born in France in 1935 to Polish-Russian immigrants, the youngest of three daughters. She recounts her parents' isolation from French society; her mother's store in Aulnay-sous-Bois; being sent to summer camp the first two years of the war; her mother refusing to have them wear the star; being smuggled with her mother and sisters to the unoccupied zone in 1942 (her father refused to leave); receiving assistance and false papers from the Resistance through Edmond Michelet; her father joining them; living in a hotel in Brive, then in a remote farmhous...

  11. Martin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin P., who was born in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia in 1918, when his family evacuated during World War I. He recounts their return to Sasiv (then Poland) when he was three; attending public school and cheder, then gymnasium in Zolochiv for a year; apprenticeship as a sign painter; participating in a Zionist youth group; training for emigration to Palestine; his father's death in 1934; supporting his family; Soviet occupation; Soviet military draft; capture during German invasion; escape; returning to Sasiv; forced labor; incarceration in concentration camps in Sasiv...

  12. Gola A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape recording of Gola A., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921. She recalls her orthodox childhood; attending public school; membership in a Zionist organization; German invasion; round-ups and shootings; ghettoization with her family; hiding with her mother during round-ups; a mass killing in the Jewish cemetery; a non-Jew briefly hiding her brother's children; forced labor in a clothing factory; one brother's deportation; deportation with two brothers to P?asz?ow in September 1943 (she never saw her parents, eldest brother, and other relatives again); slave labor; transfer to Aus...

  13. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Bazar, Poland in 1932. He recalls living on a farm that his father supervised; celebrating Jewish holidays in Popovtse; moving to Golovchyn?tse; friendships with Poles and Ukrainians; moving to Tluste (presently Tovste); Soviet occupation; studying Russian; German invasion; Ukrainian pogroms; his family's rescue by Ukrainian friends; living with a family whose son was on the Judenrat; ghettoization; hiding with his family during a round-up; his aunt surviving a mass killing; escaping another round-up; traveling to Golovchy?ntse; living on a ...

  14. Andrée D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrée D., a Catholic, who was born in Uccle, Belgium in 1922, one of three sisters. She recounts living in Congo from ages four to ten; attending school in Uccle; German invasion; working with the Resistance in Brussels and Bruges; smuggling downed Allied aviators to Paris; obtaining false identity papers in Lille; hiding two children in the Ardennes; denunciation; arrest with her parents; imprisonment in St. Gilles in August 1942; deportation with her father in August 1943 (her mother was released); separation from him in Essen; transfer to Mesum, Zweibrücken, the...

  15. Celina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; the bombing of their home; beatings of Jews including her brother; moving to Koprzywnica with her mother; returning to Warsaw to rejoin their family; ghettoization; round-ups; deaths from starvation; deciding to escape despite not wanting to leave her family; traveling to Koprzywnica, then to Sandomierz; staying with a Jewish family; escaping during a round-up; hiding with a Polish family; returning to the Warsaw ghetto; learning her family had...

  16. Bronia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923. She describes her childhood; a pogrom which took place in Grodno in 1936; her involvement in a Zionist socialist youth organization, which led to her becoming active in the Resistance; the ghettoization of Grodno; her life in the Grodno ghetto; her resistance activities in the Bia?ystok ghetto and on the Aryan side with false papers; and her return to Grodno after liberation to find that her entire family had been killed. Mrs. K.'s resistance activities included smuggling arms; acting as a ...

  17. Charles T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles T., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He tells of his mother's United States citizenship (she was born in Chicago); his family's affluence; attending a Jewish gymnasium; vacationing in Italy in summer 1938; traveling to Switzerland prior to returning home in October; his mother traveling to the U.S. on citizenship matters; German occupation; his father's and uncle's arrest in April; he and his younger brother living with relatives; spending seven months on a Zionist training farm; learning his father and uncle were in Dachau; an uncle in the U.S. a...

  18. Isaac S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1925 to Turkish parents, one of six children. He recounts speaking Ladino at home; tensions between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews; participating in a Zionist group with his brother Haim; German invasion; two brothers briefly fleeing to France; exemption from anti-Jewish restrictions as Turkish citizens; working with the resistance group Mouvement National Beige, hiding Jewish families and distributing underground newspapers and false papers; several arrests, then release as a Turkish citizen until 1943; his brother Haim's ...

  19. William K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland, in 1922. Mr. K. recalls his youth; his father, an "ultrareligious" Talmud scholar; his mother's modest businesses which supported them; escaping domestic unhappiness in school; and prewar anti-Semitic experiences. He tells of German occupation; anti-Semitic restrictions and looting; ghettoization; being beaten publicly; the first Aktion when his father and 12,000 others were killed in June 1942; his mother's death from a heart attack; forced labor; his sister's selection in the second Aktion; his refusal to reveal the locat...

  20. Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin M., who was born in Warsaw. He describes his prewar home environment; life in the Warsaw ghetto; and slave labor experiences on the "Aryan" side. He tells of joining the underground; smuggling food into the ghetto; and smuggling people into and out of the ghetto. He recounts his first meeting with his future wife, also active in the underground; smuggling his parents out of the ghetto to helpful gentiles; Nazi tricks to root out Jews in hiding; and his younger brother's falling prey to such a trap. Mr. M. describes the bombardment and burning of the Warsaw gh...