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  1. Sophie I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie I., who was born in Pidbuz︠h︡, Poland (presently Ukraine) in January 1939. She recounts her family's affluence; Soviet occupation the year of her birth; German invasion; her parents and aunt taking her to hide in the forests in the winter of 1942; wandering in the woods for six weeks, being carried by her mother or aunt; hiding in the barn of a large farm; the farmer, who knew her parents, finding them; his wife and five teenage children agreeing to hide them; meager food; hiding silently during frequent searches and visits by other Poles; lice infestation; bei...

  2. Isaac A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Isaac A., who was born in Galicia, Poland and grew up in the city of Drohobych. He speaks of the prevalence of antisemitism in Poland; the unwillingness of the Jews to perceive the Germans as dangerous; and his and his father's activities as rabbis and spiritual counselors in Boryslav/Drohobych after the German occupation. He details the miraculous survival of his father, who was protected by his fellow prisoners in Buchenwald because he was a rabbi; his own experiences in the P?aszo?w ghetto--slave labor in an oil refinery, hiding in a bunker, being caught and ...

  3. Josse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josse L., who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1915 to Belgian parents, giving him dual citizenship. He recounts living in Argentina, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro; attending school in Vanves, France; vacationing with relatives in Ostende; his bar mitzvah there; completing school in Brussels; military service in 1936; opening a business with his brother; military recall; capture by Germans on May 28, 1940 (the Germans did not learn he was Jewish); learning his parents and sister had left for Brazil; release on June 11; reunion with his brother; reopening their busine...

  4. Samuel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel P., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1926, the third child of seven. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; especially enjoying Passover and Sukkot; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in Gordonyah; his brother's bar mitzvah (German invasion precluded his); increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of the family business; forced labor with his older brother; his brother's deportation; ghettoization; receiving extra food from his German supervisor; hiding in a bunker with his family during deportations; having to leave the bunker during the ghet...

  5. Cherna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cherna G., who was born in Z︠H︡ytomyr, Ukraine in 1927, one of five children. She recalls all her siblings dying during the famine; German invasion; her family fleeing to Staraya Kotelʹnya; encountering German troops; returning to Z︠H︡ytomyr; local police beating her grandparents, then killing her grandmother and three young cousins; hiding with her parents and other relatives; ghettoization; her mother's assignment for forced labor with one hundred Jewish women; learning they were killed in a mass shooting; escaping disguised as a Ukrainian; hiding with a non-Jewish ...

  6. Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; German-Jewish refugees arriving in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's disappearance during a round-up in February 1940 (they never saw him again); ghettoization in March; obtaining a privileged job from Aron Jakubowicz, a Judenrat official; theater and symphony until 1941; pervasive starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation upon arrival from her mother, older sister, and twin siblings (...

  7. Palomba F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Palomba F., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1923, the fourth of six children. She recalls attending a French school; working from age eleven; German occupation; one brother's conscription for forced labor (he was killed); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau on March 20, 1943; remaining with her sister who was pregnant; sharing food with her; her disappearance; solidarity among Greek prisoners; assignment to the shoe commando; seeing her brother once; agreeing they would meet in Thessalonike? after the war; her group of friends hiding one of them when she gave b...

  8. Hans Werner H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans Werner H., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1924. He recounts his father was Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism; his family's affluence; six half-siblings from his father's previous marriage (one was killed in World War I, the others emigrated); attending school; antisemitic harassment; destruction of the synagogue during Kristallnacht; his father's three-week incarceration in 1938; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish vocational training program in Hamburg; working as a locksmith; his father's death in August 1941; his burial in Słu...

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  10. Lilly W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly W., who was born in 1926 in Nagyva?rad (now Oradea), Romania. She recalls her family's strong Hungarian identity; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish regulations; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; transport with her family to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation upon arrival (she never saw them again); the brutal murder of a woman in her group (the last time she cried in a concentration camp); her friendship with her math teacher's wife; transport after three days to Kivio?li; improved conditions; forced labor in the lumber yard; transport to an Ochse...

  11. Martha K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha K., who was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1922 and moved to Budapest, Hungary, at the age of three. She recalls her childhood in Budapest and growing up in two cultures in her family--Jewish and assimilated. She describes the worsening situation of the Jews beginning in 1938, when she had to leave the University of Budapest and learn a trade, and culminating in mass murders and deportations in 1944. Mrs. K. relates the fate of family members, many of whom were murdered in Auschwitz while others survived by living in "safe houses" or using false papers. She detail...

  12. Roziana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roziana B., who was born in Deštnice, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recounts being the only Jewish family in town; their assimilated lifestyle; her mother's death in 1936; her father's remarriage in 1937; attending public school; moving to Žatec; German occupation; her father's friend, who was in the Gestapo, warning him to flee (he did); their arrest on Kristallnacht; being ordered to leave; traveling to the Czech border; being denied entry by Czech officials; incarceration by Germans in Kolešovice, then Karlsbad; release; returning to Žatec, then Deštnice; receiv...

  13. Frantisek K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frantisek K., who was born in Dunajská Streda, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, the youngest of three children. He recounts his siblings were thirteen and fourteen years older than he; his family's affluence; attending a Hungarian-Jewish school; his father's election to city government; his father teaching him German; his sister's marriage in 1933; participating in Jewish scouting; attending a Jewish school in Vrbové in 1936 and 1937 to learn Slovak; friendship with his future wife; Hungarian occupation in 1938; immediate confiscation of his father's bus...

  14. Norman L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls German invasion; moving into the ghetto with his parents; obtaining an apartment by becoming a building manager; starvation and frequent deaths; his depression; the shock of witnessing a brutal killing; his family's deportation to Treblinka (he never saw them again); obtaining a factory job with his friend's assistance; working until November 1942; escaping with assistance from a garbage collector; acquiring false papers from a non-Jewish acquaintance; renting an apartment and selling soap, posing as a non-...

  15. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts attending a public school; participating in a social democratic youth movement, then a Zionist youth group; working as a locksmith; Anschluss; illegally entering Belgium; hiding with friends; moving to a refugee camp in Mechelen to obtain legal papers; training as an agricultural worker; corresponding with his parents; receiving papers; working in Bekkevoort and elsewhere; German invasion; arrest; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor as a gravedigger; tran...

  16. Krystyna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Krystyna G., a Romani who was born in Szczurowa, Poland in 1938. She recalls cordial relations with Poles; on July 3, 1943, the mass killing of the men, then women and children including her parents and siblings; escaping with her grandmother while the Germans were taking a break; returning home; seeing her grandfather's corpse where he had been shot; traveling to Rzemienowice; posing as Poles; moving to Paw?owice; living a year and a half with a Pole who knew their identity; hiding two Jewish men who were shot after leaving; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to ano...

  17. Jiri F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jiri F., who was born in Vysoké Mýto, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1922. He recalls his family's assimilated life; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death when he was nine; attending school; bar mitzvah training in Pardubice; German occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish measures; expulsion from gymnasium in 1940; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Brno until its closure; assistance from non-Jews; forced transfer with his mother and brother to Pardubice; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1942; working as a children's counselor; deport...

  18. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. He describes attending Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing to L'viv, in the Soviet zone, with his father and brother; Soviet occupation; returning to Warsaw in October 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to L'viv via Ma?kinia in spring 1940; arrest of his father and brother in April (he never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; obtaining false papers with assistance from non-Jewish friends in Otwock; ghettoization; the Judenrat and Jewish police assisting in rounding-up Jews; securing food for his mother an...

  19. Genia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia K., who was born in Kolyshki, Belarus in 1924. She recalls living with her grandmother while her parents worked on a collective farm; Soviet bans on religious observances; famine in 1933; studying medicine in Vitsebsk; German invasion in June 1941; returning home; her father's mobilization; ghettoization; mass killings which included relatives; forced labor; two non-Jewish families bringing them food; traveling east to Soviet territory with her aunt and her children; her aunt's hospitalization; bringing her food and assisting the children; her mother's and broth...

  20. Maksim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maksim S., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1921. He recounts acceptance of Jews as Serbs; attending university; joining SKOJ (an illegal communist youth group) in 1937; fellow members including future war heroes and government officials, among them Vlada Aksentijevic? and Marko Nikezic?; German bombardment in April 1941; volunteering for the army with friends; refusal due to their youth; traveling to Uz?ice; encountering a friend from university, Slobodan Penezic?; their return to Belgrade; anti-Jewish restrictions; assistance from non-Jews in bread lines; com...