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  1. Edith G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Ungva?r, Czechoslovakia (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1929, the oldest of three children in an affluent family. She recounts Hungarian occupation; attending a Hungarian school; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her parents and brothers; cousins hiding her during selections; transfer to Stutthof, then another camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; POWs sharing food with them from Red Cross packages; a death march; her cousins supporting her; escaping together; liberation by Sovi...

  2. Ralph A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph A., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1927 and raised in Recklinghausen. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Jewish elementary school; antisemitic harassment in the German high school; arrest of his father and uncle and vandalizing of their home on Kristallnacht; confiscation of their business; release of his father and uncle ten days later; his uncle's emigration to Palestine; anti-Jewish restrictions; attending a Jewish school in Cologne; his bar mitzvah in 1940; deportation with his family to the Ri?ga ghetto in 1942; his transfer to Kaise...

  3. Mikulas H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikulas H., who was born in Levoc?a, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts his parents' and grandparents histories; their assimilated lifestyle; volunteering for the Czech army in September 1938; Slovak independence in March 1939; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from university; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade for forced labor in September 1941; assignments in Humenne?, Vranov, and Sva?ty? Jur; learning of his parents' deportation in 1942; deserting using false papers; resistance activities; observing a cattle train of Jews from Salonika at the st...

  4. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1938. She recounts her mother's descriptions of an affluent life amidst a large, extended family; ghettoization; her father buying false papers for her and her mother; escaping with her mother (she never saw her father again); living with a non-Jewish family in Lublin; leaving due to fear of exposure; traveling on trains because her mother did not know what else to do; a non-Jewish woman offering them shelter in Warsaw; leaving when the woman's husband thought they were Jews; her mother working as a maid; changing jobs freque...

  5. Annie K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annie K., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1936. She recalls her maternal grandfather living with them; German invasion in May 1940; her family's aborted escape attempt to France, ending in De Panne; returning home; anti-Jewish measures, including wearing the star; her father's flight to France; beating of her mother and grandfather by Germans; being smuggled to France with her mother and friends; reunion with her father; their internment in Rivesaltes; her release as a child; being hidden in a children's home in Vendine for eight months; her parents arranging her ...

  6. Zvi A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi A., who was born in Beodra, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Novo Miloševo, Serbia), in 1913, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty and Hasidism; attending school in Kikinda, and Veliki Beckerek (Zrenjanin); antisemitic harassment; moving to Belgrade; studying under Rabbi Mortiz Levi and others at a Jewish seminary in Sarajevo; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; relocating to Budapest; ordination after completing his studies in 1940; his rabbinical position in Veliki Beckerek; military draft; serving in Skopje and Štip; German invasion in Apri...

  7. David R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Lublin, Russia (presently Poland) in 1913, one of three children. He recalls expulsion from the Hebrew gymnasium due to his participation in illegal communist activities; imprisonment in Bi︠a︡roza, Rawicz, and Koronowo; forced labor; escaping during the 1939 German invasion; returning to Lublin; smuggling pigs from Mełgiew to support his family; escaping when Germans came for him; arranging for Polish friends to hide him and his family in Trzeszkowice, then in Mełgiew; obtaining false papers for all of them; traveling to Lublin with his mothe...

  8. Susan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938. She recounts her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; his return a few months later; his conscription in May 1942 (she never saw him again); German occupation in March 1944; her mother obtaining Catholic baptismal papers for them in October; their move to a Swedish safe house; bringing food to her grandmother in the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; her mother bribing a Hungarian policeman with her wedding ring during a round-up; hiding, beginning in November, in a factory, then an apartment; lib...

  9. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Drui?sk, Belarus in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; her father's good business relations with non-Jews; German invasion in July 1941; transfer of the Jews out of town; her father arranging their transfer to the Braslau? ghetto rather than another rumored to be worse; hiding with many others during a round-up; a cousin having to suffocate her child to prevent their discovery; escaping; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer her father knew; leaving when the neighbors found out; hiding in the woods, then with another non-Jewish family; part ...

  10. Beatrice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice B., who was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. She recounts her parents' emigration to the United States in 1900; her mother's return with three children in 1911; her father's return after World War I; their affluence; living in Solotvyno; siblings emigrating to the United States; her father's death in 1939; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; remaining with one sister (she never saw her mother or younger si...

  11. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Zambro?w, Poland in 1926. One of three brothers, he describes his large, extended family; German occupation in September 1939, followed by Soviet occupation; his continued school attendance; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's round-up by German troops (they never saw him again); collection of all Jews in August; mass killing of the elderly outside of town and ghettoization of the remainder; forced labor; transfer in November 1942 to an abandoned Polish army barrack; his escape and discovery one week later; a...

  12. Samuil K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuil K., who was born in Uzda, Belarus in 1924. He recalls suppression of Jewish religious observances by the Soviets; a close relationship with his paternal grandparents; German invasion in June 1941 while in Minsk with his father; returning home by foot; fleeing with his family to Shat︠s︡ʹk; German orders to return home; ghettoization; forced labor; separation as skilled workers prior to a mass killing in October 1941; a German officer befriending his father and providing food for them; transport with his family to the Minsk ghetto in February 1942; hiding during ...

  13. Rikki R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rikki R., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1927. She recalls a happy childhood in a close, Orthodox family; German invasion in 1941; expulsion from school; termination of her father's government job; his arrest with her older brother in October (she never saw them again); hiding with her mother, younger brother, and grandmother in her aunt's house with assistance from Muslim neighbors; escaping to Mostar in February 1942 using false papers supplied by Muslims; internment with her family by Italian forces on Hvar Island in September; their transfer to Rab Island...

  14. Miroslava H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miroslava H., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1932 to a Jewish father and Serbian mother who had converted to Judaism. She recalls her father's and grandfather's orthodoxy; German occupation; expulsion from school; confiscation of the family businesses and their house in Banovo Brdo; her father's forced labor; she and her two sisters staying with her mother's non-Jewish family after her parents fled; after a few days, the relatives refusing to let them stay; returning to their apartment; her parents' return after learning what happened; her father's incarcerat...

  15. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liber...

  16. Yugoslav Voices from the Holocaust /

    Many aspects of the history of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia are told through the voices of those that survived it. This edited program includes excerpts of Jews rescued by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; a Serbian non-Jewish rescuer whose husband was shot for hiding Jews; survivors of concentration camps in Yugoslavia; those deported elsewhere; camp escapees; and partisans. The survivor and witness testimonies were recorded in the United States, Israel, and the former Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1996. They tell of the Sephardic Jewish community before the war, life under the Nazis, l...

  17. Galina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Galina K., who was born in Pyatigory, Ukraine in 1923. She recalls her family's move to Munus (Crimea) during the famine; returning to Pyatigory in 1935; celebrating Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; graduating from high school in June 1941; German invasion; encountering Germans while fleeing east with her parents; returning home; her father's draft into the Soviet army; Germans killing her brother and uncle in front of them; burying them with assistance from non-Jews; forced labor; imprisonment in Zhashkov in spring 1942; a forced march to Buki; slave...

  18. Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in a village in Slovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death; attending school in Pres?ov and synagogue in Tern?a; participating in Maccabi; working on a hachsharah; military draft in 1936; demobilization in 1939; a sister's deportation; deportation with his family to Sabinov, then Pres?ov, in May 1942; transfer to Z?ilina, then a ghetto in Poland; selection for slave labor (he never saw his family again); receiving food from non-Jews; escaping with two others; traveling ...

  19. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Drohobych, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1931, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; Soviet occupation in September 1939; moving to avoid deportation to Siberia; German invasion in 1941; an immediate pogrom; hiding with non-Jews for three days; her brother's illness and death; her father and sister obtaining jobs exempting them from deportation; her father trading goods for food; hiding with her mother during round-ups; organizing classes with other children; her father obtaining work papers for her as a kitchen...

  20. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Paliseul, Belgium in 1917, one of two sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; living with an aunt in Bastogne; attending school in Boullion (his neighbor was Léon Degrelle); living in Sugny; enlisting in the military in 1936; assignment to barracks in Liège; marriage in June 1939; German invasion; his wife fleeing to England; brief capture as a prisoner of war; returning to Antwerp; recapture; forced farm labor in Meldorf; release; joining his father in Bastogne; repairing radios to provide access to the BBC; hiding membe...