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  1. Ervin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin S., a non-Jew, who was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his family's poverty; his father's communist activities; their anti-Nazi activities; his father's enlistment in the Czech military; his father's arrest by the Gestapo; having to join the Hitler Youth, then the Wehrmacht; capture in Italy by United States troops in February 1945; incarceration as a POW in Livorno and Naples; release in 1947; prohibition from returning to Czechoslovakia because he had served in the Wehrmacht; illegally crossing the border; reunion with his family; and recei...

  2. Ruth A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth A., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family moving to Warsaw; German occupation in 1939; ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; escaping to Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski with her mother and sister; working for a farmer who hid her Jewish identity; learning her sister and aunt were deported to Treblinka and her mother shot on the way; working on another farm for two months; being identified as a Jew; returning to the Mie?dzyrzec ghetto; following her German friend's advice to volunteer as a Polish slave laborer in order to get to German...

  3. Dov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1913, one of six children in an orthodox family. He recounts attending cheder, yeshivas in Khust and Galanta, then a Jewish gymnasium in Brno; night work in a factory to support himself; attending an agricultural school in Tábor to prepare for emigration to Palestine; participating in Hechalutz; graduation in 1932; military draft; continuing contact with Hechalutz; discharge in 1936; returning home briefly; working in Prague; training at a kibbutz in Plzeň; military recall in 1938; his posting in Košice; his ...

  4. Jack H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1929, one of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence and orthodoxy; his father and four siblings emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's return with his youngest brother in 1938; attending public school and a cheder; Hungarian occupation; German invasion; ghettoization in Vis?eu de Sus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his parents' selection for gassing; remaining with three brothers; interactions with Jews from many countries; their transfer to Do?rnhau, then a slave labor camp in Silesia; beatings and st...

  5. Pauline B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline B., who was born in Li︠u︡bomlʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the fifth of six daughters. She recounts attending Yiddish, then public school; antisemitic harassment; her mother's death when she was six; moving to her grandparents with an older sister; one aunt, who was like a mother to her, emigrating to Argentina; Soviet occupation; placement with her sister in an orphanage; evacuation by Soviet troops when the Germans invaded; being wounded en route; staying in Volgograd (Stalingrad) for a week; transfer to Siberia; living in an orphanage; moving with ...

  6. Nathan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland, in 1930 and moved to Krako?w at the age of three. He tells of the deaths of his mother and grandmother in 1938; the outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation; and his dismissal from public school. He relates the establishment of the P?aszo?w camp on the site of the Jewish cemetery; his and his father's transport in March 1940 to Kras?nik, near Lublin, where they joined his older brother; their internment in the Be?z?yce ghetto; and ghetto life, which was characterized by round-ups, deportations and random violence. He de...

  7. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  8. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Lazdijai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending cheder; his family's expulsion during World War I; their return; attending Hebrew high school in Marijampolė; participating in Maccabi; leading the Lithuanian team in the 1932 Tel Aviv Makabiyah; attending the University of Pittsburgh; his father's death; returning home; completing law school in Kaunas; antisemitic harassment by university officials; marriage in 1935; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva; Soviet occupation in June 1940; worki...

  9. Helena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena B., a non-Jew, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. She recalls her family's history of socialist activism; cordial relations with assimilated Jews; friendship with a girl from a Hasidic family; her father's open opposition to antisemitism resulting in his job termination; German invasion; humiliating treatment of Jews by German soldiers; visiting friends in the ghetto; observing starving children, corpses on the street, and lack of sanitation; providing shelter for Jews, some of whom were later arrested and killed; her parents, fearing informants, sending h...

  10. Leon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon W., who was born in Stoyano?v, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to L?vov in 1934; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; arrest with his father and one brother; release three days later; learning most of those arrested had been shot; forced labor; and incarceration in Janowska in 1942. Mr. W. tells of working as a glazier; catching typhus which resulted in his selection; watching those in front being shot in a mass grave; being called out to remove corpses to the mass grave; and escaping by running into a large group of prisoners. He describes esc...

  11. Stanley S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley S., who was born in Nelipino, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodox observances; attending school in Mukacheve; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; lack of knowledge of Jewish persecution elsewhere; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; working in an airplane factory on Csepel Island; punishment for smuggling; escape in October 1944; obtaining a Swedish passport from Raoul Wallenberg; hiding in a Swedish safe house in Budapest; arrest by the Arrow Cross (Nyilaskeresztes Pa?rt); deportation to...

  12. Coenraad R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Coenraad R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1917, one of six children. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony, Mr. R. recounts forced labor building a canal in Staphorst; his wife smuggling him food; working as a nurse in Westerbork; his wife sending him food; slave labor in many camps; sharing extra food he received for tailoring; and Czechs throwing them food when they were transferred in open train cars. He shows photographs and documents.

  13. Ilona T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilona T., who was born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. She notes her town had twenty-five Jewish families; cordial relations with non-Jews; her mother's death when she was nine; her father's loving care; Hungarian occupation in 1939; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in spring 1944; deportation to Irshava, then a week later to the Munkács ghetto; her father giving his food to her and her siblings; deportation to Auschwitz three weeks later; separation from her father and brothers upon arrival (she never saw them again); remainin...

  14. Catina P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Catina P., who was born in Chios, Greece in 1922, one of four sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was four; moving to Athens; speaking Ladino at home; attending a Jewish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; defying an order for Jews to assemble at the synagogue in 1943; her family hiding separately with non-Jewish friends; visiting her mother and sisters; moving a few times, fearing exposure; observing Jewish deportations from afar; marriage in 1954; and emigration to Brussels. Ms. P. discusses the families...

  15. Beatrice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice R., who was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls moving to Staneshti De-Sus so her grandparents could help them (her father was severely injured in World War I); celebrating Jewish holidays; attending school in Chernivt?s?i; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; walking home with a cousin to Staneshti De-Sus; being saved from a round-up by the local population by her father's colleague; joining her father when he was arrested; being saved by the Romanian police chief who knew their family; fleeing to Chernivt?s?i; obtaining f...

  16. Julianna L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julianna L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. In this exceptionally detailed testimony, she recalls a comfortable lifestyle; special privileges due to her father's distinguished service as an officer in World War I; Austrian Jews' disdain for Polish Jews; her family's inability to emigrate to Czechoslovakia after the Anschluss (her mother's family was Czech) due to German occupation of the Sudetenland; watching torchlight Nazi parades; and compulsory "Heil Hitler"'s in school. Mrs. L. remembers her father obtaining United States telephone books and writing let...

  17. Mark K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark K., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1911, one of four children. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; marriage; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a mass killing of Jews by local Ukrainians; working in the oil refineries; the murders of his parents, brother, and one sister; ghettoization; asking his boss to hide his wife; building a bunker at the house of a non-Jewish woman who agreed to hide his wife and sisters (they stayed there for two years); continuing to work in the oil refinery; escaping from a mass killing; joining ...

  18. Herman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in approximately 1925, the only child of a wealthy family. He recounts attending private school; antisemitic harassment; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; his mother's efforts to hide their assets (gold, diamonds, etc.) in clothing and on their bodies; ghettoization; attending school until it closed; working in offices; his mother's selection for deportation (she bribed her way out); her death; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Gleiwitz several days later; slave labor digging ditches; briefly escaping fr...

  19. Rene?e H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e H., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1933. She recalls her childhood in German-occupied Bratislava, where, as the "ears" of her deaf parents and younger sister, she gathered information and alerted them to immediate dangers. She speaks of her and her sister's flight from Bratislava and hiding with a farm family; the ordeal of finding shelter after being evicted from the farm following their parents' deportation; and their voluntary surrender to the police in hopes of locating their parents. She relates her disappointment when she and her sister we...

  20. Hugh J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugh J., who was born in Leicester, England in 1916. He relates being a pacifist; assignment to agricultural work as a conscientious objector; volunteering for relief work with the Friends Service Committee; assignment to a team of twelve in continental Europe; driving a truck; being sent to Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation; shock at seeing corpses everywhere and the debilitated state of some prisoners; first bringing the children to a nearby hospital camp, then the other prisoners, the healthiest first since they had the best chance of surviving; driving hi...