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  1. Yosef D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef D., who was born in Vel'ký Meder, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of four children. He recounts his father's service as a Hungarian officer; attending local public school, then gymnasium in Bratislava; Hungarian occupation; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1939; studying at a technical school in Vitkovice; returning home; working for an uncle in Pápa until his business was forced to close; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning home; obtaining work in a factory in Budapest through Hashomer; his non-Jewish landlord warning him of a...

  2. Mickal E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mickal E., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Czech school; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; expulsion from school in March 1939 due to German occupation; confiscation of the family's business; moving in with her grandparents; her father's deportation for forced labor, her mother leaving to earn money in Prague, and her brother moving to a hachshara; forming a subgroup with four other girls within th...

  3. Viera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viera B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. She recounts growing up in Trenčianské Teplice, where her father was a physician in a spa; her brother's birth in March 1939, the same day as Slovak independence; anti-Jewish laws including a prohibition on her father practicing medicine and confiscation of their apartment; converting to Christianity, hoping to save themselves; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); her mother's hospitalization, then deportation in October 1942 (she did not return); living with her grandm...

  4. Celia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia D., who was born in P?ock, Poland. She recalls her affluent childhood; withdrawing from school due to antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with her brother to Ga?bin; returning home; ghettoization; receiving food from non-Jewish friends; forced labor; fleeing with her father and brother to Warsaw; her father's death from cancer; returning home with her brother in spring 1940; a round-up including two younger brothers; deportation with her mother and other siblings to Soldau-Dzia?dowo in winter 1941; transport to Stopnica ten days la...

  5. Georg P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georg P., who was born in Rakovni?k, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending high school; visiting Prague frequently; his family's desire to leave after the Munich agreement; arranging to attend New York University with assistance from his uncle in New York; obtaining a visa from German authorities in Prague in September 1939; emigration to the United States; and corresponding with his family until the United States entered the war in 1941. Mr. P. discusses learning from a cousin that his parents and sisters were killed in Auschwitz; receiving his sister's diary...

  6. Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alzbeta D., a Romani, who was born in Dlhé nad Cirochou, Czechoslovakia in 1929, one of nine children. She recounts her father was a blacksmith; cordial relations with Jews; deportation of all the Romanies in town to Dubnica nad Váhom; harsh conditions; a guard who had known her relatives warning her not to reveal when they were sick since the sick were killed; warning everyone else; shootings and beatings by Hlinka guards; punishment of a man in February who had to strip and jump into a cesspool (he died); liberation by Soviet troops in winter; fleeing through the ...

  7. Israel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel K., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, one of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish schools; his family's orthodoxy; German invasion in September 1939; his father fleeing when the Germans wanted him to head the Jewish Council; ghettoization in October; forced labor; trading outside the ghetto using false papers; his father's return; a brother and brother's wife being shot in May 1942; hiding in a bunker with his parents and sister during the ghetto's liquidation; leaving the bunker with his sister (he never saw his parents again); slav...

  8. Abe L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe L., who was born in a small town near Vilna, Poland in 1925. He recalls poverty in the shtetl; attending Yeshiva for one year; prohibitions against Jewish land ownership in the late 1930s; schooling from 1939-1941 under Soviet occupation; arrival of German troops in July 1941; immediate killing of Jews; imposition of forced labor; round-ups of Jews from surrounding areas; living in ghettos in Kozyany and Szarkowzczyzna; and mass killings (including two nephews), carried out by local Lithuanians and White Russians, beginning in spring 1942. He describes the formati...

  9. Fred O. edited testimony

    Fred O., a physician, recalls the health problems resulting from pervasive lice in the Warsaw and Hrubieszów ghettos. He describes his futile attempt to save his parents and the last time he saw them before their murder at a mass grave outside of Hrubieszów, then discusses his sadness at liberation, and others taking revenge on their guards. Dr. O. reflects upon the inadequacy of language to convey his experience to others.

  10. Rolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recounts his assimilated family's affluence; his parents' divorce; attending gymnasium; business training in Breslau, Du?sseldorf, Berlin, and Bremen; termination because he was Jewish; working in his father's business in Auerbach; his father's death in 1934; economic and social problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; returning to Berlin; a warning about Kristallnacht; hiding with his brother's friend; obtaining immigration papers for San Salvador from his half-brother who was there; his brother's emigration to ...

  11. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Leles, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, one of five children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's death in 1929; completing high school; learning tailoring; Hungarian occupation in 1940; deportation to Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in March 1944, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and aunt (they were gassed immediately); transfer to Buna/Monowitz with his younger brother; slave labor for I.G. Farben; receiving extra food from a kapo; sharing food with his brother; public hangings of escapees and a few ...

  12. Henry E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry E., who was born in 1919 in Krako?w, Poland, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending cheder; his father's death when he was nine; attending public school, then a Jewish high school; participating in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Lublin; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; a Pole hiding his mother during a selection; learning his brother and his children had been killed while in hiding; his sister's deportation with her children (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation; his de...

  13. Sophie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. She recalls growing up in Tarnobrzeg; German occupation; fleeing with her family to Radomys?l, then Mielec; carrying wood and digging ditches in 1941; forced transfer with her parents and sister by cattle car to Mie?dzyrzecz in March 1942; obtaining an outside job with her sister; visiting her parents; sharing food with her father; learning of the massacres of Jews in Mie?dzyrzecz; being hidden with her sister by a Polish civil officer; fleeing to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; briefly meeting her brother in Radomys?l (...

  14. Bernard S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard S., who was born in Sofiïvka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of six children. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; a mass killing including his father; stealing food for his family; fleeing with others when they saw trucks entering the village; learning there had been a mass killing including his family; hiding in the forest; receiving food from his former Polish employer; returning to his town after a month; escaping to the forest with a woman and her children; building a bunker; moving often; obtaining food from Polis...

  15. Karolyn F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karolyn F., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria) in 1909. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; the Anschluss; observing a speech by Hitler; assistance from their non-Jewish building superintendent; joining a group emigrating to Palestine; their failed attempt to enter Italy, then a difficult ship journey to Palestine; reunion with a brother on one of the ships; living on a kibbutz; difficult relations with the British; attacks by Arabs; the births of two sons; and emigration to the United States to joi...

  16. Fred R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred R., who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1921 and served in the Ninth Army Air Force during World War II. He recalls pilot training in 1942-1943; being stationed in Folkingham, England; transporting supplies and wounded after Normandy; being shot down and captured on September 14, 1944 during a paratrooper drop for Operation Market Garden; and the month-long transfer to Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany. Mr. R. describes the camp of approximately 9,000, primarily American Air Force officers; the prisoner chain of command; sports and educational activities; un...

  17. Nelly M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nelly M., who was born deaf in Vienna, Austria in 1929. Mrs. F. describes her household comprised of her deaf uncle, mother, and younger sister, and her hearing grandmother; attending a school for the deaf at about age three; learning to read lips; and her mother's divorce (her father was deaf). She recalls the Nazi arrival in Vienna; being forced to leave school; teachers advising her mother to leave Austria; seeing signs in parks and movies reading "Jews forbidden"; an assault by a Nazi youth; witnessing the public humiliation of older Jewish men; learning to read E...

  18. Henrich F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henrich F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, the older of two sons. He recalls a close, extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; conversion to Evangelical Christrianity in 1940; attending a state school; more teachers wearing Hlinka guard uniforms as time passed; expulsion from school because he was a "new" Christian; eviction from their home; an Aryan taking over the family business; his parents continuing to work there; the new owner shielding them from deportations; visiting relatives in Nitra; attending an Evangelic...

  19. Rose M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose M., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1933. She recalls moving to Brussels in 1938; German invasion in 1940; fleeing on foot to Paris with her mother; returning to Brussels; learning her sister had been killed with relatives in France; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish day camp; her mother's friend meeting her when she returned home to take her away (their apartment had been sealed by the Nazis and she never saw her parents again); placement in a convent in Louvain; nuns tutoring them to participate in mass (there wer...

  20. Noah K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Noah K., who was born in Slonim, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1909, one of five children. He recounts participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending Polish gymnasium in Baranavichy; completing medical school in Vilnius; antisemitic harassment by Polish students; marriage; studying a year in Warsaw; working in Vilnius hospitals; starting private practice in Skidelʹ in 1936; his son's birth; moving to Slonim; Soviet occupation; his daughter's birth; his son's illness; his wife and son going to a sanatorium in Crimea; attending a conference in Minsk in mid-June 1941; trav...