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  1. Chaia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaia G., who was born in Kraśnik, Poland in approximately 1933. She recounts having very few memories of life before the war; her close relationship with their Polish maid; German invasion; fear during round-ups; her family hoarding food and burying valuables; her father, brother, and two uncles entering Budzyń; her father arranging for her to live with their maid in a nearby village; denouncement; incarceration in the Kraśnik synagogue; a Jewish official securing her release; hiding in a pigsty owned by her father's friend, then again with her maid; imprisonment ...

  2. Celina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina L., who was born in Zbaraz?h?, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's Zionist commitment; her father's military career; German invasion; Soviet occupation; fleeing to L'viv with her parents in 1940 to avoid Soviet deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to her father in Janowska; her mother arranging her escape to Zbaraz?h? with a non-Jew; living with her uncle and aunt; hiding during round-ups; her uncle arranging to hide her with a Ukrainian woman in Mala Berezovyt?s?i?a?; leaving when villagers became suspicious; rejecting an...

  3. Salomon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon W., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; the deaths of younger siblings; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; trying to return to Pu?tusk; learning en route that all Jews had been expelled to the Soviet zone; staying with a cousin in Ciechano?w; German book burnings; smuggling themselves to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; attending Yiddish school; deportation to a refugee camp near Arkhangel?sk; attending school while his parents worked; moving briefly to Novosibirsk in mid-1941; living in Shymkent and Lenger...

  4. Felice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felice S., who was born in Walldu?rn, Germany in 1939. She recounts her family's deportation to Gurs in October 1940; placement, with her sister, in an OSE home in Limoges; living with the Patoux family in La Caillaudie?re; not knowing she was Jewish; her sister briefly joining her; the end of the war; placement in an orphanage in Draveil, which she does not remember, then in an OSE orphanage in Taverny; a close relationship with a counselor; Jewish education; emigration to the United States in 1951; placement in several homes and a JCAA home; separation from her sist...

  5. Irena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena S., who was born in approximately 1941. She recounts learning at age twenty-seven that she may have been born in Poland; being left in Slovakia in September 1943 when she was very ill (she speculates her biological parents were attempting to escape to Hungary); a Jewish man taking her and promising to send her to her parents when she recovered; the town doctor placing her with a Jewish couple; obtaining false papers through her foster mother's sister; bonding with her foster parents within a month; learning Germans were approaching; the adults deciding to hide i...

  6. Sidney M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidney M., who was born in Chynadiyovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his father's cattle business; working in Mukacheve; returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor in Bukovina; being moved several times between Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; once seeing his brother in another battalion; escaping in fall 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been deported around Passover (they did not return); finding...

  7. Regina H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina H., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in approximately 1926, the youngest of six children in an affluent family. She recalls speaking Yiddish at home, attending a Jewish girls' school taught in Polish; learning Hebrew at Beit Yacov; fleeing with her family to Olkusz during the German invasion; returning home; hiding during a round-up with assistance from their non-Jewish janitor; forced relocation; living with a Polish woman who helped them a great deal; separation from her family when she was deported to Sosnowiec, then Gru?nberg; slave labor in a textile factor...

  8. Viola O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viola O., who was born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1928, one of six children. She recalls holiday gatherings at their home; Hungarian occupation; four siblings living in Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her expulsion from school; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her brother and parents (she never saw them again); assignment with three cousins to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); their transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a factory; being bitten by a guard dog; liberation by Soviet troops; traveli...

  9. Rudi F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudi F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, one of nine children. He recounts his family's move to Vișeu de Sus when he was about five; attending cheder, Romanian public school, then yeshiva; apprenticeships as a mechanic and barber; living with a sister in Arad; working at her husband's barber shop; antisemitic harassment; participating in Gordonyah; Hungarian occupation; returning to Vișeu de Sus; moving to Budapest; studying singing; a brother and sister joining him; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; slave labor in Kőszeg and Uzhok; f...

  10. Zeev F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's affluence; his sister's birth in 1930; attending a Jewish private school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business and schools closing; ghettoization; severe hunger and cold; working in a sewing workshop; his father's death; his father's friend arranging his reassignment to a kitchen, thus providing the family with more food; joining Hashomer Hatzair, an "oasis" in a horrible environment; meeting his future wife at a meeting; rea...

  11. Chawka R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chawka R., who was born in approximately 1925. She recalls living in Warsaw in a secular, Zionist home; bombings during the German invasion; ghettoization; organizing a Deror school; joining the underground; circulating clandestine papers; an aunt leaving her baby outside of the ghetto; nuns sheltering the baby, who survived; living in a Zionist commune; her father's displeasure that she did not stay with the family; leaving the ghetto as an underground courier using false papers; bringing food back for her family; smuggling papers and weapons; observing a mass killin...

  12. Paulina I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Polish school; observing antisemitism at school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and two sisters emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; another brother's premature death; her brother's visit from Palestine in 1938 (he urged them to emigrate but her father refused); German invasion; fleeing without her parents' knowledge; living in Białystok, Minsk, and Orsha; working at a Soviet factory; returning to Białystok; deportation with her boyfriend to a ...

  13. Johanna C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Johanna C., who was born in Munich in 1919 of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She tells of her well-to-do, nonreligious upbringing in Schwabing; her relationship with her parents and their attitudes toward Judaism; and her own feelings about not having a Jewish education. She describes prejudice within her school and the rise of Nazism as coinciding with her growing awareness of being Jewish; her attitude towards Hitler; and the conflict with her parents over her desire to emigrate. She was arrested twice and describes her feelings about those incidents as well...

  14. Alexander R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander R., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. Mr. R. recalls his youth in a prominent, assimilated family; loss of the family shoe store during the 1919 Communist regime; suppression of the Communists; return of the family business; antisemitism in school and university admissions; law studies; and receiving his doctorate in 1930. He recounts his law apprenticeship with a Jewish politician; military service starting in 1931; attending officer candidate school; antisemitic incidents; discharge in 1932; return to law practice; the political shift to the right...

  15. Dietrich G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dietrich G., who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in 1914. Mr. G. speaks of his family's move to Potsdam in 1924; his Christian mother and Jewish father (he had converted to Christianity); his father losing his government job; an unsuccessful police search of the house for his father on Kristallnacht; his father's departure to Britain in 1939 (he later perished in an air raid); and the outbreak of war preventing his mother and him from emigrating. He recalls wartime Berlin;, efforts to be inconspicuous; joining a Confessional Church group which rescued Jews;...

  16. Henry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry M., born in approximately 1915, one of nine children. He recalls living on a farm in Ti?a?chiv, Czechoslovakia; his family's orthodoxy and Zionism; apprenticing as a tailor; cordial relations with non-Jews; draft into the Czech military in 1937; German annexation in 1938; returning home; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Kyjov and Dormitz; returning home in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his father, brothers, and uncle; slave labor cutting hay; seeing his sisters in an...

  18. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1933. She recalls a large, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to De Panne, Dunkerque, and Boulogne with her parents; their return to Brussels; anti-Jewish regulations; her parents' decision not to register as Jews; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors during round-ups in 1942 and 1943; being sent to camp in Seny for two weeks; living with her cousin in Waterloo; her mother arranging for her to live with two women who hid Jewish children; attending a Catholic boarding school from ...

  19. Herman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recounts that his parents were divorced; living with his mother; attending public school until 1935; transferring to a Jewish school due to anti-Jewish laws; destruction of his mother's furniture store on Kristallnacht; being sent with his younger brother to an uncle in Brussels; living with relatives in Antwerp, Brunoy, then being returned to Antwerp; learning his mother had emigrated to England and his father to Palestine; German invasion in 1940; he and his brother living on their own; being caught in a round-u...

  20. Cecille B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecille B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austria in 1898. Mrs. B. describes her family; her brother, who left for the United States in 1907; moving to Mannheim, where her father worked for prominent relatives; meeting her husband, a Polish citizen; the birth of her son and daughter; citizenship problems due to the transfer of the city of Czernowitz from Austria to Romania; meeting Nahum Goldman in 1924, and asking his assistance in obtaining citizenship papers. She relates changes resulting from Hitler's rise to power; she and her husband losing their business in 1938;...