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  1. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. He recalls not understanding why he had to change schools after the Anschluss; his family's illegal emigration to Brussels; extended family following; fleeing to Arras, France during German invasion in 1940; arrest by the French due to their German accents; release by the Germans; returning to Brussels; deportation with his parents to Malines in August 1942, then eastward; removal from the train of men aged eighteen to forty-five, including him and his father (they never saw his mother again); slave labo...

  2. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children in an orthodox family. She recalls fleeing toward Krako?w when Germany invaded in 1939; living there briefly with relatives; returning home; moving in with relatives (their house and business had been pillaged); her parents' deportation in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated; discovering her sister and brother had been deported; her deportation to Sosnowiec, then Neusalz; slave labor in a thread factory; a death march; obtaining food for herself and a friend; briefly staying in Gross-Rose...

  3. Ivan I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan I., who was born in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1929. He recounts cordial relations in an ethnically and religiously diverse community; his family's conversion to Christianity; their German affinity (his parents and grandfather attended German medical schools); his father's military service; German invasion in April 1941; his paternal grandparents' suicide; his aunt from Hungarian-occupied Novi Sad bringing him and his sister to live with her (he never saw his parents again); attending gymnasium using his baptismal papers; a massacre of Jews and S...

  4. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-717), Mr. P. recounts a forced march to Siedlce, then Ostro?e?ka in 1939; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to ?osice with his sister and brother-in-law en route to Soviet-occupied territory; working as a Soviet policeman after the war; deserting in April 1945; traveling to Lublin; obtaining false papers from an official; and traveling west to Katowice, then Wroc?aw.

  5. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. Ms. G. recounts her father's parents were Jewish, but he had been baptized, and her mother was a German Christian; their divorce in 1935; joining the Bund Deutscher Ma?del (BDM); her father's arrest in 1938 for marrying a non-Jewish German; his release and emigration to Bolivia in 1940; her paternal grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt (she never saw her again); expulsion from the BDM and school in 1942 due to the Nuremberg laws; mandatory domestic work for a year; assignment to a lab...

  6. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...

  7. Hana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana K., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielke, Poland in 1926 to a family of eight children. She recalls her father's death in 1930; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; deportation of two of her brothers; escaping during a round-up by Jewish police; forced factory work in the ghetto; obtaining a job for her mother to protect her from deportation; hiding with a sister during the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with her sisters to a shoe factory (she never saw her mother and brothers again); forced labor in Ludwigsdorf; liberation; marriage; traveling with her husb...

  8. Jaire J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaire J., who was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls attending university; his Hungarian patriotism; working as a textile engineer; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1938; brief draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions in 1940 and 1941; being recalled in 1942; serving in Kiev and on the Russian front doing menial and dangerous labor; a humane supervisor; escaping with a large group in 1944; entering Majdanek shortly after its liberation; realizing the immense Jewish destruction; being sent to a forced labor camp in Siberia; release in 1946...

  9. Willi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willi E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany in 1927. He remembers traveling and performing prior to Hitler's ascent to power; racial laws requiring them to live in barracks in 1937-1938; persecution of Jews; deportation of young Romani men; his deportation to a prison camp in Bia?ystok; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in Brzesc Litewski (Brest); deportation to Auschwitz in 1943 (his mother and two siblings were gassed); slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops in 1945; searching for relatives; marriage; and postwar h...

  10. Rudy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy F., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1922, the older of two children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their affluence; attending a Czech, then a Hebrew school; belonging to Betar; his parents' many charitable acts; Hungarian occupation in 1938; antisemitism among his peers; the brutality of the Hungarian field police; draft with his uncle into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; assignments in Szombathely, Uz?h?horod, and other locations; working for Organisation Todt; transfer to Gunskirchen, then Mauthausen; death march...

  11. Maurice M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his confusion at the arrival of Jews expelled from Germany; German invasion; deportation to a labor camp in November 1939; his mother arranging his escape to Tarno?w by bribing a German; living with his brother and sister in Niepo?omice; an emotional meeting with his mother outside the ghetto with assistance from a German (he never saw her again); digging mass graves and burying corpses in Wieliczka; transfer to P?aszo?w; working for a cable factory; joining his brother in the Krako?w ghetto with assistan...

  12. Heinz K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz K., who was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He describes growing up in Thessalonike?; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; his parents' assignment as translators (he and his family spoke German); a death march and train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; looking for his mother and sister en route (he did not find them); transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; separation from his father; hospitalization; and liberation by United States troops.

  13. Etka W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etka W., who was born in Brzesko Nowe, Poland, in 1925. Mrs. W. speaks of her orthodox childhood in a small village; stealing into a church to observe a Catholic wedding; anti-Semitic measures after the German occupation; concealing her yellow star; her father's attempts to provide kosher meat to customers; and hiding with her family in late 1942 in the attic of a Polish farmer. She tells of another Jewish woman and child whom the farmer fed; almost being discovered when the farmer came under suspicion; staying in the attic until April 1945 (two months after liberatio...

  14. Louise J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louise J., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1925. She recalls a happy childhood in an affluent family; growing antisemitism in the late 1930s; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups, having been warned through her father's connections with the Judenrat; transfer to P?aszo?w in March 1943; separation from her father and brother; slave labor in an ammunition factory; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); random killings and beatings by the Kommandant, Amon Goeth; public hangings; working briefly in Wieliczka with he...

  15. Hermina A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hermina A., who was born to a Roman Catholic family in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1919. She recalls wonderful relations with Jews; German invasion; marriage in 1941; her son's birth in 1942; her brothers' compulsory forced labor in Germany; her husband obtaining false papers to leave Holland to escape forced labor; observing Jews disappearing; joining an underground unit; acting as a courier; capture; arranging for her son to be with her parents; imprisonment and torture in Amsterdam and Arnhem; not divulging any names she knew; transfer to Vught after several months; ...

  16. Edgar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edgar A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He describes moving to Warsaw with his family in 1934 due to antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation and deportations; along with his mother, sister and aunt, being exempted from deportation due to his aunt's position as head of the children's hospital; participating in a classical orchestra; his sister's death; his father's escape to the Aryan side in January 1943; joining his father and aunt outside the ghetto; hiding with his father and aunt in a Polish friend's apartment ...

  17. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., who was born in Mo?nchengladbach, Germany in 1920. He describes his assimilated family background; his bar mitzvah in 1933; disbelief anything would happen to them because his father was a World War I veteran; changes beginning in 1934; the Nuremberg laws; his brother's emigration to England in 1937; his parents' arranging to ship their possessions to the United States; obtaining passports; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Dachau; and emigrating to the United States after his father's release in June 1940. Mr. W. discusses how appeali...

  18. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Bez?ovce, Czechoslovakia in 1916. He tells of moving to Uz?h?horod in 1920; attending public and Hebrew school; the beauty and peace of their Shabbat observance; being stabbed by another boy in an anti-Semitic incident; studying at the Yeshivas in Mukachevo and Bratislava; and leaving in 1938 because of the Hungarian occupation of his hometown. He describes being drafted into a Hungarian labor battalion; working in many places in Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine; harsh conditions and lack of food; working in Budapest where he could leave t...

  19. Theodore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theodore P., who served in the United States 3rd Army. He recounts being trained to interrogate German POWs; deployment to Europe in October 1944; moving through France; assignment to the 261st regiment; front line interrogations in Germany; entering Ohrdruf hours after liberation; corpses stacked "like wood"; a prisoner showing him a mass killing site; shock at the condition of the prisoners and learning of their experiences; local Germans denying knowledge of the camp; traveling to Mauthausen weeks after its liberation; speaking with the few remaining survivors and ...

  20. Julius G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius G., who was born in Scharnhorst, Germany in 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death from World War I wounds; attending public school; his family's move to Hamm in 1924; participating in a leftist Jewish club, then a socialist group (SAJ); harassment by an antisemitic teacher; joining a communist youth group (KJV); expulsion from school for communist activities; attending gymnasium in Münster from 1931-1933; his bar mitzvah; visiting his nanny's family in Scharnhorst; narrowly escaping arrest; traveling to Cologne; living with relatives in Tr...