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  1. Jeanine C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanine C., who was born in 1928. She recounts her mother's death in 1932; living in a Jewish orphanage in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Berck-sur-Mer; returning to Paris in 1940; dispersion of the orphans by UGIF to avoid deportations; her section's deportation to Drancy in July 1944; deportation to Birkenau in August; remaining together with fifteen EIF scouts (including Yvette L.); slave labor in Auschwitz; transfer to Kratzau in November; work in a munitions factory; receiving food from a supervisor; a friend giving birth and being transfered (mother and b...

  2. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1932, an only child. He recalls a close relationship with his maternal grandparents who lived with them; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; German invasion; confiscation of the family businesses and apartment; a German soldier allowing him and his mother to sleep there to avoid round-ups; ghettoization; attending school and cultural events; visiting his grandparents in the small ghetto; its liquidation shortly thereafter (he never saw them again); hiding during round-ups; rumors of mass k...

  3. Liza S. Holocaust testimonies

    Videotape testimony of Liza S., who was born in Lut?s??k, Poland in 1925. She recalls ghettoization in 1941; her younger sister's murder; forced labor near Kremenet?s??; falling in love with another prisoner; being smuggled to visit her family in Lut?s??k; transfer with her boyfriend to the Kremenet?s?? ghetto; and feigning death when all the Jews were shot in a pit. Mrs. S. recounts climbing naked from the pit at night; discovering that her boyfriend had also survived; hiding for six months in the forest; receiving assistance from local people; her boyfriend's murder when he visited his fa...

  4. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1925, the oldest of eight children. She recalls her grandfather's large successful farm, that he divided among his children, including her family; attending school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws preventing her entry to high school; ghettoization in 1944; deportation shortly thereafter to Auschwitz; separation with her sister and six cousins from their families; a public hanging; transfer six weeks later to Gelsenkirchen; slave labor clearing bombing rubble; transfer after three months to a camp where they were a...

  5. Isaac B., Boris L., and Isiya M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimonies of Isaac B., Boris L., and Isiya M. Isaac B. recalls his large, extended family in Tulʹchin; deportation to Peciora in December 1941; his mother's death; surviving because his grandfather was selected as a skilled craftsman, hid him, and his older siblings, and smuggled them food from outside the camp; his father's military service; and not being able to locate his mother's burial site after the war. Isiya M. recounts deportation from Tulʹchin to Peciora (she was about four years old); her older brother leaving the camp to bring them food; and Isaac's mother being take...

  6. Miland B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miland B., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927 to a Hasidic family of five children. He recounts antisemitic violence; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of the family business; apprenticeship to a watchmaker; clandestinely observing Jewish holidays; three-week ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his parents and younger brothers; encountering his sister; urging her to stay alive; slave labor on a vegetable farm; public hangings; the suicide of a friend's father;...

  7. Halina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina K., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1929, the only child of wealthy parents. She recalls traveling to Warsaw with her mother to avoid German invasion; returning home six weeks later; anti-Jewish regulations, including confiscation of their business; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; hiding with her father during a round-up; running away when a policeman neared them; escaping from the ghetto; a Polish friend briefly hiding her; Polish men assisting her in a village; finding a Jewish work commando to join; finding her father there; his deport...

  8. Isaac M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Issac M., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1912. He recalls living in Lida, Belarus; participating in Maccabi; working in his family's fur business; marriage in 1939; ghettoization; escaping with his wife from a mass shooting to a forest on May 8, 1942 (fifty relatives including his two children were killed); being hidden by hunters who had done business with his family; obtaining a gun from them; trying to help others escape; joining partisans who were escaped Soviet POWs; assisting women and children in the Bielski brigade; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; jo...

  9. Maurice D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice D., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland in 1924. He describes his Orthodox family; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother to Warsaw; returning to Nowe Miasto; slave labor in the ghetto and in a camp in East Prussia; deportation with his family to Birkenau via Plonsk in November 1942; separation from his parents and sisters upon arrival; transfer with his brother to Auschwitz; working the night shift in the Canada Kommando; transfer with his brother to I.G. Farben in Buna/Monowitz in 1943; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; buildi...

  10. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. She recounts her mother was British; having three older siblings; attending private school until her mother's death in 1934; participating in the Zionist youth groups Mizrachi and Maccabi; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family, an aunt, uncle, and their two children; a non-Jewish farmer sheltering them for three weeks; staying in Lille six weeks; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; obtaining visas to Venezuela; emigration to Havana via Spain; and arrival in the United States in September 1941. Ms. ...

  11. Aharon A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon A., a prize-winning, internationally recognized author, who was born in Zhadova, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1932, the only child of an affluent family. He recounts the family move to Chernivt︠s︡i shortly after his birth; their assimilated life style; his gentle, loving, and privileged childhood until age eight; speaking German and Yiddish; Soviet occupation; fear of exile to Siberia; German invasion; hearing gun shots from his bed in their country home; hiding in nearby fields; reuniting with his father who told him his mother and grandmother had been kille...

  12. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1926, one of eleven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); remaining with her sisters; transfer to a farm; slave labor with two sisters digging anti-tank trenches; another sister working for a German soldier and sharing extra food with them; a death march; escaping with her sisters and two o...

  13. Henry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in 1920 in Nowy Korczyn, Poland. He recalls his religious home; ubiquitous antisemitism; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion; immediate round-up and shooting of 200 young men; public hangings; anti-Jewish regulations; forced transfer to the Sosnowiec ghetto in November 1942; deportation to Reigersfeld; slave labor, starvation, frequent beatings leading to many suicides; his decision to commit suicide after one year; and transfer to Auschwitz and Blechhammer, before he could implement his plan. Mr. F. describes encountering hi...

  14. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Hebrew gymnasium in Ungva?r with two sisters and a brother; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; German invasion in 1944; orders for forced relocation to Ungva?r; a neighbor hiding her and one sister; deciding to join their family; ghettoization in a brick factory for six weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; her older sister sending her child with her mother, not knowing it was to the gas chamber; remaining with her two sisters; not recognizing each o...

  15. Leopold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold S., who was born in Facimiech, Poland in 1920, the fourth of six children. He recounts living with an aunt in Kraków for two years, then with an uncle in Skawina to attend school; his family's move to Kraków; apprenticing as a barber and in a factory; assisting in his father's store; winning a scholarship to art school in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and three brothers to Kaunas, then Soviet-occupied Lʹviv; finding jobs; their deportation by Soviets in spring 1940 to Arkhangelʹsk; forced labor; receiving one letter from his mother and siste...

  16. Mordka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordka K., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland, in 1921. Mr. K. tells of his childhood in a religious home; local Jews' disbelief of conditions in Germany related by Zbaszyn? deportees; fleeing to ?o?dz? during the German invasion; return home; being rounded-up and imprisoned at Sieradz in November 1939; release; and telling his family of his decision to escape to the Soviet zone. He recounts abuse by Germans while crossing the border at Ma?kinia; going to Bia?ystok; living with other refugees in Volkovysk; arrest in spring 1940; deportation to a Siberian labor camp...

  17. Paul K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul K., a non-Jew, who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1921. He recalls a happy childhood; moving to Liège with his family in 1938; working for an insurance firm; German invasion; distributing Resistance leaflets in 1942; forming a group aiming to escape to England; traveling from Arlon to Chalon-sur-Saône; imprisonment in Dijon; a two-month sentence; transfer to another prison; refusing to "volunteer" for work in Germany; transfer to St. Gilles, then Forest; deportation to Dachau in February 1943; forming friendships; hospitalization for typhus; a prisoner physician t...

  18. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1920. He recalls German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish measures; volunteering to meet his family's labor quota; deportation to Geppersdorf; building the Reichsautobahn for over a year; transfer to Brande where he found his brother; transfer to an I.G. Farben camp where his brother died; transfer to Marksta?dt, where an engineer provided extra food; working in an ammunition factory in Sudetenland, then another camp where civilian workers provided extra food; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts the arrival of women...

  19. Lea Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea Z., who was born in Karlovac, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1932. She recounts her family's affluence; visiting Zagreb; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest as a hostage by the Ustaša; bringing him food; his transfer to Zagreb (he was executed in retaliation for a partisan attack, but her mother did not tell her); her landlord's mother-in-law taking her to Kranj; her mother's arrival three weeks later, then her grandmother's; hearing that Germans were coming; fleeing to Trieste; receiving permission to live in Concordia; attending an Italian ...

  20. Franka N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franka N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, one of seven children. She recalls her large extended family; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Paris; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's death from starvation; deportation of siblings and her mother; public hangings of escapees; the agony of mothers when their children were taken from them; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 with a sister, cousin, and her cousin's baby; deportation with her sister two weeks later; slave labor in an airplane factory; a death march to Bergen-Bels...