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  1. Michel T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel T., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, an only child. He recounts moving to his aunt's home in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) when he was seven; his bar mitzvah; attending high school; being accused of sabotage after Hitler's ascent to power in 1933; fleeing to Bordeaux; visiting his family in Poland in 1937; moving to Vienna; Austrians warmly welcoming the Germans during the Anschluss; anti-Jewish violence; fleeing with his fiance?e in late October 1938; interrogation by the Gestapo in Saarbru?cken; release by the Gestapo and their assistance crossi...

  2. Nandor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nandor G., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1924. Mr. G. recounts attending cheder; leaving school due to Jewish quotas; training as a stone-cutter; working birefly in Budapest; Hungarian occupation in 1941; ghettoization; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; railroad work in Szeged; witnessing transports of Jews in cattle cars; a World War I war veteran in his group obtaining permission from the city Kommandant to remain as Soviet troops approached; liberation by the Soviets in September 1944; returning to Subotica; learning his family and almo...

  3. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. He recounts his family's farm; attending public school and cheder, locally, then in Irshava; bar mitzvah; attending yeshiva in Uz︠h︡horod; learning tailoring in Bergovo (Berehove); Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1938; joining the Communist Party; arrest; being sent home; returning to Budapest; his sister joining him; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jew helping him escape from a labor detail; returning home, then back to Budapest three weeks later; draft into a Hungarian sla...

  4. Alberto I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alberto I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, one of ten children. He recounts three brothers and a sister emigrating to Congo; the early deaths of two younger siblings; cordial relations with local Greeks; attending a Catholic school; participating in fascist activities; enactment of Italian anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from the Fascist party and school; attending a Jewish school; destruction of their house in an Allied bombing; German occupation in 1943; a deportation order for all Jews; the Turkish consul saving Jews with Turkish citizenship;...

  5. Esther F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther F., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1923. She describes a happy childhood in a family of seven children; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; separation from her mother and sisters during a selection; learning of their murders in a mass killing from her brother, who escaped from the mass grave; transfer to a labor camp with her father and brothers; her fiancé joining her; sharing extra food with fellow prisoners; requesting her father's transfer to the ghetto hospital when he was ill; transfer to Stutthof; separation from her fath...

  6. Kurt B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt B., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1923. He recalls antisemitic incidents in public school in 1935; transferring to a Jewish school; assistance from his father's business partner; loss of the family business after Kristallnacht; forced relocation to Mu?lheim; arrest of his father and brother in 1939 (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); moving to Berlin and Frankfurt posing as a non-Jew with false papers; arrest in Leipzig; transfer to Klingelpuetz prison; forced labor in Koeln/Deutz; deportation to Auschwitz; finding ...

  7. Klara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara K., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, one of three children. She recounts her family's long history in Mukacheve; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in 1944; her non-Jewish boyfriend's offer to hide her; declining so she could stay with her family; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation with her mother, aunt, and cousin from her father and brothers (one brother survived); a fellow prisoner giving birth (the infant was killed); a kapo protecting her and her mother; transf...

  8. Akiva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Akiva K., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1929. He describes his affluent family; antisemitic incidents; moving to Warsaw shortly before German invasion; returning to Katowice; his father traveling to the Soviet-occupied zone; living with his grandmother in Wolbrom; his bar mitzvah; moving to Sosnowiec; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; staying in a village with his father; returning to his mother in Sosnowiec; being protected from deportation by a doctor who lived with his mother; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker; obtaining false papers; a futile escape attempt...

  9. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Vienna in 1909. He recalls his medical education; prewar antisemitism in Vienna; his unsuccessful attempt to get help emigrating to England in 1936; the German occupation of Austria (Anschluss); his escape from Austria to join his mother in Czechoslovakia; and his departure for the United States, after many attempts, two days before the deadline. He relates his arrival and adjustment to life in the United States, where he became a dentist; the death of his father; the fate of other family members; and his anxiety and guilt feelings about not b...

  10. Isaiah L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaiah L., who was born in Rozwado?w, Poland in 1906. Mr. L. describes his family of seven children; his father's plan to assist the children to obtain an education despite their poverty; attending dental school; and hearing a speech by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1928 urging Jews to emigrate to Palestine. He recalls the Russian occupation followed by the German; being helped by numerous Ukrainian friends and patients to hide, with members of his family and alone, in many places, including the forest and a pig sty; running a clinic in a ghetto under the auspices of the Jud...

  11. Uri C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uri C., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928, one of three children. He recalls annual visits with his younger brother, Daniel C., to his paternal grandparents in Žasliai; attending a Hebrew gymnasium; his father's car accident in 1938 resulting in a one-year hospitalization; his mother assuming responsibility for his business; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet camp in Palanga in summer 1941; German invasion in June; Lithuanians separating the Jewish children, locking them in a synagogue, and beating them; their parents sending buses three weeks later to re...

  12. Judith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (today Beregovo, Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. S. describes her extended family's ancestral home, where she anticipated spending her life; pleasant visits with relatives; Hungarian occupation in 1938; expulsion of undocumented aliens; deportations to Jewish labor battalions; the family not believing rumors of Jews being killed in Poland; and retreating German troops who billeted at her home in early 1944. She details sudden deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother, and ...

  13. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in 1921 in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroclaw, Poland). He recounts graduating from a German gymnasium in 1938; leaving Germany on November 9, 1938; emigrating to Palestine; closely following events in Europe; and the killing of his parents and relatives during the war. Mr. L. discusses what average Germans, and the rest of the world, knew about the murder of European Jewry during the war as documented in his book The Terrible Secret. He notes a novel he wrote led to his research.

  14. Zvi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bu...

  15. Francis P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francis P., a Roman-Catholic, who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. He recalls enlisting in the army nine months before Pearl Harbor, hoping to serve only one year; realizing, after the war began, that he would serve for the duration; attending officer candidate school as a medical administrator; shipment to England in 1943; establishing a large hospital in Rennes, France after D-Day; being taken to Buchenwald after the war ended to provide advice about medical care for the former prisoners; fright and astonishment at the horrendous conditions of the prisoners a...

  16. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Trebišov, Slovakia in 1924. She recounts her family's move to Bratislava; joining a Zionist group; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish measures; an antisemitic attack; moving to Michalovce in winter 1941/1942; hiding during round-ups; her family's decision to enter Hungary illegally; obtaining money from an aunt in Humenné to pay a smuggler; traveling to Uz︠h︡horod, then Budapest; visiting a cousin in Sevljus (Vynohradiv) in 1943; joining the underground; obtaining false papers with her boyfriend; German occupation in March 1944; arrest in Oct...

  17. Magdolna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdolna B., who was born in 1924 in U?jpest, Hungary, a Budapest suburb. She remembers close relations with her large, extended family; her father's position as a veterinarian for the health department in Budapest; believing events in Poland and Germany "would not happen to us too"; German occupation in March 1944; leaving her parents in Budapest to join her fiance in the country; his arrest; and her return home. Mrs. B. recalls anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; escape from the factory to her home with the aid of her uncle's Christian friend; acquiring false papers...

  18. Maximilian K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maximilian K., who was born in Prievidza, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1915. He recalls military service from 1937 to 1939; forced labor in Nováky and other locations from 1942 to 1944; marriage in 1944; paying non-Jews to hide him, his wife, and parents; arrest by the Hlinka guard; deportation to Sered; evacuation by train; escaping during an Allied bombing (his wife and parents remained behind); hiding in a friend's attic and in the mountains; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; reunion with his wife and parents; not being able to recl...

  19. Ralph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 1939 to German refugees. He recounts his father bringing his own and his wife's parents and other relatives from Germany; his father arranging for them to hide with a Christian friend; barely escaping when they were betrayed seven months later; the underground placing him and his sister with a family for a few months; his mother's visits; living above an ice cream store with their parents for a few weeks; hiding in several other places; living in a chicken coop near Arnhem for three years with twelve people, all fri...

  20. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending public school; marriage in 1939; her husband's draft into the Polish military; his return in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding with her son, husband, and aunt in a bunker with a hundred others; their discovery; the Germans taking her son (she never saw him again); her aunt committing suicide; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her husband; beatings from guards from which she still bea...