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  1. Emmanuel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmanuel D., who was born in Rzeszo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls moving to Tarno?w in 1926; attending school; beginning to work at age thirteen; his father's death in 1932; his leadership in the Bund; German invasion; escaping east; assistance from Jews in Berestechko; traveling to L'viv via Tauteny; significant earnings in the black market; returning to Tarno?w in 1940 to assist his mother; deportation to Pustkow in September; slave labor building the camp; a privileged position as a tailor; occasional visits to his mother; SS assumption of the camp in 1943; harsher...

  2. Arne L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arne Brun L., a non-Jew, who was born in Oslo, Norway in 1925. He describes his family; the political climate in the 1930s; German invasion in 1940; joining the resistance at age eighteen; his arrest; interrogations and beatings in Akershus castle; learning his file was lost, which saved him from execution; and being allowed to speak with his sister, which gave him courage. Mr. L. recounts transfer to Grini, then to Natzweiler-Struthof in 1944 where Josef Kramer was Kommandant; learning they were "Nacht und Nebel" prisoners - meant to disappear forever; arduous labor ...

  3. Paul B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul B., who was born in Tótkomlós, Hungary in 1931. He recounts his brother's birth in 1937; attending public school; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visiting him; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization with his family; his father's election as head of the Judenrat; their transfer to the Debrecen ghetto; deportation to Vienna, then Strasshof; forced agricultural labor with his mother in another camp; stealing food for his brother; transfer back to Strasshof, then to Bergen-Belsen, via Luxembourg; his father's arrival; his grandmother's de...

  4. Bartolomej D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bartolomej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Brekov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928. He recounts his father working in a lime factory owned by Jews; Jews providing them with food in winter when there was no work; attending school until age fourteen; observing deportation of the Jews; locals removing all their possessions; his married sister hiding a Jewish family; a Hlinka guard taking over the lime factory; continuing to work there but not receiving their wages; evacuation by Soviet troops to Humenné; returning home two nights later to find all the...

  5. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  6. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., a prominent Dutch author, who was born in Netherlands in 1927. He recalls his father was a German non-Jew and his mother a Dutch Jew; their divorce in 1936; living in Haarlem with his father; weekly visits to his mother in Amsterdam; neither of his parents practicing any religion, although his mother celebrated holidays with her Jewish friends; German invasion in 1940; his father's position at the bank that spearheaded the confiscation of Jewish assets and property; his mother's arrest in May 1943; his father arranging her release; deportation of his grandmo...

  7. Dan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dan Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's move to Poprad in 1920; attending public school, then a German high school in Kežmarok; the family move to Žilina; matriculation from a Slovak high school in 1936; returning to Poprad; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working at a Zionist summer camp, then living on a Zionist training farm; military conscription in 1941; his commander, a former classmate, arranging his transfer to Bratislava; living in Zionist movement communities; returning to Poprad in 1942; marria...

  8. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1913. He recalls becoming a tailor; marriage; the births of two sons; German invasion; ghettoization; organizing tailor shops; measuring Himmler; making him a leather coat; measuring Hans Frank and Adolf Eichmann for leather coats; witnessing a mass killing of children from the orphanage; transfer to Majdan Tatarski ghetto; preparing a hiding place for his wife and sons; transfer with them to Majdanek, then alone to Lublin (Lipowa 7); being shot while visiting his wife (he shows the scar); retrieving his wife and one son fro...

  9. Lily B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily B., who was born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia (presently Trutnov) in 1923. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; German annexation of Sudentenland; fleeing to Hradec Kra?love? in September 1938; moving to Prague; German occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's emigration to Palestine; not believing rumors of atrocities in Poland; deportation with her parents and grandmother to Theresienstadt in August 1942; her grandmother's death shortly thereafter; constant lines for food, washrooms, and toilets; overcrowd...

  10. Rachel and Rafael A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel and Rafael A. Mr. A. was born in Pirot, Serbia in 1920. He recounts his family moving to Belgrade, Niš, Jagodina, and other places; attending high school in Belgrade; speaking Ladino at home; participating in Tchelet Lavan and Hashomer Hatzair, including a training camp for emigration to Israel; and cordial relations with non-Jews. He discusses his family's Sephardic history and traditions and shows photographs. Rachel A., was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1926. She recounts her family's move to Slavonski Brod; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and another Zion...

  11. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in Holland in 1940. He describes his mother and father and some of his childhood memories; his father's strategy for the family's survival; his life with a foster family and the incidents where it was suspected that he was Jewish; and his disbelief when his real parents came to claim him after the war. He speaks of his postwar memories of the people who came through his home in the Hague, which served as an informal gathering place for returning Jews; the subtle ways in which his postwar experiences affected him; and the rage he feels is pent u...

  12. Chaim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim K., who was born in Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls extreme poverty in an orthodox home; attending yeshiva; pervasive antisemitism; two brothers serving in Hungarian forced labor battalions; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in April; separation from his parents upon arrival (he never saw them again); transfer to Mauthausen four days later; slave labor constructing underground factories in Gusen; assistance from a German guard; being carried by a friend on the death march to Ma...

  13. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S. who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1914. He recalls anti-Semitic incidents in public school; becoming a tailor at age thirteen; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother and neighbors to Sandomierz; hiding in the synagogue; transfer to Opato?w after they were discovered; the murder of many Jews; and returning to Krako?w. Mr. S. recounts bodies on the streets; forced labor in coal mines; ghettoization; burying women and babies murdered in the hospital; transfer to P?aszo?w; finding his mother, sisters, and their children there; mass killings; deportation...

  14. Kalman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kalman W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending a local Bundist school and summer camp in Vilnius; joining Bundist protests against antisemitic laws; an accounting apprenticeship in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; orders to report for military service with his father in Warsaw; German bombings; returning home; ghettoization; teaching in a ghetto school; his family concealing his grandmother's death to obtain her rations; round-ups and deportations; work in the ghetto finance office; listening to a clandestine radio and disseminating t...

  15. Mildred W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mildred W. who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1919. She recounts attending a private Jewish school; believing events in Germany could not impact them; German invasion; not fleeing in order to remain with her parents; marriage in 1940; a typhus epidemic; ghettoization in spring 1941; smuggling food; mass killings during deportations in August 1942, including her husband; emotional numbness; slave labor in Kielce; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; slave labor; transfer to Ravensbru?ck in December; meeting a cousin who provided her with extra food; hiding a f...

  16. Jeanette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette A., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of six children. She recalls her older brother attending medical school in France; his return immediately prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a leather factory; her mother and youngest sister joining her brother in another town; transfer to barracks at the factory; return to Radom; her brother, mother, and youngest sister joining them; selection of her parents for a mass killing from which her oldest sister escaped; transfer to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to...

  17. Alice I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece), a twin and one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; their affluence; cordial relations with Italians; attending an Italian school; expulsion in 1938 due to racial laws; attending a clandestine school; many Jews emigrating; her two older sisters living with uncles in Brussels and Paris; Allied bombings; her sisters returning because her uncles believing it safer in Rhodes; living in Ialysos for a month to escape bombings; German occupation; round-up in July 1943; a friend (an Italian officer)...

  18. Naomi B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naomi B., Who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the youngest of nine children in a Hasidic family. She recalls attending Czech school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; her brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; her mother's death; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; the Judenrat encouraging obedience; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May; separation from her family, except one sister; their transfer to Stutthof, then to another camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; Allied POWs instructing...

  19. Malka R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka R., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's relative affluence, orthodoxy, and closeness; attending Jewish and public schools; loss of her father's business due to antisemitism in 1937-1938; one brother's military draft in August 1939 (he eventually traveled to Israel); German invasion in September; ghettoization; visiting her brother's family in ?owicz (she never saw them again); pervasive hunger; a public hanging of ten innocent people; the ghetto's liquidation; separation from her father (she never saw him afterward); transfer to ?o...

  20. Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating t...