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  1. Alice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice R., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922. She recalls active participation in Hashomer Hatzair and a Jewish swim club; attending a German language gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitism; deciding to emigrate to Israel with her youth group; her mother accompanying her and the group to Prague; her mother leaving since the border was to be closed when Slovakia was formed (she never saw her, her father, or younger sister again); traveling through Germany to debark from Marseille; attending an agricultural girls school, working, t...

  2. Yaffa N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaffa N., who was born in Łask, Poland in 1919, the youngest of seven sisters. She recounts a happy childhood; attending school; antisemitic harassment; attending Zionist training courses in Warsaw, then Łódź; visiting her family in Łask; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Łódź; ghettoization; working in a soup kitchen; contacts with members of the Judenrat; a public hanging; round-up of all the Jews to a church; selection with three sisters and her future husband for a group of the young and healthy; her group's transfer to the Łódź ghetto; her parents' deport...

  3. Zdzis?aw S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdzis?aw S., a non-Jew, who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1914. He describes childhood friendships with Jews; defending Jews against attacks as part of Hashomer; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; membership in the Polish Socialist Party; mobilization in the Polish military; German invasion; capture; escape from a prisoner-of-war camp to W?oc?awek; helping Jews escape to the Soviet Union; escape to Warsaw to avoid arrest for helping Jews; his brother's execution for hiding Jews; ghettoization; observing terrible conditions during ghetto visits; smuggling Jews out; establ...

  4. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls the outbreak of war; ghettoization; deaths from starvation; deportations; H?ayim Rumkowski pleading for people to give up their children; his father's death from starvation in 1942; his mother's deportation four weeks later; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; pulling his brother from the "wrong" line during selection; disbelief when he learned of the gas chambers and crematoria; transfer, with his brother, to Dachau two weeks later; work in a munitions factory; the singular focus ...

  5. Aleksander L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksander L., who was born in approximately 1922. He recounts attending Belgrade University; German invasion in 1941; volunteering for military service; returning home two weeks later; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; working for the Jewish council; his mother purchasing false Italian papers for him; fleeing to Italian-occupied Split via Dubrovnik; destroying the false documents; living with relatives for several months; discovery; deportation to Dubrovnik in 1942; warning of arrest by the Ustas?a; escaping back to Split; brief imprisonment; transfer to an Itali...

  6. Henry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry G., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie in 1928, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty (he was always hungry); their orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his oldest brother's marriage; his father's job with the Judenrat; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); a round-up; separation from his mother; deportation with two brothers and other relatives to Blechhammer; his relatives obtaining extra food for him; British POWs sharing Red Cross pack...

  7. Rebeka H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebeka H., who was born in Priština, Yugoslavia in 1927. She recalls speaking Ladino at home; Italian occupation (Albanians led by Italians)in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; traveling to Berat with her parents in 1943 (her brothers were interned there); German invasion; fleeing to Shkodër, which was under Italian occupation; living with Christians until April 1944; returning to Priština with her father and mother; round-up of Jews by Albanians in German uniforms; imprisonment for a month outside of Belgrade under Ustaša administration; a non-Jewish prisoner warni...

  8. Felix L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. He recounts his family's move to Belgium in 1928; attending school in Anderlecht, Antwerp and Brussels; fights due to antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing to De Panne; returning to Brussels; his father's deportation in 1942; being hidden by non-Jews with family members and his future wife; marriage in summer 1942; arrest and internment in Malines in August; joining a group organizing a train escape; failure when he was separated from the group (others succeeded); arrival at Auschwitz; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave...

  9. Wilson C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William C., who served as a chaplain with the United States Army in World War II. He recounts graduation from a Methodist seminary in 1943; joining the military in 1944; deployment to Europe in spring 1945; entering Buchenwald after liberation; emaciated prisoners showing them the barracks, crematoria, gallows, and lampshades made of human skin; a Jewish prisoner requesting a religious service; locating a Jewish cantor in the chaplaincy; helping transport the former prisoners to a church in Eisenach where they had organized the service; his strong emotional response t...

  10. Helen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen W., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was about two; living with her paternal grandparents in Proste?jov, Czechoslovakia; her father's weekly visits; a close relationship with her non-Jewish governess; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Easter and Christmas as "national" holidays; attending synagogue; a close relationship with her uncle; her father moving funds out of Austria after the Anschluss and obtaining documents for the United States for himself and her; her grandparents...

  11. Joe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1928, one of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; living with his grandparents; attending cheder; yearly visits to his father's grave in ?o?dz?; antisemitic harassment; an uncle visiting from England; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; transfer to the Dzierzbotki ghetto; building a bunker in the forest with others; hiding there during round-ups; he and his mother being captured by the Germans; their deportation to a labor camp; separation from her en route (he never saw her again); sla...

  12. Tony K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tony K., a professor of history at University of Southampton, who was born in Manchester in 1960. Mr. K. recalls involvement in the anti-racist movement; attending University of Sheffield; interest in the Holocaust resulting from Jewish student politics and faculty mentors; studying in the United States in the early 1980s; his doctoral dissertation at Sheffield on antisemitism in Britain during World War II which resulted in his first book; Bill Williams influencing him in oral history; a one-year position at the Manchester Jewish Museum resulting in rescuing archival...

  13. Livia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Livia G., who was born in Forro-Encs, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's move to Hejocsaba in 1941; her father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1942; his return in 1943; German occupation in 1944; transfer to the Dio?sgyo?r ghetto with her family; her father's and brother's transfer to a labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother in June; receiving extra food from a cousin; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen in October; forced labor at an airplane factory; her mother sharing food with her; evacuation by train in April 1945; liberation f...

  14. David W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David W., who was born in Poland in 1918, one of six children. He recalls his family's extreme poverty; Soviet occupation in 1939; draft into the Soviet military; fighting against the Germans; discharge; deportation to Siberia for forced labor; escape after two years; military service; being wounded near Warsaw in 1945; briefly returning home, seeking relatives (no one survived); traveling to ?o?dz? where there were other Jews, then to Germany; living in Ainring and Lechfeld displaced persons camps; marriage in 1948; and emigration to join relatives in the United Stat...

  15. Nancy M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nancy M., who was born in Kiskunhalas, Hungary in 1925. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; a close, warm extended family; German occupation in 1944; friends and neighbors seeming to enjoy watching the departure of the Jews; transport to the Szeged ghetto; deportation with her family to a German camp; her grandmother's death; transfer to a farm; relatively "easy" conditions; assistance from a German secretary; arduous forced labor; encouragement from contacts with Italian POWs; her father's unflagging sense of humor; evacuation to Theresienstadt in March 194...

  16. Hilda E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda E., who was born in Dolny? Kubi?n, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; moving to Topol?c?any; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Z?ilina; receiving food from her brother who was married to a non-Jew; transfer to Nova?ky; forced labor as a seamstress; educational, cultural, religious life, and musical performances in Nova?ky; contacts with local partisans through the camp underground; liberation by a partisan rebellion; working as a medical aide with the partisans; joining her mother in Banska? Bystrica; fleeing German bomb...

  17. Norman S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman S., who was born in 1927 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, the youngest of nine children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's store; attending yeshiva in Tarn?ow; German invasion; fleeing to Krako?w; arrest en route to the Soviet zone; escape; traveling to L?viv; arrest while returning home; escape; returning home; one brother serving on the Judenrat; his family's deportation to Rzeszo?w; ghettoization; retrieving his family; working for the Judenrat and in the ghetto hospital; arrest of the...

  18. Yakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school;...

  19. Henry O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry O., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1923. Mr. O. describes leaving imprisonment in Budzyn? in January 1944, after falsely registering himself and his three brothers as scientists in order to be placed in a special commando in Flossenbu?rg; and the detail itself (documentation of this commando exists at YIVO), which Mr. O. speculates was a sham for those Germans in charge to avoid front line duty. He recalls their transfer by cattle car to P?aszo?w; suffering, beatings, and horrendous conditions there; transfer to Berlin from the Krako?w railroad station w...

  20. Bela K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. She recounts a happy childhood despite pervasive antisemitism; a large extended family; her father's mobilization immediately before the war; German invasion; her father's return, seriously wounded; ghettoization; her father's death; forced labor; the deaths of many relatives; hiding during round-ups of children; her grandfather's death; hiding during the ghetto's liquidation; discovery; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from everyone but one aunt; learning about the gas chambers; assistance from her aunt when she wa...