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  1. Klara H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara H., who was born in Szombathely, Hungary in 1921. She recalls summer holidays visiting maternal grandparents in Austria; visits to Budapest; her bat mitzvah; pervasive antisemitism; leaving school to learn dressmaking; working and living with relatives in Budapest; her aunt's arrival from Austria after the Anschluss, then her emigration to India; her father's death in 1939; moving to Gyo?r with her mother and sister; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoziation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); a cousin who...

  2. Louis F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his large and close extended family; attending the Katzenelson school; German invasion; fleeing with his parents and brother to the Piotrków ghetto in late 1939; being hidden on a peasant farm from March to June 1941; hiding with his mother and brother with a non-Jewish physician in Warsaw in 1942; joining his father in the ghetto when exposure was imminent; staying in a large bunker; being forced out during the ghetto uprising; separation from his father (all the men were shot); deportation to Lublin (Lip...

  3. Eleazar Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eleazar Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, one of four brothers. He recalls attending gymnasium; one brother's death; participating in clandestine communist organizations; Soviet occupation in 1940; Lithuanian violence and killing of Jews prior to German invasion on June 24, 1941; mass killings in surrounding former forts; ghettoization in August; his father's death in January 1942 resulting from a German beating; forced labor; joining a Jewish underground movement led by Haim Yelin; connecting with partisans outside the ghetto; public hangings; organizing...

  4. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Potrete, Hungary, in 1929. Mr. S. describes prewar life in the small town where his family, the only Jews, lived for generations; friendly relations with non-Jews; the difficulty of believing stories of atrocities coming from Poland; moving to Nagykanizsa; Jewish holiday observances; imposition of anti-Jewish laws, which reached their peak after German occupation in 1944; work in a labor camp; deportation to Birkenau; and separation from his family upon arrival. He details life in Birkenau; physical and psychological aspects of hunger and de...

  5. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Vilna in 1924. In this unusually detailed testimony, Mr. S. speaks of prewar family and community life; Polish antisemitism; the beginning of German occupation; Russian occupation; the ghettoization of Vilna; and the mass shootings at nearby Ponary. He describes the razing of the city's synagogues; the frequent Aktions, physical abuse, and forced labor that marked the life of the ghetto; and the ghetto's liquidation in August, 1943, recalling throughout acts of kindness offered by various non-Jews. He relates his transport by cattle car to ...

  6. Cy J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cy J., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland in 1914. He recalls the outbreak of war; beatings and killings during a brief imprisonment with his father and brother; his brother fleeing to Russia; his sister fleeing to Ukraine; ghettoization; efforts of Jakub Lemberg, the head of the Judenrat, to save lives; public hangings; working at an ammunition factory; mass killings at the cemetery during the ghetto's liquidation led by Hans Biebow in 1942; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; his father's death; unloading freight trains; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then Althamme...

  7. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  8. Nat G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nat G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1896. He describes Vilna; education in Jewish and technical schools; training as a mechanic; serving three years in the Russian army in World War I in an auto battalion; Polish occupation of Vilna in 1920; marriage in 1936; the prosperous family business; and the birth of his twin children. Mr. G. recalls ghettoization; mass murders; hiding during a round-up; discovery and deportation with his stepson to Narwa; work as a mechanic; unsuccessful attempts to save his stepson; extreme conditions of deprivation; transfer a year late...

  9. Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to...

  10. Alexander K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander K., who was born in Sighet, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Romania) in 1909. He recalls his family's prominent printing business; their affluence; attending a Hungarian gymnasium, then Romanian, when Sighet became part of Romania after World War I; his bar mitzvah; marriage in 1941; his son's birth; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visits home; bringing food to fellow prisoners; escape; providing friends with false papers; German occupation in 1944; deportation of his wife, son, mother, and sisters (all were killed except one sister); hosp...

  11. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1923 and lived in Za?bkowice. She describes moving to Sosnowiec at age four; her family's affluent lifestyle; education in Catholic and Jewish schools; increasing antisemitism, including boycotts and school quotas; exclusion of her Jewish group from a Polish independence parade; an influx of Jewish German refugees; German invasion; balking at wearing an arm band; ghettoization in Srodula (suburb of Sosnowiec); forced labor outside the ghetto; avoiding labor camps due to her boyfriend's influence; liquidation of the ghetto ...

  12. Rochelle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rochelle S., who was born in Paris, France in 1931. She recounts her parents' emigration from Poland in 1930; their poverty; her sister's birth in 1938; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; hospitalization and a forty-day quarantine for scarlet fever in 1942; cessation of her family's visits; a non-Jewish neighbor visiting; being released to the neighbor, who told her that her family left France; hiding with the neighbor; placement in a convent school; learning Catholic prayers and receiving solace from them; conversion to Catholicism; her neighbor taking he...

  13. Barry I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry I., who was born in Munka?cz, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1913, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy and Czech patriotism; serving in the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; conscription into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; working near the Polish border; transfer to Khust; volunteering to be punished in place of a friend (hanging by his hands and feet); traveling to Budapest for surgery; assistance from a nun who arranged a visit from his girlfriend; returning to Khust; forced labor diggin...

  14. Boris P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris P., who was born in Slutsk, Belarus in 1929, the second of four sons. He recalls his father's Communist Party membership; attending Jewish, Belorussian, and Russian schools; visiting relatives in Lyakhovichi; German invasion in June 1941; his father's mobilization (he never saw him again); his older brother's escape; public shootings of Jews; a policeman warning them of a mass killing; hiding with his father's non-Jewish friend; ghettoization; a mass killing including his grandmother; the policeman placing his family in a barrack for non-Jewish workers; one youn...

  15. Alan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alan Z., who was born in Ko?o, Poland, in 1921. He describes the outbreak of the war and the resulting anti-Jewish legislation; the beginnings of extermination in nearby Che?mno in 1941; his escape to the village of Warta; the liquidation of Ko?o; and his flight, with his uncle, to the ?o?dz? ghetto, where he had the privileged job of vegetable gardener and had contact with high ghetto officials, including H?ayim Rumkowski. Mr. Z. relates his transport to Cze?stochowa, where he worked in the HASAG labor camp; his sudden transfer to Buchenwald, and two weeks later, to ...

  16. George M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George M. who was born in Ko?slin, Germany (now Koszalin, Poland) in 1914. He recalls the small number of Jews in the town; non-Jewish classmates defending him from an antisemitic schoolmate; the first appearance of brown shirts around 1927; increasing antisemitism; being beaten on the street; the family's move to Berlin in 1933; a boycott against Jewish stores; joining the Jewish scouts through which he met Herbert and Marianne Baum; joining a Zionist organization; his arrest in March 1935; imprisonment in Moabit; frequent beatings during interrogations; his refusal ...

  17. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1915. He recalls attending technical school in Brno; active participation in a Zionist organization; attending officer's training school; demotion due to anti-Jewish laws; transfer to a forced labor camp; release to perform his "vital" job; marriage in 1942; assisting his family avoid deportations due to his influential job; his company arranging for him to work in Nitra when they could not keep him off deportation lists; contacts with a Polish Jew who made a great deal of money in the black market and gave it t...

  18. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1923, the oldest of eight children, two of whom died before the war. He recounts his father's trade as a barrel maker; attending a Czech school; extreme poverty; moving to Secǒvce; their improved situation; attending a Slovak school; working with his father from age thirteen; building a machine to improve their process; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's military draft; visiting him in Uz︠h︡horod; his release several ...

  19. Julian M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julian M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitism in Polish schools he attended, particularly gymnasium; his father's prewar death; disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; German invasion; increasing restrictions and persecution; fleeing with his family to Nowy Wis?nicz; his capture; a forced labor camp in Krako?w; transfer to the ghetto; learning all Jews in Nowy Wis?nicz had been liquidated including his family; and his aunt's and cousins' deportation (he lived with them). He describes factory work; obtaining chemicals for p...

  20. Lenka M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lenka M., who was born in Porúbka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, one of four children. She recalls her parents sending her to Uz︠h︡horod to avoid deportation; working as a hairdresser for nine months; joining her family in an Uz︠h︡horod brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with her two sisters; one sister's selection (she never saw her again); public executions; transfer with her sister to Canada Kommando; assistance from a Jewish Slovak kapo; a severe beating by ...