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  1. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in 1920, the youngest of four children. She recalls childhood in an affluent, traditional family in Warsaw; attending private school; her parents' disbelief that the events in Germany would affect them; German invasion in September 1939; her brother and fiance? fleeing to L'viv in the Soviet zone; illegally traveling to L'viv with her sister in December 1939; marriage in 1940; fleeing to Vilna with her husband; obtaining a Japanese transit visa from the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara; traveling to Moscow, then Japan, in January 1941; obtaining...

  2. Matthew T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matthew T., who was born in 1920, and grew up in ?omz?a, Poland. He details Jewish life; his education; antisemitism; his mother's death when he was twelve; his father's remarriage; German invasion; a twenty day confinement in an open field; return to ?omz?a; and Soviet occupation. Mr. T. recounts painting posters and translating for the Soviets; joining the Komsomol; working in Baranavichy and Jedwabne; fleeing the German invasion; working in Ukraine, Tashkent, Leninpol, Dzhambul and Kuibyshev (now Samara); and using his artistic talent in several places to promote t...

  3. Tatiana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatiana B., who was born in Fiume, Italy (Rijeka, Croatia) in 1937 to a Jewish mother and Catholic father. She recounts living near her maternal grandmother, aunts, and uncles; being baptized (her younger sister and mother were too, as protection); her father's departure (he was in the Navy); a neighbor turning them (her mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, and cousin) into the Germans in April 1944; brief incarceration in Risiera di San Sabba; deportation to Auschwitz; her grandmother's disappearance; placement in a children's barrack with her sister and cousin; visits...

  4. Larry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry L., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1925. He recalls his family's move to Kaunas in 1934 due to antisemitism; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; their non-Jewish porter saving them from round-ups; ghettoization; forced labor with his father outside the ghetto; smuggling in food; young Zionists organizing resistance; a mass killing in October 1942; transfer with his parents and brother to Kauen-Schanzen in 1943; train transport to Dachau in fall 1944 (his mother and girlfriend were removed with the women and children); transfer to Kaufering the next day...

  5. Murray B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Murray B., who was born in Vselub, Byelorussian in 1912. He recalls his large family; attending Yeshiva (his parents wanted him to become a rabbi); the June 1941 German invasion; escape (he never saw his family again) to Nowogro?dek, then a nearby village, then the woods; hearing the shooting of Jews in a mass killing; hiding alone in the forest from December 1941 to March 1942; aid received from farmers; thinking he was the last remaining Jew; smuggling himself into the Nowogro?dek ghetto on a farmer's advice; round-ups; mass killings; and forced labor. Mr. B. descri...

  6. Ben G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1928 to a family of eight children. He recalls the warmth of family life and the large Jewish community, particularly at holidays; Hungarian occupation; forced service of all men in labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization in 1944; separation from his family upon arrival at Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; frequent public hangings; slave labor building bunkers; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Flossenbu?srg in February; witnessing cannibalism; brutal treatment of Je...

  7. Frieda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda S., who was born in 1914. She recounts the deaths of her parents; living with an aunt and uncle in Boryslav; vacations in Tyszowce; becoming a dressmaker; working in L?viv, Dobromyl?, and Krako?w; Soviet invasion in 1939 during a family visit in Boryslav; anti-Jewish violence; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; paying a non-Jew to hide her sister; ghettoization; round-up and incarceration in a movie theater; her non-Jewish employer obtaining her release; hiding in a bunker for two days; slave labor constructing roads; escaping from another round-up; re...

  8. Ruth H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the only child of an affluent family. She recalls a beautiful life; German occupation in 1939; her father's disappearance; living with her mother and grandmother; her aunt's suicide upon receiving deportation notice; their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942; extreme hunger; their transfer to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her grandmother; assignment to the family camp; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Hamburg; clandestinely receiving food from French POWs; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation;...

  9. Dorothy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy R., who was born in L?vov, Ukraine in 1904. She describes her large family; marriage in 1937; attempts to emigrate to the United States; Russian occupation; the birth of her daughter Sophia in 1941; and the German occupation, which resulted in her husband's immediate incarceration in Janowska. Mrs. R. recalls obtaining false Gentile documents; hiding with her daughter outside of L?vov with the help of a Polish friend; the arrival of her husband after his escape from Janowska; hiding him in the attic for two years, unbeknownst to the landlord and Sophia, and wi...

  10. Zachary A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachary A., who was born in Volkovysk, Poland (now Belarus) in 1918. He recalls growing up in Warsaw; his family's affluence; their non-orthodox holiday observances; attending university in Danzig in 1938; antisemitic harassment; outbreak of war; fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv) in the Soviet zone; visiting his parents and sister in Slonim; attending school; ghettoization with his family in Slonim in 1942; mass shooting when the ghetto was liquidated in June; his father's German acquaintance saving him and his father (his mother and sister were murdered); hiding with a woma...

  11. Jakob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob S., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls German invasion; fleeing to Lazdijai, Lithuania; German invasion a year later; fleeing east with his parents and brother; separation with his brother from their parents in Daugavpils during a German attack; working in a kitchen; being released from a mass killing with other children; sharing extra food with other Jews; returning from work to find his brother had disappeared (he never saw him again); ghettoization; hiding during a round-up; clandestinely joining a group burying corpses; working with Soviet POWs; a fe...

  12. Yitzhak V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak A., who was born in Sulejo?w, Poland in 1917; his Hasidic home; antisemitism in public school; working in ?o?dz?; involvement in communism; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with his brother to defend Poland; capture by SS when returning to ?o?dz?; assistance from a fellow-communist; escaping with his brother; marriage in November; traveling with his wife toward Soviet territory; wandering for months in Hrodna; Presovtse; and Stolin; settling in Presovtse; working for the Red Army; German invasion in June 1941; meeting with a small group planning to find ar...

  13. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1926, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his family's 1929 emigration to Antwerp to join relatives; their orthodoxy; attending Agudat Israel on weekends; the births of two younger siblings; attending a commercial school in Berchem; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Brussels via Ostende, then to De Panne and Adinkerke, intending to leave for France; not being able to cross the border because they were Polish citizens; traveling to Eeko, Bruges, then Ghent; working in Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; visi...

  14. Victor B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934 and has vague memories of being smuggled to Antwerp. He recounts bombings when Germany invaded in spring 1940; an unsuccessful attempt to escape to France; brief hospitalization for measles; returning to Antwerp; his father being taken to a labor camp (he shows postcards from him); moving with his mother to Brussels; his father's return; his parents placing him in hiding with non-Jews in a village (his parents remained in Brussels); transfer to an orphanage; living with a widow; being protected by all the non-Jews in ...

  15. Helena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena B., who was born in Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1927, the older of two children. She recalls moving to Kraków in 1934 to join relatives; attending a Jewish school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; studying at home; ghettoization; working with her mother repairing damaged German uniforms; transfer to Płaszów in March 1943; public shootings by Amon Goeth; she and her mother seeing her father and brother in the men's camp; transfer with her mother to Auschwitz; remain...

  16. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She speaks of her childhood; the rise of antisemitism in prewar Berlin; escape from Germany through Holland in 1938; her family's emigration to the United States after being detained in an internment camp in Bonaire, Netherlands West Indies; and her adult life in the United States.

  17. Leopold P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1913. He recalls his large, extended family; Jewish life in Krako?w; working as a high school teacher; helping Jews expelled from Germany after Hitler came to power; serving as an officer in the Polish army; German invasion; capture and escape to Krako?w from a prisoner of war transport in October 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; meeting Oskar Schindler; choosing not to escape from the ghetto because of his wife; an encounter with Amon Goeth when the ghetto was liquidated; brutality and frequent killings in P?aszo?w; a Ger...

  18. Mitchell B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mitchell B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, the youngest of eight children. He recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Poznan? in May 1941; slave labor building the autobahn; public hangings; transfer to Auschwitz in August 1943; prisoners from ?o?dz? advising him to try to leave; transfer to Jawischowitz; slave labor building barracks; hospitalization in January 1945; surgery without anesthesia; friends saving him from a selection; a death march to Blechhammer, then train transport in open cars to Theresienstadt; liber...

  19. Valery W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valery W., a non-Jew, who was born in Les Deux-Acren, Belgium in 1919. He recalls working at a power station; military service; German invasion; being sent to several locations ending at Bagnols-sur-Cèze; training with French military in a nearby village; attack by German planes; capture; internment in a prisoner of war camp with his unit and French units; release; returning home; resuming his job; spontaneously sabotaging German communications lines with friends; organizing other sabotage; printing a Resistance publication in Lessines; blowing up railroad tracks, t...

  20. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1928. He recounts his mother's foresight in not having him circumcised, which later saved his life; pervasive antisemitism; his parents' frequent discussions of wanting to escape (one uncle and his family did); anti-Jewish restrictions; his family's conversion to Catholicism in 1939 to protect themselves; attending Catholic education classes (his "soul was executed in the process"), then a Catholic school; feeling persecuted for no reason since he never experienced Jewish cultural or religious life and did not feel like a...