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  1. Nicholas F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nicholas F., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending Czech school, then a Hebrew gymnasium; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws resulting in confiscation of his father's business; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization: round-up to a brick factory; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; remaining with his father when separated from his mother and siblings (they were killed); transfer with his father to Janina; slave labor in a coal mine; brief hospitalization; assist...

  2. Siegfried B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926. He recalls his childhood in a religious home; anti-Semitic incidents; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; his Bar Mitzvah in 1939; attending a Jewish school; forced labor; and deportation with his parents to the ?o?dz? ghetto in October 1941. Mr. B. describes ghetto life: his father's death from starvation in May 1942; frequent atrocities and deportations, including his mother in March 1943; transport to Cze?stochowa; forced labor in a HASAG factory; participation in religious acti...

  3. Eva and Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva and her husband Frank S., both of whom are from Germany. Mrs. S. describes her childhood in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; her vivid recollection of the day that Hitler came to power; the changes that took place in Nazi Germany, particularly as they affected her in school; Kristallnacht; her emigration to England, as part of a children's transport; and her life in England. Mr. S. speaks of his childhood and youth in Breslau; experiences with antisemitism in school, beginning shortly before Hitler came to power; and the patriotism of German Jews ...

  4. Vladimir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir S., who was born in Daugavpils, Russia (presently Latvia) in 1916, one of five brothers. He recalls moving to Polatsk in 1928; his father's death from war wounds; attending a Jewish school; moving to Leningrad (presently St. Petersburg); working, then attending military academy; assignment as a communications officer in Eĭsk; German invasion; mobilization of three brothers; participating in several battles with high casualty rates; capture near Smolensk; incarceration in Monastyrshchina; having no food or shelter and sleeping onthe ground; transfer to a camp...

  5. Nechama H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nechama H., who was born in Stolbt︠s︡y, Poland (presently Stoŭbtsy, Belarus) in 1924, the oldest of six children. She recounts her father owning a factory; antisemitic harassment; moving to Lyakhovichi; her father opening a factory in a forest; attending gymnasium in Baranavichy; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet/school; expropriation of her father's factory; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father and brother receiving permits to operate their factory; escaping with her three-year-old sister from a round-up; a non-Jewish woman hiding them; returnin...

  6. Morris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1914, one of eight children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending yeshivas in Kerets'ky and another town; working for his uncle in Berehove; frequent business trips to Khust; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; slave labor in Uz?h?horod, Sighet, then I?A?sini?a?; brief reunion with relatives; transfer to Kolomyi?a?; slave labor moving stones and dirt; transfer to Vinnyt?s?i?a? to work in a munitions factory, among other jobs; praying with others during Yom Kippur; transfer to K...

  7. Louis R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1921, one of two brothers. He recounts his parents' tailor shop; his mother's orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew school; working from age fourteen; German invasion in 1940; his brother's deportation because he would not leave his wife (they did not survive); feigning illness to avoid deportation; hiding on a farm, then with his father's friend; obtaining false papers with assistance from the underground; working in a bakery; learning his parents were in hiding; obtaining documents to work for the Germans on the A...

  8. Louis D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis D., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Russia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1911, one of six brothers. He recounts his family's poverty; working in construction in Brno; military enlistment in 1929; discharge in 1933; his successful business; German invasion; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; deportation to Velyikyy Bychkiv; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Kiev; transfer home; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; transfer with two brothers to Fu?nfteichen; slave labor in a Krupp factory; extraction of his brother's gold crowns to obtain p...

  9. Ellen W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen W., who was born in Memel, Lithuania (presently Klaipe?da) in 1921. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's death; the family's move to Kaunas in 1939; German invasion in 1941; Lithuanian pogroms; she and her family being saved by their concierge; the disappearance of two brothers; learning they were shot by Lithuanians; ghettoization; a selection in October 1941 in which her mother, brother, and uncle's family were taken (she never saw them again); forced labor outside the ghetto; bartering for food with Lithuanians; working with her sister in a brick ...

  10. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1922. She recalls her older sister; a large extended family; increased antisemitism beginning in 1932; her sister's husband's military draft; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Warsaw with her parents, sister, and her children; ghettoization; her sister's family escaping; her father's death; observing Janus Korczak leading his orphanage to deportation; hiding during round-ups; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); caring for a child; surrendering during the uprising when they were burned ou...

  11. Donald M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donald M., who served in the United States Army as a chaplain's assistant. He recounts arriving in Europe in October 1944; moving with the 103d Division from England through France to Germany; having no prior knowledge of concentration camps; arriving in Buchenwald shortly after its liberation; the emaciated prisoners; bodies stacked for burning; taking pictures of the camp and survivors; and the pervasive stench. Mr. M. recalls his initial shock at the conditions; the people of Weimar claiming complete ignorance of Buchenwald, though only few miles away; mass graves;...

  12. Elisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisa F., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, the youngest of six children. She recounts her happy childhood; attending a Jewish, then an Italian school; moving to Kos in 1942; her father's leadership role in the Jewish community; anti-Jewish legislation; her mother's death; two brothers' emigrations; her father warning Jews to leave; his emigration to Turkey (her sister lived there); German invasion; fleeing to the countryside with her brother and his family; round-up and deportation to Greece; meeting two aunts; the Turkish consul having her br...

  13. Lucy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy R., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of eight children. She recalls her family's move to Krosno; German invasion; marriage in 1940; ghettoization; her father's death; transfer with her family to a concentration camp in Krosno; working in the laundry; separation from her mother and brother; her brother's escape and return; transfer to P?aszo?w with her mother, brother, and husband; Amon Goeth randomly shooting prisoners; her brother hiding during the children's deportation; her husband's and brother's transfer to Mauthausen; her transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau i...

  14. Eva E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1919. Mrs. E. tells of German bombing; trying to give bread to Polish POWs; hoping to survive to see hungry German prisoners; ghettoization; the March 1941 deportation of the unemployed; escaping in March 1942; work for a Polish farmer; an Aktion in which her mother and sisters were taken; reunion with her brothers; a German soldier who advised her not to return to the ghetto with her brothers (they were subsequently taken); and obtaining false papers with the farmer's help in October 1942. She relates hiding with two women a...

  15. Helena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena B., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia. She recalls a large, extended family; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother moving to Budapest; her father's exemption from a slave labor battalion due to a World War I injury; German invasion in March 1944; forced relocation to a brick factory; deportation with her parents and sisters to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and younger sister (they were gassed); beatings, a "terrible smell," and an orchestra; her sister's hospitalization; a doctor saving her life; separation from her sister w...

  16. Dorothy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy L., who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1923. Mrs. L. recalls her close family; moving to Budapest; their happy life in a milieu of high culture; returning to Bremen in 1933; the forced sale of the family home; a German friend who helped them a great deal; her emigration to the United States on a children's transport in September 1938; and emotional difficulties living with families who seemed cold to her. She notes her brother and sister emigrated to England and learning from them about the trauma of Kristallnacht and her parents' and older sister's deportatio...

  17. Ann C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann C., who was born in approximately 1925, the oldest of four children, and raised in K?obuck, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; her father's beating by antisemites; German invasion; separation from a family friend who was taking her to a nearby farm; returning home; obtaining work on a German farm; the owners warning her of round-ups; her father's deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; hiding with her future husband and his sister during the ghetto's liquidation in June 1942; marriage; entering K?obuck concentration camp;...

  18. Ita M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ita M., who was born in approximately 1928, and lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. She recounts having two brothers and two sisters; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; her father's deportation for forced labor in Germany; ghettoization; forced labor manufacturing military uniforms; receiving food from Polish friends; deportation to Graeben; slave labor in a spinning factory for twelve hour shifts; receiving food from Soviet and Polish POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; observing cannibalism; encountering her sister; con...

  19. Helena M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena M., who was born in a Polish village in 1923, one of four children. She recounts her family's affluence; their orthodoxy; attending school in Bochnia; working on her family's farm; her father and brothers fleeing east; German invasion; hiding belongings with neighbors; Volksdeutsche evicting them; her father's and one brother's return; their transfer to Bochnia in 1942; escaping deportation (her parents and many other relatives were deported and killed); finding one brother; living in the Bochnia ghetto; forced labor at a sewing factory; hiding in a bunker duri...

  20. Louis B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis B., who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1911. He recalls his family's poverty; receiving scholarships for violin training; graduating from music school; playing in a cafe? in Katendrecht; a highly-paid orchestra job; purchasing a trumpet; teaching himself to play; employment in a nightclub; playing with Louis Armstrong; joining the underground in 1942; hiding under false papers in Made en Drimmelen; arrest; not divulging names under torture; transfer to Westerbork, then Birkenau; being recognized by a Dutch prisoner who told him to volunteer as a musician;...