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  1. Natalie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Natalie S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1934. She recounts moving to Ka?usz before the war; Soviet occupation; state confiscation of the family property; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including her father; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her mother obtaining Polish documents for both of them; traveling to Lemberg; arrest by Ukrainian police; release when her mother bribed them; moving frequently to avoid detection; constant fear of discovery; living with a seamstress; attending Catholic services which she found comforting; exposure by the pers...

  2. Bella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella M., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1932. She recalls her family's affluence; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors, in a bunker they built, then with various non-Jews during round-ups; denunciation by the person hiding them when they ran out of money; imprisonment; transfer to a labor camp; escaping; hiding in a forest; capture; return to the labor camp; public execution of escapees; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; gender separation (she never saw her bro...

  3. Sidonia N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidonia N., who was born in Vác, Hungary in 1916, one of twelve children. She recounts stories of her ancestors, who were well-known rabbis, her family's orthodoxy; her father's prominence as a teacher; attending a public school; German occupation; forced relocation to a brick factory; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); assistance from another prisoner in keeping her prayer book; praying during roll calls; transfer to Salzwedel; slave labor in a munitions factory; organizing clandestine group observa...

  4. Franz F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franz F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, one of two brothers. He recounts his family's relative affluence; antisemitic harassment at school; visiting grandparents in Opava; expulsion from his scout troop; joining Makabi ha-tsaĘťir; the Anschluss; joining a hachsharah in Germany; visiting Berlin; his brother joining a hachsharah in France; Kristallnacht; visiting his parents in Vienna; emigration to Palestine via Vienna and Trieste in 1939; receiving letters from his parents through the Red Cross (later, the letters stopped); enlisting in the British army; se...

  5. Erika F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1937. She describes her older sister and extended family; her father's draft into a forced labor battalion; no contact with non-Jewish children; receiving help from a non-Jewish aunt; living in a Swedish safe house; escaping a round-up; hiding with her non-Jewish aunt; observing corpses and destruction in the streets; Soviet liberation; learning of her father's death; her mother's remarriage to an Auschwitz survivor; moving to Baj; her affection for her stepfather; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; her stepfather's death;...

  6. Molly A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly A., who was born in approximately 1924, the oldest of seven children. She recounts living in Bodzanow?; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; participating in Bene ?Ak?iva; German invasion in 1939; her family briefly living with non-Jews in a nearby village; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Be?z?ec; securing his release; deportation with her family to Dzia?dowo, then Cze?stochowa; ghettoization; escaping with four siblings (the two youngest remained with her parents and they all were killed); traveling to Warsaw; walking to a village wh...

  7. Carl G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carl G., who was born in Vec?a, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. Mr. G. recalls childhood in the large family of a cantor and kosher butcher; attending a German language school in Bratislava; returning home when the borders closed in 1938; ghettoization in 1944; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion; hiding his mother's rings in the garbage pit; her refusal to leave her children with Romanies; deportation to a brick works in E?rseku?jvar; transport to Birkenau; believing the crematoria to be bakeries; and throwing food to female inmates. He relates incarc...

  8. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., a twin, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recalls her father's position as a district attorney; attending a Catholic school; her father's dismissal from his job due to the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; no longer having servants, although one, an anti-Nazi, continued to work for them; their chauffeur warning her father to leave; men coming for him; his return a week later; seeing damage after Kristallnacht; placement with her sister on a kindertransport; arrival in London in January 1939; attending a Jewish board...

  9. Sola B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sola B., who was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1911 and moved with her family to Berlin, Germany, in 1920. Mrs. B. describes her childhood and family life; her many non-Jewish friends; increasing anti-Semitic behavior and legislation; the deportation of her father, a Polish Jew, in 1938; rescuing her father-in-law from Sachsenhausen; being smuggled, along with her husband, into Antwerp; her life in the United States; and her attempts to educate her children as to the meaning of her experiences. Mrs. B. also discusses her feelings regarding the possibility of a recurr...

  10. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; living in the Jewish area (Marais); German invasion; traveling south hoping to assist the French military; returning to Paris after France was divided; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups; his father leaving for unoccupied France; smuggling the remainder of the family to join his father in Avignon; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers for the entire family; one sister being hidden in a convent; other family, including his parents, hiding with non-Je...

  11. Irving G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving G., who was born in 1919 and served with the United States Army in a signal battalion in World War II. He recounts landing at Omaha Beach; moving toward Germany during the Battle of the Bulge; entering a concentration camp after the Germans had left; emaciated inmates who looked like "skeletons"; soldiers giving them their rations; speaking Yiddish with a prisoner; later entering Nordhausen; piles of corpses; the pervasive stench; locals feigning ignorance of the camp; and not sharing his experiences after returning home. Mr. G. discusses nightmares about the c...

  12. Cyla D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cyla D., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1915, the youngest of six children of an oil well owner. Mrs. D. describes a happy childhood; her musical education; living with her sister in Stryi? when the war began; Soviet occupation; marriage to an attorney in 1940; her daughter's birth in 1941; German invasion; her mother being taken in the first round-up (she later learned she was killed); her father committing suicide; giving birth while hiding with her husband in Boryslav (the baby could not be saved); numerous instances of assistance from her fat...

  13. Charles N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924 . He recounts his family's emigration to Paris in about 1927; attending public school; training as a dental technician; fleeing with two brothers to Vazerac when Germany invaded; returning to Paris; working at farms in the country-side to hide; returning to Paris; his oldest brother's death from illness in 1941; being warned of the Vélodrome d'hiver round-up in July 1942; his mother arranging for a non-Jew to take him and his brother south; traveling by train to Bourges; arrest; imprisonment as non-Jews; transfer to ...

  14. Yosef S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921, one of four children. He recounts attending public school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and a sports group; German invasion; one brother's escape to Lʹviv; a non-Jew smuggling him and his father to Warsaw to meet this brother and escape to the Soviet Union; his father's return to Łódź; attemptinig to enter the Soviet zone with his brother via Siedlce; capture by the Soviets; being sent back to Warsaw; returning to the Łódź ghetto; working as a carpenter, sabotaging furniture he built for the Germans; building ...

  15. David O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David O., who was born in a Polish village in 1916, one of five children. He describes his orthodox childhood, attending a local public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah in 1929; attending yeshivahs in Kielce and Be?dzin; living on an orthodox hachsharah for a year, preparing to emigrate to Palestine; working in Olkusz; conscription into the Polish military in March 1939; German invasion six months later; capture by Germans; a Polish farmer informing him Jews were being sent away; escaping with assistance from the farmer; returning home; his mother's death in 1941; h...

  16. Yehoshua L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua L., who was born in approximately 1923 and raised in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus), one of five children. He recalls attending a local Yavneh school, then yeshiva in Luninets; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; his sister's evacuation east during the German invasion in June 1941; his futile attempt to flee east; slave labor for Organisation Todt; ghettoization in spring 1942; solidarity promoted by the Judenrat led by Dov Lopatin; bringing food to Jews in a Hungarian slave labor battalion when they passed through; non-Jews informing t...

  17. David P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David P., who was born in Tilsit, Germany (presently Sovetsk, Kaliningradskai?a? oblast?, R.S.F.S.R.) in 1912. He describes living in Ri?ga; friendships with non-Jews; Latvians killing Jews immediately before the arrival of German troops in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; burial of Jewish documents, including writings of Simon Dubnow; learning of the mass murder of almost all of Ri?ga's Jews (including his family) at Rumbuli; and the arrival of Austrian, German, and Czech Jews to the ghetto. Mr. P. recalls severely injuring his hand while working on Rosh ha-Shanah;...

  18. Laura M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laura M., who was a social worker for the National Refugee Service, then the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. She recalls arriving in Havana, Cuba in February 1939; dealing with many German Jewish refugees; knowing in advance the St. Louis was arriving and its passengers would not be allowed to disembark; the staff not sleeping for the eight days the ship was in harbor in their efforts to assist; her colleague visiting the ship daily; arranging disembarkation in European countries other than Austria and Germany; transfer to Shanghai in April 1941; working...

  19. Sonia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia H., who was born in Oleye?vo-Korole?vka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933. She remembers cordial relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; her father hiding to avoid deportation to Siberia; Hungarian, then German invasion in 1941; hiding in bunkers in her grandmother's house; her paternal grandparents being caught in a round-up; moving to Bi?lche to hide in a grotto; her mother and sister being caught; their release after her father bribed officials; hiding in her father's friend's barn, a forest, then another grotto beginning in May 1943; local peasants pro...

  20. Maximilian L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maximilian L., who was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. He tells of his father's service for Austria in World War I; hearing of Jewish persecution in Germany from emigre? relatives; his strong Austrian patriotism; harassment of Jews following the Anschluss; being able to leave Austria because his father retained his Czech citizenship; arrival in Paris; satisfaction at fighting back at anti-Semitic incidents in school; family applications for emigration to Australia, Canada, or the United States; and German invasion of Paris. Mr. L. recalls leaving Paris in a massive e...