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  1. Celia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia L., who was born in Bia?a Podlaska, Poland in 1922. She recalls her father's Hasidism; brief Soviet invasion; not fleeing when the Soviets left because her father thought the war would end soon; forced labor under German occupation; transfer to the Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski ghetto; a warning from a German about an impending round-up; hiding; deportation with her family to Majdanek; separation upon arrival (they did not survive); slave labor; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; improved conditions; transfer to Cze?stochowa; a Polish worker offering to hide her; liberatio...

  2. Norbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Cavnic, Romania in 1923. He recalls his family's move to Petrova in 1925; his father's medical practice; increasing antisemitism; attending gymnasium in Timis?oara; street attacks; graduating in Oradea; antisemitism preventing him from entering medical school in Cluj; returning home; working for a lumber company until German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization with his parents and sister in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from his mother and sister; sadistic treatment by Nazi guards; the pervasive stench of burning fl...

  3. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1924, the oldest of five children. He recalls German invasion; working on a Polish farm until summer 1941; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; replacing his father for forced labor in December; returning home; his father's death from typhus; transfer to Ciechano?w in May 1942; his family's deportation from Makow; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; help from a Jewish woman after he was beaten; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; improved conditions; return to Birkenau when he had typhus; wanting to commit suicide, but not doing so...

  4. Gisela S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela S., who was born in Eschwege, Germany in 1931. She recounts her father's blindness due to a World War I injury; living in Abterode until 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her mother's death; not being harassed on Kristallnacht because they were the only Jews in their building; her father not being arrested because he was a decorated veteran; his remarriage in 1940; attending an illegal Jewish school; their deportation to Theresienstadt in fall 1942; her first encounter with corpses; transfer to a "youth home"; forced labor in a tailor shop; Danish prisoners sharing th...

  5. Juraj S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juraj S., who was born in Bratislava, Slovakia on October 17, 1940. He recounts moving to Michalovce because his parents thought it safer; his brother's birth in 1942; living in Humenné; being hidden with his brother, parents, and grandmother by a farmer in Hlohovec; hiding under the floor during searches by Hlinka guard; once hiding alone for a week, which traumatized him for years; their arrest, then release as non-Jews when his father showed he wasn't circumcised (his paternal grandfather did not have his father circumcised due to the death of a previously born br...

  6. Jacques G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques G., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1923. He describes his parents' Bundist commitment; their emigration to Paris due to antisemitism; communist associations; German invasion; fleeing to Pyre?ne?es-Orientales with his brother; returning to Paris after learning their mother was ill; escaping to Pau; arrest on September 8, 1941; imprisonment there, in Gurs, Bourbon-l'Archambault, then Montluc?on; transfer to Drancy in September 1942; shock at seeing children, women, and old people incarcerated; deportation with three friends to Cosel, then Peiskretscham; slave...

  7. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. She recalls her assimilated and wealthy family's disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's emigration to Belgium; emigrating with her father to Amsterdam in 1938; her mother joining them later (she had refused to emigrate earlier); German invasion in May 1940; marriage, and moving to Tilburg. Mrs. L. recounts her brother's escape attempt through France (he perished in Auschwitz); her son's birth in 1942; hiding in several locations over the next tw...

  8. Margita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita S., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovokia (presently Slovakia) in 1915, one of four children. She recalls her family's assimilation and strong Czech identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's death when she was thirteen; socialist activities; attending medical school in Bratislava; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1938 resulting in her expulsion; working in Olomouc for her uncle (he was a surgeon) as an X-ray technician; readmission to medical school, then expulsion again; attending nursing school in 1941; deportation to Auschw...

  9. Sonia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia W., who was born in 1928 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls a wonderful childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in 1941; avoiding the children's deportation due to a document obtained by her friend's father which falsified her age as over fourteen; attending clandestine schools; selling family possessions for food; a round-up in which her mother was taken; transfer to P?aszo?w in March 1943; her sister's frequent help, which saved her life many times; random killings by the camp commander Amon Goeth; the public hanging of a boy who sang ...

  10. Dalma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dalma S., who was born in Piešt̕any, Czechoslvakia in 1925, one of five daughters. She recounts being raised in Liptovský Mikuláš; her father's position as a reform synagogue cantor; cordial relations with non-Jews; Slovak independence resulting in anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from high school; two older sisters moving to Budapest to avoid deportation; hiding with an aunt in Piešt̕any to avoid deportation; returning home; traveling illegally to Budapest; finding her sisters; arrest; transfer to a prison in Uz︠h︡horod after six weeks; their release; arrest at the S...

  11. Bella U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella U., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1928. She recalls her comfortable childhood prior to 1934; her mother identifying herself as a Christian to protect their house during Kristallnacht (she had converted to Judaism); her father obtaining passage to Cuba after his brief arrest in May 1939; their departure on the St. Louis from Hamburg; refusal by the Cuban government to allow debarkation of any passengers; sailing between Cuba and Florida while efforts were made to find refuge; returning to Europe; living in Cherbourg, then Poitiers and Loudun; her father's...

  12. Fred D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred D., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1924. He describes growing up in a religious environment; hiding with his family during Kristallnacht, when a German friend dissuaded others from harming them; his family's unsuccessful attempts to emigrate (an older brother emigrated to Palestine); arrest with his father and brother on September 9, 1939; deportation to Sachsenhausen after a few weeks in a local jail; slave labor and harsh conditions; separation from his father upon their transfer to Auschwitz in 1942 (they never saw him again); selection for work in ...

  13. Walter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in approximately 1919, the oldest of five children. He recalls their abject poverty; apprenticing to a tailor at age ten; pervasive antisemitism; military draft in 1939; German invasion; desertion; local farmers saving him from Germans; traveling to Lublin; imprisonment; transfer to Majdanek; transfer a year and a half later to Birkenau; privileged jobs as a tailor, then a barber; realizing he could be killed at any moment; exchanging his yellow symbol for a red triangle, to which he attributes his survival; transfer to Majdan...

  14. Amanda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amanda S., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1923. She recalls living in Brussels; attending school in Paris; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her father to Limoges; her father hiding after refusing to cooperate with Germans; hiding Jewish friends; being recruited to hide Allied pilots; living under false papers; arrest in February 1944; observing her mother's arrest (two pilots and two Jews were found in her home); incarceration in Fresnes; torture; three months' solitary confinement; prisoners communicating through the plumbing; brief t...

  15. Květa M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Květa M., who was born in Dvořiště, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts her father's death in 1922; moving from their farm to Prague; her mother's marriage to a non-Jewish communist; joining the Communist Party in 1937; illegal political activities; German occupation; marriage to a non-Jew in 1939; arrest in August 1940; release in February due to her pregnancy; her mother's arrest as a hostage (she was released); her son's birth in March; arrest with her husband in February 1942; conviction for treason in April; transfer to Waldheim in May; transfer of the Jews ...

  16. Aleksandar D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksander D., an only child, who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recalls his mother's death; his large, extended family; his father's positions as vice-president of the Belgrade Sephardic community and member of the city council (he was an attorney); German invasion in April 1941; he and his father traveling to Kotor, then Cetinje, thinking it safer under Italian occupation; assistance from his father's colleagues; his father's arrest on June 22; his release with assistance from a retired Yugoslav army officer; traveling to Budva; joining the Montenegro ...

  17. Khanoekh G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Khanoekh G., who was born in Vilnius, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1915, the oldest of eight children. He recounts living in Švenčionys; his father serving as a cantor; attending a Jewish school; graduation from Polish gymnasium in 1934; attending medical school in Vilnius on the "Jewish quota"; studying his last year in Lʹviv due to border changes resulting from the war; working in Švenčionys; German invasion in June 1941 while attending a medical conference in Kaunas; returning home; anti-Jewish laws; a mass killing which included one brother; ghettoization; ...

  18. Giorgina V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Giorgina V., who was born in Turin, Italy in 1926. Mrs. V. describes her family life; moving to Milan, where her grandparents lived, in 1936; attending Hebrew school; the beginning of persecution in 1938; attending public school which had a Catholic emphasis; being barred from that school; her return to Hebrew school; and her happy memories of that time. She recalls Italy's entry into the war in 1940; moving back to Turin; schools closing; being sent to Rome, where she lived with a converted uncle and aunt, to finish high school; German occupation of Turin; and moving...

  19. Rabbi Henri O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri O., who was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany in 1913. He recalls that his family moved to Germany in 1913 from Poland; his father's arrest during World War I because he was a Polish citizen; growing up in Aschaffenburg; teaching Judaism in Fulda and Tann after he graduated from a yeshiva in Frankfurt in 1933; his father's deportation to Poland from France, where he had fled after Kristallnacht; seeing his father for the last time when his father traveled through Frankfurt to Poland; his brother's and mother's brief arrest due to their Polish citizenship and th...

  20. Bronia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops i...