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  1. Irene R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene R., who was born in Vynohradiv, Ukraine in 1922 to a Hasidic family of twelve children. She recalls visits to grandparents in rural areas; one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations resulting in their impoverishment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from the males, her mother, younger siblings, and relatives; remaining with two sisters, an aunt, and cousins; her sister giving birth to a son (he was taken away by the Jewish midwife); assisting and assistance from her re...

  2. Samuel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending a Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; picketing of Jewish stores; German invasion; being arrested with Poles and Jews in early September 1939; detention at Gestapo headquarters, then Montelupich prison; release of the non-Jewish prisoners; transfer to Troppau; encountering Gustaw Morcinek, a prominent Polish writer; transfer to Sachsenhausen some two years later; separation of Jews; a sadistic barrack commander; loss of toes due to severe cold; relations between prisoner groups; slave...

  3. Fanny L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny L., who was born in Majdan, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recalls Hungarian occupation; witnessing horrible sights during an eight day forced transport with her family to Romania; and their 1943 move to Khust thinking they would be safer. Mrs. L. describes German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Birkenau; starvation, lice, endless roll calls and selections; atrocities committed by Irma Grese; the importance of remaining with her cousin; receiving food from a Polish political prisoner; the birth of a dead baby in her barrack; and burying the child....

  4. Erika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. She recalls her happy, observant and prosperous life in a close, extended family; attending Jewish school; hearing discussions of the situation in Vienna (her grandmother lived there); the outbreak of war; harboring Polish Jewish refugees; round-ups of non-Hungarian Jews; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures, including the yellow star; moving with her parents into her grandmother's apartment, a Jewish-designated house; her grandfather's arrest...

  5. Abe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1911. He recalls moving to Bia?obrzegi; learning to be a shoemaker from his father; making boots for Nazis after German invasion; deportation with his brothers to Skarz?ysko in 1942; slave labor in Werke A, a munitions factory; transfer to Cze?stochowa; transfer with his youngest brother (the other remained) to Buchenwald in 1944; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recuperation in sanatoria in Weimar and Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald and Landsberg displaced persons camps; learning from their uncle in the U.S. tha...

  6. Renee G. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Renee G., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mrs. G. notes her previous testimony was the first time she opened up about her experiences; now wanting to tell everything rather than censor herself because time is running out; memories returning as she writes her memoir; her younger brother's fury when she was hidden; dreaming of specific incidents; and her memories differing from her older cousin (he hid with them). She recounts specific childhood memories which are very sensory; not being told much after ghettoization; now needing open s...

  7. Julius C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius C., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1929. He recounts his father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; his father's family's disownment, although his grandmother visited them occasionally; his father not attending medical school due to antisemitism (he became a university professor); fleeing during German invasion; separation from his father; reunion six months later; his father obtaining false documents; visiting the Krako?w ghetto with his father; his father's mother living with them; their escape during a raid (his grandmother was caught); placement in a m...

  8. Everything else is history

    in this edited program, Holocaust survivors describe specific memories, reflect upon how and why they remember particular incidents, and the impact of these memories on their present lives.

  9. Shoshana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana K., who was born in a village near Buchach, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934, the youngest of three children. She recounts celebrating the Sabbath and Jewish holidays with her extended family; attending a Polish school; German invasion; one brother's deportation to a labor camp (she never saw him again); her other brother and uncle fleeing to the forest; hiding in a bunker; being found; the shooting of one of their group; her father encouraging her to escape when they were being transferred by foot; returning home; finding her grandmother's corpse; hiding i...

  10. Susan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan K., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recounts living in Dolni? Sucha?; her family's affluent, assimilated lifestyle; having to move to Ostrava in 1939 due to the war; her father's deportation to Nisko in October; apprenticeship to a milliner; moving to Prague with her mother and younger sister; sorting clothing of deported Jews; deportation to Theresienstadt in July 1943; forced labor assignments sorting clothing, in the mental hospital, in agriculture, and in the crematorium; sham improvements for a Swiss Red Cross visit; visiting friends an...

  11. Fela H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fela H., who was born in Mława, Poland in 1920, the fourth of nine children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father teaching at a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment in the neighborhood; attending a Jewish school; training as a seamstress; joining a sister and brother in Warsaw in 1937; German invasion in 1939; destruction of their residence by German bombing; living with an aunt; her family joining them; ghettoization; hospitalization for typhus; her older brother smuggling her mother and two sisters to be hidden in Mława; working in a factory; hiding her y...

  12. Frieda L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda L., who was born in a small town near Chortkov, Ukraine in 1915. She recalls her father's absence during World War I; affection and admiration for her mother; animosity toward her father; life in a very wealthy household; school in Chortkov; her father forbidding her marriage to a poor medical student; romance with a non-Jewish lawyer (he eventually saved her, her daughter and husband); and an arranged marriage. Mrs. L. relates her daughter's birth; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; round-ups; hiding; placing her daughter with a non-Jewish frie...

  13. Lucie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie W., who was born in Bad Berleburg, Germany in 1924. This is a follow-up to her previous testimony recorded in 1980. She describes visiting Bad Berleburg for a series of events organized by the local residents to document and memorialize the Jews of the city, survivors, and those who were murdered during the Nazi period. She also relates her experience in Röddenau, her mother's birthplace (she had visited her grandmother there as a child on her grandmother's birthday). She was invited by the present population, who memorialized her maternal family's residence a...

  14. Louis E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis E., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1923 to a religious family of four children. He describes childhood in an antisemitic atmosphere; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; Jewish police rounding up forced laborers; deportations; learning about gas chambers from an escapee; the shooting of his parents and grandmother on the way to a selection; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer with his brother to Bliz?yn; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a Jewish policeman and a Pole; forced labor in Henrykowo; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, the...

  15. Vera R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera R., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1930. Mrs. R. relates antisemitism in school; her family's move to Le Ve?sinet, France in 1938; her father's refusal to emigrate to the United States to join his family because of their good life in France; his incarceration as a German immediately after war broke out; fleeing with her mother to southern France; her father joining them; and internment in Rivesaltes. She recalls boarding a train with her parents; being taken off by a friend of her parents; receiving a letter her mother wrote on the way to Drancy; being hidden ...

  16. Victor S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor S., who was born in 1910 in Kozienice, Poland. He recalls being raised in a Hasidic family; Polish army service in 1934; work as a cabinet maker in Warsaw when the Germans invaded; army service in several places; deserting; assistance from Poles in reaching safety in ?o?dz?; and returning to Kozienice. Mr. S. details leaving for Warsaw to join his girlfriend; their marriage in Kras?nik, her hometown; ghettoization; forced labor; his son's birth; finding his wife's mother, father and grandmother murdered; his incarceration in Budzyn? in late 1942; learning of a ...

  17. Tushia Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tushia Z., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her assimilated childhood; vacationing in Zakopane in summer 1939; German invasion; street killings of Jews; her mother's murder in November 1939; her father sending her to another city; a mass killing; returning to Krako?w; living with her father and brother in the ghetto; transfer to P?aszo?w when the ghetto was liquidated; working in Oskar Schindler's factory; benign conditions compared to P?aszo?w; deportation to Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz; a death march to Buchenwald; forced labor at Hasag-Lei...

  18. Mor L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mor L., who was born in Davyd-Haradok, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1917, one of seven children. He recounts attending cheder, then a Hebrew school; participating in Hashomer Haleumi; living with a sister in Vilnius to attend a Polish gymnasium beginning in 1931; two sisters emigrating to Palestine; beginning university studies in chemistry; antisemitic harassment; a humiliating beating by Endecja members; Soviet occupation in 1939; completing university; a futile attempt to obtain emigration papers in Kaunus; returning to Vilnius; German invasion in June 1941; force...

  19. Kate F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kate F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1914, the only child of a government official. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; graduation from school in 1933; a teacher avoiding racial questions on Mrs. F.'s final oral exam; deteriorationg conditions; teaching German for a year in Paris; studying comparative literature at the Sorbonne; visiting her parents in Berlin; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her parents' emigration to Paris to join her; and transport to Gurs as an "enemy alien." Mrs. F. recounts her release after the Germans occ...

  20. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in 1925 in Lauterbach, Germany. She recounts attending school; being shunned by non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; restrictions resulting from the Nuremberg laws; antisemitic harassment by her teacher; briefly attending a Jewish boarding school in Bad Nauheim; her father traveling to the United States to convince relatives to sponsor them for emigration; an examination at the United States Consulate in Stuttgart; emigration to the United States via Hamburg/Cuxhaven in December 1937; her maternal aunt's emigration in 1938; and her ...