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  1. Eric C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric C., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1938. He recounts having few prewar memories; reconstructing his story (deportation to Gurs in 1940 with his parents and younger sister, being smuggled out by the French underground, living in the basement of a Christian family - his sister was elsewhere - for eighteen months); placement in an orphanage in Livry-Gagnan in 1944; being introduced to his sister; their transfers to other orphanages, ending in Paris; his father finding them in 1946 (he survived Auschwitz - his mother did not); living with their father in German...

  2. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born into a religious home, one of seven children, in Krako?w, Poland, 1924. Mr. B. tells of the sudden outburst of antisemitism in 1935 and of his discouragement at the sight of his father's defeatist attitude after a period of incarceration following the outbreak of the war. He describes his family's evacuation from Krako?w to a small neighborhood; their move back to the city; his unsuccessful attempt to escape from a 1940 deportation order; and his three years of forced labor in an airplane factory in Mielec and conditions in the slave labor cam...

  3. Linda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Linda F., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1927. She recalls her large extended family; attending public school; helping her father in the family butcher shop; assisting German Jewish refugees; believing events in Germany would not impact them; and the shock of German invasion. Mrs. F. recounts round-ups of children and men; confiscation of the family business; secretly slaughtering meat for friends; her father's beating and arrest (she never saw him again); her mother's disappearance; reporting for forced labor in 1942 in her sister's place; transport to Skarz?y...

  4. Maria M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's assimilation; attending medical school in Paris and Tours due to Polish quotas against Jews; visiting home in summer 1939; German invasion; her parents retrieving all their assets from the bank (this later saved their lives); ghettoization in 1940; working at the Jewish hospital; starvation, epidemics and deaths; her father working for the Joint; deportations beginning in July 1942; her father encouraging her and her mother to escape (they did not look Jewish); her mother's refusal to leave him...

  5. He?le?ne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of He?le?ne R., who was raised in Strasbourg, France. She describes participating in Zionist youth groups; her father's death in 1936; moving to Vichy in 1939 with her mother and brother; her brother's deportation (she received mail from him postmarked Monowitz), then her mother's in November 1943; hiding for seven months; resuming her job; imprisonment in Clermont-Ferrand in June 1944; transfer to Drancy in July; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; forming a group of French girls; selections, beatings, and hunger; transfer to a munitions factory in Kratzau; forcing the a...

  6. Hannah D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah D., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1922. She describes her family's move to Bochum when she was two; her father's death in 1929; expulsion from boarding school in 1937 because she was Jewish; the impact of anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; her mother's remarriage in 1939; and emigration to England three weeks later on a kindertransport. Mrs. D. recalls entering nurse's training; internment on the Isle of Man as an "enemy alien"; friendship with a woman who committed suicide; receiving her nursing diploma in 1941; enlisting in the army; the horro...

  7. Martin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916. Mr. L. speaks of his childhood; his enlistment in the Polish army in 1938; the defense of Warsaw in 1939; and his prisoner-of-war status in Stuttgart. He describes his return to Warsaw, then to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1940; Polish collaboration with Germans; deprivation within the ghetto; and the deaths and deportations of family members. He recounts voluntarily leaving the ghetto with his brother; their arrival at Auschwitz; witnessing mass burnings of inmates; the murder of H?ayim Rumkowski by camp inmates; and transfe...

  8. Myron P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myron P., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1923, one of six children. Mr. P. recounts his father's death prior to his birth (he was named for him); orthodox observances of holidays and Sabbath by his family and the community; attending cheder; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws and quotas; conscription of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); graduation from business school; German invasion in 1944; forced labor in a nearby town; ghettoization in Sighet; deportation with his mother, sister, and family to Auschwitz/Birkenau...

  9. Herbert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1922. He recalls expulsion from public school; an apprenticeship in 1936; moving to Berlin in 1938 to learn carpentry and attend art school; Kristallnacht, which he learned was more severe in Nuremberg; his father's incarceration in Dachau for eight weeks; returning to Nuremberg in 1939; attending art school until 1941; working in a book bindery where he observed many Allied war prisoners; deportations of Jews in 1941 and 1942; his family's exemption because his father was an executive of the Jewish community; and depo...

  10. Dina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dina G., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1919. She recalls constant poverty and hardships due to "five year plans"; the focus on education; all religions being forbidden; completing four of five years of medical school when Germany invaded in June 1941; fleeing east; strafing by German planes; living in Rastov for two months; traveling with her parents to the Chinese border; receiving a temporary diploma so she could practice medicine; military mobilization; training in Moscow; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; working as a front line surgeon; meeting her f...

  11. Efraim F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Efraim F., who was born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Tarbut school, then gymnasium in Rivne; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, Betar, and Mizrachi; Soviet occupation; interrogation by the NKVD due to his Zionist activities; German invasion; fleeing to Koret︠s︡ʹ; forced labor for the German army; returning to Rivne; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a non-Jewish friend hiring him to tutor her children and giving him her husband's birth certificate; hiding in her attic during a mass killing ...

  12. Testimony excerpts - bystander and two survivors

    An edited program with excerpts from three testimonies. John S., a Jesuit priest, who during the war was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Košice, now Slovakia, vividly describes two personal encounters with the suffering and horrors of the Holocaust and laments his inability to intervene or protest on behalf of the victims. Leon S., a Jew from Poland, describes the liquidation of the Jews of his town, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed. He speaks of his experiences in slave labor and concentration camps and tells how he was able to retain his faith and humanity ...

  13. Nina A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina A., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1926 to Turkish immigrants. She recalls moving to Ostend; German invasion; moving to Brussels in summer 1940; arrest with her parents on October 23, 1943 (her younger sister was not at home and subsequently went into hiding); incarceration in Malines; her parents' belief that their Turkish citizenship would protect them from deportation; her father's deportation on December 12, 1943; deportation with her mother to Ravensbru?ck on December 13, 1943; arranging for her mother to work in the knitting area; efforts to avoid hard...

  14. Anni H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anni H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, the youngest of five children. She recounts her father was not Jewish and her mother was a non-practicing Jew; her father's service in World War I; her family not considering themselves Jewish until antisemitic laws and restrictions forced them to do so; her school's dissolution in March 1938; having to wear the yellow star and add "Sarah" to her name; working as a photographer's apprentice and a housekeeper as a non-Jew; baptism with her siblings in December 1941; deportation of her brother and his daughter in 1942; s...

  15. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italian...

  16. Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Hausberge an der Porta, Germany in 1919, one of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to a small town in Hessen, then to Hannover; increasing antisemitism after 1933; apprenticing as a seamstress in Dortmund; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; living briefly in Munich; Allied bombings; her family's unsuccessful effort to obtain emigration papers in Stuttgart; their deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; forced labor; frequent round-ups; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); a friend preventing her from committing suici...

  17. Hilda T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda T. who was born in Iglo?, Czechoslovakia (presently Spis?ska Nova? Ves, Slovakia) in 1904. She recalls her mother's death when she was five; studying in Brno; her family's move to Vienna; good relations with non-Jews prior to 1934; participating in Sportklub Hakoah; meeting her husband there; hiding a union leader after the Nazis came to power; her husband's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release providing he left Austria within two weeks; the union leader obtaining Swedish visas for them; and emigration to Sweden, then the United States via Norway. Mrs T. describ...

  18. Eva N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva N., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1923. She recounts her middle-class family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; visits to her maternal grandparents in Hegyalja; attending gymnasium with her younger brother; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in June 1943; moving to her husband's home in Nyi?regyha?za; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Berehovo; her father's appointment to the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; ...

  19. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1926, the youngest of six children. He recounts his sister's death; cordial relations with non-Jews; summering with relatives in Veliouna; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; taking art courses; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing to Veivis; returning home via Rumšiškės; Lithuanian collaborators taking his uncle and a brother; ghettoization; round-ups; one brother working at the airport; his father's death from a heart attack in December 1941; employment painting signs for the Judenrat; leaving the ...

  20. Mennerem W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mennerem W., who was born in Paris in 1923 to Polish immigrants. He recalls his family's poverty; speaking Yiddish at home; lack of religious observance; attending French and Jewish schools; the absence of antisemitism; remaining in Paris with his mother and three sisters after German invasion; his father and brothers-in-law fleeing; participation in a Bund youth group; his mother joining his father in the unoccupied zone; joining his parents in Montauban; moving to Nice; meeting a friend who had been in Drancy; deciding not to register as Jews; planning an escape to ...