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  1. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1912, one of six children. He recounts the family's move to Gusakov after World War I; his father's death after a beating by antisemitic Ukrainians; attending Polish school; learning tailoring at age thirteen; working in Przemys?l from age fifteen onward in the Polish military; German invasion; a mass killing of 500 men in Przemys?l; Soviet occupation days later; German invasion; fleeing to the village of a Ukrainian, non-Jewish tailor whom he had helped before; working for him while posing as a non-Jew; hearing his family ha...

  2. Sandor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sandor Arye G., who was born in Cluj, Romania. He describes his active involvement in the Zionist organization in Cluj; his unsuccessful attempts to convince the people around him to flee to Palestine; the partition of Transylvania in 1940; and a trip to Budapest to prepare for emigration to Palestine. He tells of leading a Youth Aliyah group to Palestine via Romania, Istanbul, and Lebanon in 1941; joining the British army as a volunteer in 1942; and smuggling Jewish children from Egypt to Palestine. He relates being sent with his company to Italy, where he became fam...

  3. Bernard T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard T., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to a family of six children. He recalls family life; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling food; his inability to save his mother, sisters, and three-year-old brother from deportation in 1942 (he never saw them again); his deportation through Lublin to Budzyn?; working in the fields, then at an airplane factory; working in airplane factories in Mielec and Weliczka; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; an unsuccessful escape attempt; transfer to Dachau; escape from a death march; hiding in a barn; liberation; watching survi...

  4. Charles P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles P., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1923. He relates his family's emigration to Palestine, then France in 1926; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; a printer's apprenticeship; German invasion; a futile attempt to join the Resistance in Poitiers; printing Resistance papers in his father's Paris print shop; fleeing to Lyon in 1943; acquiring false papers in Montluel; arrest by the Gestapo; declaring himself a Jew to avoid more torture in Montluc; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor in coal mines in Jawischowitz; relations between prisoners ...

  5. Susana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susana A., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She tells of emigrating to Paris with her parents when she was six months old; the births of three brothers; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's enlistment when war began; his discharge; his arrest in 1940 (they never saw him again); leaving school to help at home after her fourth brother's birth; occasional letters from her father; her mother bringing the children to an agency when she could no longer feed them; their return home in June 1942; her mother bringing them to a Catholic organization; living in a...

  6. Eve Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eve Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. She recounts her maternal grandmother lived with them; her orthodoxy; family holiday celebrations; her father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; visiting him once (she never saw him again); expulsion from their home; living with relatives in the ghetto; frequent deportations, including many relatives; going to work with her mother, fearing to stay home; her mother being placed with a deportation group; getting her mother out of the group; relatives who were living on Christian papers being caught and kil...

  7. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Svatusa, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915. She describes her Orthodox family; attending Hungarian gymnasium in Kos?ice; marriage in 1937; her son's birth in 1938; her husband's service in the Czech, then Hungarian, militaries; Hungarian occupation; expropriation of their business; her husband's escape to Palestine; her second son's birth in 1940; moving to her parents' home; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization with her family in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and children upon arrival on ...

  8. Peter C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter C., who was born in Szolnok, Hungary in 1936. He speaks of his family background; anti-Jewish legislation and Hungarian antisemitism in the early 1940s; the ghettoization of the region's Jews; his father and grandfather leaving to serve in Hungarian compulsory labor battalions; air raids; overcrowding and savage treatment by the Hungarian police; and his deportation with his mother and other family members to a German factory in the Stadlau district of Vienna in the spring 1944. He describes living conditions in the camp; frequent air raids and bombings; transpo...

  9. Anna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Bar, Ukraine in 1926. She recounts moving to Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, then Tomashpolʹ; attending school to eighth grade; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in July 1941; evacuating to Stalingrad (Volgograd) with her parents and brother, then to Goncharovka; working on a collective farm; evacuation to Astrakhanʹ, Chimkent (On︠g︡tu̇stīk), Kazakhstan, then Karamurt; working on a collective farm; studying in Chimkent and working summers on the collective farm with her family; traveling to Makiïvka in 1944; working as a tax inspector; ...

  10. Karl S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recalls attending Jewish and public schools; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish regulations and violence; his father being killed in a round-up in November 1939; his mother's job in a hospital; attending clandestine schools; ghettoization; forced labor in a shoe factory; hiding during the children's round-up; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in summer 1944; assignment to the former Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Wu?stegiersdorf in November; slave labor digging trenches; escaping a mass s...

  11. Peter D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter D., who was born in Germany in 1936. He recalls that his father emigrated to Shanghai shortly before or after his birth; living with his mother in Berlin; staying home alone while she worked; their arrest and deportation to Terezín; living in the children's compound; seeing his mother every other weekend; moving boxes and finding one full of skulls; liberation; and survivors forcing a German into a bonfire. He describes returning to Berlin with his mother and stepfather (she married in Theresienstadt); moving to Deggendorf displaced persons camp; antisemitism ...

  12. Alfred N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French s...

  13. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in approximately 1913. He recounts his father's death in 1925; working with his mother; pervasive antisemitism; deportation to Dachau; forced labor; observing Jewish holidays; transfer to Buchenwald six months later; release due to his future wife obtaining a ticket for Shanghai; selling his ticket because he would not leave his future wife; marriage; emigration to Milan; leaving for Palestine from Sicily; arrival in Bangha?zi?; incarceration under Italian occupation; being returned to Italy; imprisonment in Naples; transfer...

  14. William M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William M., who was born in Cherniyev, Poland in 1925. He recalls a strict, Orthodox family life; extreme poverty; pervasive antisemitism; Soviet, Hungarian, and German occupations; forced transfer to the Stanislav ghetto; hanging of Jewish police, including his brother, for not delivering a required number of Jews; forced labor on a farm; smuggling stolen food to his family; digging graves for a mass killing, which he witnessed; obtaining a Polish birth certificate; escaping from the ghetto; traveling to Ozeri?a?ny, posing as a Pole; working for farmers; attending ch...

  15. Martin F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin F., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1920. Mr. F. describes his childhood in Be?dzin; his involvement in Zionist youth organizations; his stay on a kibbutz near the Russian border until the outbreak of the war; and his unsuccessful attempt to escape to Palestine via Russia. He relates being sent from Be?dzin to Germany as a slave laborer; the typhus epidemic at Faulbruck/Gra?ditz where he, his father, and his brother were among the few survivors; and his transfer to Langenbielau, then to Gross Rosen. He speaks of his hatred and desire for revenge as a ...

  16. Moshe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe S., a twin, who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recounts his mother's dental practice; his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; summering in Kulautuva; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; compulsory membership in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; round-up of his father, uncle, and grandmother (they never saw them again); working as a carpenter and handyman; his mother hiding him and his twin brother during round-ups; his and his mother's assignments to factory slave labor; his mother treating patients; t...

  17. Emile V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emile V., a non-Jew, who was born in Lanaye, Belgium in 1922. He recalls attending school in Liège and Tilff; receiving draft notification in May 1940; being sent to Paris; returning to Belgium three months later; organizing a resistance unit; noting German convoys and conveying that information to the resistance; working in Germany; returning to Belgium; arrest with his father on May 15, 1943 as spies; imprisonment in Liège, then Bochum; transfer to Esterwegen; no communication with the outside due to their "Nacht und Nebel" status (their clothing was marked "NN");...

  18. Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna S., who was born in Podkamen?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of eight children. She recalls attending school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; joining her boyfriend to work on a village mayor's farm; hiding in the woods with her father, brothers, boyfriend, and other relatives; digging a bunker for the winter; their discovery; building another bunker in a different location; working for farmers in the spring; building another bunker; becoming ill; her brother leaving to obtain medication; announcing when he returned that the...

  19. Pearl F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pearl F., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania (formerly Czernowitz, Bukovina) in 1920. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; two older sisters emigrating to the United States and her brother to South America; increasing antisemitism; being left alone with her parents when her sister left for New York in 1937; graduating from high school in 1938; attending university; responding to growing antisemitism by forming close bonds among Jewish friends, including Paul Celan; the outbreak of war; harsh conditions under Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; burning and...

  20. Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry B., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1926. Mr. B. recalls his father's reluctance to emigrate; seizure of the family business in 1938; attempts to leave in 1940; forced labor; a "crazy" Polish Jew who recounted atrocities; food parcels received from the chauffeur of a Nazi politician; arrest in January 1943; transport to Birkenau; selection; an SS officer allowing his father to remain with him and his brother; transfer to Auschwitz, then Jawischowitz; arduous conditions in the coal mine; becoming friends with members of the communist underground; his father's...