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  1. William K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Szarvas, Hungary in 1911, the oldest of seven children in an Orthodox family. He recalls brief military service in 1930; establishing a trucking business; disbelief that the events in Germany would effect Hungarian Jews; revocation of his business license in 1940 due to antisemitic laws; compulsory service in a slave labor battalion in Gyoma; assignment as a truck driver during the German offensive in Ukraine; discharge in spring 1942; hiding in a mental institution in Gyula and in his home to avoid further service; German invasion in March...

  2. Regina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Gro?jec, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close extended family; attending school in Warsaw; German invasion; ghettoization; transfer with her family to Bia?obrzegi; ghettoization; volunteering with one sister for slave labor in Kruszyna; learning the ghetto had been liquidated; transfer to Pionki; receiving food from Polish workers; a public hanging of escapees; transfer in July 1944 to Auschwitz, then Hindenburg; her sister's hospitalization; removing her sister from the hospital when learning of the evacuation in January 1945; supporting h...

  3. Edith E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, the youngest of four children. She recounts attending Jewish private school due to her siblings' antisemitic harassment in public schools; her developmentally disabled sister; German occupation in March 1938; expropriation of her father's business; her brother's emigration to Lausanne in May; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Dachau; an uncle in England obtaining a visa for her father; his release; her other sister's emigration to the United States; traveling to England on a kindertransport; meet...

  4. Eleanor O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eleanor O., who was born in Jano?w, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1916, one of three daughters. She recounts the family move to L?viv when she was five; attending public school; completing art school in 1939; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation in November 1941; hiding her father with a non-Jew (he was discovered and killed); obtaining false papers as a non-Jew; traveling by herself to Warsaw in 1943; reunion with her sister; the Warsaw Uprising; hiding b...

  5. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1918, one of three sisters. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending private school; teaching in a Jewish kindergarten; one sister's emigration to South Africa in 1933; her other sister remaining in Berlin (she was protected as the wife of a non-Jewish judge); participation in Maccabi; her father and future husband's arrests on Kristallnacht; marriage after their release; her husband's emigration to Bolivia; traveling via Genoa to join him in December; her parents not emigrating b...

  6. Helen J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; her father's death in 1938; she and her mother and brother joining relatives in Kazimierza Wielka; hearing rumors of a round-up; fleeing; hiding with aid from non-Jews in Dzia?oszyce; traveling to Nowy Korczyn; hiding in a bunker with other Jews; being caught with her mother when they went out for food; a Jewish policeman persuading the German to let them go; hiding in a house with her mother and brother; joining a truckload of Jews since there was no other option; slave labor in Kie...

  7. Saul T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul T., who was born in Huklivo, Czechoslovakia (now Guklivyy, Ukraine) in 1925, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; absence of antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; awareness that Jews were being killed in Poland; his family's forced labor conscription in Transnistria in 1941 because they were not Hungarian citizens; their return to Guklivyy in 1944; transfer to a brick factory in April; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his family (he never saw his parents and eldest sister again); receiving food from ...

  8. Juraj M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juraj M., who was born in Darda, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1920. He recalls moving to Žilina in 1928; celebrating religious holidays; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending school in Rajec and a Jewish school in Žilina; working at a drugstore in Martin beginning in 1935; anti-Jewish laws after Slovak independence in 1939; his and his father's exemptions from deportations due to their jobs; his sister's deportation in March 1942 (he never saw her again); release when he and his father were rounded up due to their jobs; his parents' disappearance in Sept...

  9. Rayzla R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rayzla R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. She describes her family's move to Paris; their poverty; participating in left-wing organizations; formation of values resulting from her scout experiences; active membership in the Resistance beginning in 1940 (FTP and MOI); arrest on May 9, 1942 after denunciation by a spy in the group; imprisonment; being tried and sentenced to forced labor; transport to a prison in Anrath; transfer to prison in Lu?beck six months later, then to a Siemens factory in Silesia, with twenty others; refusing to make weapons; punishment ...

  10. Sol E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in Nyi?rba?tor, Hungary in 1928. He recalls attending religious school and yeshiva; anti-Semitic incidents; weekly forced labor from 1940 through 1944; German occupation; transfer to the Simapuszta ghetto for two months; deportation to Birkenau; praying in the train with his father, whom he never saw again; transfer to Auschwitz, then Monowitz; religious observances; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; a friend saving him from execution; transport to Buchenwald; Czechs throwing food into the train; becoming more hopeful upon learning his ...

  11. Ernest F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Mako?, Hungary in 1923. He recounts his family's strong sense of Hungarian patriotism and identity; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitism beginning in 1938; attending law school in Cluj beginning in 1941; German occupation in 1944; returning home; ghettoization; being drafted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in June; digging trenches for the German army in the Carpathian area; random beatings and executions; being overrun by Soviet troops in Uzh?h?orod on October 27; capture by Soviets as an axis prisoner of war; escaping; traveling to Mako?...

  12. Hilda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda S., who was born in Bochum, Germany in 1923. She recalls expulsion from public school in 1933; attending Jewish school; assistance from a German neighbor on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; fleeing to Bergen aan Zee in December 1938; living in a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam; returning to emigrate with her parents from Hamburg on the St. Louis; being denied entry to Cuba; returning to Holland in June 1939; living with her parents in a refugee camp in Heijplaat; attending school in Amsterdam; transfer with her parents to Westerbork; evacuation to the countrysi...

  13. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia in 1924. Mrs. W. recalls living in a Czech colony in the Carpathian mountains with very few Jews; high school membership in a Zionist organization; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; her father assisting Polish refugees; his arrest and return six months later; his stories of Hungarian brutality; ghettoization in April 1944 for four weeks; and deportation to Auschwitz. She recounts her arrival to an unknown place, but sensing danger; one sister giving her baby to their mother (that sister survived); another si...

  15. David F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in a town in Poland (presently Ukraine) near Rivne. He recounts his family's comfortable life; attending private school; Soviet occupation in 1939; liquidation of his family's business; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; escaping a year later with his immediate and extended family to a forest the night before the ghetto was liquidated; building bunkers; escaping a Ukrainian police attack a month later; separation from the others; wandering for three days; assistance from local farmers; finding his family; building more bunkers; Ukrainian po...

  16. Chaim E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim E., who was born in Brudzew, a small town in Poland near the German border in 1916 and moved to ?o?dz? at the age of five. He describes antisemitism in the Polish army; his capture as a POW by the Germans; his release and return home; and his transport, with his father and stepmother, to Sobibo?r in 1942. He recounts conditions and treatment in the camp; his work sorting the possessions of the inmates, which gave him the opportunity for sabotage; and his involvement in the uprising of Sobibo?r, which allowed him to escape with his future wife Selma into the near...

  17. Sara P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara P., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1939. Much of what she recounts was told to her by her mother. She tells of German invasion; her father's and grandfather's arrest (they never returned); her mother escaping to the forest with her; living with a Polish woman for several months, then another family; entering Budzyń; staying with other children while her mother went to slave labor; their transfer to Majdanek; a public execution; a German officer giving her extra food; separation from her mother; truck transport; liberation by Soviet troops; being taken to a R...

  18. Eftihia N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eftihia N., who was born in Io?annina, Greece. She recalls Jewish institutions and traditions; attending a French speaking, Jewish school through eighth grade; bombing during the Italian invasion; fleeing with her parents and brothers to Athens; returning to Io?annina when the bombing ceased; returning to Athens after German invasion in 1943; her father placing her and one brother with a non-Jewish business associate; not registering as Jews as required by the Germans; rare visits from their father; moving to another home with the rest of their family; deciding not to...

  19. Michèle G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michèle G., who was born in Domfront, France in 1939, the youngest of three children. She recounts that her family lived in Paris; her father's military draft prior to her birth; her family traveling to Domfront, thinking war was imminent, thus her birth there; their return to Paris; learning her father was a prisoner of war; his return in 1941; evacuation with her siblings by the Croix-Rouge française in March 1942; staying with family friends, then placement with a Catholic family with seven children in Isserpent; her brother's placement elsewhere that summer; ful...

  20. Erich K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erich K., who was born into an observant family in Moravia. Mr. K. describes his happy childhood; the German occupation in 1939; his arrest, three months later, by the Gestapo for helping people cross the border; and his work in the camps of Dachau (1940), Neuengamme (1941), and Auschwitz (1942-1944) as a locksmith and plumber. He relates witnessing medical experimentation and other atrocities and his gradual desensitization; explains how he managed to survive, and help others, including his wife and son, to survive, even though he was labelled a "Geheimnistra?ger", i...