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  1. Hela S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland, in 1911, into an Orthodox family of twelve children. Mrs. S. describes extreme antisemitism during her childhood; her close friendship with a non-Jew; her education and marriage; mass murders during the German occupation; the deportation of the Jewish men of Be?dzin; and her and her family's internment in the Srodula ghetto. She tells of her slave labor in Gleiwitz; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; and her liberation by the Russians. Postwar experiences include her return to Be?dzin; her travels in search of family members; an...

  2. Judy and Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judy K., an American-born child of Holocaust survivors, and her husband Michael. Mrs. K. remembers feeling different from other Jewish children as she was growing up and the strong tie which she felt to her mother. She describes her and her husband's recent trip to Poland, which was prompted by her need to see her parents' original home, to learn about the Holocaust, and to find her own way of dealing with it. She tells of her visits to Warsaw and Majdanek, where she had imaginary conversations with her maternal grandmother, who perished in Majdanek, and of her visit ...

  3. Gertrud K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrud K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. Mrs. K. recalls a comfortable life; strong Jewish identity; watching mass demonstrations when the Germans marched in; the plundering of her father's business two days later; ransacking of their home; and public humiliation of her father. She remembers Kristallnacht; her father and one brother's arrest; her other brother hiding; several weeks later her father's letter from Dachau; receiving permission to leave on a Kindertransport to Scotland; reluctance to leave with her father in prison; and begging a Gestapo offic...

  4. Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel A., who was born in Paris, France in 1925 to a family of seven children. He recalls close relations with neighbors in a building housing only Jews; German invasion; arrest with his family on September 23, 1942; their incarceration in Drancy; separation from his family, when he and one brother were removed from a deportation train (he never saw them again); slave labor constructing roads in Cosel; their transfer to Blechhammer; assistance from Lageraltester Karl Demerer; hospitalization which resulted in transfer to another camp; recovering from typhus with assi...

  5. Andrew B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew B., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930. He recalls his family's long history in the town; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; Hungarians ransacking Jewish homes; the police chief's wife helping them; forced relocation to Kushnytsya; ghettoization in Ma?te?szalka; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and grandfather upon arrival (they perished), then from his father and brother; avoiding many selections; forced labor; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); remaining with a cous...

  6. Stanley B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1923. He recounts antisemitic incidents after Hitler came to power in 1933; an apprenticeship as a jeweler in Bielitz; German invasion; his mother's and siblings' unsuccessful attempt to flee; anti-Jewish laws; construction of Auschwitz concentration camp; Himmler's visit to Os?wie?cim; visiting his family in Sosnowiec before they were deported (he never saw them again); transfer to Blechhammer; working as an electrician; doing some jewelry work for camp officials in exchange for food; escaping during evacuation from a...

  7. Lili B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lili B., who was born in Transylvania. She recalls Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a seamstress; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; a difficult journey home; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family; helping each other stand during appells; forced labor in Gelsenkirchen; liberation from a death march by Soviet troops; returning home; learning one brother had survived; living with her uncles; illegally traveling to Vienna in 1945 with a Zionist group; moving to the Leipheim displaced persons camp...

  8. Viliam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viliam F., who was born in Ložín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1917, the oldest of three children. He recounts his father's death in 1922; attending school in Michalovce; working for the Bata Shoe Company in Zlín for over four years starting in 1931; transfer to Batizovce; Hungarian occupation; deportation to Kráľovský Chlmec, then Vyšné Nemecké; his mother's friend assisting them to return to Michalovce; joining the military in Sabinov; an officer retaining him as a clerk when he was ordered east; anti-Jewish restrictions imposed by the ...

  9. Walter R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter R., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1918. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; their move to Břeclav in 1922; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; boxing competitively; his father's death in 1935; working in Otrokovice; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Napajedla; his brother and mother joining him; moving to Prešov, thinking he could pass as a non-Jew; capture in a round-up in 1939; forced labor in the Slovak army in Zvolen, Liptovský Mikuláš, Hronsek, Nováky, and elsewhere; release in 1942; j...

  10. M. P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of M. P. who was born in Secǒvce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), an only child. He recounts visiting his grandparents in Vynohradiv when he was three years old; having to remain in Vynohradiv when it was occupied by Hungary; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1941 or 1942 (he did not survive); a neighbor providing them with documents as non-Jews; escaping a round-up; traveling with his mother to Budapest; police raiding their residence; a Jewish man escaping; release with his mother due to their high quality documents; a woman hiding them...

  11. Albert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert L., who was born in Paris, France in 1929 to Polish immigrants. He recounts attending public school; their poverty; an assimilated life; going to a farm in central France with his school; his father enlisting in the French military; remaining at the farm; German invasion; returning to his mother in Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions; evading the July 16th round-up; his mother's arrest; staying on a farm until her release; his father's visit using false papers; his father moving to Pau; visiting his father; his father's arrest; staying with a non-Jewish friend of h...

  12. Kalman A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kalman A., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928, an only child. He recounts attending a Yavneh school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet invasion; attending a Soviet school; German invasion; Lithuanians openly stealing their possessions; his father's round-up (they never saw him again); ghettoization; slave labor at the airport; smuggling food into the ghetto; a selection prior to a mass shooting at the 9th Fort; hiding during the children's selection; a public hanging; transfer to Aleksotas with his mother, aunt, and her children; deportation to Stutthof; separatio...

  13. Lilly L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly L., a Romani, who was raised in Berlin in a family of fifteen children. She recalls her father working in the post office and her mother in a store; her father's German military service; one brother working as a policeman; Nazi anti-Romani restrictions, including her expulsion from school; her sister's deportation to Ravensbru?ck; deportation with her remaining family to Auschwitz in 1943 following an examination by "race scientists"; her father's murder during the transport; selection of her mother and eight siblings for death upon arrival; selections in the Zi...

  14. Ilse D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse D., who was born in Christiansfelde, Germany in 1928. She recalls going to Stettin in 1937 with her siblings, since there was no Jewish school in Christiansfelde; her older sisters' emigration to Palestine in 1937 and 1939; deportation in 1940 to Be?z?yce via Lublin; separation from her brother (she never saw him again); starvation, forced labor, and overcrowding in the ghetto; mass killings; making bricks, then working as a maid for Commander Reinhold Feiks in Budz?yn; transfer to Majdanek; assistance from Jewish prisoners during a death march; transfer to Kras?...

  15. Esther W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. She recalls her comfortable childhood; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving with her family to Warsaw and Falenica in 1940; ghettoization in Warsaw; fleeing to Stopnica; joining her aunt in Staszo?w in 1942; her father's deportation; deportation with her aunt to Skarz?ysko (she never saw her mother and sister again); forced labor in a munitions factory; public hangings; her father visiting, sharing his bread, and arranging her transfer to his camp; his deport...

  16. Itta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itta W., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1927. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's birth when she was five; a happy childhood; attending a music academy; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Tournai; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish friend offering to marry her to save her from deportation; their sham marriage; hiding briefly in the Ardennes, then with her brother in her "husband's" apartment (her parents hid elsewhere); visiting her parents once; arrest; transfer to Malines in June 1943...

  17. Ben L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Hebrew-speaking school and a Tarbut school; the arrival of many Polish refugees after the onset of war; delivering food to some of the refugees, including Menachem Begin; Soviet occupation; his brother's participation in the Irgun; his father's non-Jewish associate encouraging them to flee; hiding in the associate's cellar outside Vilna for a few weeks; returning home; fleeing with his family to his paternal grandparents' home in Belaru...

  18. Esther R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther R., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia in 1932. She recounts Hungarian occupation in 1938, resulting in her father losing his business; their move to Sa?toraljau?jhely; her father hiding in 1942 to avoid forced labor; visiting him in Budapest in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; being smuggled to Budapest to join her father; her parents dispersing the four children and themselves to various hiding places with the help of non-Jews; her mother, then her father, joining her toward the end of the war; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. R. recalls reunion...

  19. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., the youngest of ten children, who was raised in Kozin, Poland (presently Ukraine). He recalls moving to Dubno; marriage; Soviet occupation in 1939; a son's birth in 1930 and a daughter's in 1940; working for the Soviets in Shegyni, Dubno, and Nemilov; German invasion in 1941; capture by Germans; falling into the pit during a mass shooting of Jews; climbing out at night through heaps of bodies and the wounded; returning to his home in Dubno; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups for mass killings; his son's murder; working in Kovel? processing Soviets being se...

  20. Leon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon W., who was born in Zwola, Poland in 1919. He recounts his father's bakery business; attending yeshiva until age thirteen; destruction of the town in the German invasion; living briefly with relatives in Radom; returning home; Germans killing Jews; escaping to a forest with his younger brother; working for a Polish engineer; returning home; deportation with his brother to Skarżysko-Kamienna in fall 1942; encountering his sister once and giving her bread; being sent to Majdanek to bring back clothing for the prisoners; deciding against escaping, fearing his broth...