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  1. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Zago?ro?w, Poland in 1917. He recalls antisemitic harassment, particularly at Easter; the deaths of his parents; living with a sibling in Siedlce; one brother's emigration to the United States; rabbinic training in Warsaw; serving in the Polish military starting in April 1938; retreating to Deblin and Kovel?; disbanding of his unit; returning to Siedlce; anti-Jewish regulations; smuggling himself to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; living in S?iauliai; obtaining a visa for Japan; traveling to Vladivostok, then Ko?be-shi; involuntary transfer to ...

  2. Irene T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene T., who was born in Poland in 1912. She recalls her schooling in Drohobych; moving to Krako?w in 1930; marriage; her son's birth in 1938; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; moving to Krzeszowiec, her husband's hometown; searching for her husband in Krako?w after he was taken for forced labor; a German officer who allowed him to leave the labor camp in 1943; hiding until they were reported a few days later; his return to camp in an effort to protect Mrs. T. and their son; obtaining false papers; working as a seamstress; finding hiding places for her ...

  3. Marion O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malme?dy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Mi...

  4. Herman P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman P., a psychiatrist who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany, in 1892. He describes his childhood; his medical education; conscription into the army and service during World War I; his marriages; and his medical practice in Berlin, where he was Chief of Neurology at the Jewish Hospital. He tells of the encroachment of Nazi influence and anti-Jewish legislation; his attempt in late 1941 to inform the United States Embassy of the plight of the Jews in Poland; and going underground with his wife in 1943 after enabling his sons to flee the country. He recalls the help h...

  5. Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminen...

  6. Mania L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania L., who was born in Ukraine in 1910. She recalls leaving for Palestine with her family in 1919, staying in Kiev and Sevastopol?, and arrival in 1920; attending Arabic school in Tel Aviv; moving to Paris in 1933 to attend university; her parents' anger at her marriage to a non-Jew; her daughter's birth; her husband's mobilization, capture, and release; arrest in 1943; imprisonment in Fresnes; internment in Paris and Drancy; working as a tailor; sharing food packages with prisoners; observing the deportation of children; liberation by United States troops; reunion...

  7. Gitta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitte L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiance?. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United State...

  8. Clara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara G., who was born in Rhodes in 1923, the youngest of six children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in a multi-cultural environment; attending Catholic school; emigration of three older siblings; implementation of anti-Jewish laws by the Italian fascists in 1938; expulsion from school; German invasion in 1943; deportation with her siblings, parents, and grandmother to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Athens in July 1944; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); difficulties because they did not understand German; assistance from prisoners from...

  9. Luci P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luci P., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1925. She recounts German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; assistance from Serbian friends; her sister's compulsory forced labor; an uncle fleeing to Pris?tina; acquiring false papers; joining him with her family in November via Skopje; being placed on the train back to Yugoslavia; escaping with assistance from a stranger; hiding in a village with a poor, Jewish family; joining her uncle in Prizren; continuing assistance from local Serbs; arrest in 1942; an Italian officer protecting them; transfer to Kavaje?; a...

  10. Sara F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914, one of eight children. She recounts the emigration of two sisters to the United States when she was a child; working at her own business starting at age fifteen; marriage in 1938; her son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); her mother's death; her son being taken in the children's deportation when he was two years old; deportation with her sister and niece to Auschwitz in 1944; their transfer to Stutthof; her niece's selection; her sister's refus...

  11. Bela E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela E., one of three children. She recalls attending schools in Vilnius; her father's and brother's prewar deaths; German invasion; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; her deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor digging trenches, then in a factory; escaping with a fellow prisoner; a Pole hiding, then denouncing, them; escaping and hiding with another man; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Austria in 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. E. discusses learning her sister was killed in Auschwitz; nightmares; and her husband's murde...

  12. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. In addition to information included in a previously cataloged testimony (HVT-1368), Ms. M. recalls living in Hilversum after German invasion of the Netherlands; a non-Jewish friend arranging her hiding place in Haarlem; and staying there from August 1942 to January 1943. She notes improved communications today enable people to help during genocides such as in Cambodia.

  13. Georges D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges D., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, one of three children. He recounts participating in a socialist group and demonstrations; contact with Jewish refugees from Germany; military enlistment in 1938; discharge; recall shortly before the May 10, 1940 German invasion; assignments to anti-aircraft units in several locations, ending at Dunkerque; incarceration in two prisoner of war camps; escaping; return to Brussels; joining the Resistance; sympathy for Jews when they were forced to wear the yellow a star; distributing illegal newspapers; an...

  14. Seymour M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Seymour M., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts a happy childhood in Bistrița, Romania; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940, resulting in antisemitic violence; his brother's military draft; German invasion in May 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his father from the women; his father convincing him to eat the soup; their transfer weeks later to Mauthausen, then days later to Melk; slave labor excavating tunnels; transfer to E...

  15. Rachel G. edited testimony

    Rachel G., a child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. She tells of her leave taking from her parents, and lovingly recalls the kindness of the priest, nuns, and childless couple who helped her survive in hiding. She also recounts her postwar reunion and experiences with her mother.

  16. Eugene N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene N., who was born in Czechoslovakia, in 1923. He tells of his family's prewar life; instances of prewar antisemitism; and the effects of the Hungarian and German occupations. He relates his family's deportation in April, 1944, from his grandmother's house in Budapest, where they were then living, to the Munka?cs ghetto and later to Auschwitz. Mr. N. vividly recalls his arrival at Auschwitz, including his separation from family members except his father and brother; their transfer after a week to Mauthausen, and eight days later, to Melk, where they worked as sla...

  17. Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry B., who was born in 1922, and served with the United States 3rd Army in World War II. He recounts his Jewish upbringing; awareness of increasing antisemitism in Europe; a relative from Warsaw sending his son to live with Mr. B.'s family; military draft in 1942; deployment to Europe in 1944; participating in combat, moving through France and Germany into Austria; liberating Gunskirchen; encountering Jewish prisoners with whom he conversed in Yiddish; liberating another camp a few days later; observing the emaciated corpses of massacre victims; and moving out with...

  18. Edith V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith V., who was born in Tokaj, Hungary in 1930. This testimony includes the information from an earlier interview (HVT-1205). Mrs. V. additionally recalls summer vacations in Litka and she discusses losing her belief in God when she was in Auschwitz.

  19. Armin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Armin H., who was born in Nitra, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1910, the oldest of five children. He recalls apprenticing as a locksmith; enlistment in the military in 1930; discharge in 1932; marriage in 1937; moving to Prievidza; military draft in Žilina in 1938; transfer to Čadca; returning to Prievidza; moving to Topol̕čany; his daughter's birth (their first child had died); a friend in the Hlinka guard providing false papers and for a time protecting him from deportation; deportation with his wife and daughter to Nováky in May 1942, then t...

  20. Ketty L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ketty L., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1915. She recalls the deaths of her mother and stepmother; attending a French convent school; marriage; the births of two sons; benign Italian occupation in spring 1941; German invasion in 1943; hiding to avoid round-ups; leaving valuables with non-Jewish friends (they returned them after the war), who also offered to hide her sons; refusing to separate from her children; her husband obtaining Portuguese identity papers which they thought protected them; arrest on March 19, 1944; incarceration in Haidari; placement on a trai...