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  1. Leo G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo G., who was born in Berlin in 1921. Mr. G. details his family history and speaks of his prewar life. He describes his experiences of antisemitism during the rise of Nazism, both in school and in his neighborhood. He relates the death of his father in 1933; Kristallnacht and other anti-Jewish actions which followed; his departure from his mother and three sisters, whom he never saw again; and his emigration to the United States. He recounts his enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1942; his training as a denazification expert; and his arrival in Normandy, where he witnes...

  2. Miriam L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam L., a twin, who was born in Poland in 1917. She recounts her family moving to ?o?dz?; being given to a nurse for three years when her mother was ill; her twin's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1922; graduating from gymnasium; ghettoization; forced labor; the deaths of her siblings and parents; a German grabbing her nephew from her arms and crushing his head against a wall; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to Christianstadt; slave labor digging ditches; a German guard providing her with extra food; a severe beating for helping other prisone...

  3. Howard K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Howard K., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1925, one of five children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; beatings en route to public school; his sister's emigration to Palestine in 1937; his bar mitzvah; the family move to Kraków; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; transfer to Wieliczka; living with relatives for about a year; a mass round-up (he never saw his parents and siblings again); transfer to Płaszów; slave labor laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Kraków ghetto in fall 1942; return to Płaszów; slave labor in a cable factory; ass...

  4. Jules W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jules W., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1927. He recalls attending a Jewish school; his family attending synagogue and observing kashrut; antisemitic harassment; his uncle in the United States arranging their emigration to Cuba on the St. Louis; destruction of the family jewelry store and his parents' arrest on Kristallnacht; their return the next day; staying in Hamburg prior to embarkation on the St. Louis; the contrast between their treatment on a luxury liner and conditions in Germany; learning they could not debark in Cuba; returning to Europe; debarkation i...

  5. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1924 and raised in nearby Herford. Mrs. L. recalls her comfortable upper-middle-class childhood; playing in her father's tobacco warehouse; a non-Jewish girlfriend who refused to see her after joining a Nazi organization; a family employee's role in her home's looting on Kristallnacht; her father's return from incarceration at Sachsenhausen; being sent by her parents on a chidren's transport to Holland in 1939; and living in an orphanage with 100 other refugee children. She details the 1940 German attack; a prominent Ch...

  6. Sofia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sofia K., who was born in Pogost, Belarus in 1919, one of four children. She recalls attending Jewish school, then Russian school; observing Shabbat and Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; working as a telephone operator in the post office; German invasion; a mass killing of Jewish men, including her father and brother; confinement of the surviving Jews; escaping with her mother and sister to the Slutsk ghetto; slave labor doing construction; escaping from a round-up in August 1942; returning to Pogost; joining partisans in Mikashevichi; living in a bunk...

  7. Serena N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serena N., the oldest of six children, who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia, in 1927. Mrs. N. discusses family life before the war; the effects of the Hungarian occupation in 1938; the initial phase of the German occupation in 1944; and her family's deportations to the brick factory in Munka?cs and, four weeks later, to Auschwitz. She recalls her separation from all family members except her younger sister, with whom she surived the war; conditions in A Lager in Birkenau, where she was interned; sustaining relationships in the camp with her sister, two aunts, and a ...

  8. Flora S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Flora S., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in approximately 1932. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's pharmacy; German bombing when she was nine; her father's military mobilization; his escape as a POW with assistance from a Bulgarian doctor; joining her father in a relative's home in Kragujevac; his imprisonment in reprisal for a resistance killing of Germans; seeing his execution from afar; returning to Belgrade a week later with her mother; her mother's refusal to wear the Jewish armband; her grandmother seeking she...

  9. Otto D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto D., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. He recalls his mother's death in 1927; his father's remarriage to a non-Jew who converted to Judaism; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in 1938; losing his job; working for one year as a non-Jew on a farm near Hannover; returning to Vienna, fearing exposure; working in a factory labor camp with his father; arrest in 1941; imprisonment for one year; learning his sisters were deported (he never saw them again); his deportation to Flossenbürg; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz in October 1942; a privileged posi...

  10. David L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's move to Cologne, then Brussels in 1928; actively participating in socialist groups; German invasion; resistance activities from 1941 onward; killing a soldier in retaliation for his girlfriend's torture and execution; deportation of his father and brother in 1942; hiding in Brabant; his mother and youngest brother hiding; his arrest as a resistant; imprisonment in St. Gilles, then Malines; and deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. L. recounts finding his father; participating in the inmate underground; ...

  11. Sara W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1923. She recalls growing up in a loving family with Jewish traditions; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; her father's killing by Germans; forced labor with her sister at an ammunition factory in Starachowice; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; roll calls, hunger, and killings; road building with her sister; their deportation to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; liberation by British troops in April 1945; reunion with her brother, who found her in Bergen-Belsen; her sister's recuperation in Switzerland; marriag...

  12. Sylvia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia L., who was born in 1933, an only child in an orthodox family. She recounts living in Czernowitz, Romania; attending kindergarten; one year of Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; forced transfer to Murafa; her father hiding during a round-up of men for forced labor; Soviet liberation; returning home; finding their house had been ransacked; her father's draft into the Soviet military; attending school; emigration with her parents to Israel in 1950; marriage in 1952; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Ms. L. discusses hardships and suffer...

  13. Margarete L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margarete L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. She recalls her father's trip to the Soviet Union from which he never returned; expulsion from school at age thirteen; forced labor; a non-Jewish co-worker who provided them with extra food; destruction of her mother's business during Kristallnacht; receiving protection for herself, sister and mother from the Swedish embassy since they were Soviet citizens; arrest and torture by the Gestapo for refusing to name Jews in hiding; and transfer to Bergen-Belsen. She describes the pervasive fear; transfer of Soviet citi...

  14. Sally S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who wa...

  15. Mania M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania M., who was born in 1919 and lived in Podgo?rze (Krako?w), Poland, one of six children. She recounts her affluent, orthodox family; working as a bookkeeper; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east to Mielec; returning home when overtaken by Germans; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor; marriage; deportations, including her parents and one sister; transfer to P?aszo?w in 1943; slave labor in the Madritsche factory; visits with her husband; becoming inured to constant killings; transfer to Auschwitz, then Aschersleben in January 194...

  16. Otto W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto W., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of two brothers. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending public school; expulsion due to antisemitic laws after Slovak independence; he and his brother hiding with an uncle; his parents' deportation to Žilina in 1941; obtaining papers as a non-Jew from a non-Jewish friend; one visit to his parents (he never saw them again); denunciation by an acquaintance; deportation with his brother to Nováky; slave labor; joining the partisans during the Slovak uprising; fighting in Banska...

  17. Telford T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Telford T., who was born in New York in 1908. He recounts his education; working in military intelligence during the war; joining Judge Robert Jackson's staff for the first Nuremberg trial in 1945; searching for documentation of German war crimes; establishing the legal basis for the trials in the International Military Tribunal charter; working on the indictment in London; using Nuremberg for the trial because of its facilities; details of the trial; and his appointment as chief prosecutor for subsequent trials. Mr. T. describes trials of Nazi doctors who performed e...

  18. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his secular family's relative affluence; his father's one-year trip to visit relatives in Argentina in 1937; he and his brother writing to him about increasing antisemitism; his return despite their letters; participating in Hashomer Hatzair with his brother and Israel Gutman; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; ghettoization; learning carpentry; many deaths from starvation; volunteering for forced labor; his father's disappearance; escaping; joining his brother in the Tarnów ...

  19. Francis O. and Ilia O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francis O., who was born in Novi Sad, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1913, and his wife Ilia O., who was born in Kisač, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1915. Mr. O. recounts his mother's death in 1915; his father's draft into the Austrian military in World War I; living in a Serbian village with his grandparents, the only Jews there; singing in the church choir; returning to Novi Sad in 1918; living with his aunt; learning that he was Jewish; attending a Jewish school; his father's two remarriages; the births of two half-sisters; part...

  20. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Arm...