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  1. Albert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1930, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment on the streets; moving with his family to Budapest in 1939; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; four of his siblings emigrating; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; his father being caught in a round-up (they never saw him again); learning to forge false papers; forging papers for his mother and himself as non-Jews; selling false papers to support themselves; hi...

  2. Helga H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga H., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the elder of two sisters. She recalls her father's strong German identity (he was a World War I veteran); their assimilated lifestyle; attending a public school; participating in Catholic prayers and Christmas shows; friends snubbing her with the rise of Nazism; harassment in middle school (she was the only Jew); increasingly restrictive anti-Jewish laws including reduced rations for Jews; observing vandalism, theft (including at her family's store), and burning synagogues on November 9, 1938; learning her uncle had ...

  3. Regina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children. She recalls attending public and religious schools; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; managing to stay with her older sister; a severe beating for taking extra food offered by other prisoners; transfer to Stutthof in September; forced farm labor with her sister and cousins; receiving extra food from one farmer; a death march beginning in February 1945; contracting typh...

  4. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David K., a researcher who specialized in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. He discusses the emigration of many Jews to Shanghai, their relationships with the already existing Jewish communities, the Chinese, and the Japanese. His book Japanese, Nazis & Jews : the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945, is an authoritative study of this subject.

  5. Gerd E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerd E., who was born in Berlin in 1922. He describes his wealthy and prominent family; attending public school, then the elite French gymnasium; hardships resulting from the Nuremberg laws. including his expulsion from school in 1938; attending a Jewish school; synagogue burnings and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release six weeks later, a weak and broken man; completing his qualifying exam (arbitur) in 1940; an apprenticeship leading to a factory job; hiding money and valuables with non-Jewish friends; his father's death; four weeks of forced labor in Wu...

  6. Milton S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton S., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1918, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty and orthodoxy; antisemitic violence in public school; leaving school to work as a painter; one sister's emigration to France in 1934; leaving home to work in Warsaw; sending money home; visiting on Jewish holidays; compulsory registration for military service; German invasion; digging fortifications for the Polish army; arrest by the Polish military; escaping when German troops arrived; walking to Ryki; locating his family; bombings; capture by Germans; slave la...

  7. John S. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Reverend John S., whose first testimony was recorded in 1983. Reverend S. relates satisfaction from his first testimony, particularly in countering Holocaust deniers; detailed visual and aural recall of events he experienced during the Holocaust, despite hazy memories of others; his walking away from the train without protesting as symbolic of an entire generation; despite taking great risks to hide Czech resistants, his continuing sense of personal tragedy in not having helped Jews; speaking at length about this on the rare opportunities when he...

  8. Herman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman W., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; his older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three-week ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and uncle; transfer to Wolfsberg a few days later; slave labor on the railway; a foot injury resulting from wearing clogs; hospitalization; the prisoner doctor hiding him during selections; sharing extra food wi...

  9. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning t...

  10. Philip P. and Sofia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip P., who was born in Kamʹia︠n︡e Pole (Kamenka), Ukraine in 1925. He recalls observing Jewish holidays and attending synagogue; a large, extended family; joining Komsomol; his father's draft in August 1941; German occupation; hiding with his mother, with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors, when most Jews were slaughtered; fleeing to a nearby village; returning with his mother and sister to Kamenka; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a forest; assistance from a German officer; transfer to forced labor outside Kamenka; escaping with his mother and sister w...

  11. Zalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalie G., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of three children. She recalls a happy childhood; observing the Sabbath and kashruth; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest in 1941; her mother bribing officials for his release; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her sister joining the Resistance in Alenc?on; receiving papers to join relatives in the United States; her father refusing to leave; his arrest in the July 1942 Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up (she never saw him again); her mother hiding during round-ups; her brother being sent to jo...

  12. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  13. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...

  14. Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph B., a non-Jew who was born in Stráže, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1921. He recalls attending school in Prague; enlisting in the Czech air force; German annexation; joining the underground; traveling with a group being smuggled to England; hiding in Komárno where a Jewish woman was hiding; bringing her with them; arrest at the Hungarian border; imprisonment in Budapest; release by the underground; traveling to Constanța, then to England; training in Scapa Flow and then an RAF school; flying missions against German planes; being shot down over Germany; ar...

  15. Fishel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fishel R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917, the fifth of eight children. He recounts studying to be an engraver until age sixteen; a factory job in that trade; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; a failed attempt to flee with his brother; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; volunteering for work in Germany six months later to help support his family; deportation to Brójce; slave labor constructing roads; hospitalization in Świebodzin; visits from camp friends; giving them his extra food; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, also doing road construct...

  16. Philip C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip C., a non-Jew, who was born in Malines, Belgium in 1923. He recalls joining the Resistance in school at age eighteen; receiving weapons instruction; arrest in June 1942; imprisonment in Antwerp, Saint-Gilles, and Essen as a "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoner; transfer to Bochum; forced labor; transfer to Esterwegen a year later; help from Belgian physicians in the infirmary; a brief transfer to Sachsenhausen; a public hanging; choosing not to escape in Berlin, during transfer to Natzweiler-Struthof in 1944, because he had no documents; assistance from friends...

  17. Emilia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emilia S., who was born in ?o?dz? Poland in 1938. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-330), Mrs. S. recounts her father leaving Poland; ghettoization of her relatives; her mother obtaining false papers from a priest in Mroczkowice; moving to Warsaw; her mother smuggling food to her parents and parents-in-law in the ghetto; an aunt sending her seven-year old cousin from the ghetto to live with them; moving to Krako?w; spending weekends with her aunt and uncle who were living as non-Jews in Bochnia; her baptism; her mother sending...

  18. Riva B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Riva B., who was born in Nemirov, Ukraine in 1919. She recounts her father's death in a pogrom; her mother storing grain for a Ukrainian peasant and returning it during a famine, thus saving their lives; moving to Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ in 1934; German invasion in June 1941; returning to Nemirov; German occupation in July; forced relocation; an uncle's appointment to the Judenrat; his warning of a mass killing in November; her mother, fleeing with her mother to Medvezhʹye, then Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; returning to Nemirov with her mother and aunt to escape mass killings in May 1942; be...

  19. Dvora F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dvora F., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1932, the third of four children. She recounts celebrating Jewish holidays with her extended family; her brother's birth in 1937; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; her father being taken for occasional forced labor; non-Jews hiding her, her mother, brother, and one sister underground, then in an apartment; ghettoization with all her family; sneaking into her parents group during a selection; deportation to Kraśnik, then Budzyń; her father remaining in Kraśnik; she and her brother hiding when her family worked;...

  20. Rosette G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosette G., who was born in Paris, France in 1938. She remembers living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; her father's military service; being in a basement during an air raid; being sent to live on a farm with non-Jews in Vaulandry; nightly visits from her father who worked in a nearby labor camp; his failure to visit one night (she never saw him again); her mother's visit (she remained in Paris); hiding during German searches; reunion with her mother after the war; their return to Paris; placement in a Jewish children's home in Barbizon; learning Jewish customs and reli...