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  1. Luisa D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luisa D., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1936. She recounts her father's emigration to Bolivia in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and older brother to Bia?a Podlaska; living in a ghetto; smuggling food with her brother; his death; hiding in an attic with other Jews during deportations; discovery; escaping into the forest with her mother; living with Jewish, then Russian partisans; her mother's refusal to go to Moscow without her; following the front to Lublin where they were liberated; their journey to a displaced persons camp in Munich; contacting ...

  2. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1919. He describes attending public school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; joining his younger brother at a work camp (he never saw his parents or older brother again); escaping; his brother joining him in Lubarto?w; living briefly in the Majdan Tatarsky ghetto; obtaining false papers from the underground; being caught escaping; getting into a work group (his brother was deported); traveling to Tereszpol; working in ?uko?w; secretly sharing his food with Jews in the ghe...

  3. Anne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne R., who was born in Ichenhausen, Germany in 1925. She recalls her observant home; attending a Jewish school; a large and close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's death in 1936; attending boarding school in Frankfurt; being called home at Kristallnacht; violence against Jews by former friends and neighbors; living with an aunt in Augsburg; receiving papers for a kindertransport in July 1939; parting from her mother and younger sister in August (they were supposed to join her in October, but war intervened and she n...

  4. Zundel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zundel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, the youngest of five siblings. He recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1940; participating in Komsomol; visiting relatives in Alytus; German invasion; returning to Kaunas; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė, then Jonava; arrest; bribing a policeman to release them; returning home; their Lithuanian neighbor saving them from a round-up; ghettoization; one brother fleeing to Soviet territory; transfer to a labor camp; working in a munitions factory; brief hospital...

  5. Emma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emma S., a singer who was born in Russia, emigrated to the United States in infancy, and at the time of her interviews lived in both Israel and the United States. She tells of her musical education and training and the beginning of her career. She details her motivation for joining a cultural delegation sponsored by the World Jewish Congress which toured displaced persons camps in Europe in 1946. She recalls the devastation she encountered upon arrival; the vitality of the survivors in the more than fifty camps where she sang, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Landsbe...

  6. Irving S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Surawno, Austria (now U.S.S.R.) in 1907. He recounts attending cheder; his father's Austrian patriotism; fleeing to the Carpathians, Vienna, and Teplice during World War I; returning home where everything had been destroyed; attending school under Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet auspices as governments changed; and his brother's return from Austrian Army service, having lost a leg. Mr. S. tells of living with his aunt in Teplice; activities in Zionist groups; returning home; graduation from university and law school in Krako?w; legal clerkship...

  7. Pierre B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pierre B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1935 to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He recalls that his parents did not marry because of the political situation; his father's forced emigration, inability to adjust to life in Brazil, and return to Europe; and traveling with his mother to rejoin his father in Paris. He describes school; roaming the streets of Paris with his best friend Lucien, who died in Auschwitz and about whom he has written poetry; difficulties with other children who considered him German; his independence as a young child; his father's hos...

  8. Dora W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora W., who was born in P?ock, Poland in 1927. She recounts moving to France with her mother and brother when she was two; learning Yiddish in order to write to her father in Poland; fleeing to Croix-de-Vie in September 1939; returning to Paris after German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions in 1941; hiding with her mother and brother to avoid the round-up of July 16, 1942 after a warning from two non-Jewish friends; traveling with her mother and brother to unoccupied France, posing as non-Jews; living with her mother and brother in Grenade; her brother's deportation...

  9. Maria S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's former employees smuggling food to them; forced factory labor; her father arranging to smuggle her, her brothers, and mother to relatives in Szydłowiec in 1941 (he was killed later attempting escape); forced transfer to Wierzbnik; incarceration in Starachowiece; slave labor in a munitions factory; receiving food from a civilian worker; sharing it with her mother; a mass killing of es...

  10. Robert W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert W., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924. He recalls his parents' divorce; his mother's poverty; antisemitic incidents in school; obtaining a scholarship for high school; increased official and public antisemitism beginning in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; Allied bombing; conscription for labor in Va?c; observing boxcars transporting Jews; munitions work in Magyaro?va?r; volunteering for farm work; bribing a sergeant for a transfer to Budapest; obtaining Portuguese passports for himself, his mother, and grandmother; living in housing protected by ...

  11. Felix L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix L., who was born in Paris in 1913. He tells of being drafted into the French army in 1936, where he served as a dentist; prewar relations between Germany and France; his marriage in 1939; the outbreak of the war, upon which he was sent with his unit to the German border; and his experience as a Jew in the French army. He relates his refusal to step forward as a Jew when, after the German capture of his unit, the Jews were removed, never to be seen again. Mr. L. recounts his transfer to Colmar, then to a POW camp in Stargard, Germany (now Poland), where he again ...

  12. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., a Romani. He recalls his family's long history of puppetry and puppet shows; performing throughout Germany; observing violence against the Jews; deciding to leave Germany; living in Schleusingen; obtaining false passports in Nuremberg; crossing to Italy; performing; good treatment by the Italians; leaving for Yugoslavia when they were unable to renew their passports; performing in Zagreb; traveling to Bucharest; observing Jewish deportations; moving to Bulgaria, then back to Yugoslavia; performing for German soldiers under the pretense of being state sanctio...

  13. Shoshana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana S., who was born in 1925 and grew up in Nadvirna, Poland (presently Ukraine). She recalls increased leftist influence; anti-Jewish violence; Soviet occupation in 1939; Hungarian, then German, occupation in 1941; Ukrainian violence; barely escaping from a mass killing in fall 1941 while her family hid in an attic; ghettoization; forced labor with her brother; her father deciding they had no chance for survival; splitting the family to escape in October 1942 with assistance from a Polish guard; wandering the forests near Sighet with her parents; her mother's di...

  14. Irving C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He describes a childhood of extreme poverty; working as a tailor; German occupation; slave labor and beatings; fleeing to Bia?ystok; staying with his sister and brother in a synagogue; meeting his future wife and her father; registering to go to the Soviet Union; traveling with his brother, sister, future wife, and her father in cattle cars to Omsk; his marriage; living in barracks on the outskirts of Omsk; hard labor, then working as a tailor; his daughter's birth; a year's military service in Kalachinsk; returning t...

  15. Peter G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter G., a distinguished scholar and professor of history, who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1923. Professor G. describes his childhood and education; his parents' atheism; the Nuremberg laws; the different opinions people held about the Nazis; his family's haphazard plans to emigrate; Kristallnacht; obtaining passage to Cuba; his two year stay in Havana; and his emigration to the United States. He also discusses the opposing theories of whether the Holocaust could happen again; the impact that the refugees had on United States intellectual life; and his thoughts o...

  16. Fred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred F., who was born in 1915 to an assimilated Jewish-American family. He recalls being drafted into the United States military; serving in the China-India-Burma theatre as a journalist; assignment to the ETO to report on Europe to U.S. troops in Asia; and entering Mauthausen shortly after its liberation. Mr. F. discusses lack of preparation for what they encountered; the stench; keeping a "stiff upper lip" for the sake of the surviving prisoners; the unique sound (because of their extreme emaciation) of the prisoners clapping for the Americans; shaking hands with a ...

  17. Rachel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel K., who was born in Sokoły, Poland in approximately 1921, one of two children. She recounts attending a Polish public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Białystok; German invasion; Soviet occupation a week later; moving to Białystok; her father and brother fleeing to Vilna; she and her mother joining them; her father living in another town due to his immigrant status (she never saw him again); German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor cleaning German soldiers' quarters; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her mothe...

  18. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1929. She relates her family's strong Hungarian identity; friendly relations with non-Jews; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her father's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; and the difficulty of believing stories of atrocities coming from Poland. Mrs. S. recalls deportation to the Kos?ice ghetto; childish concern for her cat; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with her sister from the rest of their family; incarceration in Block 26 of Birkenau which had housed typhus victims and was used to see how many would...

  19. Siegfried H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried H., who was born in Germany in 1910. He recounts his father had one Jewish grandparent; his father's career as an Evangelical-Lutheran pastor; living in Berlin from 1917; being asked to leave a Christian religion class due to his "Jewish" last name; learning then he had Jewish ancestors and relatives; yearly visits from Jewish cousins; studying law from 1929; being ineligible to take final exams in 1933 due to his Jewish ancestry; his father's removal from his position by the church which led to his collapse and death; his brother's emigration to Denmark in ...

  20. Luisa A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luisa A., who was born in Polichna, Poland in 1938, the youngest of nine children. She recounts vague memories of her parents' business; visits with extended family; one brother's emigration to Bolivia in 1939; her father going to a labor camp in 1942 and returning completely debilitated; her mother and brothers finding a hiding place; digging bunkers near stables and hiding in attics; the murder of two older brothers in 1943 when they were out seeking food; her mother making clothes from potato sacks; a farm owner informing them the Soviets had arrived; running away;...