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  1. Daniel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel P., who was born in Ploies?ti, Romania in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recounts his mother's birth in the United States; his father's employment as an engineer for a United States oil company; his family's assimilated, affluent lifestyle; local fascist antisemitic publications; restrictions, including his expulsion from public school; forced emigration to Belgrade in 1940 because his father was a Yugoslav citizen; German invasion; his father's arrest (they never saw him again); deportation with his grandmother, mother and sisters to Zemun in December ...

  2. Cyla S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cyla S., who was born in a Polish/Ukrainian village in 1927. She recounts living with her grandmother in Buchach to attend school with her brother; antisemitic violence against her parents; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; her father's beating by Ukrainian police; hiding with a non-Jewish family; moving with her parents and brother to Tovste; her father's disappearance during a mass killing; her mother's disappearance; hiding with her brother in a bunker; paying a local farmer for food and protection; brief separation from her brother; attack and retreat of...

  3. Maria O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria O., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1933. She recalls a happy childhood in a prosperous family; German invasion; moving to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; attending school; her family's move to Oz?aro?w; her father instructing her to pretend to be Christian and to memorize the Lord's Prayer; being sent to a woman, Shesha (she never saw her parents or brother again); living in L'viv; being moved to Czudec and Wola Raniz?owska; preparation for her First Communion; a priest's refusal to baptize her, but allowing her to pretend to receive First Communion; moving to Tar...

  4. Martin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in Poland in 1914. He recalls his religious upbringing; discharge from the Polish army in 1938 after eighteen months service; recall in 1939; capture by Germans; escaping the mass shooting of his company; recapture and internment in Kutno as a non-Jewish prisoner of war; receiving false papers from a former schoolmate, which enabled him to continue to pose as a non-Jew; witnessing German soldiers set fire to a Jewish man; escaping to the Soviet zone; imprisonment as a spy by the Soviets; release by a Jewish colonel; a brief reunion with his fam...

  5. Mayer Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mayer Z., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1921. He recalls economic, but not social, contacts between Poles and Jews; attending Polish public school; antisemitic incidents; participating in a Zionist organization with his brother; German occupation; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; organized cultural and educational activities in the ghetto; starvation, overcrowding, and forced deportation to a camp in Lublin in 1940; digging ditches (he still has nightmares about this); returning home two weeks later; contacts with the Warsaw underground; working in a glass ...

  6. Emery G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emery G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933. Mr. G., whose parents divorced when he was four, recalls life in wartime Budapest; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; moving with his mother to several different apartments in the city; German occupation in 1944; going into hiding; discussions among those in hiding of deportations and concentration camps; and executions of Jews. He tells of Hungary's capitulation in October 1944; working as an underground courier for Raoul Wallenberg; being hidden with his mother in the home of her Christian employer; a narro...

  7. Antónia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Antónia P., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Čierny Balog, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1932, one of eight children. She recounts her father was a musician; moving to Lučenec, then Kokava for her parents' employment; her father's arrest several times for not having a musician's certificate; working in a sawmill in her mother's stead so her mother could care for a newborn; a Jewish shop owner giving them merchandise when they had no money; playing with Jewish children and sleeping at their homes; observing the Hlinka guard confiscating all the property o...

  8. Gertrúda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrúda M., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recalls her father's death; leaving school in 1937 due to anti-Jewish measures; living on a Hashomer Hatzair farm in preparation to live in Palestine; moving to Melčice to help her grandmother in 1942; learning of impending deportations from Hashomer Hatzair; traveling to Budapest; being joined by her mother and sister; obtaining a false document; their arrest in 1943; transfer to Ricse; her sister's release; transfer with her mother to Nagykanizsa; their deportation to Birkenau; help from women fr...

  9. Rachel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel R., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1923 to a family of eight children. She describes her orthodox and affluent home; German invasion; fleeing with her family to her grandfather's village; returning to Sosnowiec; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a workshop her father had established; the killings of her brother and grandmother; hiding with her sister and fiance during the ghetto's liquidation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her fiance upon arrival; finding her mother (she was in an earlier transport); helping each other when th...

  10. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1939; her parents hiding her with an aunt to prevent her deportation in 1942; her parents' and sister's deportation; hiding in sheds and with a non-Jewish relative; her aunt paying a smuggler to bring her and her grandmother to Hungary in 1943; betrayal by the smuggler; escaping; returning to her aunt; traveling to Zemianske Sady in 1944; working in tobacco fields; her uncle paying a man to hide them in Hlohovec; betrayal when thei...

  11. Julien E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julien E., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1933. He describes fleeing with his family via Brussels to Nice after German occupation; round-ups in 1942; their attempt to flee to Switzerland and arrest in Annecy; deportation to Rivesaltes; separation from his parents when he and his brother were taken to a Catholic facility near Toulouse in 1942; living with his mother's cousins in Italian-occupied Nice; the cousins' arrest after Italian capitulation in 1943; briefly hiding with neighbors; living in a children's home in Cannes from 1943 to 1946; and the loving atmosp...

  12. Jiri R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jiri R., who was born in S?te?novice, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls being the only Jewish boy in town; cordial relations with non-Jews; German annexation in March 1939; expulsion from school, being shunned by friends, and confiscation of the family business; orders to report to Plzen? in January 1942; deportation to Theresienstadt; working in the carpentry shop; his father working in the police and his mother in the police kitchen; constant hunger; sham improvements during a Red Cross visit; deportation with his father to Auschwitz in September 1944; separation u...

  13. Helena H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena H., who was born in 1926 in Pilzno, Poland. She recalls her mother's death when she was six; her father's remarriage; German invasion; public humiliation of Jews; forced labor; the influx of Jews from surrounding towns; hiding during the first "aktion" in July 1942 when many relatives were deported; ghettoization; her brother's deportation during the second "aktion" in November; non-Jewish friends helping her join a transport of Polish laborers in December 1942; and her last glimpse of her father. Mrs. H. recounts transfer to Krako?w; forced labor in Prokocim c...

  14. Robert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; anti-Jewish laws in the late 1930s; conversion to Catholicism; attending a Protestant gymnasium; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation to the designated ghetto; living in constant fear; forced labor; escaping with his mother, sister, and grandmother; forging identity papers; hiding as non-Jews in a basement with other Hungarians; Allied bombings; liberation in January 1945; learning hi...

  15. Aaron K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. He recounts traveling to Cologne in 1938 with his parents, grandmother, and two uncles; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Paris, Marseille, Nice, then Luchon; his uncles being smuggled to Spain; arrest with his parents and grandmother; imprisonment in Saint Gaudens; his release; visiting his parents and grandmother a few times; living with a family friend; placement in many towns by the Jewish underground, then with a non-Jewish family in Toulouse (they were in...

  16. Erika G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika G., who was born in approximately 1932. She recounts being an only child; living in Budapest; her family's affluence; summers with her grandparents in Galanta; German invasion in March 1944 while they were in Galanta; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to Budapest; forced relocation to a house designated for Jews; her father's conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his brief return in October; her mother paying for Swiss documents for her father which exempted him from deportation; accompanying her mother to work in a factory; Red Cross child care...

  17. Abram M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. He recalls living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; starvation; organizing an orchestra and performances; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from all but his father; their transfer three days later to Kaufering and Landsberg; bringing his father extra food when possible; useless slave labor; his father's death; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; reunion with three surviving brothers; living in Feldafing, then Munich; learni...

  18. Janet R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janet R., who was born in Ostrog, Poland (presently Ostroh, Ukraine) in 1928, the youngest of five children. She recalls a comfortable childhood; Soviet occupation; her father moving to L'vov, fearing deportation to Siberia; German invasion; joining her parents in L'vov; German arrest of her father and brother; their execution; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother and nephew disappearing (she never saw them again); obtaining false papers from a family friend; escaping with her sister and sister-in-law; deciding to separate, fearing more risk together; posin...

  19. Clara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. She recalls attending Jewish school; her close family; sudden changes after the Anschluss; Crystal Night; and her father's and uncles' arrest and transport to Dachau. She describes his return in a month; an unsuccessful attempt to go to Belgium; and the winter in Vienna. Mrs. M. tells of going to Antwerp; the German invasion shortly thereafter; her father's internment in St. Cyprien, France; a short stay in Paris; settling in Marseille; visiting her father in Les Milles, a nearby camp; and their arrest and internment ...

  20. Roman S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman S., who was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls participating in sports events sponsored by Maccabi; a strong sense of Jewish community; German invasion; forced transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto in early 1940; deportation to Schwiebus in December; forced labor doing highway construction; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, Fuerstenberg, then Auschwitz in May 1943; his assignment to undress corpses; transfer to I. G. Farben at Buna/Monowitz; assistance from British POWs; transfer to a Farben factory near Krako?w; the death march to Gleiwitz i...