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  1. Ida S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida S., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her father working as a kosher slaughterer and rabbi; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father illegally continuing kosher slaughtering; a sister and brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; deportation of three brothers in June 1942; hiding in sewers, then with her brother-in-law in a cellar; deportation in cattle cars; escaping (she had false papers); returning to the Tarno?w ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w in 1943;...

  2. Lola S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her childhood in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's prewar death; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her sisters' deportations (one of whom she never saw again); her older brothers' deportations (she never saw them again); her mother's death; forced labor and starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; reunion with her sister who had learned of the ?o?dz? ghetto transport from an SS woman who frequently helped her; receiving extra food from her sister; transfer with her sister to Bergen...

  3. Felicia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She describes her affluent and protected childhood; involvement in Zionist youth movements; participation in student demonstrations against antisemitic violence at the university in Krako?w in 1933-1934; one year at university in Vienna; marriage in 1936; moving to Os?wie?cim; helping Jews expelled from Germany; her family's disbelief that this could happen in Poland; traveling with her husband to the New York World's Fair in July 1939; confiscation of their returning ship by the British due to the outbreak of war; travelin...

  4. Israel M. Holocaust tesimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1922; moving to Antwerp; his father's bankruptcy in 1930; being supported by his fourteen year-old brother; working as a diamond cutter; German invasion; working with a German refugee (his future wife) smuggling Jews to Belgium; marriage; arrest; incarceration in Antwerp, then Malines; an encounter with Mala Zimetbaum; choosing to remain with his wife when he could have left; his deportation to Laurahu?tte; a Jewish funeral when the first prisoner died, but none thereaft...

  5. Emmy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmy K., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1939. She recounts her parents' active support of the Social Democrats; her father losing his job after the German invasion; the birth of a sister in 1942; being placed in hiding, separated from her family, with a minister in Wieringermeer Polder; having to change hiding places several times; the terror of waiting alone in a dark room between hiding places; liberation by Canadian troops in May 1945; reunion with her mother and sisters; and learning her father had been deported and killed. Mrs. K. discusses the experie...

  6. Edita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita W., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. She recalls pleasant visits to her grandparents in Dovalovo; working for the Bata shoe company in Zlín and studying; participating in Maccabi ha-Ẓair; returning to Liptovský Mikuláš; working for a local leather company; marriage in August 1939; anti-Jewish laws; obtaining false papers; her employers negotiating to save her from deportation; a policeman warning her family in order to save them from deportation; a friend who was married to a Hlinka guard helping her; hiding...

  7. Haim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents an...

  8. Etta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in her village; attending a Christian school; joining a Zionist group against her grandmother's wishes; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; leaving for Budapest in 1939; emigration to Palestine using the passport of another person; joining the British army as a nurse; serving in Italy; assisting survivors to emigrate to Palestine after the war; learning most of her family and people from her village had perished; discharge...

  9. Yvette B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette B., who was born in France. She describes attending school in Paris; German invasion; her decision, along with her sister, not to declare themselves as Jews; obtaining false papers; joining her family in Lyon; entering the Resistance through Bertie Albrecht; activities in Vitteaux; providing social services for several Resistance groups; coordinating with Resistance leaders (she names many); secret marriage to a Resistance leader; arrest with her husband in January 1943; imprisonment in Blois; torture and interrogations; suffering a stillbirth; transfer to a ho...

  10. Alex W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex W., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1923. He describes his father's orthodoxy and resulting antisemitic attacks; attending public school; German invasion; their belief that nothing worse than forced labor would be imposed upon the Jews; fleeing with his family to Dyno?w; returning when the Germans caught up with them; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; his family's privileged position due to his father's glass business; ghettoization in 1942; his mother's and sister's deportation; hiding with his father, brother, and relatives during the ghetto's liquidation i...

  11. Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel A., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his father's emigration to Belgium; joining him with his mother and brothers in approximately 1926; the births of two sisters in Charleroi; attending school; moving with his family to Antwerp in 1932; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Toulouse; draft with his father and brothers into the Polish military; posting to a nearby military base; fleeing German bombings; joining his family in Toulouse; incarceration with hi...

  12. Adolf J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf J., who was born in 1924 in Germany. He describes his family's move to Belgium; poverty in Antwerp until the late 1920s, then affluence; involvement in leftist organizations; antisemitic incidents in school; his family's fleeing to Dunkerque to escape the German invasion; their return to Belgium; joining the Resistance; hiding in Charleroi; his father's arrest; joining the Resistance in Brussels; moving to Tournai; arrest as a Resistant (he had false papers) in April 1944; and confessing to be Jewish, thinking it would help him. Mr. J. recalls transfer to Maline...

  13. Semtov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Semtov H., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece, one of five children. He recalls speaking Ladino at home; attending a Jewish elementary school; family Sabbath dinners and attending synagogue; Zionist activities (he sings a Ladino song); ghettoization; escaping with one brother when ordered to report for forced labor; returning home after a few weeks; he and his brother bribing a boat captian to take them to the Italian-occupied area; returning to Salonika; obtaining false papers from a railroad employee when deportations started; escaping to Athens; being joined b...

  14. Lev A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Perei︠a︡slav, Ukraine in 1915. He recalls attending Ukrainian school, then a technical school in Kiev; working as an electrician; moving to Crimea with his family during the famine in 1933; marriage; returning to Kiev in 1937; draft into the Soviet Army; serving in Kiev, then Z︠H︡itomir; discharge in October 1940; returning to Kiev; German invasion; evacuation east of his pregnant wife and mother; military recall; serving in Pryluky and Kharkiv; capture by Germans in 1942; forced labor as a POW in Khorol, posing as a non-Jewish Ukrainian; and e...

  15. Ernest S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1925. Mr. S. recalls the gradual development of the Nazi ideology and program in Hildesheim; his public school education; the initial absence of anti-Semitic acts against his family; and the Nuremberg laws which partly influenced his parents' decision to emigrate. He relates his father's arrest in 1938 for attempting to send money out of the country; the killing of an uncle during Kristallnacht; the burning of the local synagogue; seizure of the Jewish-owned bank where his father worked; and his transfer to the local ...

  16. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. He tells of family moves to Budapest, France, then Berlin before he was five; being the only Jew in public school; the cosmopolitan Berlin lifestyle; being sent to his grandmother in Hungary from 1933 to 1935 due to the rise of Hitler; and increased antisemitism upon his return. Mr. G. recalls emigrating to the United States with his parents in 1936 rather than Hungary (his parents were Hungarian); their adjustment; the experience of being an immigrant; learning of family members who perished in concentration camps; an...

  17. Nadia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nadia R., who was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1938. She recalls moving with her mother and grandparents to an area designated for Jews after the German invasion; the atmosphere of fear and anxiety; conversion to Christianity in 1943 as a means of protection; her grandfather arranging hiding places for them in 1944; arrest with her mother in December 1944; their transfer to Sered;? deportation to Terezi?n with her mother in January 1945; an emotional theater performance in the camp; the departure of Danish prisoners, arranged by the Swedish Red Cross, in April 1945...

  18. Shmuel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel M., who was born in Stakčín, Hungary (presently Slovakia) in 1926, one of three children. He recounts his maternal grandparents living with them; attending public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah; attending gymnasium in Snina for three years; Hungary allying itself with Germany; deportation with his family to the Kolomyi︠a︡ ghetto; their transfer to Horodenka; arrest with her father while attempting to smuggle themselves to Slovakia; imprisonment in Sanok and Tarnów; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor hauling cement bags; his father being kille...

  19. Esther R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther R., who was born in Poland and lived in a small town near Dolhinow, east of Vilna, from the age of six. She tells of her traditional religious boy's education, followed by non-religious high school. She describes life as a bookkeeper under Russian occupation; German occupation and increasing trouble with local police; anti-Jewish legislation; forced labor; hiding from mass killings, the sounds of which she could hear from her hiding place; and her subsequent reunion in the forest with surviving Jews. Aspects of her life in the forest, where she spent three year...

  20. Arie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arie R., who was born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, the oldest of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah; studying in Békéscsaba; living with an aunt in Budapest; working in a factory; visiting his father in a work camp; German invasion; working with the Ṿaʻadat (Relief and Rescue Committee) under Fülöp Freudiger, a member of the Judenrat, arranging to smuggle Jews to Romania; German invasion; traveling to Szentes, then Szeged; obtaining blank documents to make false papers; returning to Budape...