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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Ružena G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ružena G., who was born in Breznica, Czechoslovakia, one of eight children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; one brother's emigration to the United States; deportation to Auschwitz via Prešov and Poprad in March 1942; slave labor; transfer to Birkenau; obtaining a privileged hospital job; assignment to the Canada Kommando; sharing "stolen" food with her friends; helping other relatives; entering the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) and the family camps; their liquidations; learning from her cousin that her eldest brother was there; two meetings with him; dest...

  2. George D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George D., who was born in Ujpest (presently IV. Keru?let), Hungary, a suburb of Budapest, in 1930, one of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; their sense of Hungarian identity (his father was a World War I veteran); attending Jewish elementary school and Hungarian high school; antisemitic harassment; one uncle's emigration to England in 1936; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his bar mitzvah, for which his father was absent; German invasion in spring 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation to the ghetto; burying their ...

  3. Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918. In addition to information included in previously recorded testimonies (HVT-194 and HVT-939), Mr. M. recounts observing the indifference of many Poles while he was living as a Christian outside the ghetto during the Jewish uprising; arranging a hiding place for his parents and sister in Praga with the help of Poles; constructing hiding places for other Jews; the Polish uprising; fleeing to a village with his future wife; returning to Warsaw after liberation to find Jews in a bunker he had built; reunion with his par...

  4. Isaac E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac E., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls moving to Baranowicze when he was seven; attending religious school; military enlistment in 1937; German invasion; returning to Baranowicze; Soviet occupation; confiscation of his father's shoe factory (he was designated a Kulak); German invasion; ghettoization; a mass killing including his mother, brother, and sister; forced labor in the ghetto; the Judenrat not allowing him to leave the ghetto to work; separation from his father and brothers; working for the SS making shoes; arranging a Jewish child's adop...

  5. Stanley O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley O., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He recounts growing up in Min?sk Mazowiecki; attending high school in Warsaw; a pogrom in Min?sk Mazowiecki in 1936; military training in 1939; German invasion; identifying himself as a non-Jew when his unit was imprisoned by Germans; escaping to Warsaw; obtaining false papers; smuggling food to his family in Min?sk Mazowiecki; his father and brothers moving to Warsaw; joining the Polish underground; arranging hiding places and false papers for his father, brothers, and other Jews; paying blackmail and bribes; delive...

  6. Kurt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt L., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1910. He recalls his father's prosperous cattle business; attending law school; Hitler's ascent to power; antisemitic laws prohibiting him from practicing law; studying in Basel; an unsuccessful attempt to establish a business in Casablanca; living in Paris and Brussels; returning to Germany; obtaining a ten-day visa to visit the United States; traveling to New York; spending three months in Havana obtaining documents to return to the United States; his parents' visit in 1937; their return to Germany, not liking the U.S.;...

  7. Yehudit M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehudit M., who was born in Reghin, Romania in 1926, the oldest of four children. She recounts her family's participation in Mizrahi; vacations and holidays at her grandparents' village; attending Romanian school, then, briefly, German gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1940; transfer to a Jewish high school in Cluj; a non-Jewish family friend who was in the military informing her father of massacres of Jews at the front; her cousin's visit (he was in a Hungarian slave labor battalion); German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation...

  8. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1923, one of four children. She recalls her family's affluence; antisemitic street violence; attending a Jewish school; the non-Jewish caretaker protecting their house during Kristallnacht; her father and older brother leaving for France; her younger siblings being sent to Switzerland; traveling alone to Paris; her father bribing a French official to get her mother to Paris; German invasion; traveling to Vichy; an official allowing them to live in Bandol until 1942; attending a Jewish camp; being hidden by a miner in Collob...

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  10. Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf Z., who was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. He recalls attending public and Jewish schools; extreme poverty; poor relations between Jews and Christians; German invasion; forced labor at Pruszko?w, the Krako?w airport, P?aszo?w, Gross Rosen, Falkenberg, and Ludwigsdorf; the routine hangings and shootings in P?aszo?w, where he was a tailor; learning to be an electrician from Hungarian inmates in Falkenberg; transfer to Ebensee; and liberation. Mr. Z. recounts traveling to Italy to attempt emigration to Palestine; reunion with his twin brother; living with his tw...

  11. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in 1910 and grew up in Warsaw. He recalls his father's death when he was twelve; working to help support his family; his mother's death two years later; joining a trade union in 1924, then a Communist youth group; imprisonment for five years for his political activities; escaping arrest in 1938 by entering Belgium with forged papers; connecting with a Jewish communist group; feelings of betrayal after the German/Soviet pact; German invasion; his and his wife's active involvement with the Resistance; her deportation to Auschwitz; being shot durin...

  12. Leslie K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls growing up in Oradea; antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; German occupation in April 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his brother and a cousin; slave labor in a coal mine; learning about the extermination process, but repressing it; extermination of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); difficulty communicating with other prisoners since he did not speak Yiddish; learning of the Sonderkommando revolt from an escapee (a former teacher) who joined his barrac...

  13. Endre M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Endre M., who was born in Biharkeresztes, Hungary in 1900 to a large family with a long Hungarian history. He recalls moving to Oradea, then Budapest; his father's leased estate in Sajo?szo?ged; serving in World War I; a revolt in Kos?ice; returning home; retired officers occupying their property; his father's death; supporting his mother and younger sister; his mother's death in 1930; attending art school; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; advancing behind German troops to Berdychiv; learning the town's Jews had been "wiped out" prior to their arr...

  14. Tyla R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tyla R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1903, one of nine children. She recalls attending high school; her father's death at the end of World War I; moving to Paris in 1931 to escape antisemitism; marriage to a friend from Warsaw; a visit to her family in Poland; her daughter's birth in 1938; German occupation in 1940; and the helpfulness shown to Jews by the French. She tells of compulsory registration of all Jews in 1941; French people hiding her daughter in Normandy; hiding with her husband and others from a round-up on July 14; her daughter's return to Paris; h...

  15. Felix P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix P., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the third of three sons. He recounts his mother's baptism, and having him and his brothers baptized thinking it would ease their lives; their affluence; becoming bilingual due to his English nanny; German occupation; expulsion from university; his father's and brother's exclusion from practicing law; non-Jewish friends assisting them to emigrate; his older brother's and parents' emigration to France, and his to Czechoslovakia; his other brother remaining to complete medical school (he perished in Buchenwald); living with frie...

  16. Nava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nava S., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, one of four daughters. She recounts her assimilated family (she did not know she was Jewish until implementation of Hitler's anti-Jewish laws); working as an actress from childhood; German invasion; working to support her family; her non-Jewish fiancé leaving her due to anti-Jewish laws; joining a Zionist organization and studying Hebrew despite her parents' disapproval; deportation to Theresienstadt; living in a Hechalutz home; acting in a theater directed by Gustav Schorsch (her mother watched her performances); dir...

  17. Sigmund W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund W., who was born in Berlin in 1921 and fled with his parents to Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. He tells of their flight to Brussels after an earlier failed attempt to flee to France; his flight to Vichy France that same year; and his capture and internment at Drancy. He recalls the journey in boxcars to Ottmuth in Silesia, from where he was sent to the Chevigner slave labor camp near Chrzano?w and his transfer to Annaberg, near Auschwitz in March, 1943, and to Blechhammer six weeks later. The conditions and organization of the latter, where Mr. W. remained until Fe...

  18. Lucie J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie J., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. She recounts antisemitic harassment; membership in a Jewish sports club; attending a swim meet in Breslau; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and deportation to Dachau in May 1938; eviction from their home; living with an aunt; participating in a Zionist youth group; a non-Jew warning them to leave their Jewish neighborhood prior to Kristallnacht; staying with friends in another area; her mother sending her to London in January 1939 on a Kindertransport organized by Hakoah; lea...

  19. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. He recounts his parents sending him to Brussels after the Germans came (he never saw them again); being hidden by a non-Jewish family; severe food shortages; liberation; living in orphanages; studying Judaism and Hebrew for the first time; a sparse diet; difficulty learning; visits from his mother's best friend; emigration to the United States when he was fifteen to join his father's sister; attending a yeshiva; continuing learning difficulties; working as a messenger; and marriage in 1973. Mr. S. discusses emotiona...

  20. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recounts attending Hebrew and public school; joyful religious observances; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing 300 miles east with his father; returning when the Germans overtook them; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer to P?aszo?w; working in a factory next to Oskar Schindler's; punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; Schindler saving a Jew from execution; visiting his mother and sister in P?aszo?w; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); pub...