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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was born in Troyanovka, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1915. He recounts his family's evacuation during World War I; returning to live in Povorsk after the war; inability to support himself; living in ?o?dz? from 1932 to 1937; returning to Povorsk; working as a store manager for the Soviets until being drafted in June 1941; retreating with Soviet forces; learning of the mass killing of Jews in his town (two brothers escaped to the partisans); serving as a machine gun operator in Kiev shortly before the Germans arrived; hiding in a field when overtaken by ...

  2. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1907, one of three children. He recounts his father's profession as a master diamond cutter; the family moving to Amsterdam in 1907; their assimilated lifestyle; returning to Antwerp in 1928; training with his father as a diamond cutter; joining Maccabi and a non-sectarian sport club; marriage; the birth of a son; his wife's death from illness in 1939; living with his parents so his mother could care for his son; German invasion in 1940; obtaining papers as non-Jews; his parents going into hiding; moving to Brussels wher...

  3. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Radoszyce, Poland in 1921. She recounts extreme poverty and antisemitism in Warta; illegal immigration to Brussels when she was nine; attending secretarial school; German invasion; fleeing to France; working for the police; warning Jews of round-ups; returning to Belgium after six months; joining the Rote Kapelle resistance group; using false papers; uncovering collaborators; escaping arrest three times; the arrest of her sister and brother-in-law after her transmitter was found in their apartment; deportation of her parents and other sibling...

  4. Raymond H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond H., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1919. He recounts the death of his older sister when he was one; the birth of another sister in 1922; his father's shoe business; attending religious and public schools; his bar mitzvah; apprenticing as a shoemaker in 1936; joining his father's business in 1937; orders to evacuate Strasbourg in 1938; moving to their summer home in Gérardmer with his parents, grandparents, and sister; his grandmother's death; he and his father selling shoes to local shops; German invasion on May 10, 1940 when he and his father were in ...

  5. Sol U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol U., who was born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; their moving to Romania in 1928, then to Borek Fa?e?ck in 1933; attending cheder in Podgo?rze; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced factory labor; ghettoization in Krako?w; working in Oskar Schindler's factory in 1942; Schindler protecting his Jewish workers when the ghetto was liquidated in March 1943; deportation of Mr. U.'s family (he never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w; public hangings; living in...

  6. Harold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold K., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1920. He recalls his impoverished home; their orthodoxy; leaving school to begin working at age twelve; Polish antisemitism; German invasion; a public hanging of Jews; forced labor as a bricklayer in Katowice; transfer to a labor camp; arrest while visiting home; release and transfer to Annaberg, which he helped build; Allied bombardments; Yom Kippur services; his privileged status as a bricklayer; visiting his family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944, then to Birkenau and Gleiwitz; a death marc...

  7. Vera F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera F., who was born in 1916 in Cluj, Romania. She recalls her orthodox family; a Passover Seder; attending Jewish and Romanian schools; German invasion; working in a sweater factory; transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; transfer to Birkenau after several days and Kaiserwald after one day; forced labor; and transfer in August to Stutthof. She tells of beatings; transfer in October to Poland; digging trenches; a forced march and train trip west in December; the guards deserting them; staying at an abandoned house with thirty-four others; walking to another village; a R...

  8. Helen N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her father was a jeweler; attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced labor; being saved from deportation by a cousin who was a policeman; hiding her brother due to his frailty; their deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her sister to Hamburg three days later (she never saw the rest of her family again); forced labor clearing bombing rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troop...

  9. Lewis S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lewis S., who was born in Horst, Germany in 1921. He recalls his family had lived in that town hundreds of years; leaving school in 1935 because of antisemitism; a painter's apprenticeship from 1936 to 1938; Kristallnacht; his parents sending his two younger sisters on a Kindertransport to Holland; and deportation with his parents to the Ri?ga ghetto in January 1942. Mr. S. recounts forced labor for Organisation Todt and the SS; working outside the ghetto; smuggling food for his parents; meeting his future wife; transfer with his father to Stutthof, then Buchenwald; e...

  10. Joseph L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph L., who was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1931, an only child. He recounts his secular family's affluence; attending Serbian and Jewish schools; their move to Belgrade; German bombardment; returning to Novi Sad; Hungarian occupation; his father's incarceration in a labor camp; his mother securing his father's release; moving to Budapest; attending Hungarian school, then a Jewish gymnasium; learning of the murders of relatives in the January 1942 mass killing in Novi Sad; returning to Novi Sad; his mother visiting her ill sister in Budapest;...

  11. Pierre-Etienne E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pierre-Etienne E., a Catholic, who was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1913, one of nine children. He recounts his family's very Catholic background; entering the abbey of Maredsous in 1931; studying at a Benedictine college in Rome from 1936 to 1939; Hitler's visit to Rome; ordination as a priest in 1938 at Maredsous; his family's and his colleagues' antipathy toward Nazism; mobilization into the military in September 1939 for a few weeks and again during the German invasion in 1940; evacuation to the abbey of Saint-André; traveling to his parents' home in Ghent; returni...

  12. David A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David A., who was born in Pejë, Yugoslavia (presently Kosovo) in 1948. He recounts his parents were both Holocaust survivors, each of whom had a spouse and children prior to the war who did not survive (his mother's sons were hidden then killed immediately after the war in an accident); his father's career as a physician; his religious observances; moving to Ćuprija when he was about a year old, then to Zemun; developing his interest in Judaism; participating in Jewish activities during the summer; his parents sharing their Holocaust experiences with him and his sis...

  13. André C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of André C., a non-Jew, who was born in Liège, Belgium in 1921. He recalls his parents were both teachers; his academic success; housing German refugees, from whom he learned the personal results of antisemitic policies; entering medical school in 1938; conscription with all other medical students; retreating with the Belgian military to Le Mans, Nantes, and Les Sables-d'Olonne; capture by the Germans; release; returning to Liège; resuming medical school in September 1940; joining the Resistance; his engagement; arrest in August 1942; violent interrogations leading to...

  14. Laszlo T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laszlo T., who was born in Budapest in 1915. He describes his early childhood in the Jewish section of Budapest; post World War I antisemitism in Hungary; his interest in Zionism; his entry into medical school in June 1932; and prejudice in medical school. He recounts working as a physician in a Jewish hospital in 1938-1939; working in the central hospital of Budapest until April 1942; and the deportation and death of his brother. He recalls his work as a conscript in a hospital in Sopron (O?denburg) from April 1942 until June 1944; and the fate of Sopron's Jewish com...

  15. Lieselotte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lieselotte W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, an only child. She recounts her father's World War I service; an idyllic childhood; identifying themselves as Germans, not Jews; the family movie business; her father being warned to leave in August 1933; traveling to Crikvenica, Yugoslavia; moving to Zagreb; expulsion from Yugoslavia in 1934; joining an uncle in Budapest; an expulsion from Hungary six months later; moving to Milan; her father's poor health; expulsion notice in 1938; her mother arranging through a friend for her to go to London; working in a chil...

  16. Rose Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose Z., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1923. She recounts attending Polish Gymnasium; antisemitic incidents; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German occupation; ghettoization in November 1939; smuggling food into the ghetto posing as a non-Jew; obtaining false papers; organizing illegal studies for the children; traveling to Warsaw as a courier for the Jewish underground; the ghetto's liquidation in October 1942; fleeing to Warsaw with her brother using false papers; contacting Tossia Altman, an underground leader; posing as a non-Jew, working at a shoe facto...

  17. Soli G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Soli G., who was born in Šilutė, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts moving to Kaunas in 1933; enjoying his large extended family; attending a local school; antisemitic harrassment; transfer to a Jewish school; Warsaw refugees living with them after outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation in June 1940; a social relationship with the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara and his wife; his family obtaining documents from him to emigrate; German invasion in June 1941 preventing their departure; briefly fleeing to Jonava; hiding with a farmer; wi...

  18. Baruch S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch S., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. He recalls his family's roots in Vilna; attending cheder and a Lubavitch synagogue, where his father was cantor; attending a Jewish gymnasium; preparing for his bar mitzvah for a year (he gave several readings and talks due to his father's position); transfer to a Polish gymnasium; attending summer camp where Abba Kovner lectured; Soviet occupation, then Lithuanian control in 1939; return to Soviet control in 1940; enrolling in a technical school; German invasion; hi...

  19. William P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. William P., who was born in Prague in 1906. Dr. P. describes his family's background; its move to Vienna in 1910, where he lived until 1938; and his education there. He recounts his involvement in Zionism; the rejection of his offer to Adolf Eichmann to transport Viennese Jews to Palestine; and his involvement in the illegal transport of Jews into Palestine. He relates the mechanics of these transports; British efforts to halt the smuggling; his repeated arrests by the British; and his moves to Greece, Italy, Portugal, Mozambique, and the United States. He recalls...

  20. Lola J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola J., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926. She recalls her father's death in 1935; German invasion; ghettoization; one brother's escape to the Soviet zone; forced labor in a HASAG factory; mass deportations which included her sisters and mother; conversion of the ghetto to a camp; receiving extra food from one German; encouraging each other by singing; sharing extra food with her remaining sister; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; reunion with another sister in Feldafing displaced persons camp, then with her brother; marriage; and emigration to ...