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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Pola N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pola N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919, one of seven children. She recalls attending a Jewish school; German invasion; two brothers and a sister fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; being smuggled out by a non-Jewish friend; living in Kielce; sending packages to her family; smuggling back to the ghetto once; deportation from the Kielce ghetto to Auschwitz; meaningless slave labor; friends assisting her at appell when she was sick; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; slave labor in a munitions factory; a German soldier shooting a Jewish child in the face, a memory...

  2. Forever yesterday

    A New York area Emmy award-winning documentary based on survivor testimonies, produced by WNEW-TV in cooperation with the Holocaust Survivors Film Project.

  3. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. She recalls the warmth of Sabbath observance; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in a sense of isolation; her mother arranging for a farmer to hide Mrs. G. and her brothers; betrayal by the farmer; a German guard letting her go (she never saw her brothers again); being hidden again by the same farmer who had betrayed her; retrieval by her mother, who escaped the ghetto's liquidation (her father was killed); posing as a Christian; hiding in several places while ...

  4. Vladimir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1937. He recounts his parents sending him to his maternal grandparents in a small town near Kaluszyn; running away with a Polish maid (his family was killed); his parents retrieving him; traveling with them, posing as non-Jews; vague memories of filth, lice, and overcrowding in what his mother told him was the Warsaw ghetto; his father's disappearance; escaping to the Aryan side with his mother in late 1942; a precise memory of his mother leaving him with a Polish policeman; placement in an orphanage run by nuns in Otwock...

  5. Sara B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1921. She recalls attending a French school; ghettoization; the family maid smuggling her to a non-Jewish family friend; rejoining her family when they were threatened by Vital Hasson, a Jewish collaborator, if she wasn't found; a beating by Hasson; deportation to Auschwitz the next morning; separation with her sister from her parents and brother (she never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; separation from her sister; hospitalization for typhus, which caused a permanent hearing loss; assistance from French pris...

  6. Irwin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irwin L., who was born in Borislav, Poland in 1925. He recalls his extended family's prewar life; brief German invasion, followed by Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; fleeing with his father and brother to Dnipropetrovs?k, then to Rostov, Stalingrad, Astrakhan?, and Ferganskai?a? oblast?; working in a small village; hunger and disease; his father's death in 1942; his brother being drafted into the Soviet army in 1944; learning of his mother's and sister's deaths; and returning to Poland in 1946. Mr. L. describes living in a kibbutz in Szczecin, then in Bie...

  7. Erna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. She recounts a detailed family history; her comfortable childhood; antisemitic incidents in school; German invasion; her father fleeing to the Soviet zone; expulsion from school; living in B?onie with her mother and grandfather; ghettoization in 1941; obtaining false papers which they did not use; forced labor at a factory; marriage on November 15, 1942; transfer to P?aszo?w with her mother and husband on March 13, 1943; obtaining permission to stay with her mother; sharing food with her mother and husband; her mother'...

  8. Olga V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga V., who was born in Kralovo nad Tisou, Czechoslovakia (presently Korolevo, Ukraine) in 1921. She recalls her Orthodox, upper-middle class family; attending various schools, including one in Sevlus? (Vynohradiv) and a Hebrew gymnasium in Munkacs (Mukacheve); Hungarian occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish measures; transport to Sevljus after Passover in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz six weeks later; initial placement in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); male prisoners throwing them bread during appels; transfer to another barrack; volunteering to work to ...

  9. Genia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia G., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926, one of three daughters. She recounts attending Polish school; summer vacations in Pinsk and Luninets; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor with her younger sister assigned, by the Judenrat headed by Dov Lopatin; her father and older sister hiding; ghettoization; her father hiding valuables with non-Jews; non-Jews offering to help her family escape (her father refused, knowing others would be killed); separation from her family and bei...

  10. Margot H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margot H., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1918. She recalls growing up in Gau-Algesheim where she was the only Jewish child her age; pleasant relations with townspeople until 1933; encounters with Nazi teachers and youth groups; her father conducting business at night to avoid the Gestapo; working near Frankfurt; returning home to escape violent antisemitism; entering a Catholic sewing school; and moving with her family to Wiesbaden where they were not known. Mrs. H. recounts working in a dress shop; her brother-in-law's suicide and her sister's death; her brother'...

  11. Ziggy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziggy S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce; living with his paternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; his father escaping east immediately prior to the German occupation; ghettoization in spring 1940; working in a metal factory; constant hunger; attempts to obtain extra food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; transfer a few weeks later to Stutthof; volunteering with friends in December when sixteen-year-olds were sought; transfer to Stolp; slave labor on a railway; his group of twenty Polish boys having d...

  12. Rudolph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolph H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. H. recounts attending a Jewish and a German public school, then medical school; passing his state exams, but being unable to obtain his degree due to antisemitic regulations; obtaining his medical degree in Bern, Switzerland; encountering a friend there who later assassinated a Swiss Nazi leader; working in a German hospital; one sister's emigration to Paris; following her in 1937; emigration to the United States in July 1938; trying to obtain emigration documents for his parents and sister who remained in Fr...

  13. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927, the only child of a wealthy family. She recounts her family's strong German identity; her father's service in World War I; Kristallnacht; confiscation of her father's business in 1941; her mother's suicide after a day of forced factory labor; her grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942, followed by Mrs. F. and her father; living in the Czech children's barrack; her grandmother's weakened condition; sharing food with her father; public hangings; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); her deport...

  14. Chanan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan B., who was born in Ústí nad Labem (formerly Aussig), Czechoslovakia in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts living in Bochum until his father's death in 1930; living with aunts in Aussig, then Teplice; moving to Prague with his mother in 1939; participating in Tehelet Lavan, a Zionist youth group; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; visiting his father's family in Slavkov u Brna; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from school; apprenticeship as an electrician; assistance from an aunt who was married to a non-Jew; deporta...

  15. Bronislava T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronislava T., who was born in 1924 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; their relative affluence; attending Catholic school, to which she attributes her ability to pose as a Catholic; German invasion; expulsion from their home in 1940; fleeing to Bochnia to avoid ghettoization; her aunt's and grandmother's deaths and her brother's deportation in 1941; she and two friends receiving false papers from her father's friend in Krako?w, who accompanied her to Warsaw; and their family's deaths in an "aktion". Mrs. T. recounts working at various jobs; h...

  16. Monty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monty G., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926, one of three brothers. He recalls his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school and cheder; German invasion in September 1939; his bar mitzvah the next week; forced labor clearing snow; deportation of his mother and younger brother; ghettoization; escaping to a forest; capture by Poles; deportation to Blechhammer; slave labor; a severe beating; isolating himself due to his mistrust of others; a French prisoner obtaining a better job for him; hearing prayers of others on Rosh ha-Shannah and Yom Kippur; receiving a ...

  17. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's Hasidism; attending yeshivot in Tomaszo?w and ?o?dz?; harassment by non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in September 1939; deportation to Cze?stochowa a few days later; slave labor constructing a concentration camp; his anguish at being forced to work on Yom Kippur; transfer to Go?rlitz, then Rawitsch; praying for help; transfer to Buchenwald; sleeping next to a rabbi; a non-Jew smuggling medicine to him; sharing it with others; suffering after the rabbi died; observing Hanu...

  18. Renata M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls not understanding why she could no longer attend public school; her non-Jewish nursemaid's role in their escape to Italy in 1936; settling in Alassio; her father's and uncle's imprisonments during which she visited them; imprisonment with her mother in Perugia; transfer to Cascia under police supervision; receiving food from the villagers; transfer to Citta? di Castella, where her brother was born in 1941; and her realization that something was wrong. Mrs. M. describes moving to Bevagna; receiving orders ...

  19. Luna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luna K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1926. Mrs. K. vividly portrays her childhood; her father's pro-German sympathies after serving in World War I in the Austrian army on the Russian front; prewar Polish antisemitism; conditions following the German invasion; being forced out of Krako?w to a small village; and a Polish butcher who gave her family extra meat. She recounts being sent with her mother to the Krako?w ghetto; working in a brush factory; losing contact with her father and sister (who were in a logging camp); liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to ...

  20. Ernest S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Czechoslovakia in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; his sister's marriage and move to Plzen? in 1933; German annexation in 1938; immediately moving to his sister's (Plzen? was not annexed); German invasion; his parents sending him on an illegal Youth Aliyah transport to Palestine in 1940; his sister's emigration to England in 1941; enlisting in the Jewish Brigade of the British army; transferring to the Czech army in exile; transport to England; training there and in Scotland; moving through Germany to Czechos...