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  1. Arnold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, one of six children, to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He describes his family's poverty; resisting segregation of Jewish pupils in school; active involvement in the Social Democratic Party; anti-Jewish violence and humiliation; assistance from a non-Jewish co-worker; arrest with two sisters; their deportation to Theresienstadt; slave labor doing construction; his brother's arrival; smuggling food to him and others who were ill; choosing not to escape, fearing retribution toward others; helping a priest and ot...

  2. Rose I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose I., who was born in Vis?eu de Sus, Romania in 1923, one of seven children. She recounts her mother's death; visiting relatives in another town; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; witnessing an execution; joining her cousin in another barrack; her cousin's transfer; slave labor digging ditches; transfer in December 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; reunion with her sister; her sister's transfer three weeks later; liberation by British troops; observing Kommandant Josef Kramer's capture; spitting at him from a distance; living in Bergen-Be...

  3. Harold B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold B., who was born in Raczki, Poland in 1921. He recalls attending school and working in Suwa?ki; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Augusto?w with relatives; six months imprisonment in Hrodna as a German spy; returning to Augusto?w; joining his sister in Lyakhovichi; German invasion; fleeing to Zhitkovichi; doing agricultural work in another town; draft into the Soviet military; various assignments including work in an airplane factory in Kazan?; receiving extr...

  4. Jaffe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaffe M., who was born in Onod, near Miskolc, Hungary, in 1931. She describes prewar family and community life; Hungarian anti-Jewish legislation; and her family's transfer to Diosgyor, where her father was made head of the ghetto. She relates her parents' futile attempt to secure a hiding place for their children; life in the ghetto; the deportation of her father and brother in May 1944; the liquidation of the ghetto three days later; and transfer to a brick factory in Miskolc. She remembers the journey from Miskolc to Auschwitz; separation from her mother upon arriv...

  5. Amalia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalia K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. She describes learning about her family's restaurant business; marriage; her husband's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; last seeing him when her daughter was six months old; learning of his deportation to Germany and subsequent death; German invasion; living with her parents and daughter in a Jewish designated house; escaping from incarceration in a brick factory; acquiring false papers for her family with assistance from her manager's wife; living with her parents and daughter, posing as non-Jews, with assi...

  6. Joseph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph G., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1929. He recalls a comfortable childhood; studying music; ghettoization after German occupation; deportation in June 1943 to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister and mother (he never saw them again); his music teacher arranging for him to work in the prisoner orchestra, a privileged position; his father's death despite efforts to help him; observing the Sonderkommando uprising; his sense of pride that Greek prisoners were involved; transfer to a camp in Germany; liberation in May 1945 by United States troop...

  7. Eliezer L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliezer L., who was born in Dyatlovo, Russia (presently Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) in 1908, one of three brothers. He recounts living in Baranavichy; German occupation during World War I; working with the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution; his father's death in 1920; participating in Hechalutz; marriage in 1930; the births of two children; Soviet occupation in 1939; banishment by the Soviets to Valozhyn; frequent secret visits to his family; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Minsk; arrest; posing as a non-Jew when Jews were separated; forced labor; escaping to Baran...

  8. Marcel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel F. He recalls his family's farm; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending high school in Pres?ov; graduation in 1939; joining Betar; obtaining a Paraguayan passport in order to leave for Palestine with a group; embarking on a ship in Budapest in spring 1940; 100 released concentration camp inmates boarding in Yugoslavia; assistance from a Catholic bishop and the Jewish community in Ruse, Bulgaria; being barred from landing in Istanbul due to British communications identifying them as illegal; receiving food on a Greek island, in Piraeus, and from the Italian ...

  9. Nat G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nat G., who was born in Pabiance, Poland in 1922. He recounts German invasion in 1939; fleeing to ?o?dz?; returning home; expropriation of his father's factory; working there; ghettoization in 1940; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; selection with his family to remain behind to clean the empty ghetto; transfer to ?o?dz? ghetto; forced factory labor; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from his mother and sisters; seeing victims of medical experiments; separation from his brother and father after volunt...

  10. Arthur P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur P., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1927. He recounts beginning school in 1932; moving to Wielun?; antisemitic harassment; being sent with his brothers in 1939 to his grandparents in Piotrko?w Trybunalski; German invasion; his parents' arrival; fleeing to Lublin, then returning with his parents to Wielu?n (his brothers remained in Piotrko?w); finding their home confiscated and their possessions gone; his father returning to Piotrko?w; he and his mother supporting themselves teaching languages; non-Jews assisting them to send food to their family in Piotrko?w...

  11. Solomon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon G., who was born in Nowogrodek, Poland, near the Russian border, in 1920. He describes family and community life before the war; life under Russian occupation; the establishment of German rule and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; round-ups and mass killings of Jews, including most of his family; and his confinement to a ghetto in his city. Mr. G. recalls the liquidation of the ghetto, during which most of the inhabitants were deported, and those remaining, including himself and his sister, were interned in two concentration camps established in the city. H...

  12. Jennie A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jennie A., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1915. She recounts her mother's death when she was three; living with an aunt; working for a dressmaker; Hungarian occupation; forced agricultural labor; deportation with her aunt to the Uz?h?horod ghetto in 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; sharing extra food with her aunt and a child from her town; separation from her aunt; transfer to Z?migro?d; slave labor digging trenches; receiving extra food from a German solider; a death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; taking bread from a dying pri...

  13. Ferdinand H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ferdinand H., who was born in Alba Iulia, Romania in 1907 and moved to Košice in 1911, one of four sons. He recalls his mother's death in 1914; his father working as a third generation cantor; attending synagogue with his father; attending music conservatories in Prague and Vienna; singing in traveling choirs; serving in the Czech military; discharge; Hungarian occupation; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; returning home several times; placing his youngest brother on an illegal children's transport from Budapest to Palestine; his father's ...

  14. Tania R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tania R., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1928. She recounts living in Smorgonʹ; her family's affluence; childhood antisemitic harassment; attending a Tarbut school; Soviet occupation in September 1939; expropriation of their home and business; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing east; staying with relatives in Lebedevo; returning with her mother and sister to Smorgonʹ; her mother's return to Lebedevo, then to Smorgonʹ with her brother (her father had been killed); ghettoization; slave labor in a German officer's home; the Judenrat's refusal to supply lists for th...

  15. Gregor S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cantor Gregor S., who was raised in Liepa?ja, Latvia. This testimony includes much of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-104). Additional topics discussed include learning of mass murders in the Bikernieki Forest; resistance activities; feelings of being a "non-person" for years after the war; and his postwar marriage to an American. Cantor S. recites a Yiddish poem he wrote about meeting his wife.

  16. Allen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls fleeing to Russia during World War I; attending school in Russia and Poland; completing engineering school in Warsaw in 1935; his father's death; working in Czechoslovakia; returning home two days before the war; traveling with his mother and brother to Pruz?h?any, her hometown, in the Soviet zone; running a Jewish school under the Soviets; German invasion; his brother fleeing (he never saw him again); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; obtaining food from his boss; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz...

  17. Alzbeta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videtape testimony of Alzbeta L., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1909, one of five children. She recounts her family's observant Jewish life; attending business school in Kežmarok; working for a Jewish lawyer; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her boss sending her to Plavnica during the Slovak uprising; hiding with him and others in villages and the forests; digging and living in bunkers; capture by Germans in Jakubany; forced labor there and in Kežmarok; transfer from Poprad to Ravensbrück; crying all the time; transfer to Malchow; ...

  18. Irena W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena W., who was born in Nová Bystrica, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia), in 1909. She recalls living in Stará Bystrica; attending Hungarian, then Czech schools; studying in Žilina and Bratislava; working in Petržalka; relocation of her company to Bratislava due to anti-Jewish measures; deportation to Žilina in 1942; escape with assistance from a guard she knew; hiding in Bratislava with assistance from a policeman, then in Ružomberok; marriage; deportation exemption because her husband was a doctor; working as an accountant; hiding her hus...

  19. Isidore R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isidore R., who was born in Paris, France in approximately 1923. He recalls feeling French, not Jewish; German invasion; his father's arrest in August 1941; smuggling back and forth to the unoccupied zone; obtaining false papers; unsuccessfully trying to see friends who were rounded-up into the Vélodrome d'Hiver; being caught smuggling in Digoin in summer 1942; eight days imprisonment; transfer to Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, and Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz; a month quarantine; seeing his father; his suicide the next day (he never discussed this before); volun...

  20. Trudy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy H., who was born in Wachenheim, Germany in 1931. She recalls her parents' orthodoxy; the trauma of seeing them beaten on Kristallnacht; several days later being sent with her brother to Paris; living in children's homes, hospitals, and a chateau near Marseille; physical and emotional deprivation; being smuggled with a group of fifty children via Lisbon and Casablanca to the United States; and seeing her parents for the last time from the train en route. Mrs. H. recounts living at a Rothschild home in 1941; living with an aunt, where her brother remained when she...