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  1. Brenda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Brenda H., who was born in Horodenka, Poland in 1926. She recalls her mother's death in childbirth; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation in 1939; her oldest brother's draft; Hungarian, then German occupation in 1941; ghettoization; her father's membership on the Judenrat; forced labor; hiding with her siblings during a mass killing in December 1941 during which her father and grandparents were murdered; hiding in a bunker during a second mass killing; the ghetto's liquidation; being hidden with her sister and younger brother by her older brothers and uncle; being ...

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  3. Abe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on...

  4. Fredy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredy L., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1914. He recalls his childhood in Chalkis; finishing high school in Salonika; attending university in Athens; becoming a successful tailor; marriage in 1938; the benign Italian occupation; German occupation ; enforcement of anti-Jewish measures; hiding with his family; obtaining false papers through the Greek police; a one month detention with his father, who was released later, in Karditsa; return to Athens; and liberation in October 1944. Mr. L. recounts their complete impoverishment, leading to emigration with his famil...

  5. Klara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara K., who was born in U?jpest (IV. Keru?let), Hungary, a Budapest suburb. She recalls entrance quotas for Jews for educational institutions; attending a Jewish school in Budapest; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion (he did not survive); German occupation in spring 1944; obtaining false identity papers; living with a family as a non-Jew in Ra?kospalota (XV. Keru?let); joining her mother and siblings in Ko?ba?nya (X. Keru?let) due to fear of exposure; changing their hiding place after their safety became compromised; liberation by Soviet troops;...

  6. Ursula D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula D., a non-Jew, who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She recounts her parents' anti-Nazi sympathies; her father listening to Allied radio broadcasts; Allied bombing; constant fear; arrival of United States troops; postwar hardships, including rationing; an influx of refugees; her sense that Germans refused to admit culpability for the war and considered themselves "victims"; visiting relatives in Belgium, where she first learned about the Holocaust; confronting her parents; their unwillingness to discuss it; moving to Israel in the early 1960s; marriage to ...

  7. Sarah F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah F., who was born in Koshelevo, Ukraine in 1915 to a family of eight children. She recalls her father's death in 1933; Hungarian occupation; her brother obtaining Hungarian citizenship papers; hiding with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors when Jews were expelled in 1941; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization with her family in April 1944; their deportation from Khust in May 1944; separation from her mother and grandmother upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); forced labor with her sister in Fallersleben from July; trans...

  9. Philip V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip V., who was born in France in 1929. He describes his assimilated family life and strong French identity; attending schools in Vaucresson and Neuilly; his father's death; German invasion in May 1940, fleeing with his family to Les Sables-d'Olonne; their return to Paris months later; fleeing to the unoccupied zone in 1941; living in Bagne?res-de-Luchon; his Jewish education and identity formation by Mila Racine; hearing of rounds-up of Jews; fleeing to Italian-occupied Nice, then to Aix-les-Bains two months later in early 1943; denouncement in December 1943; his ...

  10. Georgette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgette S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She recalls her father's service in World War I; their strong Hungarian, rather than Jewish, identity; attending a private German school; escalation of anti-Jewish laws from 1939 until 1943; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; avoiding a round-up of young women because her mother claimed her German school certificate exempted her (the soldiers could not read German); their escape from the ghetto in October with assistance from non-Jewish friends; hiding with her parents in a room of their former villa...

  11. Sophie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1924. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving with her family to the countryside in 1942; forced relocation; working in a nursing home to avoid deportation; their futile attempt to board a ship to the United States in Ijmuiden; returning to Amsterdam; an uncle's suicide; the underground transporting her to her father's non-Jewish,business associate in Zutphen; hiding with his family; obtaining false papers; tutoring his children and doing housework; one visit by her parents; liberation by Canadian ...

  12. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recounts German invasion; public humiliation of Jews; ghettoization; forced labor; a round-up, including his parents; obtaining his mother's release through connections; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); selection for work with his brother; clandestinely leaving the children's camp to join his brother; their transfer to Altenhammer; obtaining privileged work in the kitchen; providing food to his brother and others; a death march, then train transpor...

  13. Pavel T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pavel T., who was born in Slovakia in 1941. He recounts living in permanent fear as a child; Jews meeting in their home in Ilava; his father's dental practice; being warned in summer 1941 they would be deported; escaping with his parents, grandfather, and uncle to woods in Zliechov; his father's patients helping them dig a bunker; near discovery; building another bunker near Valaská Belá; moving several more times; cold and starvation; his mother protecting him with her body when Germans approached; his uncle leaving to find food and not returning (he was arrested a...

  14. Rene D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1923. He recalls his family's Catholic, right wing orientation; exposure to his grandfather's more liberal perspective; attending high school in Liège; joining the military during the German invasion in 1940; returning home after German victory; resuming his studies; learning his grandfather was hiding a Jewish family; being asked to join the Resistance; distributing pamphlets and tracking train movements; hiding to avoid forced labor; arrest; incarceration for five months at St. Leonard prison; transfer to Esterwegen as a "N...

  15. Teddy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Teddy R., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1922. He recalls his family's primitive standard of living; his uncle in the United States sending money for his high school education; belonging to No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; Hungarian occupation in 1940; confiscation of most of their possessions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in September 1943; his father visiting him in Ta?s?nad; slave labor in several locations including Dej; marching toward Budapest in winter with no shoes, minimal clothing and food; confinement to the Budapest ghetto guarded by the Arrow Cross; ...

  16. Josef G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef G., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their relative affluence; attending seven years of public school, then one year of business school; attending cheder afternoons; his father's death; German invasion in September 1939; working to help support his family; being rounded-up with twenty other young people to Sosnowiec; deportation a week later to Ottmuth; slave labor building the autobahn; a German soldier giving him extra food; transfer a year later to Markstädt; arrival of two brothers; volunteer...

  17. Cecile L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. She recalls moving to Antwerp; living in the Jewish quarter; being placed in a Jewish class at school; antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her parents to De Panne, then France (Ambleteuse and Calais); returning to Antwerp; arranging for her grandmother to join them by writing a letter to the Belgian queen; living with her mother (her father was in hiding); attending a Jewish teacher training course in Ghent; teaching in a Jewish orphanage in Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding with her parents in sever...

  18. Frieda P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda P., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919. She recounts her father's early death; moving with her family to Se?dziszo?w, then Sosnowiec; antisemitic harassment by other children; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; arranging a job for her mother with assistance from a German woman; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); transfer to Mys?owice (Fu?rstengrube), then Gra?ditz; public hangings; assistance from a German soldier; sharing food with her fellow prisoners; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to Langenbielau; forced labor at...

  19. Terrence D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Terrence D., a professor at Colgate University who was born in Effingham, Illinois in 1939. He describes his first awareness of the Holocaust as a child; his own childhood experience of loss and displacement; his undergraduate and graduate concern with martyred heroes in literature; his interest in factual accounts of personal experience in extreme situations; and his authorship of The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. He discusses the post-Holocaust need for new definitions of conventional terms such as conscience, dignity, and witness and details the ...

  20. Silva U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Silva U., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's affluence; observing Jewish holidays with a large extended family (her mother had converted to Judaism); her father's military service; finishing third grade; German invasion in 1941; her father's return; obtaining false papers; traveling to Kuršumlija with her brother and parents; hiding with non-Jews; threatened exposure; moving to Podujevo; arrest; escape with assistance from a prison guard; smuggling themselves to Italian occupied Priština; expulsion; moving to Bulg...