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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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...

  5. Michael S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1934, one of two children. He recalls vacations in Zakopane; German invasion; fleeing to Kielce; returning home; public hangings of Jews; escaping deportation through a friend of the head of the Judenrat; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; fearing separation from his parents; his mother hiding him in her workplace during the day; his mother approaching a Polish prostitute and asking her to find them a hiding place; hearing she had found them a place; escaping with his parents and sister with assistance from a Germa...

  6. Mazaltov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mazaltov H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1921, the oldest of three children. She recounts attending a French school; her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; marriage to a man from Thessalonikē in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Toulouse; her brother's escape to Spain, then Palestine; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; going into hiding with her family in 1942; arrest in July 1944; deportation to Malines, then to Auschwitz three weeks later; a Greek prisoner advising them in Ladino of survival s...

  7. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Shereshevo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recounts attending cheder and a Tarbut school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism; his father's arrest for performing a kosher slaughter when it became illegal; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's execution; forced relocation through several towns to the Pruzh?a?ny ghetto; the Judenrat doing its best under the circumstances to allocate resources and forced labor fairly; forced labor outside the ghetto; participating in the ghetto underground; his family's ...

  8. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. He recalls growing up in Strasbourg, France; becoming a French citizen and a mechanical engineer in 1937; a visit with his sister in New York during officer training on the MS Lafayette; army enlistment; posting to Lebanon and Syria; defeat by Germany; and demobilization in Marseille in December 1940. Mr. K. remembers joining his family in Pe?rigueux; becoming a surveyor in Lyon; anti-Jewish regulations; arrest while attempting to escape to Spain with a brother and his sister's children; a one month jail term; learn...

  9. Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Nowy Z?migro?d, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment and beatings; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing to Lesko; returning; forced labor building roads; deportation to Frysztak; returning home; frequent round-ups; deportation to Jas?o, then P?aszo?w; slave labor constructing railways; receiving food from his sisters who were in hiding; their arrival; transfer with them and a cousin to Skarz?ysko; assignment to a munitions factory; meeti...

  10. Shalom Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom Y., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recalls moving to Raci??; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing to P?o?sk, then G?bin; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing a round-up with assistance from the mayor and an ex-employee; staying with relatives in P?o?sk, then moving to Warsaw; escaping to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok in January 1940; joining relatives in Rivne, then Ashmi?a?ny; moving to Smarhon?; German invasion; fleeing to Kurenet?s?; contacts with escaped Soviet POWs and f...

  11. Rachel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel H., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania (presently Chernivt?s?i, Ukraine) in 1921. She recalls her family's comfortable, observant life in the vibrant Jewish community; attending Romanian and Jewish schools; Soviet occupation in 1940; expropriation of her father's business; fear of Siberian exile; German occupation in 1941; antisemitic measures; her grandfather's deportation (she never saw him again); ghettoization in October; moving into a cousin's apartment; a mass deportation by train to Transnistria (Bessarabia); several weeks of forced marching; finding a ...

  12. Olga L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga L., who was born in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1919, one of seven children. She recalls festive holiday celebrations; antisemitic incidents; working in a law office; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; helping one brother escape to Palestine; obtaining documents to emigrate to England; remaining with her parents so another brother could escape; her brother-in-law's murder while attempting to escape; her sister and niece moving in; her twin brothers' conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her fat...

  13. Parallel paths

    This edited program follows the path of the Anne Frank: the family move from Germany to Holland; German invasion; going into hiding; arrest and deportation to Westerbork, Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen; and Anne Frank's death in Bergen-Belsen. It is seen through the eyes of survivors, witnesses, and rescuers who had experiences similar to Anne Frank's.

  14. Victor E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor E. who was born in Petrograd in 1914. His parents were Sophia Dubnow Erlich, Russian poet and daughter of Simon Dubnow, and Henryk Ehrlich, Menshevik leader. He recounts his father's protest against the Bolsheviks; his family's emigration to Poland in 1917; staying in Lublin with his paternal grandparents; moving to Warsaw; and his father becoming a leader in the Polish Bund. He recalls visiting Simon Dubnow in Berlin in 1921 and discusses the political situation, and Dubnow's emigration from Berlin to Ri?ga due to the Nazis. He relates the family leaving Warsa...

  15. Victor L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. He describes attending Polish school; antisemitic incidents; active membership in Akiba; one sister's emigration to Palestine; his father's reluctance to emigrate to Palestine; entering his father's business in 1937; assisting Jewish refugees from Germany; German invasion; returning home after Germans overtook him fleeing east; using false papers to feign an authorized job; ghettoization; visiting his parents in Niepo?omice; arranging their move to the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; escaping with his brother from a deportat...

  16. Rae G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rae G., who was born in Minsk, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1915. She recalls moving to her grandparents' farm; attending school in Maladzechna, where her father taught music; attending college in Vilnius; Soviet occupation; moving with her parents to Maladzechna; marriage; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to her husband's parents in Oshmi︠a︡ny; arrest en route; escaping; living with her in-laws; a mass killing of Jewish men, including her husband; learning her parents, sister, and grandparents had been killed; ghettoization; transfer to the Vilna ghetto; forced labo...

  17. Rachel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1916. She recalls her childhood in an orthodox family of five children; attending public and Jewish schools; participating in a Zionist organization; marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth in 1940; German occupation in 1941; ghettoization with her parents and daughter in Podhajce; hiding with her sister and brother-in-law during "aktions"; her parents' and daughter's killings; escaping with her sister and brother-in-law; hiding with her brothers, sister, and other Jews in bunkers in the woods; assistance from Jehovah's Wi...

  18. Ya'akov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov B., who was born in 1926 in Rotterdam, Holland, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death in 1937; living with his grandparents; attending a Jewish school; living in an orphanage until his father remarried; fleeing with his family to the Hague during German bombing of Rotterdam; attending school in Amsterdam; anti-Jewish restrictions; joining the underground; being assigned to smuggle microfilm to Paris and Antwerp disguised as a Hitler Youth; arrest in Paris in 1942 when his false papers were exposed; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwi...

  19. Edith H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith H., who was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, in 1928. She describes her prewar life in Holland; her family's increasing awareness of trouble in Germany; their unsuccessful attempt to flee Holland in the wake of German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and activities; her difficult and unpleasant life in hiding (on a farm with non-Jews), where she lived for three and a half years, first by herself and later with her parents; her life in Leeuwarden after the war; and the lasting effects of her wartime experiences.

  20. Henry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. He recalls his family's unsuccessful escape to France; staying in Antwerp; his father's arrest; going to Paris, then Marseille, with his mother and two sisters; their arrest and detention in Rivesaltes in 1942 where his father rejoined them; being loaded on a freight car for deportation and being taken off with his younger sister at the last moment; separation from his sister; and being placed with a family near Limoges where he lived until the end of the war. He describes posing as a Catholic; his foster family's con...