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  1. Rachel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel L., who was born in Zduńska Wola, Poland in 1926, one of six children in a Hasidic family. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacationing in Andrzejów; returning to Łódź; German invasion; her parents hiding their valuables; eviction from their home; ghettoization; living with an aunt; retrieving their valuables; trading them for necessities; her privileged position in the kitchen; sharing extra food with her family; deportation of her parents and siblings, except one sister; brief hospitalization; hiding with her sister d...

  2. Hella H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hella H., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1919. She recounts her father's death prior to her birth; attending a Catholic school; her mother's remarriage; anti-Jewish regulations and deteriorating conditions after Hitler became chancellor; her brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; Kristallnacht; emigrating with her parents to Sarpsborg, Norway in October 1939; relocating to Fredrikstad; German invasion in 1940; a brief hospitalization in Oslo; her stepfather's arrest; visiting him in prison; his release and death shortly thereafter; escaping deportatio...

  3. Seymour O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Seymour (Sam) O., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1911. Mr. O. recalls his childhood experiences; memories of World War I; law school in Warsaw; the German invasion; his family's move to Soviet territory; his parents and sister's return to his brother Felix in Warsaw, then to Hrubieszo?w; and his move with his brother Felix to Soviet territory. He describes work as head of a school board and as a translator for the Soviet army; the German invasion of Russia; working as a"middleman" between the Judenrat, Ukrainians and Germans; fleeing when they heard about the ...

  4. Bronis?awa W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronis?awa W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. Ms. W. recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father's death and mother's remarriage; beatings by her alcoholic stepfather; transferring to a Jewish school to avoid antisemitic harassment; helping support the family after her mother's divorce; ghettoization with her mother and sister in 1940 (her brother escaped to the Soviet zone and survived); selling their store to Poles who refused to pay them; working in the children's hospital which provided access to food, medicine and passes to leave the ghetto; e...

  5. Vera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera B., who was born in a small town in Slovakia in 1918. She relates moving to Mukachevo in 1924; a happy childhood; attending college in Brno; expulsion in 1939 due to German occupation; Hungarian occupation of Mukachevo; conscription of males into Hungarian labor battalions; German occupation in 1944; and formation of the ghetto. Mrs. B. describes four weeks in the ghetto; Hungarian cruelty toward the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents who were murdered immediately; her inability to mourn for them then; her strong will to survive; collecti...

  6. Zev H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zev H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1924. In this vivid and detailed testimony, Mr. H. recalls his family's refusal to flee east with retreating Polish troops in 1939; moving to Kielce to escape restrictions in ?o?dz?; sexual molestation by volksdeutsche; forced labor in a quarry; brutal conditions; his mother, sister, and grandmother disappearing in the summer 1942 liquidation; digging mass graves; and an SS man killing an infant, which continues to haunt him. He describes incarceration in a factory; resistance in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; ...

  7. Samuel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel S., who was born in Sni︠a︡tyn, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna the following year; antisemitic harassment in school; Austrians warmly welcoming German occupation in 1938; attending Jewish school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest (he was in Dachau for four months, then Buchenwald for four months); his release upon promising to emigrate; obtaining documents in 1939 for three to emigrate to Palestine; his father, mother, and younger sister emigrating there; his emigration to Belfast with assistance fro...

  8. Max L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max L., who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1921, the younger of two children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; participating in a Jewish scout group; anti-Jewish boycotts and restrictions; his bar mitzvah in 1934, the last time his extended family was together; his sister's emigration to the United States in 1936; his emigration in 1937; his parents' arrival in 1938; military draft in 1942; training as a dental technician; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. L. discusses planning a ten-day visit to Germany in 1987; ...

  9. Lola L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola L., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls living with her family in a Jewish section; membership in Betar, a Zionist youth movement; constant fear of antisemitic incidents; German invasion in 1939; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with her family; anti-Jewish measures; the role of the Judenrat; her mother's brief imprisonment in Be?dzin; public hangings, selections and deportations; her deportation to Schatzlar in 1942 (she never saw her family again); slave labor, starvation and selections; learning of mass extermination from the inmates deported...

  10. Ruzena V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruzena V., who was raised in Sečovce, Czechoslovakia, one of six children. She recounts a Hlinka Guard advising her father to hide his daughters; not heeding him in order to remain together; relocation to Poprad; deportation to Auschwitz with two sisters; slave labor; obtaining a privileged position in the political department; sharing extra food with her sisters; transfer with them to Birkenau; their selection for gassing in January 1943; her privileged position in the laundry; brief transfer to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); its liquidation; assignment to the new...

  11. Salek H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salek H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. He recalls his tightly-knit, observant, Jewish neighborhood; working in a factory; German invasion; fleeing to ?o?dz? with his family; joining the Polish army; serving in an anti-aircraft battery; bringing an injured soldier to Warsaw; the siege of Warsaw; incarceration in a German POW camp; escape; joining his family in ?o?dz?; ghettoization; working as a streetcar driver; smuggling rotting food by mixing it with coal; driving Polish civilians to work in the ghetto; frequent deportations and arrivals of Jews from othe...

  12. Herman D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman D., a religious Protestant, who was born in 1909. He describes hearing antisemitic remarks in his youth; teaching in Swolgen, Netherlands; recognizing the danger of Nazism having read Mein Kampf; German invasion; joining the underground; hiding Allied pilots who had been shot down; offering to hide a Jewish friend and his family (they refused); he and his wife hiding two Jewish sisters for two and a half years; sensing danger and relocating the hidden Jews; arrest; separation from his wife; interrogations; transfer to a prison boat; forced labor digging anti-ta...

  13. Morris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1914, three months after his father's death. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-19), Mr. G. recounts his mother's remarriage; moving to Cze?stochowa, Be?dzin, then Warsaw; working in a bakery; moving to ?o?dz?; living with a cousin; ghettoization; working in the kitchen of the Grunow-Spiegelberge labor camp; transfer back to the ghetto, then Kreising; public executions; burying prisoners in mass graves; liberation by French troops; living briefly in Ostrach; assistance from United States tro...

  14. Jacob H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1929, the youngest of three brothers. He recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Czyz?yny because his father thought it would be better; studying with a non-Jewish tutor; ghettoization in Krako?w a year later; hiding during round-ups; transfer with his family to the camp at the airport, then P?aszo?w; a public hanging; constant fear; transfer with one brother to Starachowice a month later; caring for his brother when he was hospitalized; slave labor and illness, from which he still bears s...

  15. Judith H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith H., who was born in a small village in Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls being the only higher class family there; antisemitism; living with her grandparents to attend school in Pres?ov; Hungarian occupation; attending school in Budapest; learning of Jewish persecutions in Slovakia (her grandparents were deported and perished in Majdanek); her brother joining her in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; an unsuccessful attempt to return home with her brother; her depression upon learning her parents were deported (she never saw them again); living with her bro...

  16. Harry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1929. He recalls their poverty; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to his family; lying about his age to obtain a job in a glass factory; deportation of his parents and sister (he never saw them again); a man exempted from deportation choosing to stay with his baby (an image that he still sees today); mass shootings in nearby woods; deportation to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then Rehmsdorf; friend...

  17. Victoria B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victoria B., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1942. She recounts a Greek policeman advising her mother to leave her two children and niece when he arrested her in March 1944; their non-Jewish neighbor posing as their grandmother; her aunt taking them to hide in the countryside; her aunt agreeing to let her parents' non-Jewish friends take her (Victoria) to their home; learning later that her aunt sent her sister and cousins to Palestine; her mother's return in 1945; not recognizing her; gradually building a relationship with her; her mother's remarriage; moving to Th...

  18. Margalith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margalith C., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1928. She recounts her parents' move to Scheveningen, Netherlands (her father was Dutch); German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; having to move to Utrecht with her mother; her father joining them; a policeman warning them of round-ups; her mother receiving a deportation notice in summer 1942; feigning appendicitis so her mother would not go; moving to Amsterdam; receiving another deportation notice in 1943; finding a hiding place for them with her aunt's landlady in the Hague; the landlady's daughter finding an...

  19. Michael J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael J., who was born in Konin, Poland in approximately 1925, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment in public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public execution; transfer in cattle trains to the Ostrowiec S?wie?tokrzyski ghetto; smuggling food and supplies into the ghetto; a round-up in 1942 (two siblings hid and were caught); his parents' deportation; remaining in the smaller ghetto with his brother; his brother's escape (he was killed with the partisans); obtaining weapons for the underground; forced la...

  20. Ben K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1921. He describes antisemitic incidents; German invasion; being drafted into the Polish army; discharge after Polish capitulation; his father fleeing to the Soviet zone and returning because his mother refused to leave Warsaw; ghettoization; slave labor and beatings; joining the underground; obtaining train tickets through a Polish friend; escaping with friends to Jo?zefo?w; joining partisans near Lublin in 1941; military actions against Germans; learning that Polish partisans were killing Jews; fleeing with Soviet prisoners ...