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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish
Language of Description: Slovak
Country: United States
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Helen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen D., who was born in a town near Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts attending public school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; transfer to Mel?nytsya-Podil?s?ka; forced labor cleaning streets; working as a dressmaker; deportation of her mother and five sisters to Auschwitz (none returned); remaining with her father, brother, and another sister; transfer to Bors?a; capture of her brother and father (she never saw them again); escaping with her sister from the ghetto in September 1943; hiding in a forest, then briefly with a Po...

  2. Joseph F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph F., who was born in Poland in 1919. He recalls Jews being beaten on the street before the war; the deportation of his parents and five siblings from the ?o?dz? ghetto (he never saw them again); deportation of the community leaders; learning from a truck driver that the leaders were killed by the SS in a nearby forest; liquidation of the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor in a coal mine in Silesia; the death march to Mauthausen via Czechoslovakia; assistance from the Czech population; transporting stone blocks in Mauthausen; building fa...

  3. Madeleine S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. She recalls German occupation; removing her star to buy bread; ghettoization; moving into her uncle's and aunt's apartment; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); attending high school; forced labor in a sewing factory; her mother's death; studying in the factory school; being "adopted" by H?ayim Rumkowski and living with twelve others - "his children"; receiving better food and treatment; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; remaining with three friends from the Rumkowski group; a German ...

  4. Leonard D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard D. who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. He recalls his parents both had relatives in Europe; ceasing to hear from them in the late 1930s; being drafted into the Army immediately after high school graduation; training in the 21st Armored Infantry Battalion; reassignment to the 11th Armored Division; sailing to England; landing in France in October 1944; fierce fighting through Europe; liberating Mauthausen on May 5, 1945; his and his fellow soldiers' state of shock at the condition of the prisoners; the piles of corpses all over, the pervasive stench; ob...

  5. Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon S., who enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. He recalls assignment to the 42nd division of the 7th Army; combat during the Battle of the Bulge; learning in April 1945 about the liberation of Dachau; a brief visit with a small group of soldiers; piles of emaciated bodies; visiting sick prisoners in former SS barracks; observing quiet, rather than jubilation, since the former prisoners were so weak and sick; his colleagues sharing his sense of horror; later volunteering for a counter-intelligence unit which apprehended war criminals; and working with Jewish ...

  6. Sydney B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sydney B., who was born in Connecticut in 1914. He recalls Army induction in October 1943; transfer to England in March 1944; arrival on Omaha Beach on D-Day plus thirty; assignment to the 80th Infantry Division Counter Intelligence Corps; and seeking out Nazi sympathizers and former Nazis in France, then in Ludwigshafen, Weimar, Nuremberg and Kempten. Mr. B. describes a brief visit to Ebensee (on his way to Altausee) shortly after its liberation; shock and disbelief at the prisoners' condition; the crematorium and a room full of bodies; and skepticism when local resi...

  7. Chil E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chil E., who was born in Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his family traveling to Palestine in 1925, but staying in Belgium when his mother was hospitalized for two years; living in La Calamine, then Brussels; active participation in the Jewish Scouts; German invasion; joining the Resistance; round-up in 1942 to Breendonk, then Malines; deportation to Sakrau; transfer to Anhalt, Myslowice (Fu?rstengrube), Graslitz, Reichenbach, Faulbru?ck, Annaberg, Birkenau, Niederorschel, then Langenstein; various slave labor assignments including in a mine, a quarry...

  8. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Kraków, Poland, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, then Mizrachi school; training with Akiva for two years; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; returning to Kraków in 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor as a gardener; his family's expulsion to Rzeszów; working as a translator in a garage; ghettoization; traveling to the Rzeszów ghetto, dressed as a German; seeing his family for the last time; bringing his friend's girlfriend back to Kraków; obtaining a job in the garage for Hesh...

  9. Kay F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kay F., who was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1919. She recalls her father's career as a physician; attending university in Krako?w; completing her last year at home due to increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her family to relatives in ?o?dz?; returning to Sieradz; her father's brief imprisonment; traveling with her parents to Sandomierz; deportation with her family and her fiance? to Cze?stochowa concentration camp; slave labor in the HASAG factory; marriage; posing as her father's wife to assist him in providing medical care; transfer to Bergen-Belse...

  10. Leyba E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leyba E., who was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1919. He recounts abandonment by his father when he was two; attending Jewish schools, then a technical school; never attending synagogue or celebrating Jewish holidays, though knowing about them; working in Borodyanka; marriage; German invasion in 1941; fleeing through the Soviet Union; living with his wife, mother, and brother in Bugurusland; military draft; participating in breaking the siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg); being wounded in January 1943; hospitalization in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk); demobilization and ret...

  11. Ernie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernie M., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1916, one of three children. He recounts his father was an American citizen, thus he was as well; attending Jewish school; working as an auto mechanic; participation in Habonim; becoming a counselor at a Youth Aliyah camp outside of Berlin; police confiscating the identification papers of everyone there in November 1938; traveling to Berlin; arriving on Kristallnacht; observing Jews being beaten and synagogues burning; visiting a friend who had just been released from a concentration camp; returning to the youth camp; lear...

  12. Elias R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias R., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1932. He recalls details of Jewish life; traveling with his mother to Athens for his uncle's wedding; remaining there in order to be under Italian occupation (Thessalonike? was under German control); having his brother smuggled to Athens; returning to Thessalonike?; ghettoization; obtaining exit documents from Spain (his mother was Spanish); hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation (he did not return); escaping with his mother and brother to Athens with help from the underground; departing in a German militar...

  13. Elisabeth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth L., a non-Jew, who was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1913. She recounts her father's World War I military service; her mother leaving her to find him in France; joining her mother near Paris in 1916; returning to Belgium in 1918; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; working as a secretary/accountant; distributing anti-German materials in Brussels in 1940; assisting downed Allied pilots through the Resistance; betrayal of their unit; arrest on February 20, 1943; nine months incarceration in St. Gilles; a death sentence in May; deportation to Germany ...

  14. Hilde G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year si...

  15. Felix U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix U., who was born in Krzeszo?w, Poland in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls attending cheder and public school until sixth grade; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; participation in a Zionist youth group; joining his brother's tailor shop in Warsaw in 1935; vacationing at home in August 1939; German invasion; destruction of their house by German shelling; staying with a non-Jewish friend; brief Soviet occupation; German re-occupation; random shootings of Jews; forced labor on a nearby farm in 1942; weekly visits to his family; his mother urging him to...

  16. Albert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert F., who was born in Paris, France in 1927 to Hungarian immigrants. He recalls his mother's family restaurant business; his parents' divorce; his mother's remarriage; German invasion; his stepfather's French military service; his capture as a POW; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; apprenticeship as an upholsterer; refusing to wear the yellow star; being caught with his family in a round-up; escaping at his mother's urging; hiding in a basement for two days; staying with his aunt; returning home with his uncle to take his family's valuables; moving to unoc...

  17. Siegfried H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried H., who was born in Zdzieci, Poland in 1909. He recalls the family move to Tarnowskie Gory in 1914; attending German school; learning Polish after the area became Poland in 1922; forming a Zionist group; apprenticeship with a pharmaceutical company; attending Polish military officer's school; antisemitic incidents; participating in the Zionist group Akiba; German invasion; rejoining the Polish army; returing to Tarnowskie Gory during the retreat; traveling to Berlin for the Zionist movement; returning home; arrest with a friend while fleeing to Yugoslavia in...

  18. Ildi I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ildi I., who was born in approximately 1933 and raised in Zrenjanin (presently Serbia), Yugoslavia. She recalls her father's military service; being sent with her brother to live with an uncle in Hungarian-occupied territory in 1941 (she never saw her parents again); separation from her brother when she was sent to her maternal aunt (a physician) and grandmother in Subotica; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Ba?csalma?s, another camp in Austria, then Bergen-Belsen; wandering to other areas of the camp; her aunt working in the clinic; betting wit...

  19. John B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1906. He describes having to wear a star, forced labor, and segregation; being caught in 1943 in the Berlin Aktion; transport to Auschwitz; working in Monowitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz, as a slave laborer for I. G. Farben; hunger and public hangings; and evacuation to Gleiwitz in January 1945. He recalls being saved by a Nazi soldier from a mass execution; pretending to be dead and escaping at night to a Polish farm; being saved by the Polish farmer who also aided ten other Jews; liberation by Russian soldiers; traveling to ?...

  20. Gabriele S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabriele S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-236), Ms. S. recalls an isolated childhood in an affluent, assimilate home; her father's death in 1927; her school's closure after the Nazis came to power; training as a social worker in Frankfurt; working in an orphanage in Hamburg; spending a year in England from 1935-36; returning, knowing the risks, to help other Jews emigrate; her brothers' emigration; her emigration to the United States (her mother and sister also got out); assistanc...