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

  1. Miriam G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam G., who was born in Fulda, Germany in 1906. She recalls her family emigrating to Antwerp in 1912; their comfortable, orthodox life; the large and cohesive Jewish community; participation in Zionist organizations; marriage in 1930; German invasion; fleeing to Paris; her husband's brief military service; moving to Bayonne, then Marseille; working as a dressmaker to support her family; living with her sister's family in one room; their lack of resources to purchase United States visas; obtaining false papers; moving to a suburb of Lyon; working for villagers in re...

  2. Issachar G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Issachar G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of five children. He recounts his father was a rabbi; attending school for five years; his brother's marriage to a Swiss woman and their emigration to Switzerland; his older sister's emigration to Palestine; receiving emigration documents from her; his father's refusal to leave; Hlinka guards designating his family for deportation; receiving deportation exemptions from Rabbi Abraham-Aba Frieder; Frieder, Dov Weissmandel, and Gisi Fleischmann meeting in their home; his father arra...

  3. Blanca B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Blanca B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's affluence; moving to Katowice; attending public school; her fierce Polish patriotism; antisemitism starting in 1936; attending the Sorbonne in 1938; returning home for vacation in 1939; German invasion; moving with her family to Warsaw; escaping with her parents, brother, and his fiance?e to L?viv; Soviet occupation; deportation to central Russia; working in a forest; German invasion; traveling to Tashkent, then Samarqand; pervasive illness and hunger; two brief jailings in her father's place;...

  4. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. Joseph K., who enlisted in the United States army in September 1942 and accompanied Patton's Third Army to Buchenwald on April 13, 1945. He recounts his initial shock upon observing bodies stacked liked cordwood and his anger that the world allowed this to happen; total lack of preparation for such an encounter; attempts to help the survivors; their high death rate due to their inability to digest food; and his conversations with them during which they described some of their experiences and enlisted his aid in locating relatives in the United States. Dr. K. recal...

  5. Doris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. She recalls two brothers emigrating to Palestine in 1937 and 1938; active participation in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; ghettoization with her parents and brother in 1940; cultural activities; severe hunger; her father encouraging them; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her parents again); transfer six weeks later to Glogau; slave labor digging anti-tank ditches; a death march; escaping in Resko with a friend who encouraged her to go on; assistance from a local woman; liberation by...

  6. Pnina T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pnina T., who was born in Pilvis?kiai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Kaunas and university in Vilnius; marriage in 1934; living in Kaunas; her daughter's birth; plans to emigrate to Palestine; briefly visiting there with her husband in 1939 to finalize arrangements; Soviet occupation; not being able to emigrate when the borders were sealed; deportation of her parents and one brother to Siberia; German invasion in June 1941; arrest by Lithuanians; her daughter's non-Jewish nanny claiming to be the child's mother; her arrest ...

  7. Elias A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias A., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1930. He recounts his parents' emigration to Argentina; his brother's birth; his father's death; his mother and brother returning to Athens prior to his birth; his mother's remarriage; the births of two stepbrothers; their poverty; working from age seven; benign Italian occupation; German occupation; his mother paying non-Jews to hide them; moving to his grandparents; his employer hiding him and his stepbrothers; his older brother and cousin joining the partisans; his stepfather retrieving his sons (Elias A.'s stepbrothers) ...

  8. Palomba M., Riketta C., and Vida C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Palomba M., Riketta C., and Vida C., sisters who were born in Thessalonike?, Greece: Palomba and Riketta in 1937 and Vida in 1939. They recount German bombardment; staying with their mother, grandparents, and others; traveling with their parents to Athens; enrollment in a Catholic school; visits from their parents until they were deported (they never saw their father again); living with a female friend who was in the underground; a priest who worked for the underground, hiding them elsewhere when exposure was threatened (he was later executed); positive feelings about...

  9. Mina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mina K., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, one of two children. She describes her family's orthodoxy; meeting her future husband while studying in Paris in 1939; returning home; Soviet occupation; traveling to Yugoslavia via Odesa, Moscow, and Zemun; marriage in Novi Sad; living in Belgrade; her husband's military draft; following him to Sarajevo, Trebinje, then Zupcě, where his parents lived; her husband's return; serving as a medic with the partisans; fighting Italian troops; treating a wounded Italian soldier; capture by Chetniks; transfer to Italian custody; imp...

  10. William B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1927. He recalls his immediate family's secularism; his mother's family's orthodoxy; his father's career as a military officer; attending Polish schools; antisemitic harassment; weekly Hebrew lessons; his father's departure when the war began and his return; brief Soviet occupation; Lithuanian independence; favorable conditions for his family; his father's reluctance to emigrate to the United States; spending a summer with relatives in Kaunas; exposure to Jewish life; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest and release; fina...

  11. Nathan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan L., who was born in Pilica, Poland in 1910. He recalls moving to Sosnowiec; training as a shoemaker (his father's trade); marriage and the birth of a son and daughter; his wife's death prior to the war; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; and transfer to Breslau. Mr. L. describes conditions in Breslau; receiving packages from his family for about a year; being assigned to work as a shoemaker by a friend, to which he attributes his survival; and learning of the deaths of his children. He relates incarceration in many camps including Breslau-Neukirch, Gross Ro...

  12. Ellen P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen P., a non-Jew who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1925 and who was involved in the Danish Resistance during the war. She describes the German occupation of Denmark in 1940; her involvement in underground politics in high school soon after the occupation; planning for increasingly active means of resistance; and the activities of the Resistance in warning and hiding Jews, as well as smuggling them by boat to Sweden. She speaks of collaboration with the Swedes for the rescue of Jews, including methods of sabotage and blackmail; her brothers' involvement in resc...

  13. Maria J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria J., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She describes her father's tannery in Dobczyce; cordial relations with non-Jews; living in Podgo?rze; participating in Akiba, a Zionist organization; marriage in 1937; German invasion in 1939; her husband's imprisonment as a spy (he was in the Polish military); his release after paying ransom; leaving her son with her parents in Dobczyce; working for the underground in Krako?w; ghettoization; obtaining a job distributing food rations, then as a waitress for German soldiers; secretly leaving the ghetto to visit her son...

  14. Larry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry H., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia, the oldest of five children. He recalls attending Czech and Jewish schools; their relative affluence; leadership in a Zionist organization; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school and confiscation of the family businesses; traveling to Budapest in 1942 to obtain a ticket to Palestine; giving it to someone else at his mother's urging; ghettoization; rumors of deportation; his father obtaining papers for him to serve in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignment to Baia Ma...

  15. Bella G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella G., who was born in Vienna in 1920 and grew up in Czernowitz. She recalls her happy childhood; the German occupation of Austria in 1938 while she was studying in Vienna; and conditions at that time in Czernowitz, where she returned to be with her family. She tells of the Russian occupation of Czernowitz and her father's deportation to Siberia, where he later died. Married in 1941, Mrs. G. speaks of moving with her husband, a physician, to a small village in Bukovina across the Dniester River from Zaleszczyki. She recounts their unsuccessful attempt to flee Russi...

  16. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Vienna and raised in Poland. He speaks of the Russian occupation of his home town; the ghettoization immediately following the German occupation; the killing of his family; his escape to the woods, where he remained in hiding for two years; his deportation to Siberia by the Russians in 1944; and his emigration from Russia, including his stay in a displaced persons camp.

  17. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., a non-Jew, who was born in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, Belgium in 1917. He recalls frequent visits to relatives in Paris and Normandy; attending school, then university, in Brussels; strong anti-Rexist feelings, resulting in active participation in a liberal student group; military enlistment; call-up in 1939; German invasion; capture; transfer to Emmerich; assistance from the Red Cross; forced labor in Alt Garge and Fallingbostel; a German official taking him to his home in Hannover; release; returning home; attending university; working with the r...

  18. Ruth M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth M., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1931. She recounts her close, extended family; their orthodoxy; being hidden on Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Buchenwald the next day; expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; joining a children's transport to Amsterdam in 1939 (her sister went earlier); reunion with her sister; separation when placed with different families; joining eighty children on a transport to England in May 1940; living in an orphanage in Wigan, then with a non-Jewish family; and moving to Manchester to live with a Jewish f...

  19. Betty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. She recalls a comfortable life; frequently hearing antisemitic remarks; attending a Jewish school; marriage; German invasion; her husband's mobilization; anti-Jewish laws; receiving messages from her husband; escaping with her sister to join him in Soviet-occupied Baranavichy in February 1940; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); arrest with her husband in June; a six-week journey to Siberia; forced labor in a remote camp; freezing conditions and hunger; being freed when Germany attacked the Soviet Uni...

  20. Erna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1903. She describes her childhood and education in a middle class Viennese family; her marriage in 1933; changes in living conditions which resulted in their decision to leave; her pregnancy and abortion; escaping to Brussels in 1938; meeting her parents there; leaving for Paris with her husband because they had no documents; incarceration in a French jail for one month because of lack of documents; obtaining visas for the United States in 1939 while her husband was in a French internment camp; arrival in New York; and obtai...