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Country: United States
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Paul K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul K., who was born in 1927 in Carei, Romania. He recalls studying at home with his grandfather, a retired rabbi; disbelieving atrocity stories from Poland in 1940; Hungarian occupation; increased anti-Jewish restrictions in 1942; brief ghettoization in May 1944; transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto; his distrust of the Judenrat; volunteering with his parents for transfer to a work camp; transport to Birkenau; separation from his parents; transfer to Auschwitz, then Monowitz; hospitalization for two months; Allied bombing of the I.G. Farben factories; foraging for food;...

  2. Nathan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan K., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1923 to a family of six children. He recounts a happy family life before the German occupation in 1939; deportation to Lublin in 1940; forced labor digging trenches in Ciechano?w; escaping with an inmate to the Soviet border; their arrest by the Soviets; imprisonment for eleven months in Lv?iv and Berestechko; three months in Zolochiv prison; transport to Starobels?k; working on the barges in Vorkuta; being wounded while serving in the Soviet army; and his imprisonment until 1948. Mr. K. describes returning to Radom in 1948;...

  3. Johanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Johanna P., a non-Jew, who was born in Beverwijk, Netherlands in 1924 and lived in Amsterdam from 1934. She recalls no differences between Jews and others prior to the war; German invasion in 1940; Jews having to wear the star; their Jewish family doctor's suicide; people burning books fearing Germans would persecute them; relocation of Jews to a nearby housing complex; disappearance of Jews from school; observing an older Jewish woman being beaten by German soldiers; working for the police department; the famine and cold of the 1944-1945 winter; liberation by Canadia...

  4. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in Augusto?w, Poland in 1915, the youngest of eight children. He recounts his oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1923; draft into the Polish military in 1937; German and Soviet invasion in 1939; deportation as a POW by the Soviets from Baranovichy; release with a group born in Latvia; escaping en route to Vilnius; returning home; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; deportation to Bogusze, then Auschwitz; separation from his parents and sisters (he never saw them again); selection for work with three brothers; a death ...

  5. Zygmund L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmund L., who was born in Rokitno Szlachekie, Poland in 1903, one of eight children. He recounts his family's World War I experiences; moving to ?azy; marriage; the births of two children; German invasion; fleeing east; sending his wife and children home; traveling toward the Soviet Union; encountering Germans in Wodzis?aw; turning toward home; brief incarceration in Zawiercie; returning home; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his brother to Ottmuth; receiving packages from his wife; transfers to Fu?nfteichen and Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; tra...

  6. Uri Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uri Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1907. Mr. Z. describes his education as an accountant; his mother's death when he was sixteen; estrangement from his father; leaving home; studying voice and drama; a successful singing career; performances in many European countries; and his 1938 marriage in ?o?dz?. He recalls the German invasion; enlistment in the Polish army; capture by Germans; transport with some 3000 POWs to cities in Poland and Germany, terminating in Krako?w; escape; return to ?o?dz?; fleeing with his wife to the Soviet zone; travel to Bia?ystok; perfo...

  7. Walter R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter R., a non-Jew, who was born in Hamburg, Germany to Belgian parents in 1924. He recounts their move to Antwerp when he was three; his father's death; his mother's remarriage; housing German refugees; German invasion; mobilization; biking to Bordeaux with other conscripts; returning home; leaving for England with his friend Paul; traveling to Perpignan via Nantes, Bordeaux, and Narbonne; arrest by Germans while attempting to illegally cross the Spanish border; incarceration in Perpignan; transfer to Compiègne; slave labor in Paris uncovering unexploded bombs; tr...

  8. Jean B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919, one of five children. She recalls her Zionism; teacher training in Israel; visiting home in summer 1939; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; helping to create ghetto schools; producing music and dance performances (she sings a song); her parents' death from starvation; arrival of Austrian Jews; round-ups and deportations; hiding with her brother and sister during the final liquidation; her brother's capture; going to the trains with her sister, seeking her brother; transport to Auschwitz; losing her will to live aft...

  9. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jod?owa, Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing; remaining with her brother and grandfathers; searches by German police seeking her father; Germans beating her paternal grandfather; his death; hiding with her brother in her maternal grandparents' house; warnings by a non-Jew of an imminent German search; hiding in the forests, then in the home of her father's business associate, with her brother and parents for two and a half years; going out to obtain food; denouncemen...

  10. Binjamin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Binjamin M., who was born in Włocławek, Poland in 1917, the oldest of three children. He recounts a happy childhood in an affluent, assimilated home; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; studying engineering in Warsaw; German invasion; fleeing to Brest in the Soviet Union; corresponding with his family; assistance from a family friend; working as an electrician; his brother's arrival; moving to Lʹviv to work as an electrical engineer; arrest with his brother as non-Soviet citizens; using his influence to have his brother sent home, ...

  11. Rosa M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She describes her parents' Polish background; her father's Austrian military service in World War I; childhood visits to relatives in Poland; hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss; incarceration with her parents, then separation from them; learning her parents were in the same jail; kindness from Austrian prisoners; release after three months; finding their apartment ransacked; returning to the apartment after her parents' release; obtaining a United States visa because she was an Austrian citizen; joining a Z...

  12. Iakov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iakov M., who was born in Vitsebsk, Belarus in 1928. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Russian school; some religious observances; his father's death in April 1941; German invasion in June; one sister's evacuation with her medical school; fleeing with his mother, younger sister, and neighbors to Shumilino; ghettoization; sneaking out for food; his mother ordering him to escape in November; returning the next day; learning all were murdered in a mass killing; a non-Jew in Pyatnitsa hiding him and advising him of hiding and survival strategies; going from villa...

  13. Dora L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora L., who was born in Memel (presently Klaipe?da), Lithuania, the third of four children. She recounts a happy childhood in a financially comfortable home; their move to S?iauliai; Soviet occupation; deportation of her mother's relatives to Siberia; her brother fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a peat bog; returning to the ghetto in 1943; public hangings; deportation with her parents and sister to Stutthof; deaths of her mother and sister; slave labor digging anti-tank trenches; a German friend of her father giving ...

  14. Avraham G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham G., who was born in Altenburg, Germany in 1923. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; the rise of Nazism; expulsion from school in 1934; attending a Jewish school in Leipzig; deportation with his family to Katowice due to their Polish citizenship; moving to Stanis?awo?w, then L?vov; joining Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending a Zionist school; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; public hangings; harsh conditions in Janowska; the sadism of Gustav Wilhaus; escaping with his father with assistance from a German soldier; joining his mot...

  15. Jakub Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub Z., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1928 and raised in Košice. He recounts Hungarian occupation in 1938; German invasion in spring 1944; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; ghettoization; deportation with his parents to Birkenau; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); learning of selections and gas chambers, which he describes as a new reality; volunteering with his father for agricultural work; his father's hospitalization from a severe beating; his own hospitalization; his father visiting and bringing him extra food; being ...

  16. Sam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam K., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1915. He describes his Hasidic family; his father's death in 1924; his hardware store; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; his brother's murder in a mass shooting; avoiding deportations in 1941 and 1942; factory work; illegal prayer groups in their house; separation from his mother during the final deportation in February 1943; traveling to Sosnowiec as a non-Jew; hiding with his sister's family; ghettoization in the Srodula section; escaping during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; hiding, with assistance...

  17. He?le?ne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of He?le?ne A., who was born in approximately 1921. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; a brother and sister emigrating to France; living in Radom; German invasion of Radom; her father and brother being beaten for organizing Yom Kippur services in their home; ghettoization; sewing for a German woman to provide food for her parents; surgery in the ghetto hospital; round-ups; separation from her parents in a selection (she never saw them again); working in a factory; her fiance?'s arrest in May 1943 (she never saw him again); deportation to Pionki; slave labor in a munitio...

  18. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1915, one of six children. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; working in a bank; joining the Greek army in April 1941; returning home in May after defeat by Germany; anti-Jewish laws; the Jewish community paying a huge ransom to free its men; ghettoization; declining to join the communist resistance; round-ups and deportations; hiding his mother and brother; their betrayal; joining them to provide protection; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family (he never saw them again); transfer to Golleschau; ...

  19. Cadik D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cadik D., descendant of a rabbinical family, who graduated from rabbinical school in Sarajevo in 1937. He recalls working in Kosovska, then Pristina; involvement with progressive student groups; his denunciation by the fascist newspaper "Balkan"; moving to Split; participation in Hoshomer Hatzair; being drafted in 1940; serving in Skopje; German invasion in April 1941; escaping incarceration as a prisoner of war; returning to Sarajevo; anti-Jewish regulations; traveling to Italian-occupied Split; resistance activities; hiding a partisan wounded by Ustas?a; his sister ...

  20. Mira V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira V., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1919, the older of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; summering at their vacation home in Nemenčinė; attending a Bund, then another Yiddish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending lectures by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Vladimir Jabotinsky; her father's dismissal from his government job in 1938 due to increasing antisemitisim; living on a hachsharah in Częstochowa; German invasion in 1939; fleeing to Kovelʹ; Soviet occupation; returning home; German invasion; anti-Jew...