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

  1. Eva Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes feeling both Hungarian and Jewish before the outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; living in a house designated for Jews; hiding under false papers in Budapest during a round-up; working at a munitions factory; arrest during a round-up in November 1944; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; working at the factory; witnessing a childbirth and the Germans killing the mother and her baby; liberation by United States troops; her emotional reunion with her parents in Budapest (they did not know she had survived); ...

  2. Buntea C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Buntea C., who was born in Soroca, Russia (presently Moldova) in 1911, one of five children. She recounts fleeing a pogrom with her family when she was six; Romanian occupation after World War I; one brother moving to the Soviet Union; her arrest at sixteen for communist associations; her father obtaining her release through a bribe; expulsion from school; emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1929; visiting her parents for two weeks prior to their emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university and working in factory; particip...

  3. Chaim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in ?omz?a, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a sp...

  4. Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in 1923 in Odrzywo??, Poland, the fifth of nine children. She recounts antisemitic violence leading to their moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; ghettoization; her parents returning to Odrzywo?? with her four younger siblings (she never saw them again); one brother escaping; another dying from physical exhaustion; working as a tailor; marriage in 1943; pregnancy; giving birth prematurely (the baby was not alive) which resulted in illness; her sister's deportation; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation of ...

  5. Anna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in B...

  6. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1923. He recalls his intellectual home life; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1931; his mother's emotional breakdown; living with a family in Berlin while she recovered; returning to her; beatings by Hitler Youth; their emigration to Italy, then Palestine; living with foster parents so his mother could earn a living; his emigration to New York in 1938 to join his mother's sister; attending Columbia; his mother's suicide in Palestine; being drafted into the United States Army; training as an intelligence in...

  7. Jeanette E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette E., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; attending boarding school in Cze?stochowa; German invasion; confiscation of her father's coal mine; moving to the Zawiercie ghetto; forced labor with her sister in a camp; joining her family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; forced labor in the Be?dzin ghetto; obtaining false papers; hiding during a round-up; escaping to the Kamionka ghetto; being hidden by her future husband; their escape with help from the underground; hiding in bunkers; being smuggled to Hungary with help from Poles a...

  8. Suzanne N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her comfortable, assimilated family; her father's law practice; the outbreak of war; an influx of Jewish refugees; a non-Jewish doctor helping her father avoid service in a forced labor battalion; deportations of Jewish, non-Hungarian citizens; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; her father obtaining false papers for them; hiding in a client's apartment; Allied bombings; moving to the basement; her father's murder on January 3, 1945 when he was searching for a safer place; moving with her ...

  9. Rachel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel B., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1925. Mrs. B. recalls the strong Hasidic influence in the town; attending services with her father; her older sisters' involvement in Mizrachi and Betar; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation of her sister's two-year-old child; her father arranging hiding places for them; being selected (due to a bribe by her father) to remain behind with a group to clean the ghetto after the last deportation; being sent for by her sister; hiding in a barn with her sister's in-laws, with assistance from non-Jews; her sister's death i...

  10. Jack W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack W., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Czechoslozakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1927, one of eleven children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; his father's and older brother's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; his father's release; German invasion; deportation with his family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in May 1944, then to Auschwitz six weeks later; selection for work with his father (his mother and younger siblings were killed); briefly seeing two older sisters; praying secretly daily; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager...

  11. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Mielec, Poland in 1921 and raised in Jarosław. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; emigration to Brussels at age nine; no discrimination; assisting German-Jewish refugees; German invasion; leaving for France with his parents and brother; living in Bordeaux; fleeing to Montpellier upon German arrival; moving to Agde; his father's return to Belgium and subsequent deportation in 1942 (they never saw him again); joining Mouvement des jeunesses sionistes; organizing escapes for Jews to the free zone; being warned of his own arrest;...

  12. Molly I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly I., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1920. She recalls marriage at age seventeen; her daughter's birth a year later; German occupation in 1941; her husband's murder; ghettoization; frequent round-ups; escaping a mass killing with help from her father-in-law; volunteering for deportation to Estonia to save her daughter when the children were to be liquidated; escaping from the train; sneaking into a camp since she could not obtain food; continued efforts to save her daughter in Vaivara and Ereda with help from her father-in-law; witnessing atrocities by Helmut Sc...

  13. John P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931. He recounts attending school; visiting his large extended family; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in March 1944; their building's designation as a yellow-star house; his father's deportation to a labor camp; his last visit before deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother obtaining Swedish papers; relocating to a safe house in November; he and his mother escaping from a round-up; returning to the safe house; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with a few surviving aun...

  14. Odette J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette J., who was born to Polish immigrants in Paris, France in 1923, the middle of three children. She recalls her close and happy family; centering their life on the Bund; attending Bund youth group (S.K.I.F.) camps and gatherings, including one in Brighton, England; aiding Polish refugees in La Rochelle; returning to Paris with her family in 1940; losing her citizenship in 1941; hiding with a non-Jewish neighbor during the July 1942 round-up, later with another family; moving to the unoccupied zone with Bund help; living with her brother in Lyon, Dax, Pau, Bordeau...

  15. Eliezer S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliezer S., who was born in Bilki, Czechoslovakia, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; participating in a Mizrachi youth group; attending yeshiva in Vynohradiv; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's draft into a slave labor battalion; his return; German invasion in spring 1944; deportation with his family to the Berehovo ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from his mother and siblings (he never saw them again); a public hanging; transfer with his father to Buchenwald after thirteen days; ...

  16. Bronia and Nathan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia L. and her son Nathan L. who was born in Danzig in 1936. Mrs. L. speaks of the deterioration of the Jewish situation in 1936; the birth of her son in the same year; the miscarriage she suffered as a result of a beating by Nazis in 1939; and her subsequent hospitalization, during which she was sterilized without her knowledge or consent. She describes leaving Danzig in 1940 and the three-month-long journey by ship to Palestine, where she suffered an emotional breakdown and a typhus epidemic claimed the life of her sister. Mrs. L. also relates their arrival in Pa...

  17. Munci K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Munci K., who was born in Rakhiv, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), one of four sisters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a Czech school; her mother's death; working as a dressmaker; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's six-month service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto, then Auschwitz; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); their transfer to Geislingen three months later; French prisoners sharing food with them; an SS man providing food because she...

  18. Naum P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naum P., who was born in Pogost-Zagorodskiy, Soviet Union (presently Belarus) in 1929, the oldest of four children. He recalls attending a Russian school after the Jewish school was dissolved; his grandfather holding Sabbath services in his home; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in 1941; a mass shooting of Jewish men in July, including his father and grandfather; being stopped by the authorities while exhuming their bodies for reburial in the Jewish cemetery; his escape from a mass killing in August (his mother and siblings were killed); assistance fro...

  19. William F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William F., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915 the only child of a Jewish mother and Catholic father. He recalls attending public school, gymnasium, and university; working as a librarian at Vienna University; the Anschluss in March 1938; his mother's chocolate business being closed due to anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for not wearing a swastika; incarceration in Dachau; his father's death (he never learned how he died); slave labor digging fortifications; becoming the body carrier for his barrack; keeping some hope despite his belief he would never be releas...

  20. Vlasta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vlasta S., who was born in Lubná, Czechoslovakia in 1920, one of five children. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish restrictions after German occupation; non-Jewish friends helping them; deportation with her family to Kladno in February 1942; transport to Theresienstadt four days later; working as a nurse; volunteering to go with her family in May 1944, despite her exemption from deportation due to her job; horrendous conditions in the transport to Auschwitz; living in the family camp; transfer with her sister to a woman's barrack, then to Chri...