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  1. Mary E. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Mary E., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1909. Mrs. E. describes her comfortable childhood; observance of the Jewish holidays; a year of university in Brussels; pharmacy school in Warsaw; and her marriage before the war. She recalls the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939; moving to the ghetto; working as a pharmacist; witnessing atrocities, particularly the round-up of children; hunger; the Judenrat; ghetto humor; and the deportations. Mrs. E. recounts being deported with her husband; separation from him on the train; arrival in Ravensbru?ck; forced labor repairing bo...

  2. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1923. He recounts his parents' emigration from Russia in 1919; their political activism and commitment to leftist, atheist beliefs; tensions due to political conflicts in Palestine; being sent as a child to live at Kibbutz Bet Alfa without his parents; active participation in Shomer ha-tsa?ir and another youth group; attending Kaduri; studying with Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Allon; writing lyrics and poetry; joining the Haganah and Palmah?; writing songs; learning of the Warsaw ghet...

  3. Marcel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel B., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending Hebrew school for four years, then public school until 1930; antisemitic harassment; working while attending high school; expulsion of Jewish students in 1940; attending a Jewish high school; observing mass killings of Jews, including his uncles; hiding with his family; Romanian soldiers finding them; deportation with his father to Stamora Română; many deaths en route; train transfer to another village; slave labor on the railroad; release in S...

  4. Pincus W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pincus W., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1916, one of six children. He recalls living in Sosnowiec; German invasion; returning to Wolbrom, then coming back to Sosnowiec; walking to work in Katowice every day; ghettoization in 1942; working outside the ghetto; overcrowding and hunger; deportation to Blechhammer, then Brelsau in 1943; recovering in its hospital for ten days; transfer to Auschwitz; frequent selections; transfer about six months later to Landsberg; assistance from a prisoner from his home town; an SS letting him go when he was caught smuggling food f...

  5. Leokadia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leokadia W., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1918 and grew up in Nowy Korczyn. She recalls working in her brother's textile factory in ?o?dz?; her mother's death in 1938; German invasion; a temporary move to Warsaw; joining a resistance movement after hearing of the mass killing of an entire village including her brothers; serving as a resistance courier; returning to Nowy Korczyn thinking it safer in a small town; disagreements between the Judenrat and resisters; hiding with a non-Jewish friend during an aktion in 1942; and obtaining false papers as a Pole. Mrs....

  6. Ronald L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ronald L., who was born in Wieliezka, Poland in 1929. He recalls his family's affluence; warm relations with his large, extended family; attending Polish school; German invasion; briefly traveling east; returning home from Mielec; expulsion from school; attending a private school; his mother obtaining false papers for him and bringing him to his Polish teacher's home (he never saw her again); his teacher's daughter bringing him to Krako?w; living with a Polish couple for a week (they brought him to the ghetto, fearing to keep him); finding his father; registering as t...

  7. Hannah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah R., who was born in S?iauliai, Lithuania in 1928. She recalls her comfortable, observant childhood; speaking Hebrew at home; summer vacations in Palanga; antisemitic violence; Soviet occupation; her father's imprisonment and release; German invasion; her father's disappearance (she never saw him again); ghettoization; transfer with her mother and sister to the Trakai ghetto in 1943; the children's round-up in June 1944; deportation with her mother and sister in July to Stutthof; their transfer to several work camps; the death march in December to Gross Golmkau ...

  8. Fred H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred H., who was born in Stan?kov in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1906. He recounts his family's move to Plzen? in 1909; attending public school; his father's service in the first World War; his Austrian patriotism; the transition to Czechoslovakia; studying in Paris and Prague; accompanying a cousin to the United States in August 1938; deciding not to return after the Munich agreement; illegally living in Toronto and Montre?al; receiving a U.S. visa; traveling to London; meeting his mother and brother in Paris in August 1939; their emig...

  9. Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland, in 1923 and raised in nearby Sosnowiec. Mr. Z. recalls the town's primitive conditions; Jewish prewar social and cultural life; rapid deterioration following the German invasion; ghettoization; and the suspicions about the deportations and construction of Auschwitz. He tells of hiding; capture in a 1942 round-up; transport to Sakrau, then to Karvina?, Czechoslovakia; work as a carpenter's helper; transfer to Klettendorf in 1943; work as a farm hand; and surviving on vegetables normally fed to pigs. He describes transport to Fu?...

  10. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1931 and raised in Oradea. He recalls Hungarian occupation; his father believing Polish refugee stories of German atrocities; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; hiding with his parents and brother to avoid deportation; their former superintendent assisting their escape to unoccupied Romania; separation on the train (he stayed with his mother); his father's and brother's arrests; traveling to Arad, then Bucharest; returning home after the war; his father's insistence he learn a trade (watch making); illegally traveling...

  12. Paja L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paja L., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921. Ms. L. remembers working in a kindergarten; Soviet occupation; Lithuanian independence; German invasion; her father being seized from the street; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; moving into a friend's residence in the designated area; continuing to work with children; food shortages; joining a partisan group; meetings in cafes, which included literary talks by Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczerginski; a friend offering to pretend she was his wife to save her from selection; remaining with her mother rather tha...

  13. Ada F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada F., who was born in Opalin, Poland (now Ukraine), in 1919. Mrs. F. describes her happy childhood in a rabbi's family; holiday observances; her family's disbelief about German antisemitic persecution in the late 1930s; the German invasion; separation from her family while on a train which was bombed en route to Che?m; and escaping with a girlfriend from the Che?m ghetto. She recalls hiding with other Jews in forest bunkers; betrayal by Poles; transport to a labor camp in ?o?dz?; witnessing atrocities; transfer to Auschwitz in November 1944; and liberation. She reme...

  14. Jan F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan F., who was born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1930, an only child. He recalls his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending public school in Piešt̕any; passing the admissions exams for gymnasium, but finding Jews were barred; attending a Jewish school; deportation of his mother's family in 1942 by the Hlinka guard; moving to Bratislava; hiding with non-Jews; composing crossword puzzles, for which he was paid; his father arranging for their conversion to evangelical Christianity in August; attending an evangelic school; hiding during the Slova...

  15. Gerhart R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhart R., who was born in Berlin. He discusses his pre-1933 career as a junior lawyer and state employee in Berlin; his dismissal when Hitler came to power; his departure from Germany in 1933; and his post as legal secretary for the newly created World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Geneva. He relates his struggle for the rights of the Danzig Jews; the successful WJC campaign in 1938 against the anti-Semitic government of Romania; his responsibility to inform WJC officials in Geneva and New York of wartime atrocities; and his sources of information about Nazi medical expe...

  16. Franz B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franz B., a non-Jew, who was born in Péruwelz, Belgium in 1924. He recalls moving to Congo in 1932, where his father was a gold miner; his mother's death nine days after giving birth to his younger sister; returning to Belgium with his sister in 1935; living with his maternal aunt; attending school in Mons; German invasion in May 1940; military draft; transport to Toulouse; working on a farm for three months; repatriation in August; returning to school; joining the Resistance in October 1941; distributing flyers at night; working as an engineer in a chemical company ...

  17. Herbert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, an only child. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in March 1938; expulsion from school; observing violence against Jews; traveling with his parents and uncle to Cologne, Aachen, then Breda; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion on May 10, 1940; his father's arrest; traveling with his mother and uncle to Toulouse; his uncle's arrest (he escaped and went to the United States); his mother placing him with a Jewish farmer in Fontenilles; his fa...

  18. Bessie and Jacob K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bessie K. and Jacob K. Mr. K. was born in Zwolen?, Poland in 1923. Mr. K. describes his childhood in a close-knit, observant family; celebration of Jewish holidays; social closeness of the community; attending a Polish school; anti-Semitic incidents; the beginning of the war; and the destruction caused by bombing, including his home. He recounts increasing tension; anti-Jewish legislation; forced labor; extreme hunger and hardship; atrocities committed against the Jews; the final deportation from Zwolen? (which he and his brothers avoided); their work in Zwolen? clean...

  19. Miriam A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam A., who was born in Suchdol, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, the youngest of three children. She recounts being the only Jewish family in town; a happy childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school in Kutná Hora; antisemitic harassment by teachers; attending boarding schools where they did not know she was Jewish until March 1939; German occupation; visiting Jewish friends in neighboring Kolín; anti-Jewish laws, including travel bans and confiscation of her father's business; hiding valuables with non-Jewish friends, includin...

  20. Norris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norris B., who was drafted into the United States infantry at age eighteen and sent to France in January 1945. He recalls moving through France and Germany; serving as a rifleman and interpreter; interviewing captured German prisoners; vague knowledge of concentration camps; stumbling across prisoners in very bad condition, then entering Gunskirchen; giving what little food they had to the prisoners; shock at piles of corpses and conditions in the camp; realizing many prisoners would not survive due to their debilitated condition; local civilians claiming no knowledge...