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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Helene H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helene H., who was born in Paks, Hungary in 1930, the third of seven children. She recounts her family's Hasidism; her father's successful dairy business; cordial relations with non-Jews; the mayor providing her father with documents attesting to his Hungarian ancestry, although he was born in Berlin; German invasion in 1944; Germans shaving her father's beard; her eldest brother hiding with a non-Jew in Budapest; her father's deportation; deportation with her mother and siblings to Auschwitz; separation from her siblings and mother (she remained with two cousins); a ...

  2. Victor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919. He recalls two years attending medical school; German invasion; escaping with his father and brother to L?viv in the Soviet zone; his brother's assignment as a physician in a border town; traveling with him; returning to Krako?w; obtaining papers of a dead Pole from Polish friends; establishing a network to obtain papers of Poles ordered to report for forced labor in Germany and replacing them with Jews; retrieving his brother from Ukraine after German invasion of the U.S.S.R.; sending him to Germany to work as a Pol...

  3. Paula L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula L., who was born in Copalnic Ma?na?s?tur, Romania in 1928, one of five children. She recalls her father's cattle business; her mother's death in 1938; living with her aunt in Spermezeu; Hungarian occupation; returning home in 1943; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in a nearby town in May 1944; transfer to the Baia Mare ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; staying with her three sisters; her oldest sister sharing extra food from her kitchen job; trying to contact her brother and father; transfer to Boizenburg in August 1944; improved conditions; slave la...

  4. Boris M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris M., who was born in Litin, Ukraine in 1931. He recalls German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; a mass killing in December; his family's exemption because his father was a skilled laborer; his father sending him to hide with a non-Jewish former customer; hiding in a hole and with another non-Jew during round-ups; one of the non-Jews who hid him bringing him, his parents, and sister to the Zhmerynka ghetto in summer 1943; assisting Soviet forces; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; moving to Vinnyt?s?i?a?; Soviet military service fro...

  5. Clara P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara P., who was born in Li?u?boml?, Ukraine in 1916, one of six children. She recalls her father's death when she was seven; her family's extreme poverty; working from age fourteen onward; marrying in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; round-ups and mass murders; ghettoization; a non-Jewish acquaintance bringing them food; hiding during a 1942 aktion when her mother was killed and her son taken; and escaping into the forest with her husband and others. Mrs. P. recounts many experiences from two years of hiding, emphasizing the difficu...

  6. Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri D., who was born in Ploies?ti, Romania, in 1910, the youngest of six children. He recounts his close relationship with his grandfather; his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; his grandfather's death in 1918; receiving his grandfather's teffilin at his bar mitzvah; attending a Romanian school; a beating from the principal because he was Jewish; leaving school, vowing never to return; being sent to live with an aunt in Paris; attending the Sorbonne; working as a journalist and novelist; the death of his fiance?e; attending the Max Reinhardt-Seminar ...

  7. Ze'ev D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the older of two brothers. He recounts living in a children's home organized by Janusz Korczak for two years when his father was ill; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Polish scout camp in summer 1939; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; working in a Korczak children's home; creating a puppet theater with friends; taking food to his parents; hiding during a round-up (his family and everyone in the children's home were deported); a factory job outside the ghetto; observing...

  8. Noe H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Noe H., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He describes his large, extended family; summers with relatives in Myślenice and Jawornik; German invasion; expulsion from their apartment in October 1939; escaping to Myślenice in January 1940; forced labor to obtain rations; arrest and imprisonment in April 1940; transfer to Pustków; a Polish civilian worker conveying messages to his family; the Pole facilitating his escape with four others to De̜bica; reunion with his mother in Tarnów; hiding in Jawornik, Bochnia, and Myślenice; entering Płaszów in May 1941; sl...

  9. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Amsterdam in 1938. Mrs. L.'s first specific memory is of her family being picked up by the Nazis and their deportation to Westerbork. She recalls that her family spoke Dutch in their home; that she always understood German but never heard Yiddish; and the secret language which she and her twin brother spoke in the camps. She relates her parents' ability to cope and describes conditions in Westerbork where the family stayed for about one year. She remembers playing there and that life revolved around the arrival and departure of trains. She t...

  10. Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to Piotrków when his father became its rabbi in 1935; his bar mitzvah in Kraków in 1939; German invasion in September; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father having to collect money to meet German demands; hiding the synagogue's Torahs; an influx of Jews from the surrounding area; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; slave labor; Polish non-Jews protecting him; public hangings; contacting his family; his arranged escape with a Polish baker who made deliveries to Auschwitz; hiding in his...

  11. Tatyana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatyana G., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1918, the fourth of five children. She describes her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a polytechnic institute; working as a chemist; participating in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; a mass killing including some relatives; warning of an impending mass killing; escaping at her mother's insistence; a former non-Jewish neighbor reluctantly keeping her overnight; hearing machine guns and thinking they were killing her mother, sisters, and other relatives; co...

  12. Zena G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zena G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1914. She recalls her close family; Jewish cultural life; marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; a round-up of men, including her husband; mass killings at Ponary; ghettoization; escaping with help from Polish friends; returning to the ghetto because her sister required hospitalization; forced labor for H.K.P. in Keilis; a public execution; and her mother being taken to Ponary. Mrs. G. describes teaching her daughter Christian prayers in the hope she could be smuggled out and hidden; being knocked unc...

  13. Jean S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean S., who was born in 1928 in Rejowiec, Poland. She recalls attending Polish school where Jewish children were taunted; German invasion; fleeing with her family to the Russian occupied area; journey by train to the Ural Mountains; their return to Soviet-occupied Poland; travel by freight train for weeks to a Siberian labor camp; caring for her three siblings while her parents worked; transport to Uzbek, then Kazakh; attending school; her mother inviting an orphan (whom Mrs. S. later married) to live with them; and returning to Poland in 1944. Mrs. S. describes lear...

  14. Aleksandra U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandra U., who was born in Russia in 1912, the third of six children. She recounts a brother's death prior to her birth; destruction of their house during World War I; building a new house in Kalinkavychy in 1918; the deaths of two sisters; her father's death in 1919; her brother's birth shortly thereafter; her mother's marriage to her sister's widower in 1923; his six children moving to their home; leaving school at fourteen to help support the family; working in Poltava until 1930; learning accounting; completing teachers education in Minsk; assignment to teach ...

  15. Arthur B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur B., who was born in Tomaszo?w Lubelski, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's affluence; German bombardment and invasion; brief Soviet occupation; return of the Germans; occupation of their home by officers; the round-up and beating of Jewish men; bringing valuables to free his father; and escape to Rava-Ru?ska in the Soviet zone. Mr. B. recounts deportation with his mother to Siberia; forced labor at a logging village near Barnaul; cold and hunger; release after a year and a half; working in Barnaul; repatriation to Wroc?aw in early 1946; learning of his fat...

  16. Lazar T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lazar T., who was born in Uzlyany, Soviet Union (presently Belarus) in 1930, the oldest of four children. He recalls attending a Jewish school that was closed in 1937, then a Belarussian school; observing Jewish holidays within the family; clandestine religious services; German invasion in June 1941; forced relocation to a designated area; slave labor repairing roads; escaping a mass killing with his brother and sister in October 1941; burying his mother and brother who had been killed; being hidden by a peasant, then a former schoolteacher; finding his father; joinin...

  17. Josef C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. He recalls poverty; his family's Hasidism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; arrest by Jewish police for taking bread from the garbage; fleeing with a friend to Praga, De?blin, and Kuro?w; slave labor; kindness from one German soldier; returning to Warsaw; learning his father and one sister had died; deportation to Treblinka; escaping to a work group; gassings and mass shootings; a visit by Heinrich Himmler; vicious personnel, including John Demjanjuk, Franz Stangl, and Kurt Franz ("Lalka"); a ...

  18. Rivka B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rivka B., who was born in Volove?, Czechoslovakia (presently Miz?h?hir?i?a?, Ukraine) in 1919. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her mother's death and father's remarriage; attending gymnasium in Munkacs; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; passing Hungarian matriculation exams; moving to Budapest in 1941; German occupation in March 1944; briefly staying in Go?d with a former employer; returning to Budapest; marriage during her fiance?'s brief release from a forced labor battalion; obtaining Swedish protection papers from Raul Wallenberg's office; ...

  19. Violette J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Violette J., who was born in 1925. She remembers speaking Hungarian at home in Le Havre; violin lessons; her father's draft after the outbreak of war; fleeing to Brittany with her mother in June 1940 with her mother; returning to Le Havre a month later; her father's return; their move to Paris in 1942; obtaining false papers; living with her uncle in Lille; their denouncement and arrest; transfer to Brussels, then Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); several work assignments; brief hospitalization; auditioning for ...

  20. Rabbi Meyer S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Meyer S., who was born into a rabbinic family in Poland in 1920. He describes in detail his childhood and family life in Poland and in Germany; his family's move to Wittmund, Germany, in 1926; the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; and his family's observance of the Jewish dietary laws in spite of the prohibition of ritual slaughter. Rabbi S. tells of his family's arrival in the United States on July 4, 1935; his father's work as a cantor and shochet (ritual slaughterer) in Pennsylvania; and his own studies at a Yeshiva in New York. He also relate...