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

  1. Jelica S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jelica S., who was born in Zagreb in 1916 to an assimilated family. She recalls her father's death; her sister's chronic illness; attending gymnasium; marriage to a non-Jewish Serb in 1936; attending university in Belgrade; her husband preventing her from registering as a Jew; returning to Zagreb; Jewish persecution by the Ustaša government; having to register as a Jew and wear the star; traveling to Belgrade using a government document; her husband sending her to relatives in Subjel; wonderful treatment by his family and local peasants (they all knew she was Jewish...

  2. Chaja V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaja V., who was born in Maarsbergen, Netherlands in 1941. She notes having no memories of her early childhood and relates her experiences which she learned from others: being the fourth child; separation of her family in hiding; being placed with a non-Jewish family in Leiden in 1943; arrest of her rescuers in 1944; her incarceration in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt; being found by her mother after the war; recuperating in Switzerland in 1946; learning her father was killed as a resistant; extreme poverty; emigration to Israel in 1961; studying in Au...

  3. Ketty L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ketty L., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1914. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-926), Mrs. L. recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Jewish holidays; the famine affecting all Greeks when they were hiding; helping others in Bergen-Belsen; group prayers in their barrack on Yom Kippur; attempts by United States troops to prevent the spread of typhus after liberation; and learning of the death camps and the murder of many relatives. She discusses continuing sadness and anger over the deaths of so many she knew; s...

  4. Norman T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman T., who enlisted in the British military in early 1940. He discusses training; landing in Europe in June 1944; arriving in Celle, Germany on April 14, 1945; learning Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was nearby; arrival there on April 15; being overwhelmed with piles of rotting corpses and the condition of the prisoners; encountering Josef Kramer, the Kommandant; providing food for the prisoners, not realizing it would kill them; a large number of deaths; interrogating Kramer and others; wanting to shoot him and other guards but restraining himself based on his ...

  5. Jerry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry H., who was born in Poznan?, Poland in 1929. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; antisemitic harassment; visiting grandparents in ?o?dz?; his father's suicide due to financial reasons; moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; his sister's demeaning forced labor; ghettoization; attending school; his grandmother's and mother's deaths; working in a leather factory; hospitalization; working as a messenger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister (he never saw her again); frequent selections; transfer to Braunschw...

  6. Natalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Natalie G., who was born in Radzymin, Poland in 1940, and was left on a doorstep at eighteen months old when her parents fled the Germans. She recalls being in a convent with many other children; pervasive memories of hunger; being "shuffled around"; striving to be quiet and unobtrusive; and attending church where she learned negative things about Jews. Mrs. G. recounts her postwar reunion with her father; confusion because she had no concept of family; feeling "shuffled around" again; adjusting to being Jewish; mixed feelings at her father's remarriage when she was a...

  7. Edith Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1921, one of four children. She recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; German invasion; fleeing briefly; ghettoization; transfer with a brother and sister to the Be?dzin ghetto; forced labor as a seamstress; a round-up (her brother was shot, her sister disappeared); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1943; meeting her future husband; a death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Terezi?n; returning home; learning no one in her immediate family had survive...

  8. Hedwig H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedwig H., who was born in Jibou, Romania in 1923. She recalls her prosperous and happy life in a close, extended family; increasing antisemitism; townspeople beating her father; Hungarian occupation; conscription of her eldest brother into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; deportation to Szomolya with her family in May 1944; being tortured by Hungarians to give up hidden valuables; transfer to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she never saw her again) and two cousins; transfer to a labor camp in Ri?ga; beatings; transfer to another forced labor camp; transfer ...

  9. Gerta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerta T., who was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria), the younger of two children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; working as a salesperson; her brother attending medical school; her engagement; the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment; her brother's illegal emigration to France with his wife and her parents, with assistance from a SS doctor he knew; her parents unsuccessful attempt to join him; her fiance? obtaining an English visa for her; emigration to London in August 1938; working as a governess in Plymouth a...

  10. Victor Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor Z., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts his parents' eastern European origins; his father's communist activities; participation in a communist youth group; antisemitic harassment in school; his sister's birth in 1938; leaving school at thirteen to work; his father's military draft in 1939; German invasion; evacuation to Saint-Saturnin in June 1940; joining relatives in Les Sièges; returning home; his father's return; joining a communist resistance group; organizing demonstrations; his father's arrest and internment in Drancy on August 20, 1941; ...

  11. Hana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana G., an only child, who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts German occupation; receiving extra food from non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1943; public hangings; her mother sharing extra food with her and her father; their deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; remaining with her mother (she never saw her father again); briefly working in a children's barrack; deportation to Stutthof in July 1944; twice being in the infirmary; a death march in January 1945; escaping with her mother...

  12. Maria D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria D., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1920 and raised in Wodzis?aw, Poland. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; confiscation of the family store's merchandise and their apartment; forced labor; deportations including her two brothers; a non-Jewish friend providing false papers; traveling to Krako?w; living as a non-Jew; returning home; marriage in September 1942; deportation to Skarz?ysko; encountering her brothers; her younger brother arranging their escape in January 1943; a non-Jewish friend arranging hiding in a bunker on a farm;...

  13. Salomon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon M., who was born in Kozienice, Poland in 1925. He describes his very observant religious life; arrival of the Germans in 1939; anti-Jewish laws and forced labor; formation of the ghetto in 1940; volunteering for deportation in place of his sick brother; digging bunkers near Radom; a selection and mass killing from which he narrowly escaped; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; the horrendous conditions and his struggle to survive; transfer in 1944 to Cze?stochowa; transfer to Buchenwald; the refusal of his transport to enter the showers for fear it was a gas chamb...

  14. Mira S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira S., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1923. In a detailed and reflective testimony, she recalls her prosperous, observant childhood; participation in Maccabi; German occupation; her brother's conscription for forced labor; being hidden by non-Jewish employees; denunciation; moving to Italian-occupied Srebrenica through her father's contact within the Ustas?a; internment in an Italian camp; transfer to prison in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; forming a group with three Yugoslav friends; working in the Union Kommando; receiving foo...

  15. Esther S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther S., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1929, one of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; hearing of events in Poland but thinking it could not happen to them; ghettoization in early 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with her two older sisters; once seeing her father beyond a fence; transfer to Stutthof, then Bromberg in summer 1944; trying to sabotage the work in the munitions factory; contact with French POWs; a death march in January 1945; stopping when one sister could not go ...

  16. Theodore M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theodore M. who was born in Lʹviv, Poland in 1920. He recalls completing high school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1941; escaping from a mass shooting by carrying bodies; obtaining extra food for his uncles from a German woman; his father obtaining work papers for all of them except his mother; hiding during the day; arrest with his parents; incarceration in Janowska; his mother giving him her wedding band (he never saw her again); his father arranging their escapes and for false papers; traveling to Kraków; working as a painter; moving to Częstochowa, f...

  17. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in Trzebinia, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family; German invasion in 1939; escape to Krako?w; work in that ghetto for a year; deportation to Marksta?dt, where he worked eighteen months; then to Blechhammer for eighteen months; and finally to Gross Rosen. Mr. S. describes his inability as a young teenager to understand why he was incarcerated never having committed a crime; his work manufacturing ammunition in Reichswerke "Hermann Go?ring" in Blechhammer; frequent Allied bombings; the death march from Blechhammer which started with 13,000 of w...

  18. Rose A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose A., who was born in Tver', Russia in 1921. She recounts her father establishing a successful business in ?o?dz?; a sheltered childhood; attending a private, Zionist-oriented school; her sister studying in Paris; traveling to Paris with her parents in June 1939 for an operation; successful surgical results in Bordeaux; her parents' return home; returning to Paris with her sister; the outbreak of war; returning to Bordeaux to obtain better medical care; supporting themselves; German invasion; their flight to Biarritz, then Bolle?ne; registering as Jews; her sister ...

  19. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927, one of five children. He recounts his father's orthodoxy; joyous celebrations of sabbath and Jewish holidays; attending public school and cheder; visiting grandparents in Kielce and Warsaw; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother's flight to the Soviet Union (he survived); forced relocation with his family to Rzeszo?w; joining relatives in ?an?cut, Krako?w, then Warsaw; receiving letters from his brother; ghettoization; his father's death; smuggling goods into the ghetto to support his family; escaping w...

  20. Liselotte C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liselotte C., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. She recalls her parents' secularism; attending a German school for one year; transfer to a Jewish school due to the Nuremberg laws; her father's decision not to emigrate, even after Kristallnacht, and loss of his job as a journalist; her school closing in 1942; she and her father deciding not to wear the star, fearing violent harassment more than discovery; working as a gardener in the Jewish cemetery; assisting in hiding Torah scrolls; friendship with a fellow-worker (her ...