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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony, he recounts the importance of singing to his family; his bar mitzvah; briefly fleeing to Toulouse at the German invasion; participating in Gordonyah; singing for extra food in the camps; public hangings; being raped by a German kapo; and his mother and sisters returning from Turkey after the war with Red Cross assistance. Mr. S. discusses reciting poetry and mentally calculating equations as a coping mechanism in the camps; continuing behaviors r...

  2. Andre? U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? U., who was born in Besanc?on, France in 1914, the youngest of five children. He recalls his family's strong Jewish identity and French patriotism; antisemitic harassment; attending law school in Dijon in 1934, then finishing in Paris in 1937; enlisting in the military; postings to several locations; retreating when the Germans invaded; capture as a prisoner of war; escaping to Besanc?on; traveling to Paris; joining his family in the unoccupied zone in Lyon; joining the Francs-tireurs resistance; creating false papers for others; attending a reunion of his mili...

  3. Ladislav L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ladislav L., who was born in Lazy pod Makytou, Czechoslovakia in 1918. He recounts attending school in Prešov; traveling to emigrate to the United States in spring 1939; German soldiers stopping him in Horní Lideč; apprenticeship as a mechanic in Trenčín; paying to avoid military draft; working for a farmer in Kuzmice, using false papers; visiting a friend in Bojná; denunciation and arrest in Radošina; incarceration in Nitra; assistance from the Jewish community; transfer to Sered; a privileged position working for Kommandant Imrich Vasina, allowing him to leav...

  4. Sigmund S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund S., who was born in Torun?, Poland, the son of a non-Jewish military officer. He recalls moving to Nowy Targ when his father was decommissoned due to his opposition to the Pilsudski regime; Catholic antisemitism; moving to Katowice; attending gymnasium, then military school; mobilization when Germany invaded; arrest in place of his father as a Polish intelligentsia; imprisonment in Tarno?w; transfer on the first transport to Auschwitz (his number was eighty-eight); obtaining a privileged job as a carpenter; testing of the first gas chamber on Russian POWs; ass...

  5. Judit G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judit G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; being sent to the country in 1943 with her younger brother to avoid bombings; their return in January 1944 for their sister's wedding; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; forced relocation; her father obtaining places for all of them on the Kasztner train; stopping at Linz; arrival at Bergen-Belsen; separation from the other prisoners; not having to work; apathy due to starvation; praying and fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer after six months to Cele...

  6. Hedy P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy P., who was born in Sevlus?, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1927. Mrs. P. recalls her happy and observant childhood; Hungarian occupation in March 1939; first experiencing antisemitism; her mother's death; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; a Hungarian friend's offer to hide her; choosing to remain with her family; receiving food from her friend; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her father, brother, and younger sister (she did not survive); remaining with her older sister; establishing contact with their brother; help from...

  7. Greta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta M., who was born in Kra?sny Brod, Czechoslovakia in 1937. She recounts moving to Humenne? when she was two; her large, extended family; her grandmother, aunt, and uncle emigrating to the United States; her father losing his government job due to anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; having to wear the yellow star; non-Jews helping them avoid deportation; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; leaving Humenne? in 1943 when it became too dangerous; living in Kosic?e and Bratislava; renting an apartment in a small town; fleeing from a German raid while being shot a...

  8. Eta N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eta N., who grew up in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia in an affluent family. She recalls medical studies in Zagreb; expulsion in 1941, with only two exams to complete, when the Ustas?a came to power; marriage; returning home; her daughter's birth; round-ups of Jews including her brother, father (they were killed), and mother; a Croat and a Jewish doctor organizing a physicians group to eliminate syphilis in Bosnia; she and her husband volunteering which protected their immediate families; obtaining her mother's release; a Muslim man bringing her to them in Tuzla; a brutal...

  9. Lore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. She recounts attending a Jewish school; babysitting for a Jewish family in Dortmund; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release one week later; attending school in Berlin in 1940; working in a factory; returning home in 1941; working in Essen; deportation with her parents to the Rīga ghetto in January 1942; encountering an uncle and cousins; construction work with her mother at the airport; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer to Spi...

  10. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending an ORT school; German invasion; his brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; the Judenrat organizing forced labor and deportation lists; hiding during round-ups; discovery; having to bury those killed in mass shootings; clearing former Jewish homes and sorting the goods; deportation with his sister and her husband to Budzyń in 1942; working as a locksmith; assistance from German civilian workers; transfer to Mielec, then to Wieliczka in 1944; separation from his sister; ...

  11. Marcel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1926. He recounts his family's restaurant business; participating in Akiba; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining papers as a non-Jew from a German restaurant customer; working for him; his parents and sisters leaving for his grandfather's town; providing work permits for friends; seeing a letter identifying him as a Jew; entering the ghetto, fearing denouncement; working outside the ghetto; smuggling goods into the ghetto; transfer to P?aszo?w; a mass shooting; transfer to Schindler's factory;...

  12. Anna and Joel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Hajdu?na?na?s, Hungary in 1930 and her husband Joel K., who was born in Megyaszo? in 1923. Ms. K. recounts her family's move to Debrecen; attending a Jewish day school; cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's orthodoxy and strong Hungarian identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; ghettoization; suicides and deaths from hunger; deportation with her family to Strasshof; slave labor for local farmers; local farmers bringing them food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; her bat mitzvah; once seeing a co...

  13. Kathi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathi K., who was born in Tu?bingen, Germany in 1932 to a Jewish mother and a Christian father. She recounts living in Hockenheim; her maternal grandparents' wealth; moving to Cologne; visiting her grandparents; her mother being hit while protecting her grandfather from the SS; her grandparents' deaths; emigration to Aerdenhout, Netherlands; German invasion; her mother's failing health; frequent fear; forced relocation to Amsterdam because her mother was Jewish; hiding during round-ups; receiving her first communion; her father using his German passport to prevent aut...

  14. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., a non-Jew, who was born in Cephalonia, Greece in 1929, the second of four children. She recounts the benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion in 1944; the murder of a large group of Italian soldiers by Germans; troops entering her village on April 23, 1944; separation of the men from the women and children, including her father and older brother; burning of the village; fleeing with her mother and younger siblings to her father's sister in Samos; her mother visiting her father and brother in jail; learning all the men had been executed on May 1; su...

  15. Helga K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1922. She recalls her family's comfortable, middle-class life in Godesberg; attending church; Nazi ascent to power; learning her father was half-Jewish and her mother Jewish; her family's baptism in 1933; antisemitic measures; expulsion from school; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; her father's arrest and release during Kristallnacht; her brother's emigration to the United States; her emigration to England in July 1939 to work as a domestic; the outbreak of war; internment as an enemy alien; learning of her father'...

  16. Sinia A. Holocaust testimony

  17. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1923. She recalls family life prior to Nazism; her father's death while preparing to emigrate; anti-Semitic incidents; expulsion from school; being sent to Holland in 1936; her mother joining her in Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; learning to be a furrier; escaping deportation in 1942 with assistance from Dutch women; working in a fur factory; four days in a collection center (a former theater); deportation to Vught; forced labor in a workshop making fur coats from used garments; learning about ...

  18. Moshe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe S., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in approximately 1924, one of six children. He recounts attending a Yiddish school; influence by the Bundist teachers; working with his father from the age of nine; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; organizing a clandestine radio; ghettoization; hiding during a round-up (one sister and his grandmother were taken); another sister's attempt to join her boyfriend (she was killed); volunteering to work in a weapons storehouse; smuggling out guns and ammunition for his ...

  19. Moshe F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe F., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1913, the youngest of eight children. He recalls the deaths of his father and mother; living with his grandmother in Wladyslawow (Russocice), with uncles in Be?dzin, then with uncles in ?o?dz?; working in a bakery; starting his own business; marriage; his son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; working in a public kitchen; deportation with his wife and son to Auschwitz; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Kaufering; reunion with a brother; working in the camp hospita...

  20. Bernice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice B., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland in 1925, the oldest of five children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; expulsion from their house; hiding during round-ups; ghettoization; forced factory labor; deportation to Neustadt in 1942 (she never saw her family again); transfer after three years to Flossenbu?rg, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning home seeking surviving family; leaving when she found no one; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage in 1946; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. M...