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

  1. Lore B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore B., who was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany in 1925. She recalls her father's death in 1935; expulsion from public school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; her mother's and other relatives' arrests on Kristallnacht; their release; attending a Jewish school in Mannheim; deportation with her mother, younger sister, grandmother, and other relatives to Gurs in October 1940; her sister's placement in a children's home; her grandmother's death; transfer to Rivesaltes in March 1941; observing Yom Kippur; release to a hotel in Marseille; deportation to Les Milles i...

  2. Sol W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol W., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1926. He describes his religious upbringing; antisemitic incidents; German invasion in September 1939; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his family; forced labor; public executions; clandestine religious services; transfer with his brother David to Bobrek in 1941; slave labor in a coal mine; their transfer to Blechhammer in spring 1942; frequent hangings; assistance from David when he was critically ill; their transfer to Brande; eighteen months in a Sudetenland labor camp with improved conditions; their transfer to Lang...

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  4. Margaret F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret F., who was born in Gablonz, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1908. She recounts her marriage in 1932; an affluent life in Reichenberg; her daughter's birth in 1933; a friend warning them of the German occupation of Sudetenland; fleeing to Prague with her husband and daughter in September 1938; living in Uvaly; her daughter attending Jewish school; their escape to Uhersky? Brod, Nitra, and Budapest in February 1940; traveling to Kaposva?r; brief arrest with her husband after crossing the border; traveling to Zagreb; living in Mitrovica for two months; obta...

  5. Menachem G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Menachem G., who was born in Kzepice, Poland in 1914, one of five children. He recounts attending Jewish school in Częstochowa; working as a driver in his family's bus company; participating in Betar; antisemitic violence; military draft in 1937; German invasion in 1939; capture as a prisoner of war; incarceration in Żarki; transfer to Germany; separation of Jews from Poles; forced labor building a lake; receiving extra food for repairing vehicles; transfer to Lublin; the Jewish community obtaining the release of Jewish prisoners; returning home; incarceration in Gr...

  6. Isabella L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isabella L., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary, in 1924. Mrs. L. vividly recalls ubiquitous antisemitism during her childhood; her father's attempts to secure visas for them while in the United States organizing an exhibition for the 1939 World's Fair; their difficult situation during the early years of the war; German occupation; ghettoization of Kisva?rda; deportation in cattle cars with her family to Auschwitz in May 1944; selection by Mengele; the killing of her mother and youngest sister; and receiving messages from her brother scrawled on scraps of wood. She te...

  7. Nachman T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nachman T., who was born in Goworowo, Russia (presently Poland) in 1910. He recalls attending a Jewish school; learning to be a tailor; participating in the Bund; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing with his three brothers to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; his mother's flight with an uncle; his whole family working in Orishche; being warned of Germans approaching; traveling to Kui?byshev, then to Kazakhstan; working on a collective farm; a brief trip to Alma-Ata; returning to the farm; working with coal from 1943 to 1946; returning to Poland; marriage; living in ...

  8. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in a small village in Hungary (later Slovakia) in 1894 and moved to Vienna with his family at age fifteen. He recalls serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I; returning to Vienna on October 26, 1918; marriage in 1930; divorce and remarriage in 1932; his daughter's birth in 1937; the rise of antisemitism; German annexation of Austria in March 1938; his arrest and deportation to Dachau in April; transfer to Buchenwald in October; forced labor, humiliation, and beatings; Kristallnacht; receiving food and cigarettes from a non-Jewish...

  9. Miriam O. and Ilona S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam O., who was born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, in 1930. Mrs. O. recalls her father's departure for military service in 1941; fleeing to Sarajevo with her mother, grandmother and sister; air raids; returning to Croatian-occupied Osijek; harsh anti-Semitic measures; eviction from several apartments; and public harassment. She relates being sent with her sister to Sarajevo to live with a Christian aunt; reunion with her mother and grandmother; their flight to Mostar; Italian internment on the island of Lopud; her grandmother's death; transfer to a camp on the island of R...

  10. Dorothy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy L., who was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1922, one of six children. She recalls Jewish holidays; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Ozorko?w; returning home; forced relocation to Stryko?w; staying briefly with a friend in ?owicz; returning to Zgierz without her parents' knowledge; hiding with relatives; a Polish neighbor refusing to give her the family's possessions; relocation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; slave labor as a weaver; gradual liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to a salt mine near Hannover; the death march to Bergen...

  11. Rose D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose D., who was born in Poland. She recalls her three older brothers were married and had children; her parents' deaths before the war; incarceration in a concentration camp in Poland for about four weeks; transfer to Buchenwald; slave labor in a munitions factory; sharing extra water with fellow prisoners; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; learning four nephews were the sole family survivors; emigration to the United States in late 1947; marriage; and raising a daughter. Ms. D. notes health problems resulting from her camp experiences; her continuing belief in God; and dif...

  12. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924 and grew up in Krako?w. She recalls her complete lack of Jewish identity; antisemitism at school; German invasion; her sense of foreboding about the future including a specific dream; fleeing with her parents to Ternopil?; work and school conditions under Soviet occupation; moving to Svarichov, then L?vov; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; supporting her parents so they could avoid round-ups; her flight to Tarno?w in December 1941 (she never saw her parents again); working in an aunt's medical practice; moving in...

  13. Reverend John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reverend John S., a Jesuit priest who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. Rev. S. describes his good relations with his many Jewish neighbors; serving as a 'Shabbos goy' as a child; life in Kos?ice under Hungarian, Czech, and German rule and the corresponding shifts in attitudes towards Jews; his three year seclusion in a monastery in Budapest; his return to Kos?ice (where he hid a group of non-Jewish partisans who were slated for deportation); and his feeling that sympathetic gentiles were unprepared to deal with the evil of the Holocaust. Rev. S. also desc...

  14. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in approximately 1925, one of eight children. He recounts living in Tarnowo, Poland; his family's orthodoxy; attending school in Ostro?e?ka; his father's death when he was nine; transferring to school in ?omz?a; antisemitic harassment; one brother's military draft (he never saw him again); Soviet occupation; working as a carpenter; German invasion; forced relocation with his family in 1942 to the ?omz?a, then Zambro?w ghettos; his brother's escape (he did not survive); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1943; separation from his mother ...

  15. Chaia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaia G., who was born in Kraśnik, Poland in approximately 1933. She recounts having very few memories of life before the war; her close relationship with their Polish maid; German invasion; fear during round-ups; her family hoarding food and burying valuables; her father, brother, and two uncles entering Budzyń; her father arranging for her to live with their maid in a nearby village; denouncement; incarceration in the Kraśnik synagogue; a Jewish official securing her release; hiding in a pigsty owned by her father's friend, then again with her maid; imprisonment ...

  16. Celina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina L., who was born in Zbaraz?h?, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's Zionist commitment; her father's military career; German invasion; Soviet occupation; fleeing to L'viv with her parents in 1940 to avoid Soviet deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to her father in Janowska; her mother arranging her escape to Zbaraz?h? with a non-Jew; living with her uncle and aunt; hiding during round-ups; her uncle arranging to hide her with a Ukrainian woman in Mala Berezovyt?s?i?a?; leaving when villagers became suspicious; rejecting an...

  17. Salomon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon W., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; the deaths of younger siblings; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; trying to return to Pu?tusk; learning en route that all Jews had been expelled to the Soviet zone; staying with a cousin in Ciechano?w; German book burnings; smuggling themselves to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; attending Yiddish school; deportation to a refugee camp near Arkhangel?sk; attending school while his parents worked; moving briefly to Novosibirsk in mid-1941; living in Shymkent and Lenger...

  18. Felice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felice S., who was born in Walldu?rn, Germany in 1939. She recounts her family's deportation to Gurs in October 1940; placement, with her sister, in an OSE home in Limoges; living with the Patoux family in La Caillaudie?re; not knowing she was Jewish; her sister briefly joining her; the end of the war; placement in an orphanage in Draveil, which she does not remember, then in an OSE orphanage in Taverny; a close relationship with a counselor; Jewish education; emigration to the United States in 1951; placement in several homes and a JCAA home; separation from her sist...

  19. Irena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena S., who was born in approximately 1941. She recounts learning at age twenty-seven that she may have been born in Poland; being left in Slovakia in September 1943 when she was very ill (she speculates her biological parents were attempting to escape to Hungary); a Jewish man taking her and promising to send her to her parents when she recovered; the town doctor placing her with a Jewish couple; obtaining false papers through her foster mother's sister; bonding with her foster parents within a month; learning Germans were approaching; the adults deciding to hide i...

  20. Sidney M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidney M., who was born in Chynadiyovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his father's cattle business; working in Mukacheve; returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor in Bukovina; being moved several times between Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; once seeing his brother in another battalion; escaping in fall 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been deported around Passover (they did not return); finding...