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

  1. Sofia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sofia L., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1939 to a Jewish mother and Orthodox Serbian father. She recounts her father's involvement with progressive causes; her mother meeting him when he was imprisoned with her brothers (they were leftists as well); their marriage in 1938; his execution as a communist in 1941; her maternal grandmother moving in with them after her father's death; her grandmother's deportation, then her mother's (she never saw them again); the soldiers leaving her behind with her mother's assistant because she was so ill they thought she woul...

  2. Vlček B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vlček B., who was born in Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of six children. He recalls a large and close extended family; their orthodoxy; attending yeshiva in Uz︠h︡horod for two years; cordial relations with non-Jews prior to Hungarian occupation; moving with a brother to Budapest in 1942; returning home in 1944; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; factory work in Szentgotthárd; burying Jews who had been killed; assistance from French and Italian prisoners of war; transfer to Feldbach; assistance from Russian workers and...

  3. Marie O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie O., an only child, who was born in Przemyśl, Poland in 1930. She recounts her family's affluence; her large extended family; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; bombings; Soviet occupation; her uncle financially supporting the family; German invasion in 1941; seeing soldiers beat her father; ghettoization; her father assisting the Judenrat; deportation of many of her extended family; her father arranging for her and her mother's escape, and then hiding with their non-Jewish dressmaker in 1942; obtaining false papers; moving to Lʹviv; a non-Jew blackmail...

  4. Max H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1936; working in the family's beauty salon; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in March 1941; working as a hospital barber; hiding his mother during round-ups; separation from her in October 1942 (he never saw her again); marriage in 1942; barbering for Germans; transfer with his wife to P?aszo?w in 1943; working as a messenger; seeing Kommandant Amon Goeth randomly killing prisoners; public hangings; arranging his wife's exemption from dep...

  5. Fanka G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanka G., who was born in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I. She recalls fleeing the war to Vienna in 1914; marriage in 1923; moving to Zolochiv for her husband's medical practice; her son's birth; fleeing with her husband, mother, and son to Zalishchyky when the Soviets invaded; Soviet occupation; returning home; going alone to a spa in Morshin; German invasion; retrieving her son from Stryi? via Kalush; traveling with him to L?viv; eventually returning home; being hidden by her husband's non-Jewish assistant during round-ups; receiving fo...

  6. Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919, one of seven children. He recounts his mother's death; his father's remarriage; antisemitic violence; learning the wholesale shoe business starting at age fourteen; German invasion; moving with his family to an older sister's home in Tarno?w; arrest for traveling on a train; incarceration in Pustko?w; escaping; moving with his family to Proszowice, then into the Krako?w ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his father and brother; his father's selection for death; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; a boy...

  7. Maria W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria W., who was born in Belz, Russia in approximately 1908. She recalls the burning of Belz during World War I; she and her family walking for two months to Vienna; extreme poverty; one brother's emigration to the United States; attending gymnasium; her father's death in 1928; working in a knitting factory; marriage in 1933; working in her husband's knitting factory; their relative affluence; her son's birth; her husband's arrest; a non-Jewish maid who found money her husband had hidden and gave it to her; his release upon promising to leave Austria the next month; ...

  8. Margareta P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margareta P., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1925. She describes being spoiled as the youngest of seven children; warm relations with her close family; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in March 1944; hiding money and valuables with a non-Jewish friend; ghettoization; her friend bringing them food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents; learning about the extermination process; receiving help from her sister; a prisoner giving birth in their barrack; transfer to Gross-Rosen in October 1944; slave lab...

  9. Rene?e E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e E., who was born in 1926 in Paris, France. She recounts that her parents were Turkish immigrants; a large and close extended family; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Nogent-le-Roi; returning to Paris upon encountering German troops; her father going into hiding; his deportation in 1942 (she never saw him again); living in Montreuil; her brother's birth; her mother placing the baby and her younger sister in hiding with assistance from their Catholic aunt; her sister's return; arrest with her sister, mother, and grandmother in June 1944 (cousins who we...

  10. Benno S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benno S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. He recounts his family's move to Paris during the Anschluss; his father's deportation to Pithiviers in 1941; his mother's friend bringing him and his older brother to live with a non-Jewish woman in Meudon in 1942; four or five other children living there; attending church (he did not know he was Jewish); his mother's sister retrieving them in 1945; reunion with their mother in Grenoble; learning his father had been killed in Auschwitz; his mother's remarriage; the birth of a half-brother; living with his aunt in Lond...

  11. Miriam V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam V., who was born in a village in Hungary in 1928, one of six sisters. She recounts her family's move to Miskolc in 1932; attending Jewish school; participating in Betar; cordial relations with non-Jews; draft of men into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion in 1944; forced labor; transfer to the Miskolc ghetto; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her mother and sisters to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother; transfer with four sisters to Allendorf (she never saw her other sister or mother again); slave la...

  12. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Strîmtura, Romania in 1923, the seventh of ten children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing at yeshiva; deportation to Dragomirești in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer with a cousin to Buchenwald, then Dora; slave labor in tunnels; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; learning two sisters and a brother had survived; emigration to the United St...

  13. David and Sonia F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania, in 1918, and his wife, Sonia of S?iauliai, Lithuania. Mr. and Mrs. F. speak of their respective prewar lives; their feelings of relative freedom under Russian occupation; their marriage in 1941; and their flight from and return to S?iauliai during the German occupation. They describe the ghettoization of S?iauliai and subsequent deportations of children and older people; the evacuation of the ghetto and their deportation, along with Mrs. F.'s family, to Stutthof; and their separation in Stutthof. Mrs. F. tells of conditio...

  14. Bertha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha B., who was born in 1904 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She describes early family life; emigration to Antwerp in 1933; and prewar life in Antwerp with her family. She recalls the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; her family's failed attempt to flee to southern France; the deportation of her husband in 1942 (she never saw him again); and the Nazi capture of her mother and niece. Mrs. B. tells of placing her younger son in the care of the Belgian underground; her underground life in Brussels with her older son; the eventual removal of both sons to private homes; and...

  15. Fiszel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fiszel K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1911, the oldest of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Polish school and yeshiva to age fourteen; pervasive antisemitism; working in his father's business and other jobs; becoming less religious; military service as a medic; marriage; his daughter's birth in 1937; military recall in 1939; discharge in Brest; traveling to Bia?ystok; meeting his brother; their deportation to Kyrgyzstan by the Soviet government; forced labor in Komi; release from labor camp; wandering the area; enlisting in the Polish a...

  16. Moshe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe G., who was born in Końskie, Poland in 1928, the fifth of six sons. He recalls his father was Hasidic; a comfortable life; German invasion; attending cheder; his father's arrest, then release weeks later; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father hiding his store merchandise with a non-Jewish friend; his bar mitzvah in 1941; forced labor; the Polish supervisor who knew his father safeguarding him; former Polish customers continuing to buy merchandise from his father, which provided them with food; losing his belief in God; hiding with his...

  17. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene W., who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia in 1930. Mrs. W. describes her childhood; the German occupation of the Sudetenland and her subsequent fear; the liquidation of her town; her family's deportation, first to Munka?cs, then to Auschwitz, where they were separated upon arrival; and her sustaining relationship with her sister, with whom she survived the war. She tells of working in the "Canada" kommando in Auschwitz; the death march from Auschwitz; starvation; and liberation. She also recalls her ability to survive by dissociating herself from the horrors to...

  18. Stefan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan R., who was born in a small city in Romania in 1914 and spent most of his prewar life in Oradea Mare. He tells of his family life without his father, who died when he was six years old; his service in the Romanian army (1934-1936;) his conscription in 1942, after the Hungarian takeover, into the Jewish brigade of the Hungarian army, from which he repeatedly escaped; and his hiding in Budapest, at times with the aid of the Communist and Jewish undergrounds, and for a time in a Swedish safe house, until the city's liberation by the Russians.

  19. Sabina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sabina G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She describes returning to Warsaw from vacation on September 1, 1939; three weeks of merciless German bombing; friends shunning her when the Germans arrived; moving to the ghetto; her close relationship with her father; working in the children's hospital and the feeling of hopelessness at her inability to help the sick and dying children; smuggling herself to relatives in Kozienice where conditions were better; worsening conditions there; efforts to help starving children; and receiving a letter from her father in War...

  20. Claire K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1925 to Polish parents. She recalls increased antisemitism in 1933; their flight to Holland; moving to Poland in 1935, then Brussels, Belgium; unsuccessful emigration attempts; an influx of refugees after Kristallnacht; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups and deportations; and her mother arranging for Mrs. K. to spend nights hiding with non-Jews. Mrs. K. remembers the deportation of her parents and one brother; receiving a postcard her mother sent from Malines (her last contact with them); her you...