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

  1. Henry and Chana F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana F., who was born in a town near ?o?dz?, Poland, and her husband Henry F., who was born in ?o?dz? in 1911. They describe the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; conditions in the ghetto including forced labor, overcrowding, beatings, starvation, public executions, and infanticide; and the psychological numbing they experienced from living under such conditions. Mrs. F. tells of the liquidation of the ghetto and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was selected for work in an ammunition factory; her transport to Ravensbru?ck, then to Mu?hlhausen and, six months later, to ...

  2. Josif P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif P., who was born in Makarska, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews (there were four Jewish families whose fate he recounts); attending elementary school; attending high school in Sarajevo; expulsion of Jews in 1941; finishing school in Split under the benign Italian occupation; joining the communist youth group (SKOJ); his family moving to Split; their return to Makarska in summer 1942; orders for deportation in December; transport to Brač; organizing themselves with assistance from the local Jews and those in Split; organizing a SKOJ ...

  3. Manfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manfred K., who was born in Bremen, Germany to a Jewish father and Lutheran mother in 1928. He recounts his mother's conversion to Judaism; antisemitic regulations, including being banned from high school; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; having to sell the family business and leave their apartment; his father's return the following August; his father's deportation to Buchenwald (he perished there in June 1940 and his effects were returned including a hidden diamond); being officially categorized as a Jew because he had belonged to a Jewish sport club (he had bee...

  4. Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in 1923, one of six children. He recounts attending public school and cheder in Chrzanów, Poland; participating in Gordonyah; working in his father's barber shop; German invasion; fleeing to Miechów; returning home; deportation to Gogolin; returning home a year later; deportation to Markstädt, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, then Regensburg; slave labor on railroad lines; working as a barber (he cut the camp kommandant's hair); receiving extra food for shaving prisoners; Allied bombings; escaping from a death march; liberation by Unit...

  5. Jakob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1927, one of six brothers. He recounts attending public and Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; visiting his grandfather in Jedlin?sk; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor in a kitchen; a German soldier giving him potatoes; his father having him smuggled out of the ghetto; the ghetto's liquidation; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging production; public executions; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Auschwitz, then Vaihingen an der Enz; constructing underground airplane hangers; ...

  6. Ben-Tzion D., Ivan I., and Kolpan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben-Tzion D., Ivan I., and Kolpan K. Mr. K. was born in Sinkevichy, Belarus in approximately 1926, one of five children. He recounts moving to Lakhva in 1930 to the house in front of which they are standing, and which his father built; one incident of antisemitic violence; German invasion; ghettoization in spring 1942; forced labor in Mikashevichi; noticing large numbers of Germans upon returning to the Lakhva ghetto on September 2; Germans surrounding the ghetto on September 3; Dov Lopatin, head of the Judenrat, initiating a revolt; Itshak Rokhchin killing a German s...

  7. Thérèse G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thérèse G., who was born in Kłobuck, Poland in 1928, the older of two sisters. She recounts emigration to Brussels when she was three months old; attending school; German bombing and invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her parents placing her and her sister (with others from her school) in a convent in Louvain in 1942; the nuns instructing them not to reveal they were Jewish; attending mass and praying; her parents retrieving them in 1944, fearing Allied bombings in Louvain; hiding with them and her aunt in Groot-Bijgaarden (Grand Big...

  8. Jeannine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeannine A., who was born in Paris, France in 1932. She recalls the outbreak of war; her father's military draft; moving, with her mother and brother, to Avignon to join her father when he was decommissioned; being told not to reveal they were Jewish; assuming a false name; their parents placing them with a Catholic woman in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt, who was unaware they were Jewish; participating in Catholic services; attending public school; returning to their parents when the daughter suspected they were Jews; meeting their infant brother; their parents placing them in L...

  9. Charles B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles B., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recalls his parents' economic struggles; visiting grandparents in La Celle-les-Bordes; his parents sending him on the 1940 exodus; returning after encountering Germans at Briare; antisemitic restrictions; hiding with his grandparents during the July 1942 round-up; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); living with his uncle; their arrest by French police in September; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Cosel; slave labor; a German helping with their work; sabotage; transfer to a disciplinary camp;...

  10. Max K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max K., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1923. He recounts his parents' emigration from Poland; attending school; being snubbed by non-Jewish friends after Hitler's ascent to power; his father realizing the danger and moving them to Strasbourg in 1933, then to Milan a year later; his and his twin brother's b'nai mitzvah; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father arranging for his older sister, her husband, and child to join them; his parents' benign "incarceration" in Italian camps; visiting them; living in Casalpusterlengo to avoid Allied bombings; German inv...

  11. Grace N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace N., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1920. She describes her family; moving to Berlin when Posen became part of Poland; the family's successful piano store; their comfortable life; changes with the rise of Nazism; the impact of the Nuremberg laws on their personal lives; her siblings emigrating; the destruction of their store on Kristallnacht; being offered a job by a concert pianist to accompany her on a tour of the United States; and difficulties obtaining papers to leave. She recalls the emotional departure from her parents; missi...

  12. Betty R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty R., who was born in Kielce, Poland. She recalls her family's active membership in revisionist Zionist organizations; an affluent childhood; German invasion when she was thirteen; her father and one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (her father perished); public humiliation of Jews; forced labor; ghettoization; marriage; a mass killing of children; deportation with her husband to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a public hanging; escaping with her husband; hiding in the woods; arrest; deportation to Oranienburg; her transfer to Ravensbru?ck; efforts...

  13. Kate B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kate B., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1929. She recalls her father, who was a distinguished physician; antisemitic incidents in school; exemption from living in the ghetto due to her father's position; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents upon arrival; finding her mother; their separation during a selection (she never saw her again); cutting trees in a labor camp; hospitalization; assistance from a doctor who knew her father; and liberation by Soviet troops while they were digging their own graves. Mrs. B. describes transfer to Tra...

  14. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Khmelʹnik, Ukraine in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recounts relatives emigrating to the United States and Palestine, including a great-grandmother who returned in 1929 and lived with them; attending school in a nearby village; his father's military draft in 1939; an influx of Jewish refugees; his father's return in 1940; attending a camp in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Kiev; returning home; his father's remobilization in July; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing in August; hiding with his family during a mas...

  15. Henry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry T., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls a comfortable childhood; antisemitic violence in school and on the streets; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his father; anti-Jewish restrictions including forced labor; ghettoization in March 1941 with his parents and sister; his mother's deportation in October 1942 (he never saw her again); transfer to P?aszo?w in January 1943 with his father and sister; assignment to a privileged work brigade under Oskar Schindler; receiving extra rations; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Mauthausen in S...

  16. Felix A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix A., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922. He describes life in Bockenheim; his family's business; elementary school in Bockenheim from 1927-1931; increasing antisemitism from 1931 on; anti-Jewish legislation resulting in greatly reduced income and lose of their house; moving to Frankfurt; SA youths attacking his father thus causing Mr. A.'s loss of faith; Realgymnasium in Frankfurt from 1931 to 1935; and the Philanthropin, a Jewish school, from 1935 to 1937. Mr. A. recalls leaving school in 1937 to learn the leather goods trade; his sister's emigra...

  17. Doris W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris W., who was born in Teplice-S?anov, Czechoslovakia in 1925, the only child of an affluent family. She recounts her parents' vote for Sudetenland to join Germany in 1933; moving to Prague after German occupation in 1938; attending an English school; German invasion; deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; harsh conditions; starvation; her mother's hospitalization and surgery; her own work with children; her hospitalization with tuberculosis and anemia; meeting her future husband; transport with her parents to Auschwitz; learning about 'the chimneys'; and select...

  18. Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his strict Orthodox family; attending Jewish and secular schools; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; his father's escape to the Soviet zone; fleeing to Koluszki with his mother; returning to ?o?dz?; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; working as a courier for the Jewish council; deportation to Auschwitz in fall 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); selections in Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; sharing food and helping other prisoners; the...

  19. Zeev S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev S., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1921, the second of seven children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; the Jewish community's rich cultural life; caring for his chronically ill mother from age thirteen; participating in Hechalutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; returning to Sochaczew; slave labor with his brother in the Kampinoska Forest; their escape to Soviet-occupied Białystok; returning home after three months; forced labor constructing an airport; deportation with his family to the Warsaw gh...

  20. Ya'akov G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov G., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1924, one of four children. He recounts attending a Jewish school and yeshiva; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; witnessing a mass killing of the town's rabbis; round-up to a synagogue; separation from his father (he was killed in a mass shooting); ghettoization; forced factory labor; trading goods to non-Jews for food; setting his house on fire, and hiding in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping to the forest; assistance from farmers; walking to Hantsavichy; returning to the fo...