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

  1. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Petrova in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1906. He recounts his father's death when he was three; Petrova becoming part of Romania after World War I; attending Romanian school, yeshiva, and technical college; marriage in 1930; establishing a textile production company; the births of four children; Hungarian occupation; traveling to Budapest for raw materials in 1942; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; posting to Russia; returning home in 1944; deportation to Austria; slave labor in a flour mill; learning from his landlord that h...

  2. Aliza B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1928. She recalls a happy childhood among her large, extended family; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; her brother's escape; ghettoization; her brother's return; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brother; the smell of "burning meat"; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; selection for specious medical experiments and surgery performed by Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann, Wladyslaw Dering, and Carl Clauberg; recoveri...

  3. Joseph L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph L., who was born in Warsaw in 1924. He describes his life in the Warsaw ghetto, and briefly discusses his incarceration in Treblinka, Auschwitz, and the slave labor camp Jawischowitz/Monowitz, where he performed construction work. The only surviving member of his family, Mr. L. has been unable to locate anyone with his surname.

  4. Genia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. She recalls her observant, affluent home; a close, extended family; German invasion; being shunned by German friends; Polish neighbors looting their home; confiscation of her father's business; moving to the ghetto; her brother traveling to Warsaw (she never saw him again); forced labor producing clothing for the Wehrmacht; her family's exemption from deportation due to the privileged position of her sister's boyfriend; her mother's illness and death in 1944; her father being tortured by police seeking valuables; depor...

  5. Abe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's poverty; their inability to feed him; working in a meatpacking house beginning at age twelve; German invasion; forced labor in several villages from August 1940 to September 1941; transfer to a weaving factory; sharing extra food with an older man; meeting his future wife (his second cousin); transfer to another camp in 1942; slave labor cutting down trees; a death march to Buchenwald in 1944; veteran prisoners asking him and others to kill two "green triangles" (criminals); receiving extra food ...

  6. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in approximately 1923, one of six children of Turkish e?migre?s. He recounts he and one brother were Belgian citizens, but his parents and other siblings, Turkish; speaking Ladino at home; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; briefly going to southern France; completing high school; participation in a Zionist group; studying agronomy at the University of Gembloux; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Zionist horticultural school in Brabant and the clandestine University of Brussels; denunciation i...

  7. Jacqueline L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline L., who was born in Paris in 1932. She recounts her family was not religious, although she knew she was Jewish; awareness of "bad feelings" beginning in 1940; not answering the door when French police came for them on September 24, 1942; a non-Jewish neighbor telling them to go away (she knew they were home); being placed in hiding with the non-Jewish wife of a relative; knowing her parents and older sister were hiding in southern France; her "aunt" tutoring her (she could not attend school) and trying to convert her to Christianity; having a ration card (s...

  8. Margit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915 while her father was serving as a medical officer at the front in World War I. She describes her family's German patriotism; their assimilated and affluent life; activities in a Social Democratic youth organization; anti-Semitic propaganda; her desire to leave Germany beginning in 1933, despite her parents' pro-German sentiments; the April 1, 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals, including her father; fleeing to Switzerland with her mother; returning to Berlin; going to England with a Quaker group; and ...

  9. Sprinta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sprinta T., who was born in Rona de Sus, Romania in 1920. She recalls her large, Hasidic family; a happy childhood; attending school until age twelve; the family farm; her older brothers attending school elsewhere; Hungarian occupation in 1944; transfer with her family to a ghetto, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); slave labor building roads; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by train, then a death march; her cousin sharing food that she had found near the road; liberation by British troops; recuperating in Malmö, Sweden; as...

  10. Irene P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene P., who was born in Paris, France in 1931. She recounts living in Montreuil; French naturalization at age five; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's incarceration in Drancy in 1941 (he did not return); her older brother's placement in a Catholic children's home; being warned by a non-Jewish policeman in July 1942 of an impending round-up; her mother and younger sister going into hiding; staying with her grandmother; their arrest; a non-Jewish policeman (her friend's father) obtaining their release; finding her mother; her mother and sister ill...

  11. Victor M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor M., a non-Jew, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1925. He recalls his family's strong patriotism; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing with his father and uncle to Versailles, Limoges, and other French cities; returning to Brussels in mid-August; joining the Resistance; passing university entrance exams; arrest with others in his group in August 1944; incarceration in St. Gilles; receiving Red Cross parcels; transfer to Neuengamme; slave labor outside the camp; remaining with his friends; transfer in September 1944 to Schandelah; his privileged position ...

  12. Wolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in G?ogo?w. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separat...

  13. Alex G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex G., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919. He describes his upbringing in a religiously observant, middle-class setting; the tendency to underestimate the significance of anti-Semitic measures in Germany; outbreak of war in 1939; and escaping to Lwo?w in the Soviet occupation zone, where he worked in a bakery and organized athletic functions. He tells of the German invasion; his reunion with family in the Bochnia ghetto; the killing of his parents in 1942; and traveling to Vienna on false papers. Mr. G. recalls staying in Vienna; acquaintances he made there; se...

  14. William Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William Z., who was born in Znacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919. He recalls attending school until age thirteen; apprenticeship and working for his father as a cabinet maker; Hungarian occupation; forced labor in a Hungarian army battalion; visits to a local Jewish family; a promise of protection from a Hungarian general; and obtaining weapons for partisans with funds from the local Jewish family. Mr. Z. recounts obtaining a leave from the general; finding his home abandoned; learning his family was in the Munka?cs ghetto and joining them; smuggling his two brothers out w...

  15. Itzcak D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzcak D., who was born in Corfu, Greece in 1929, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; speaking Italian at home; his older brother's death; attending Greek and Hebrew school; visiting Athens with his father; benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Kamára; round-up of all Jews; their ship transfer to Lefkáda, Patrai, then Piraeus; imprisonment; transport by cattle cars from Athens to Birkenau; singing for extra food; a beating for smuggling food to his father; slave labor; public hangings; observing cannibalism; trans...

  16. Roger C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger C., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. He recounts the important influence of scouting; apprenticeship as an electrician; enlisting in the French military; retreating to Tarbes; demobilization; working as an electrician; his family and fiancee joining him; creating false papers for the Resistance in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; an unsuccessful attempt to illegally enter Spain; joining Sixie?me, a network rescuing Jewish children in Rodez, Clermont Ferrand, and Aix-les-Bains; arrest in Lyon in May 1943; transfer to Montluc prison; digging graves for executed prison...

  17. Abram Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1924. He recalls the flourishing Jewish culture; his father's Bund activities; the outbreak of war in 1939; his parents sending him to Pinsk; meeting Bund leaders including Victor Erlich; returning to Vilna; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest (he never saw him again); a pogrom when Lithuania became independent; German invasion in June 1941; hiding when Lithuanians began killing Jews; going to a forced labor camp outside of Vilna to avoid mass killings; bringing his mother there; returning to the Vilna ghetto; organization...

  18. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1934. She recalls her parents were physicians who worked in a small village (Jews were banned from hospital positions); taking an orphan into their home; close relations with a large, extended family; moving to Gherla; Hungarian occupation; her father being taken for Hungarian slave labor battalions from 1942 to 1944; frequent visits; German occupation in 1944 (her father was home); anti-Jewish regulations; the round-up of Jews into a factory; train transfer to the Cluj ghetto; a friend warning her father not to go on transp...

  19. Sara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara M., who was born in Kaunas, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1915, the oldest of three children. She recounts her family's move to Jurbarkas, then Ukmergė; attending a Russian school, then a Jewish school where Jacob Gens, the future head of the Vilna ghetto, was her teacher; moving to Kaunas in 1934 for a job; her brother joining her; her sister's emigration to Palestine in 1939; Soviet occupation; living with her aunt and grandmother; German invasion; local Lithuanians rounding up and killing Jewish men, including her brother; ghettoization; slave labor at an a...

  20. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was three; living with her father; the painting of Stars of David on his shop windows in 1935; having to attend a Jewish school (the Goldschmidt School); participating in Zionist organizations; her father's harassment during a business trip; visits to family members in Poland and England who doubted that the Nazis represented a real danger; attending the 1936 Olympics; her father's marriage in 1937 in New York to an American for emigration purposes; receiving a United States ...