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

  1. Tonia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tonia B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her family's Bundist activities; attending Bund and public schools; German invasion; ghettoization; food shortages; seeing her parents, brother, and sister for the last time when they were deported in 1940; a non-Jewish friend bringing food prior to the ghetto being sealed; nursing training; working in a hospital; visits from H?ayim Rumkowski; deportation of the children in 1942; the deaths of relatives from starvation; hospitalization when she was ill; other nurses sharing their food with her; friendship w...

  2. Rica and Marcel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rica K., who was born in 1907 in Storoz︠h︡ynet︠s︡ʹ, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Romania), and her son Marcel who was born in approximately 1940. She recalls her older brothers' emigration to the United States; marriage in 1930 to a man from Chernivt︠s︡i; their affluence; her mother's death; ghettoization with her father and son in Chernivt︠s︡i in 1941 in her brother-in-laws' house (her husband joined her later); non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food; their exemption from deportation due to her husband's agricultural expertise; a mass shooting that included ...

  3. Allen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen R., who was born in Koniecpol, Poland, in 1916 and raised in Sosnowiec. Mr. R. describes prewar antisemitism; capture during the German invasion while in the Polish army; escape and return home; seizure of the family salvage business; moving to the Srodula ghetto; sorting shoes of Auschwitz deportees; and volunteering for forced labor at a small camp in Silesia, to save his wife and family (most of whom he never saw again). He relates transport to Auschwitz with other Sosnowiec Jews; transfer to Warsaw; clearing rubble in the destroyed ghetto; finding hidden val...

  4. Elena L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elena L., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Veľký Šariš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921. She recalls attending school until fifth grade; cordial relations with Jews and non-Romanies; working for a Jewish family; persecution of Jews and Romanies by Hlinka guards with the establishment of the Slovak state; observing Jews having to wear identifying marks and their deportation; destruction of Romani houses, including hers; anti-Romani restrictions; living in a hut in the woods; her child's death due to the harsh conditions; hiding from the Germans in a h...

  5. Millie K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Millie K., who was born in Aub, Germany in 1909. She recalls moving to Paris in 1933; working as a governess; marriage; her husband's incarceration as a German in 1940; her incarceration with him in Gurs a few months later; extreme hunger; her release two months later; joining him clandestinely when he was transferred to Les Milles; their release; living in Calas and Marseille; finding farm and factory jobs; a non-Jewish woman rescuing them from arrest; obtaining false papers in Marseille; her husband's arrest; visiting him at Les Milles; his escape; moving to Lyon; r...

  6. June M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June M., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929. She describes her close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations in an orthodox environment; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Calais, France; repatriation to Antwerp by the Germans; forced relocation to Limburg; moving to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; refusing to wear the star; being hidden in a convent in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (her parents hid elsewhere); conversion to Catholicism; wonderful relations with nuns; tacitly acknowledging the other hidden Jewish children (there were twenty-eight); seeing...

  7. Steven L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steven L., who was born near Pinsk, Belarus in the early 1930s. He recounts his mother's death when he was very young; a close relationship with his maternal grandparents; meeting non-Jewish farmers while peddling with his grandfather; Nazi invasion in summer 1941; ghettoization; working for a non-Jewish farmer to supply food for his family; hiding during round-ups (his family was taken); escaping to the forest with another family; finding another Jewish family; assistance from a shepherd he knew; building bunkers; the deaths of one family from illness; the birth of a...

  8. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. She recalls anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1939; German invasion in March 1944; obtaining permission to join her parents in Szeged in May; ghettoization in June; separation from her parents upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw her mother again); briefly seeing and waving to her father when transporting food from one camp to another (she never saw him again); transfer to Kaufering in November; forced labor at the Landsberg airport from March to April 1945; transfer to Allach; the disappearance of guards during the d...

  9. Elizabeth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth F., who was born in Czechoslovakia near the Hungarian border. She describes her family's life during the four years of Hungarian occupation; their evacuation to the ghetto at Sa?toraljau?jhely in the spring of 1944; and her deportation, along with her three sisters, to Auschwitz one month later. She tells how the four sisters, by helping each other, managed to survive the concentration and slave labor camps of Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg, and Bergen-Belsen.

  10. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1928 to an orthodox family of seven children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; two brothers escaping to the Soviet Union; smuggling to support his family; escaping to Wodzis?aw during the first deportation (his family was taken); returning home; escaping a deportation six weeks later; hiding with Poles in a village, then in Wodzis?aw; traveling to Radomsko; ghettoization; deportation to Skarz?ysko in September 1942; obtaining extra food and a better placement thro...

  11. Czes?aw M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Czes?aw M., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1911. A distinguished poet, critic, historian and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, he discusses the intellectual problems of the Holocaust in literature and reads, in Polish and English, his wartime poems "Campo di Fiore," "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto," and "Cafe". Professor M. suggests that nineteenth century philosophy left Europeans unprepared for the events which took place between 1933 and 1945, which he believes explains the passivity and indifference with which ...

  12. Charlotte S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charlotte S., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. She recalls attending a Jewish school; refugees from Poland and Germany arriving in the 1930s; her father enlisting in the military after the outbreak of war; anti-Jewish measures in 1940; arrest with her parents and younger brother on July 16, 1942; her release; unsuccessful attempts to find her parents and brother in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver; her oldest sister's deportation to Drancy; receiving a letter from her younger brother (she later learned of their fate from a book by Eric Conan); her older brother fleeing to...

  13. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1936 and raised in S?iauliai. She recalls her sister's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization in August; "running wild" when they were left alone during the day; hiding when Germans entered the ghetto; in November 1943, hiding all day; leaving when it was quiet; being taken by the Germans; her cousin influencing the Kommandant to let her go; his refusal to release her sister (they never saw her again); being smuggled to a farm of non-Jews the next day; staying in a closet until she learned Catholic rituals a...

  14. Eva B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recounts that her paternal grandfather was a Serbian Romani and her other grandparents Jewish; her parents' communist activism; participation in a communist youth group; her father hiding during an Nazi raid of their house in 1933; his fleeing to Vienna; hiding with her mother and brother; leaving their hiding place and being questioned; release after refusing to reveal any information; she, her mother, and brother, joining her father in Vienna; the Anschluss; observing atrocities against Jews; her parents' arrest a...

  15. Natalie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Natalie S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1934. She recounts moving to Ka?usz before the war; Soviet occupation; state confiscation of the family property; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including her father; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her mother obtaining Polish documents for both of them; traveling to Lemberg; arrest by Ukrainian police; release when her mother bribed them; moving frequently to avoid detection; constant fear of discovery; living with a seamstress; attending Catholic services which she found comforting; exposure by the pers...

  16. Bella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella M., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1932. She recalls her family's affluence; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors, in a bunker they built, then with various non-Jews during round-ups; denunciation by the person hiding them when they ran out of money; imprisonment; transfer to a labor camp; escaping; hiding in a forest; capture; return to the labor camp; public execution of escapees; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; gender separation (she never saw her bro...

  17. Sidonia N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidonia N., who was born in Vác, Hungary in 1916, one of twelve children. She recounts stories of her ancestors, who were well-known rabbis, her family's orthodoxy; her father's prominence as a teacher; attending a public school; German occupation; forced relocation to a brick factory; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); assistance from another prisoner in keeping her prayer book; praying during roll calls; transfer to Salzwedel; slave labor in a munitions factory; organizing clandestine group observa...

  18. Franz F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franz F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, one of two brothers. He recounts his family's relative affluence; antisemitic harassment at school; visiting grandparents in Opava; expulsion from his scout troop; joining Makabi ha-tsaĘťir; the Anschluss; joining a hachsharah in Germany; visiting Berlin; his brother joining a hachsharah in France; Kristallnacht; visiting his parents in Vienna; emigration to Palestine via Vienna and Trieste in 1939; receiving letters from his parents through the Red Cross (later, the letters stopped); enlisting in the British army; se...

  19. Erika F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1937. She describes her older sister and extended family; her father's draft into a forced labor battalion; no contact with non-Jewish children; receiving help from a non-Jewish aunt; living in a Swedish safe house; escaping a round-up; hiding with her non-Jewish aunt; observing corpses and destruction in the streets; Soviet liberation; learning of her father's death; her mother's remarriage to an Auschwitz survivor; moving to Baj; her affection for her stepfather; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; her stepfather's death;...

  20. Molly A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly A., who was born in approximately 1924, the oldest of seven children. She recounts living in Bodzanow?; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; participating in Bene ?Ak?iva; German invasion in 1939; her family briefly living with non-Jews in a nearby village; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Be?z?ec; securing his release; deportation with her family to Dzia?dowo, then Cze?stochowa; ghettoization; escaping with four siblings (the two youngest remained with her parents and they all were killed); traveling to Warsaw; walking to a village wh...