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

  1. Gitta B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitta B., who was born in Rudnik, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. B. describes moving at the age of five to Reichenberg, capital of the Sudetenland; the German cultural orientation of the Jews there; difficulties experienced by her father because of his east European Jewish orientation; and increasingly widespread antisemitism. She relates her family's move to Prague following the German occupation of the Sudetenland; the German occupation of Prague and the resulting anti-Jewish actions; her father's efforts to remain religiously observant despite prohibitions; and continuing a...

  2. Jenia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenia G., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1927, one of four children. She recounts her large, extended family; attending a Tarbut school; her father visiting a sister in Palestine in 1939; his inability to return due to the war; Soviet occupation; joining Komsomol; German invasion; her mother hiding her during round-ups; refusing to hide with a non-Jewish farmer; transfer with her family to former military barracks in Švenčionėliai, then to the Polygon; her mother arranging her return to Švenčionys with her younger brother four days ...

  3. Moshe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1921, one of five children. Mr. B. recounts participating in a Zionist youth group; moving to Krako?w; German invasion; fleeing east with his brother and friends; hiding in Lez?ajsk; returning to Krako?w; visiting his family in Dzia?oszyce; creating false papers for Jewish women to use as Polish forced laborers in Germany; working in Krako?w; sending packages to his family; attending clandestine Zionist meetings; returning to Dzia?oszyce; establishment of a Judenrat; deportation to Miecho?w; remaining with two brothers ...

  4. Zygmunt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt L., who was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending public school; celebrating his bar mitzvah; secondary education in Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; fleeing with one sister and other relatives to Chrzano?w; his parents and other sister fleeing to L?viv; returning home; living with his uncle and sister; forced labor cleaning streets; ghettoization in Wadowice; receiving food from his father's non-Jewish associate; deportation to Gogolin, Gross Masselwitz, Annaberg, Brande, then Ludwigsdorf; slave labor...

  5. Betty B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty B., who was born in approximately 1924, one of seven children. She recounts living in ?an?cut, Poland; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; one brother's emigration to Argentina; an "atmosphere" of antisemitism; German invasion; her sister and family joining them; anti-Jewish restrictions; another brother fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; living in Ra?czyna; her father's deportation in May 1942 (she never saw him again); a round-up with her mother, two sisters, a brother-in-law and his children in July; escaping; joining two sisters in another town; hiding w...

  6. Ilse R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She recounts her brother's death in 1920; her father's death in 1930; attending high school; strained relations with some non-Jewish friends beginning in 1933; a book burning; reluctance to leave her mother and brother to emigrate; marriage in October 1938; losing hope on Kristallnacht; forced labor; her brother's emigration to England in 1939; her mother's deportation to Rīga in January 1942 (she never saw her again); assistance from non-Jewish friends; obtaining false papers; living and working in several places; da...

  7. Simon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon S., who was born in Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; an apprenticeship at age fourteen; the outbreak of war; public hanging of the Jewish leaders; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor for eighteen months in Leszno; the hanging of two friends who had asked local Poles for food; transport to Birkenau in 1943; a severe beating; transfer to Jaworzno; forced labor in coal mines; receiving extra food for playing on the prisoner soccer team; and prisoners singing the Czech national anthem while awaiting hanging after an escape attempt. Mr. S. recounts...

  8. Miriam H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1912. She recalls her marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; a round-up in which her parents, daughter, and niece were taken (she never saw them again); incarceration with her husband and sister in P?aszo?w; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; their transfer to Theresienstadt about a year later; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague; reunion with her husband in Krako?w; living in Germany for four years; the birth of a child; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. H. disc...

  9. Nicholas A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nicholas A., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1935. He recalls the tightly-knit Jewish community; fleeing with his mother to Italian-occupied Split; arrival of two uncles and his father; an Italian arranging their passage to Trieste on a troop ship; hiding in various places in the Macerata region from 1941 to 1944, including Sarnona, Loro Piceno, Ascoli Piceno, and Porto San Giorgio; his Catholic baptism; receiving false identity papers; police warnings of round-ups; his sister's birth in 1944; liberation; living in Milan and Rome; emigration to the United States...

  10. Manuel F. Holocaust testimony

  11. Frances E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances E., who was born in Prague in 1920. In this vivid and insightful testimony, Mrs. E. speaks of the clash between German and Czech cultures in prewar Prague, exemplified by her parents and herself; the German occupation of Prague in March 1939 and the subsequent restrictions imposed on Jews; her family's arrest, interrogation, and release in summer 1942; and her transport, with her parents and husband, to Theresienstadt in August 1942. She describes the painful separation from her parents; her psychological breakdown upon arrival; her work in Theresienstadt; sep...

  12. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Dolný Kubín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1916, the third of six children. He recounts his family's move to Trstená; attending a Jewish school; his family's move to Pestújhely in 1923; his mother's long-term hospitalization; living with relatives; his father's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1933; moving to Bratislava; participating in Mizrahi; working in Ostrava; joining a Mizrahi kibbutz; moving to Nováky; he and his brother boarding a ship for Palestine; being returned to Slovakia; working in Pie...

  13. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1925. He recounts volunteering for the Army in 1943; encountering racism as an African-American soldier; posting to Europe in a segregated unit with the 3rd Army; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; entering Buchenwald; his shock at the conditions, including the pervasive stench, piles of corpses everywhere, and emaciated survivors resembling the "walking dead"; and witnessing prisoners beating a guard. Mr. B. discusses his career as an educator; involvement in the civil rights movement; and not sharing his ...

  14. Arie D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arie D., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania), one of two sons. He recounts attending Poalei Zion and Tarbut schools; joining Hashomer Hatzair at age twelve; attending their summer camp in Nemenčinė; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; participating in a Zionist march with Abba Kovner in 1938; attending engineering school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; an Austrian soldier providing protected jobs for him; his father's kidnapping in summer 1941; ghettoization; his mother and brother (Henoch D.) leaving the ghetto; the Austrian soldier ...

  15. Marianne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne B., who was born in Breslau, Germany. She recalls family participation in the city's high culture; her father's strong German identity; the importance of music in the family; their affluent lifestyle; emigration to Paris to join her future husband; and her sister's marriage in England in 1938. Ms. B. describes learning of her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; his release as a broken man; her parents emigrating to England; her father's hospitalization in a mental institution; his release; subsequent suicide attempts; and his internment on the Isle of Wight...

  16. Marie L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria L., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1931. She recounts her family's move to Brussels in 1932; their assimilated lifestyle; not realizing she was Jewish; German invasion; a futile attempt to escape to France; not registering as Jews; living with her parents in the home of her father's boss; continuing to attend school; their arrest in July 1944; insisting they were Greek, not Jewish; her father being beaten; deportation to Malines, then to Birkenau eight days later; prisoners instructing her to say she was older; separation from the men (she never saw he...

  17. Marian N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marian N., who was born in s?-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 1938. She has no memory of her German Jewish parents who placed her with a non-Jewish business associate in Geldrop before they hid in 1941. Mrs. N. recalls being moved to the Martins family in Horst, where she posed as a cousin from the city; playing with her "brothers," the Martins' two children; participating in church services and holiday celebrations; attending a convent school; bombings; German soldiers quartered in their home; and receiving candy from Canadian troops who liberated the area. She recount...

  18. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Komarov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recalls moving to ?o?dz? when he was seven; working from age twelve onward; German invasion; attempting to reach Warsaw; capture by Germans; train transport to Germany, then back to Poland two weeks later; forced labor in Krako?w; being released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; frequent shootings; difficulty obtaining food; volunteering for forced labor in Germany so his family would receive compensation; working in Frankfurt an-der-Oder from December 1940 onward; transfer to a factory nea...

  19. Ferdinand G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ferdinand G., who was born in Tern?a, Slovakia in 1912. He recalls his family's multi-generational roots in his town; attending schools in Pres?ov, Kos?ice, Vrbove?, Prague, and then medical school in Bratislava; Slovak independence and alliance with Germany; anti-Jewish regulations, including his expulsion from medical school; a failed attempt to escape to Switzerland; returning to the family farm in Tern?a; deportations of relatives in spring 1942; helping a cousin hide; transfer to Vrbove? in summer 1944; escaping a round-up which included his parents; hiding in vi...

  20. Ezra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ezra L., who was born in 1927, in Czechoslovakia. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1944; his father arranging for a non-Jew to take Mr. L. and his brother; ghettoization of his parents and three younger siblings in Khust; hiding in the forest with his brother; assistance from partisans; building underground bunkers; three Jewish girls joining them; a Catholic family providing food; brief separation from his brother; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to his f...