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

  1. Alain M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain M., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's poverty; their focus on religion and learning; one sisters's death from tuberculosis; attending Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment and violence; futile efforts to emigrate; working as a furrier; German invasion; forced labor; food shortages; his mother's death; ghettoization; deportation to Annaberg; slave labor building roads; observing Soviet POWs in very poor condition; transfer to Sakrau, Faulbru?ck, Go?rlitz, then Gross-Rosen; slave labor building factories as w...

  2. Judith I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith I., who was born in Kaposva?r, Hungary in 1925, the only child of an assimilated family with strong Hungarian identity. She recalls her first experience with antisemitism in 1938; her father's and uncle's compulsory service in slave labor battalions; ghettoization in June 1944; her grandfather's death; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother and aunt; transfer to Lichtenau three weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; being chosen to clean the commandant's house, a privileged position which provided extra food which she shared with her moth...

  3. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  4. Iohan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iohan B. who was born in Ilva Mare, Romania in 1923, one of seven children in a poor family. He recalls attending a Jewish school until the seventh grade, then high school; quitting school to work at age fourteen and a half; becoming a licensed mechanic; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; firing of all Jews from his factory ; refusing to emigrate because he did not want to leave his parents; ghettoization with his family in Bistrit?a ghetto for three weeks; and deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. B. describes the pain of seeing his family suffer; separation fro...

  5. Ralph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Fu?rstenwalde, Germany in 1931. He recounts his parents' divorce in 1936; living briefly in an orphanage in Berlin; his mother's remarriage; emigration to Prague in 1938; living in Teplice, Prague, and Bratislava; an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to Cuba; traveling to Nove? Za?mky; Hungarian occupation; round-up; deportation to a farm; his stepfather bribing guards to obtain their release; relocating to Budapest; living briefly in a children's home; flying to Venice; living in Milan; assistance from the Jewish community; attending public s...

  6. Walter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending Czech and Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; playing soccer with Maccabi in Dubnica; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in the banning of Jews from soccer in 1939; working in Bratislava; a beating by German soldiers; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade in October 1941; postings in Sabinov and Humenné; forced labor in Svätý Jur; sneaking away to Vajnory (Dvorník) and Bratislava on weekends; playing soccer for the Brigade, then for the Hlinka team; transfer in 1943 to Kostolná...

  7. Julia E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia E., who was born in Transylvania in 1928. She recalls her childhood in an affluent family; her family's involvement in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1940; German invasion on March 19, 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; help from a Hungarian classmate, who remains a close friend; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from her parents and brother upon arrival (she never saw her mother again); receiving three messages from her father advising them to try to leave Auschwitz; witnessing the killing of newborns to save the mothers' l...

  8. Mirjam A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mirjam A., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the only child in a wealthy, assimilated family. She recalls a happy childhood; attending an evangelical school; frequent visits to grandparents in Trenčín; participating in a leftist Zionist youth movement when she was twelve; antisemitic harassment and expulsion from school; working as an assistant in a Jewish kindergarten for eighteen months; moving to Trenčín in 1941 due to antisemitic laws; her mother's hospitalization in Bratislava; returning to Bratislava with her father to ...

  9. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, an only child. She recalls her maternal grandparents living with them; an assimilated lifestyle; attending a secular school, then a Jewish one; her paternal grandparents and other relatives emigrating to England in 1938; her father's emigration in 1939; antisemitic restrictions; being caught in a round-up at a park forbidden to Jews; her mother securing her release; being forced to move twice; her maternal grandparents' deaths; deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in September 1942; placement in a children's b...

  10. Ladislav Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ladislav Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three children. He recounts living in Trnava; moving to Bratislava in 1926; his parents' assimilated lifestyle; he and his sister attending high school; active participation in a small communist group; attending medical school in 1937; Hlinka guard expelling Jewish students in 1938; working in forestry, then as a journalist for an illegal communist magazine; enrolling in law school; expulsion in 1941; draft into a forced labor group; postings in Čemerné, Liptovský Hrádok, then Svätý Jur; obtaining fa...

  11. Chiel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chiel M., who was born in Albigowa, Poland in 1910, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; working in his brother's quarry; his parents' deaths; living in ?a?cut; German invasion; fleeing to Sieniawa; returning home; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Przemy?l; moving to Berez?h?any; German invasion; working with a tinsmith; returning home with a brother and sister; deportation of one sister and her family; fleeing to Przemy?l, then Sieniawa with assistance from a Polish non-Jew; smuggling himself into the ghetto to join his brother; ...

  12. Sarika N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarika N., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1926. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Greek public school; German invasion; her father's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); ghettoization in 1943; marriage to her boyfriend, hoping to escape with him; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother, husband, and younger sister; separation with her sister from her husband and mother (she never saw them again); slave labor; assistance from a non-Jewish political prisoner; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); a privi...

  13. Olga R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga R., a non-Jew who grew up in Kiev. She recalls extreme poverty; close friendship with Jewish neighbors; joining Komsomol; German occupation; German orders for all Jews to assemble on Melnikov Square on September 29, 1941; seeing off her two Jewish girlfriends; walking part way to Babi Yar with them; a knock on her window at night; finding her girlfriends; learning from them of the mass killings in Babi Yar; obtaining false papers and maps for them with assistance from a neighbor; learning they survived after the war; assisting them in finding their fathers; and s...

  14. Sol M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol M., who was born in Radzano?w, Poland in 1920, one of eight children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in M?awa; public hangings; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz with a brother and two sisters in November 1942; slave labor with his brother; his brother's murder; praying on Yom Kippur; hearing rumors in July 1944 that Hitler was dead; contact with his sister; learning from her that their younger sister was dead; a death march; transport to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald,...

  15. Elizabeth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary, one of five children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; working in her father's pastry shop; marriage in 1942; her husband's and three brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; expropriation of her father's shop in 1943; incarceration with her parents, brother, his wife, and their two children; receiving Red Cross notification that her husband was probably dead; hiding when her brother and his family were deported; deportation with a friend; finding her father in the cattle car to Auschwitz; intense thirst ...

  16. Martin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin P., who was born in Amsterdam in approximately 1928, one of three sons. He recounts attending gymnasium; weekly Hebrew lessons at home; antisemitic harassment by Dutch children; his father traveling to the United States in spring 1940 and remaining there; German invasion in May; eviction from their apartment; expropriation of his father's business; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; hiding their housekeeper (a Czech Jew) from the Germans; deportation with his mother and brothers to Westerbork; forced labor as a bricklayer; transfer to Bergen-Bels...

  17. Rudolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf F., who was born in Krojanke, Germany in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Berlin in 1933; purchasing false papers; their emigration to Antwerp in 1937; attending a Jewish boarding school; German invasion; learning his family was in France; traveling to Perpignan; finding them in Monte?limar; incarceration in a labor camp; escaping to join his family; his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); his brother being hidden in a convent; joining the Resistance in Lyon; living in Grenoble; obtaining a false identity from the mayor; arrest in Nice; incarcer...

  18. Gabriel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabriel F., who was born in Arad, Romania in 1925. He relates childhood memories of his family and what it was like to grow up as a member of the only affluent Jewish family in a predominantly Hungarian and German town. He discusses the initial phase of anti-Jewish legislation which barred him from regular high school and university; German occupation in the summer of 1944; his father's transfer as a state doctor to a small village; and the family's deportation to a ghetto in Transylvania, then to Auschwitz where he stayed for eight days. He describes his transport to...

  19. Pinchas Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pinchas Z., who was born in Baranów, Poland in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recalls his father's successful tailoring business; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment by teachers and school mates; two of his mother's sisters living with them; German occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer of all Jews to the poorest area in 1941; his father continuing to sew for Poles in exchange for food; a Polish friend warning his father of an expulsion in May 1942; hiding with his father's Polish friend, then in a forest near Pogonów; joi...

  20. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland. She recounts German invasion in 1939 when she was five; briefly fleeing with her family to Krako?w; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in a bunker during round-ups; fleeing to Sosnowiec; ghettoization in the Srodula section; her father arranging a hiding place for her with a Polish woman and placing her baby sister with another family; hiding in the bunker when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1943; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); escaping with her aunt; their arrest; escaping with asistance fr...