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

  1. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary in 1927, one of seven children. She recalls her family living with grandparents, an uncle, and cousins; their orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews changing in the late 1930s; anti-Jewish laws; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; her brother escaping to Budapest; deportation with her family in cattle trains to Auschwitz; her father praying in the train; separation with her sister from her family; meeting with her brother once; selection with her sister for transfer to Allendorf three weeks later; slave labor in a factor...

  2. George F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George F., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1925 and raised in Budapest. He recalls exclusion from higher education due to Jewish quotas; a printer's apprenticeship starting in 1940; forced labor in 1942; stealing letterhead to make false papers for others; German invasion in 1944; organizing an underground; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; organizing an escape; recapture; contacts by underground colleagues leading to planned sabotage; escaping to Budapest; posing as a non-Jew; forced labor for Todt in Austria; a death march to Mauthausen in Dec...

  3. Jaak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaak S., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1917, one of two brothers. He recounts his father's death when he was seven; a totally assimilated lifestyle; visits to his maternal grandparents in Leipzig; his older brother mentoring him; attending school to be a diamond cutter; working with his mother (she had a boarding house/restaurant/public bath), and in his uncle's diamond business; military service in the mid-1930s; recall when Germany invaded in May 1940; ruining as much ordnance as they could when defeat was imminent; surrendering at Bruges; arrest en route home...

  4. Sidi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidi S., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania in 1926, one of four children. She recalls their relative affluence; attending Romanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; German and Romanian invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures and violence; ghettoization; her family's return home after mass deportations in late 1941; street killings; deportation with her family in June 1942 to Transnistria; a camp manager observing her performing acrobatics; his exempting her family from deportation because of her performance; transfer with her family to Chetvertinovka; living in barn...

  5. Frieda J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda J., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland, in 1937. She relates her early childhood memories of the Nazi entry into her town; hiding in a closet with a false back; and an assembly of people who were about to be deported. She recalls the public hanging of her father in the small town of Lututov; the deportation of her mother and brother to Treblinka; her own return to Pietrokow; and her frequent relocations under the care of several different extended family members. She recounts her experiences in Ravensbru?ck; her transport to Bergen-Belsen with other ...

  6. Manny B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manny B., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926, the youngest of four sons. He recalls a wonderful childhood until German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor; ghettoization; deportations and killings; a resistance member's futile attempt to shoot an SS; the execution of every tenth man who was there; transition of the ghetto into a concentration camp; volunteering as a carpenter; slave labor for HASAG; reunion with one brother (the rest of his family were killed); assistance from a German who admired his carpentry; liberation by Soviet troops; learn...

  7. Hanna U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna U., a non-Jew, who was born in Poland in 1933, one of two children. She recounts living in Warsaw; her father's death when she was three; German invasion in 1939; observing starving people and bodies on the streets when traversing the ghetto by street car; her uncle's deportation for resistance activities; sending packages to him through the Red Cross; a public execution; observing the ghetto burning during the 1943 uprising; the Warsaw uprising in 1944; when most of Warsaw's population was forcibly evacuated, deportation with her mother and brother to Dzielna, ...

  8. Elie Wiesel Lecture

  9. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recounts her parents' former marriages (they each had four children); working in their summer restaurant in Ciechocinek; German invasion; returning to Piotrko?w; ghettoization; forced labor; deportations including her family; transfer to Difi in Bugaj; slave labor; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Bergen-Belsen, after about eight months; liberation by British troops; reunion with a half-brother and sister; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage; a daughter's birth; emigration to Israel (h...

  10. Dora R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She recalls her marriage, her son's birth; ghettoization; their former non-Jewish maid bringing them food; transfer to the Tarno?w ghetto; her husband being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her son's violent murder in front of her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a brief encounter with her sister (she never saw her again); transfer to Bomlitz; forced labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops near Potsdam; traveling to Krako?w; meeting her future...

  12. Carol W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carol W., a child of Holocaust survivors who was born in the United States in 1954. She relates her childhood sense of her Jewishness and tells of learning of her parents' wartime experiences only very gradually. She describes the experience of her father, who was born in Poland in 1921, and who came to New Haven in 1949, and of her mother, who was born in Germany in 1928, and who came to the United States in 1939. Mrs. W. also describes the impact of her parents' personal histories on her own life.

  13. Ivan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan K., who was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1938, the younger of two brothers. He recounts living in Janova Ves; his and his family's conversion to Christianity in 1942; changing their surname to a more Christian one; their exemption from deportation due to his father's job building barracks in Topol̕čany; his participation in the Slovak uprising in 1944; his mother's denunciation as a Jew; hiding in a mansion with his aunt, mother, and brother; staying in tents in a nearby forest; returning to the mansion; finding his father there; digging...

  14. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W. who was born in Cluj, Romania. She recalls a comfortable childhood as the daughter of an attorney; pervasive antisemitism; Hungarian occupation in 1940; restrictive anti-Jewish laws; her shame at wearing a yellow star; ghettoization in 1944; her humiliation at forced nudity; deportation to Auschwitz; caring for her mother; meeting two cousins after her mother's selection for death; witnessing a prisoner giving birth; transfer to Birkenau; receiving bread and shoes from a male prisoner; selection with other "Aryan-looking" girls by Mengele; transfer to Weisswass...

  15. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Bran?sk, Poland in 1913. He recalls German invasion; Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; fleeing deportation with his brother's family; hiding in the forest, then in the stable of Polish acquaintances; placing his brother's infant with a family in another village; rescuing the child upon hearing it would be turned in; separation from the others during a German attack; entering the Bia?ystok ghetto; and learning his brother and family had been killed. Mr. R. recounts forced labor in early 1943; hiding duri...

  16. Bedrich B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bedrich B., who was born in Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recalls his parents were intellectuals and hard working (his father was a physician, his mother a piano teacher); cordial relations with non-Jews; a very assimilated lifestyle; antisemitism and anti-Jewish restrictions beginning with Slovak independence in 1938; leaving high school; training as an auto mechanic; brief imprisonments in Hungary and Slovakia, then in Nováky in April 1942, for attempts to illegally enter Hungary; learning his p...

  17. Liane R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liane R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. She recalls the Anschluss; her father's apparent suicide in September 1938 after he was forced to close his dental practice; Kristallnacht; embarking on the St. Louis with her mother and brother in 1939; being denied entry to Cuba; sailing between Cuba and Florida while efforts were made to find refuge; and having to return to Europe. Mrs. R. recounts living in Loudun, France for over two years; German invasion; fleeing to Limoges; Jewish organizations which arranged their schooling and her brother's violin lessons an...

  18. Irving B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls his large, orthodox family; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's death; anti-Jewish laws; fleeing to Budapest in 1943; brief arrest; fleeing to Nyi?regyha?za, then Szeged, in 1944; ghettoization in March; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau, Mauthausen, then Melk; slave labor digging trenches; assisting a rabbi from his hometown; defusing undetonated bombs; transfer to Ebensee; fellow prisoners hiding him and sharing their food when he was too ill to work; cannibalism; an...

  19. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1914, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his family's affluence; draft into the Polish military; capture by Germans in Tarnowskie Go?ry; incarceration in Stalag VIII A Go?rlitz for six months; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his family (he never saw any of them again); transfer to Lagisza; return to Auschwitz; hospitalization; working in the Union Kommando; the death march to Gross-Rosen; escaping from a train transport in Sudetenland; stealing civilian clothes...

  20. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Dokshit?s?y, Belarus. (then Poland) in 1913. He recalls his family; attending yeshiva; work in his uncle's bakery at age fourteen; his sister's emigration to Palestine; attempts to join her; membership in a Vilna zionist organization; conflicts between Lithuania and Poland in Vilna; a pogrom; his escape to Il?i?a?; service in the Polish army; and the German invasion. He recalls a mass killing in March 1942; hiding; ghettoization; another mass killing; escape to the woods; hiding with a farmer, then in the forests for six months; joining the par...