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

  1. Ben L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. He recalls anti-Jewish violence; attending rabbinical school to please his mother; his father's death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; a work assignment outside the ghetto; trading valuables for food to Polish smugglers; his mother and younger brother being smuggled out (he never saw them again); not escaping in order to protect his sister; hiding in a bunker during the uprising; discovery; deportation to Treblinka; selection for transfer to Majdanek after a few days; transfer a few months later to Auschw...

  2. Arieh B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arieh B., who was born in Paris, France in 1935. He recalls his father's arrest and return a month later; hiding in a rural area with his parents and younger brother; their discovery in 1942 and return to Paris; his mother's attempt to strangle him in German headquarters, but being stopped by his father; being placed in an orphanage with his brother; constant hunger; running away to a convent with older children; placement in a foster home in Normandy; the trauma of separation from his brother who was in another foster home; his profound loneliness; liberation in July...

  3. Alexander L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander L., a non-Jew who was born in Kiev in 1936. He describes leaving Russia in 1941 at the onset of the German occupation of Kiev; the fear of being separated from his parents; and imprisonment in labor camps in Germany from 1942 until 1944/1945. He remembers on-going travel, and hearing shots fired but never seeing any bodies. He tells of going to Czechoslovakia after the war and expresses the hope that his children will never have similar experiences.

  4. Hedy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy B., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1930. Mrs. B. recounts childhood in an assimilated family of a civil servant; increasing antisemitism after 1938; her family's unwillingness to separate when her father obtained two tickets to America; her father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion in 1942 (from which he never returned); eviction from her home and the ghettoization of Miskolc in 1944; clergymen who offered conversion to ghetto inhabitants; transfer to a nearby quarry which was bombed shortly before her deportation; and arrival at Auschwitz in M...

  5. Jenny R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. She recounts her mother's death in 1923; placement in a children's home where she was very unhappy; returning to her father; expulsion from school in 1933 due to anti-Jewish laws, although she did not consider herself Jewish; her father's arrest in summer 1933; visiting him in prison; his transfer to a concentration camp, then his release; difficulty obtaining and keeping jobs due to racial laws; having to prove that her mother was an "Aryan"; rumors of gas chambers and killi...

  6. Edith B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith B., who was born in Kon?us?, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She remembers Hungarian occupation; deportation to Ungvar, then Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from her family (she later learned her brother and father were alive in the male barracks); transfer to Frankfurt; forced labor; taunting of the prisoners because of their Yom Kippur prayers; starvation; a beating for smuggling food; a German guard allowing her to rest during work until she recovered her strength; transfer to Ravensbru?ck in December 1944; working at a Siemens factory; being saved from death by no...

  7. Ruchama P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruchama P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1922, the youngest of three children. She recounts her mother's death when she was two; attending Jewish, then public school; her father's remarriage; a troubled relationship with her stepmother; participating in Hechalutz; attending a boarding school in 1937; visiting her family on holidays; living briefly with her paternal grandparents; German invasion; her brothers' participation in the underground; one wanting to put her in hiding, but refusing to leave her younger half-siblings; deportation to Westerbork; a cl...

  8. Sam G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam G., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1928. He recalls a secure childhood; attending a Jewish school; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents' conflict when his brother fled to L'viv; his bar mitzvah in the ghetto on June 21, 1941; hiding with his parents during a round-up; mass shooting of the Jewish council witnessed by their Christian maid; moving to a furriers' workshop; his parents' deportation to Be?z?ec (he never saw them again); surviving a selection by stealing a work permit; escaping from the ghetto with assistance from their maid (she ...

  9. John F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1917. He recalls his mother's Sabbath observance; the death of one younger sister; outbreaks of antisemitism; studying medicine; membership in Zionist organizations; the Anschluss in 1938; confiscation of his father's business; illegally traveling to Venice in August; staying with an aunt in Trieste; returning to Venice; traveling to Zurich on a tourist visa; his father's arrest after Kristallnacht; attempting to obtain visas to China for his parents and siblings in Bern; resuming his studies; helping his professor smuggle h...

  10. Avivit K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avivit K., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1932, one of three children. She recounts her family's Zionism; speaking Hebrew at home; a trip to Palestine in 1935 with her mother and sister; her family delaying emigration to care for her developmentally disabled brother; Soviet occupation; her father's arrest and release; German invasion; her father's and uncle's arrest by Lithuanians (they were killed); ghettoization; forced labor with her sister; Lithuanians giving her food; a public hanging; her mother hiding her sister with non-Jews (she returned shortly ther...

  11. Ivan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan M. who was born in 1912 in Bratislava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia). He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; his father's career as a physician; becoming a physician in 1936; working as a physician in Podbrezová, then in the health department in Trnava and Levoča; meeting his future wife, a non-Jew, in 1938; moving to Bratislava; conversion to Catholicism in 1942, hoping to avoid deportation; his wife hiding him, and later his parents; marriage in April 1944; his son's birth a week later; and rejoining the health department after the w...

  12. Joe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe G., who was born in approximately 1938, the youngest of nine children. He recalls their apartment in Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions including curfews and wearing the star; a futile attempt to emigrate to Palestine; being sent with four siblings to a Red Cross children's home in Buda in summer 1944; Soviet forces fighting Hungarians and Nazis in front of their building; liberation by Soviets in January; observing Soviets execute captured Nazis; returning home after Pest's liberation; finding their parents; reunion with their other siblings (non-Jews hid them or...

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  14. Hana D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana D., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1931. She recounts living in Olbramovice on her paternal grandmother's farm, which her father managed; her parents' divorce; remaining with her father; not knowing she was Jewish; occasional visits with her mother; German invasion; confiscation of the farm; living with her father's sister in Prague, then with her mother; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from school; briefly hiding with her father's non-Jewish friends; secretly studying with other children under private teachers; her mot...

  15. Inge A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inge A., who was born in Kippenheim, Germany in 1934. She recalls life in the village; Crystal Night; her father's deportation to Dachau; moving to her grandparents' village; the excitement generated by the Nazis and participating in marching songs with local children; her father's return; his stories about Dachau; attending a Jewish school in Stuttgart; deportations of the local Jews, including her grandparents; and her father's success in their being exempted because he was a disabled World War I veteran. Ms. A. describes her family's eventual deportation to Theresi...

  16. Helga B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in approximately 1928. She recalls her chronic childhood illness; her family's strong German Jewish identity; the impact of the Nuremberg laws on her life, including having to attend a Jewish school; the glass-littered Kurfu?rstendamm following Kristallnacht; her father fleeing to Holland (she never saw him again); and being smuggled into Belgium with her mother in the summer of 1939. Mrs. B. recounts living in Brussels; attending a Catholic school; German occupation; deteriorating conditions; receiving assistance from the Joi...

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  18. Jacques A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques A., who was born in Germany in 1923. He recounts his mother's family's long history in Germany; their flight from Wuppertal to Nancy in 1933 due to antisemitism; moving to Romainville in 1936; arrest in 1941 for beating a Nazi sympathizer; escaping to Nantes; obtaining false papers; learning of his family's arrest in October 1942; his arrest in Nantes in 1943 as a Resistant; Gestapo interrogations; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor in "Lagischa Gruben" (Lagisza Cmentarna); transfer to Birkenau in July 1944; contracting typhus; friends p...

  19. Harry J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry J., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1932, the second youngest of eight siblings. He recounts their relative affluence and orthodoxy; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker with his family during round-ups; one brother's deportation to Treblinka; smuggling themselves into the small ghetto; hiding with his younger brother, then with his mother and younger brother; his mother ordering him to join his sisters at HASAG Pelzery, knowing the younger boy could not survive; slave labor in a munitions factory; visiting his sisters; their "release" in J...

  20. Jona J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jona J., who was born in Čaňa, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, one of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending public and Jewish schools; Hungarian occupation; a round-up by Hungarian police; deportation to Košice, then Auschwitz; remaining with one brother; learning of the gas chambers; observing huge fires and smelling a noxious odor; realizing his family had been killed; transfer two weeks later to Kittlitztreben; slave labor building bunkers; Polish non-Jews sharing extra food; hospitalization for pneumonia; obtaining a privileged...