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

  1. David E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David E., who was born in Gherla, Romania in 1926, one of five children. He recounts his family's long history there; a large extended family; Hungarian occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; two years training as a furniture maker; deportation to a ghetto in 1944, then to Auschwitz after four weeks; separation from his family (he never saw them again); volunteering as a cabinet maker, which saved his life; improved conditions and additional food; receiving extra food and a better assignment from an SS man; friendship with a co-worker (they remai...

  2. Andre W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre W., who was born in Bras?ov, Romania in 1926. He recalls his father, a physician, working in the family lumber business; Iron Guard takeover of Romania; smuggling into Hungary with his brother; and a pleasant life there from 1940 to 1944. Dr. W. relates his mother's deportation; his brother's conscription into a forced labor battalion; hiding in the forest with his father; their return to a ghetto; transport to Auschwitz; and seeing his mother there for the last time. He describes their transfer to Buchenwald; his father's privileged position as a physician; eva...

  3. Erna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919, one of four children. She recalls her father's death when she was nine; her neighbors' rapid transition to Nazism in 1933; attending public school; a teacher protecting her from antisemitic harrassment; deportation to Poland of her older sister's husband as a non-German citizen; her sister and sister's child joining him (she never saw them again); her younger sister's departure on a kindertransport to Palestine; working as a seamstress; the destructiveness of Kristallnacht; forced labor for Siemens in Spandau; her moth...

  4. Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in Zshet?l, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus) in 1915. He recalls attending yeshiva; being drafted into the Polish military at age eighteen; discharge two years later; a brother's emigration to Canada; military recall in March 1939; serving in P?ock and P?on?sk; German invasion; retreating to Warsaw, then Modlin; imprisonment in a stalag; separation of the Jewish POWs; forced labor in Bia?a Podlaska in 1940; transfer to Ko?nskowola, then in August 1941 to Budzyn?; deciding not to join a camp resistance group; slave labor in Wieliczka in ...

  5. Moses B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1909. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; having to work after his bar mitzvah to help support his family; studying before and after work; German invasion; being rounded-up with other men and tortured for three days; his release when his family paid a ransom; his father visiting another town (he never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother's death from starvation; assignment of Mordecai Rumkowski's and David Gertler's adopted children to his work detail; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; tran...

  6. Marta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marta M., who was born in Kolta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of nine children. She recalls starting school in 1933; Hungarian occupation; her father's death; draft of her older brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; transfer to the Šurany ghetto; forced labor harvesting carrots; transfer to Komárom for two weeks, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her younger sister from her mother and brother upon arrival; sorting rocks in a quarry; her sister's hospitalization; a female Hungarian physician saving her; assignment with a friend...

  7. Bela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela G., who was born in Radzyn? Podlaski, Poland, one of four sisters. She recounts attending school; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor; round-ups; hiding in a bunker for eight days; transfer to Miedzyrzec Podlaski ghetto; briefly returning to Radzyn? with her family, then going back to Miedzyrzec; hiding with her father during a round-up (her mother was deported and killed); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her father; sending bread to him through a friend; a privileged assignment to the Canada Kommando; sharing extra food with a friend; ...

  8. Donald G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donald G., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He tells of his training in Georgia and Scotland, then his position as a military policeman in Aachen, Germany; entering the Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen; lack of knowledge of what they were going to see; orders to separate the living from the dead; the terribly undernourished and overworked prisoners; the overwhelming stench (a memory which always returns when he remembers this time); taking pictures; not being able to talk about what he witnessed after his return to the United States; and his l...

  9. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913, one of four children. In addition to information in a previously cataloged testimony, Mr. S. recounts playing violin as a youth in a Maccabi orchestra; his Greek commander issuing him, his brother, and others false papers as non-Jews so they could safely return home from front-line military services when Greece was defeated; refusing offers from non-Jews to hide in order to remain with his pregnant wife; encounters with Nazi officials Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner; playing the violin in the camp hospital ...

  10. Sara L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara L., who was born in a small town near Munka?cs, Hungary in 1897. She recalls growing up in a rich household as the youngest of eleven children; her marriage and subsequent move to Kos?ice; the birth of two sons; and her doubts about the future when she encountered Jews fleeing from Poland. She describes many episodes of fleeing with her children after the German occupation (her husband had already been taken away); the loss of her elder son; traveling through Czechoslovakia and Hungary seeking safety; leaving her younger son with relatives in Cojocna, Romania; pa...

  11. Dora M. and Jaime M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora M., who was born in Be?chato?w, Poland in 1913, one of ten children. She recalls her happy youth; her mother's death in 1937; German invasion; fleeing to Pabianice with her family; returning home; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; her father's humiliation when forced to shave his beard; marriage; her husband traveling to Piotrko?w; his inability to return immediately before their deportation (she never saw him again); transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with her brother and two sisters; working in a hospital; being forced to put patients on trucks for deporta...

  12. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1923. She recounts her father's death when she was ten months old; antisemitic harassment by teachers and students in school; her mother's remarriage; moving to Sosnowiec; the births of two half-siblings; German invasion; ghettoization in Srodula; pervasive hunger; deportation with her sister to Guentherbruecke; forced labor in a munitions factory; she and her sister helping each other; receiving extra food from her cousin; transfer to Peterswaldau; liberation by Soviet troops; their return to Sosnowiec; learning her immedi...

  13. Zehava R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zehava R., who was born in Żywiec, Poland in 1935, one of two children. She recounts living in Bochnia; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; an aunt's wedding; separation from her brother during a round-up (they never saw him again); living with an aunt who worked for the Germans; her aunt arranging for a non-Jewish woman to hide her; escaping from the ghetto; the woman taking her to Jews in Prokocim; entering Slovakia illegally with them; living in a Joint camp in Liptovský Mikuláš; intense loneliness; arrest in Košice while attem...

  14. Zelda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zelda G., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1924. She recalls involvement in a Zionist organization; the outbreak of war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; efforts to organize an underground; moving to her sister's home with her mother when the second ghetto was formed; the Judenrat and Zionist organization's efforts to protect people; joining her relatives in the first ghetto when the other was liquidated; hiding during the round-ups in January 1943 (she was separated from her family and never saw them again); transport to...

  15. June F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. She recounts her comfortable childhood and loving family; joining her grandmother in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941; escaping with false papers to the Aryan side; assistance from a German in obtaining a job in the Tomaszo?w ghetto; transfer with her husband to Bliz?yn in 1943, three months after their marriage; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz; communicating with him until his deportation to another camp; selections and meaningless slave labor; public hanging of those who tried to escape; cleaning sewers as a punish...

  16. William R. Holocaust testimony

  17. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Galicia, Poland in 1910. She speaks of her medical education in Czechoslovakia; her return to Poland in 1939 after the outbreak of the war; and her work in a Russian hospital during the Russian occupation of her town (1939-1941). She describes the ghettoization of her home town; life in the ghetto, where she lived with her family and worked as a physician; the liquidation of the ghetto hospital and her transfer to another town where she served as physician and dentist for the gentile population for nine months, until it became unsafe for her...

  18. Sara T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara T., who was born in Middelburg, Netherlands in 1922, one of three children. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3114), Ms. T. recounts attending public school; German invasion; Dutch police warning them to hide their belongings; incarceration in many camps, including Gross-Rosen; and prisoners freezing to death in open cattle cars. She shows photographs.

  19. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Hungary, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's export business and their farm in the country; harassment by non-Jews; visiting a cousin in Budapest; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; completing high school; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation with her sister and cousins from their parents; reciting poetry, singing, and discussing their previous lives to raise their morale; her sister protecting her; their separation (she never...

  20. Allegra K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allegra K., who was born in Kastoria, Greece in 1927, one of seven children. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; warm family life; one brother's emigration to the United States; benign Italian occupation; her father's arrest and escape from Thessalonike? in 1943; German invasion; her father refusing offers from non-Jewish friends to hide some of them in order to keep the family together; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Thessalonike?; separation from her family upon arrival; slave labor digging potatoes; hospitalization; a prisoner expelling her from th...