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Displaying items 4,021 to 4,040 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Tibor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor G., who was born in Ardud, Romania in 1928, one of four children. He recounts attending Romanian school; Hungarian occupation; attending Hungarian school; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his release; ghettoization in Satu Mare; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father from his family upon arrival; slave labor with his father in Buna/Monowitz; a kapo giving him a privileged job and extra food that he shared with his father; public hangings; separation from his father; evacuation to Buchenwald in January 1945; receiving food ...

  2. Shmuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of two children. He recalls attending a Jewish school, then a Slovak grammar and high school; joining Hashomer Hatzair; swimming competitively; anti-Jewish laws under the Slovak Republic; his sister's emigration to England; his father's death; forced labor in Ivanka pri Dunaji; visiting his mother weekly; incarceration in Sered; learning his mother was in hiding (she was deported in 1944 and killed); working in Štrbské Pleso; escaping; Hashomer contacts providing him with false p...

  3. Abraham H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham H., who was born in approximately 1925 and grew up in Skhidnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Poland (presently Ukraine), the younger of two brothers. He recounts attending public and religious schools; antisemitic harassment by Poles and Ukranians; attending gymnasium in Drohobycz; participating in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; his father fleeing; hiding with his mother and brother to avoid anti-Jewish violence; joining relatives in Boryslav; round-ups and mass killings; ghettoization; forced labor; sexual harassment by a German; Ba...

  4. Miriam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam S., who was born in Homel?, Belarus in 1921. She describes the family moves to Vies?intos and Paneve?z?ys; attending university in Kaunas; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation; German invasion; being hidden by a non-Jew during Lithuanian killings of Jews; ghettoization; slave labor digging ditches; avoiding a large selection in October 1941; learning of mass killings in the Ninth Fort; marriage; her husband trading their possessions for food outside the ghetto; a round-up of children; escaping with her husband; being hidden with a group of Jews by a farmer ...

  5. Vera K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera K., a twin, who was born in Tornala, Czechoslovakia. She recalls their affluence; hiding with non-Jews and in the forest for two years following the German occupation; arrest and incarceration in Sered ?in 1943 with her parents and sister; transport to Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw her father again); selection for twin experiments by Josef Mengele; frequently seeking and finding her mother; witnessing women giving birth and the immediate murder of the babies; living in the Czech family camp, women's camp, Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager), and th...

  6. Peter M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter M., who was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine in 1917. He recalls family observances of Jewish holidays; attending Jewish school; working with his father as a carpenter after 1933; enlisting in the Soviet army in 1939; two years of communications training in Russia; military actions in Belarus in 1941; defending Z︠H︡lobin for a month; retreating; fleeing with a friend; returning home in October; learning his parents were evacuated and his brother drafted (he never saw them again) from a Ukrainian neighbor who provided food and helped him escape; living in Novoye Zhittya...

  7. Ada V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada V., who was born in 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, the only child in an affluent home. She recounts attending a Jewish school; frequent, pleasant visits to her mother's family in Paris; German invasion; Germans beating her father; his escape to Czyżew in the Soviet zone; being smuggled with her mother to join him; attending a Soviet school; participating in Komsomol; her father enlisting in the Soviet military (they never saw him again); German invasion; ghettoization; her mother paying smugglers to bring them to the Warsaw ghetto; she, her mother, and grandmother obtai...

  8. Mayer P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mayer P., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in approximately 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; one brother's escape to the Soviet Union; his father's death resulting from German mutilation; forced quarry labor; hiding his mother from round-ups; deportation with his sister to a labor camp; transfer to Gross Masselwitz, then Klettendorf; encountering his youngest brother; transfer to Faulbru?ck and Gra?ditz; slave labor in a Telefunken factory; his brother's hospitalization; bringing him food; transfer to Herzberg; his brother...

  9. Serge K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serge K., who was born in Saint Mande?, France in 1929. He recalls his family's secular life; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Marseille via Argenton-sur-Creuse, Orle?ans, and Cha?teauroux; German bombardment en route; attending high school; joining the Jewish scouts (EIF); arrest with his family in May 1943; imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in July 1943; separation from his father, mother and sister (he never saw them again); a prisoner advising him to say he was older; a privileged assignment indoors; hospitalization; a ...

  10. Trudy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy S., who was born in Pforzheim, Germany in 1924. She recalls a pleasant childhood; expulsion from school in 1938; seeing her father beaten on Kristallnacht; confiscation of his business; attending nursing school in Berlin in 1939; learning of her parents' and sister's deportation to France in 1940; and deportation to Jungfernhof, Latvia in December 1941. Mrs. S. recounts forced labor in the Ri?ga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and other camps; meeting her future husband, who gave her extra food and arranged her transfer with him and his parents; a female guard from...

  11. Max S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max S., who was born in Drahovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1924, one of ten children. He recounts leaving school after eighth grade to work; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; local forced labor; his father's return in 1941; deportation with his parents and siblings, except for two sisters, to Kolomyi?a?, Horodenka, then Orinin; three weeks incarceration in a factory; removal for slave labor; staying in a ditch during a mass shooting; a Ukrainian woman helping him escape when the shooting was over...

  12. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Beli Manastir, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1929, the eldest of his mother's five children (His father was previously married to his mother's sister with whom he had three children). He recounts moving to Mukacheve before he was two; attending a Czech school and cheder; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah which he barely remembers; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1944; transport to Szombathely; encountering a German soldier at a railroad station who gave him a loaf of bread; another German soldier who saved his...

  13. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Kolomyi?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1918. He recalls conflict with his Hasidic father over his Zionism; his father's death in 1930; the emigration of three sisters to the United States; antisemitic harassment; joining the Polish army; demobilization in Przemys?l; returning home; Soviet occupation; conscription into the Soviet army in May 1941; German invasion; marching through Chortkiv to Poltava; being wounded; eight months' recovery in a military hospital; working in the Ural mountains; re-mobilization; advancing to Berlin; not believi...

  14. Lisa B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa B., who was born in Striegau, Germany (presently Strzegom, Poland) in 1936. She recounts her parents were very assimilated; her father hiding after Kristallnacht to avoid arrest; obtaining papers for their emigration to Shanghai; their departure on January 1, 1939; attending an English school; her grandmother's and uncle's arrival; Japanese occupation after Pearl Harbor; ghettoization in 1943; various Jewish communities in Shanghai; food shortages and overcrowding; emigrating to the United States after the war; and learning of the genocide in Europe. Mrs. B. show...

  15. Leon P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon P., who was born in Pruzhany, Russia (ceded to Poland in 1919, presently Belarus) in 1914. He recalls he was a child music prodigy; traveling to Minsk seeking music instruction; living in Warsaw to study piano; returning home in 1924; his older sister's emigration to the United States in 1933; attending a music conservatory in Warsaw; his father's death in 1938; nomination for the international Chopin competition; increasing antisemitism; performing to support his mother and younger sister; German invasion; fleeing to Vilnius; futile attempts to bring his mother ...

  16. Meir B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1912, one of five brothers. He recalls attending public school, cheder, and a Jewish gymnasium; attending university in Warsaw; teaching at the gymnasium from which he graduated; German invasion in September 1939; briefly fleeing east with his family; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of the family business; contacts with Oskar Schindler who was involved with their business; ghettoization; deportations; forced labor outside the ghetto; transfer to Krako?w concent...

  17. Esther W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther W. who was born around 1921 in Tlumach, Poland (now Ukraine). She recalls her family's Zionist activities; Soviet occupation; German invasion; hiding during a round-up when her parents and two siblings were transported to another town where her father was killed; her mother's return; ghettoization; imprisonment in 1942; bribing their way out; transfer to Buchach; and escaping an aktion in which her mother and a sister were killed in June 1943. Mrs. W. recounts following her mother's instructions to escape; hiding in the forest and in the homes of Polish farmers...

  18. Frances B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances B., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1918. Mrs. B. tells of a family move to Korelitz; religious homelife; increasing antisemitism; Zionist youth group membership; attempts to emigrate to Palestine or South Africa; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; round-up of young men who were killed in Nowogro?dek; forced labor; her mother's death from beating; transfer with her family to Nowogro?dek; the murder of 4,000 on August 7, 1942; and her last meeting with her father. She describes hiding in a cesspool six days with her siste...

  19. Roman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Lemberg, Poland (L?viv, Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his assimilated family; graduating from gymnasium in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending technical school; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish killing and violence; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation; obtaining false papers; taking his mother to a non-Jewish family outside the ghetto; volunteering to work for Organisation Todt as a Pole; escaping with two Jews to Dnipropetrovs?k; encountering Romanian soldiers traveling to Odesa; hiding with a Polish woman afte...

  20. Soula M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Soula M., a Greek Evangelist, who was born in Katerine?, Greece in 1924. She recounts German invasion; her family hiding British soldiers in their house; their arrest in July 1942; beatings during interrogations; transfer to prison in Salonika, then Banjica, Serbia; severe beatings by Croatian guards; transfer to Birkenau; slave labor digging ditches; sharing stolen food with other prisoners; dreaming she should volunteer for transfer; volunteering for a labor camp; transfer to Eberswalde; escaping with friends during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr...