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

  1. Friedrich R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedrich R., a Romani, who was born in Breisgau, Germany in 1927. He recalls expulsion from school in 1938 due to racial laws; attending a school with Jewish children in Cologne for two years; deportation to work camps in Poland; slave labor in quarries and street building; starvation rations; transfer to an Organization Todt camp in Kielce; working with Jewish, Italian, and Russian forced laborers; sadistic guards; a death march through the Tyrol; liberation by United States troops; becoming ill from eating their rations; living in France; and returning to Germany. ...

  2. Bernard L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1922. He recalls his childhood in the large family of a prominent hat manufacturer; hiding in a small town in late 1939; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; and being taken with a cousin to a labor camp near Frankfurt an der Oder. He relates working as a railroad fireman; being given food by a German; transfer to a camp at Brieskow-Finkenheerd; his cousin's death from malnutrition; traveling under guard to Berlin to retrieve clothing and valuables from the Jewish Gemeinde; and transfer to Auschwitz in 1942. Mr. L. describes h...

  3. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's emigration to Paris; being sent to Poland to live with his grandparents; returning to Paris in the mid-1930s; no religious observances in his home; evacuation with other children to an OSE home in the Creuse; warm relations with the children and staff; a close friendship with a young man; traveling in a group to Casablanca via Marseille in spring 1942, then to the United States in a Portuguese ship; living briefly with a family in Yonkers, N.Y., then for five years with a family in Pittsburgh; c...

  4. Emerson B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emerson B., who served with the United States Army 411th Infantry Regiment, then the 3rd Infantry Division in World War II. He recounts landing in North Africa; being wounded in Italy; hospitalization; going through France to Germany; visiting Dachau for about four hours the day after its liberation; and observing from a distance a train filled with emaciated corpses and prisoners.

  5. Alessandra B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alessandra B., who was born to a non-Jewish father and a Jewish mother in Fiume, Italy (presently Rijeka, Croatia) in 1939, one of two sisters. She recounts never having met her father (he was a prisoner of war of the British in Africa); living in her maternal grandmother's home; her family's denouncement; their deportation to Risiera di San Sabba, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation with her mother and sister from her grandmother; being tattooed; assignment with her sister and cousin to a children's barrack; learning Czech and German; playing in the snow; ces...

  6. John R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1920. He recalls attending elementary and technical high school in ?o?dz?; active participation in Jewish socialist organizations; antisemitic incidents; participating in Deror, a Zionist socialist movement; training on a kibbutz in Be?dzin in 1939; German invasion; walking to ?o?dz?; reconstituting the kibbutz in Be?dzin to aid the Jewish community; meeting his future wife; Frumk?ah Plot?nitsk?ah's visit to begin to organize resistance; rescuing children smuggled from the Warsaw ghetto; the kibbutz organizing a children's ...

  7. Shalom M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom M., who was born in Z?epc?e, Yugoslavia (presently Bosnia and Hercegovina). He recalls military draft in 1941; being wounded and taken prisoner; transport to Stalag III A; sabotaging the work they were forced to do; escaping on a cargo train to Yugoslavia in April 1942; returning home; learning the Jewish community had been deported, with the exception of his parents (they were protected by a non-Jew); arrest and torture by Ustas?a, including former schoolmates; imprisonment in Travnik; transport to Jasenovac; slave labor; sadistic killings by Ustas?a guards; a...

  8. Shoshana D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana D., who was born in Hajduböszörmény, Hungary in 1935, the youngest of five daughters. She recounts her family's affluence; her maternal grandparents' emigration to Palestine in 1936; attending Jewish, then public school; confiscation of her father's store; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; non-Jewish neighbors offering to take her and her sisters; her mother refusing, not wanting to be separated from them; their deportation to the Debrecen ghetto, then to Strasshof; being sent to Josefthal for agricultural slave labor; caring...

  9. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1919. She recalls her affluent, orthodox home; one sister's emigration to the United States in 1937; her non-Jewish boyfriend; being fired in 1942 because she was Jewish; her father's death; German occupation; refusing to leave her mother to hide with her boyfriend; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Dundangen three days later; working in the kitchen; supplying food to friends; escape with a male prisoner; their capture and imprisonment; benign condi...

  10. Gertrude G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. She recalls hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; expulsion from school; her father's arrest prior to Kristallnacht; public humiliation of her mother and grandmother on Kristallnacht; learning her father was in Dachau; his release, based upon a promise to leave Austria; their emigration to Italy; living in Milan with assistance from the Joint; attending a Jewish school; her father's internment as a political refugee; joining him, with her mother, in Cas...

  11. Paula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula K., who was born in K?odawa, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in 1939; German soldiers severely beating, then killing the rabbi and others; expulsion from their home; non-Jews providing food for her family; twenty months in a forced labor camp; being beaten by a guard; crocheting for civilian workers to earn extra food; a Polish woman who often assisted her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hiding injuries to avoid selection; an SS woman who gave her extra food; transfer to Czechoslovakia in late 1944; sabotaging their work in an airplane factory; a...

  12. Elimelech S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elimelech S., who was born in Żuromin, Poland in 1919. He recounts his father's death before his birth; his mother's remarriage; attending public school, cheder, then a technical school; antisemitic harassment; working in Warsaw beginning in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; returning home; deportation from Sierpc to Pomiechówek, then Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in November; escaping; joining his family in Warsaw; retrieving money in Żuromin; selling belongings in Mława; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; posing as a Polish smuggler to escape; smuggling food to h...

  13. Lisbeth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisbeth R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recalls her childhood; the German annnexation of Austria; and the circumstances under which she was chosen for a children's transport to England in February 1939. She describes her life in Norwich, England; receiving news from the rest of the family, still in Austria; and her emigration from Liverpool, with her aunt and uncle, to the United States in May 1940. She tells of life in Queens and the Bronx, New York and her education at Queens and Middlebury Colleges. Mrs. R. also recounts her hope that her parents c...

  14. Emanuel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel S., who was born in Solotvina, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1915, one of ten children. He recalls the observant Jewish community; his family's limited resources; attending cheder, Czech school and yeshiva, then high school in Prague in 1933; being joined by two brothers; attending engineering school in 1937; German occupation; antisemitic measures; working in a rural area; the outbreak of war; obtaining permission to emigrate to Palestine in October 1939 (his brothers had made arrangements through Betar); humiliations inflicted on Jews seek...

  15. Margit W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit W., who was born in Zlatni?ky, Czechoslovakia in 1912. She recalls her family moving to Trenc?i?n; attending religious and technical schools; learning to sew; her marriage in 1934; her son's birth in 1937; anti-Jewish measures; her husband's forced transfer to a nearby town and eventual deportation (she never saw him again); forced labor as a seamstress in Nova?ky, where she could keep her son; and avoiding a transport through an influential acquaintance. She describes sending her son to her parents, who went into the mountains; fleeing to the mountains herself...

  16. Carl H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carl H., who was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany in 1933. He recalls traveling to a Jewish school in Worms because Jews could not attend public school; confiscation of their home; deportation to Gurs, then Rivesaltes in southern France; reluctantly departing from his parents (they convinced him to leave) for a children's home in Saint-Raphae?l; corresponding with his parents and brother until they were deported; and transfer to another children's home, then to a farm family in Saint-Apollinaire-de-Rias for three years; being found by a cousin after the war; joining...

  17. Peretz H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, the fifth of six children. He recounts harassment as the only Jew in his public school class; his oldest brother's military draft in 1938; German invasion; learning his brother was taken as a Soviet prisoner of war; another brother leaving to find him; anti-Jewish abuse and restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death from starvation; his older two brothers escaping; smuggling food into the ghetto with his younger brother Zalman; escaping to live as non-Jews; singing Polish songs for food and money; several escapes...

  18. Shraga P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shraga P., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924, the second of four children. He recounts a sister's death in 1934; attending public school; his father's death; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working at the family store in Kolumna; attending Hashomer camps; German invasion; random forced labor; ghettoization; his grandfather's death days later; joining a hachshara with his older brother in Marysin; starving people from the ghetto taking their crops; returning to the ghetto in January 1941; clandestine Hashomer meetings; being assigned to work in a public kitchen...

  19. Barbara R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barbara R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She recalls five older brothers; marriage in 1939; three brothers fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization in 1940; building bunkers in 1943 in which to hide; her brother's son being taken in a round-up; her husband smuggling weapons for the uprising, but not participating; deportation with her family to Majdanek; public hanging of a woman who tried to escape; their transfer to Radom; slave labor in a printing plant; transfer a year later to Auschwitz; separation from her family; a death march and train transport to Ravens...

  20. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in 1913 and drafted into the United States Army. He recalls training with the 65th Infantry Division in the United States; serving with the 45th Infantry Division in Europe; liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945; emaciated, dazed prisoners; corpses all over; shock, disbelief and anger; the United States troops shooting the German soldiers; speaking with Jewish prisoners in Yiddish; giving the prisoners their food, inadvertently causing their deaths; leaving four hours later; smelling the "odor of death" all the way to Munich; liberating escaped ...