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

  1. Gitta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitte L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiance?. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United State...

  2. Clara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara G., who was born in Rhodes in 1923, the youngest of six children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in a multi-cultural environment; attending Catholic school; emigration of three older siblings; implementation of anti-Jewish laws by the Italian fascists in 1938; expulsion from school; German invasion in 1943; deportation with her siblings, parents, and grandmother to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Athens in July 1944; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); difficulties because they did not understand German; assistance from prisoners from...

  3. Luci P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luci P., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1925. She recounts German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; assistance from Serbian friends; her sister's compulsory forced labor; an uncle fleeing to Pris?tina; acquiring false papers; joining him with her family in November via Skopje; being placed on the train back to Yugoslavia; escaping with assistance from a stranger; hiding in a village with a poor, Jewish family; joining her uncle in Prizren; continuing assistance from local Serbs; arrest in 1942; an Italian officer protecting them; transfer to Kavaje?; a...

  4. Sara F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914, one of eight children. She recounts the emigration of two sisters to the United States when she was a child; working at her own business starting at age fifteen; marriage in 1938; her son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); her mother's death; her son being taken in the children's deportation when he was two years old; deportation with her sister and niece to Auschwitz in 1944; their transfer to Stutthof; her niece's selection; her sister's refus...

  5. Bela E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela E., one of three children. She recalls attending schools in Vilnius; her father's and brother's prewar deaths; German invasion; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; her deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor digging trenches, then in a factory; escaping with a fellow prisoner; a Pole hiding, then denouncing, them; escaping and hiding with another man; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Austria in 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. E. discusses learning her sister was killed in Auschwitz; nightmares; and her husband's murde...

  6. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. In addition to information included in a previously cataloged testimony (HVT-1368), Ms. M. recalls living in Hilversum after German invasion of the Netherlands; a non-Jewish friend arranging her hiding place in Haarlem; and staying there from August 1942 to January 1943. She notes improved communications today enable people to help during genocides such as in Cambodia.

  7. Georges D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges D., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, one of three children. He recounts participating in a socialist group and demonstrations; contact with Jewish refugees from Germany; military enlistment in 1938; discharge; recall shortly before the May 10, 1940 German invasion; assignments to anti-aircraft units in several locations, ending at Dunkerque; incarceration in two prisoner of war camps; escaping; return to Brussels; joining the Resistance; sympathy for Jews when they were forced to wear the yellow a star; distributing illegal newspapers; an...

  8. Seymour M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Seymour M., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts a happy childhood in Bistrița, Romania; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940, resulting in antisemitic violence; his brother's military draft; German invasion in May 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his father from the women; his father convincing him to eat the soup; their transfer weeks later to Mauthausen, then days later to Melk; slave labor excavating tunnels; transfer to E...

  9. Rachel G. edited testimony

    Rachel G., a child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. She tells of her leave taking from her parents, and lovingly recalls the kindness of the priest, nuns, and childless couple who helped her survive in hiding. She also recounts her postwar reunion and experiences with her mother.

  10. Eugene N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene N., who was born in Czechoslovakia, in 1923. He tells of his family's prewar life; instances of prewar antisemitism; and the effects of the Hungarian and German occupations. He relates his family's deportation in April, 1944, from his grandmother's house in Budapest, where they were then living, to the Munka?cs ghetto and later to Auschwitz. Mr. N. vividly recalls his arrival at Auschwitz, including his separation from family members except his father and brother; their transfer after a week to Mauthausen, and eight days later, to Melk, where they worked as sla...

  11. Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry B., who was born in 1922, and served with the United States 3rd Army in World War II. He recounts his Jewish upbringing; awareness of increasing antisemitism in Europe; a relative from Warsaw sending his son to live with Mr. B.'s family; military draft in 1942; deployment to Europe in 1944; participating in combat, moving through France and Germany into Austria; liberating Gunskirchen; encountering Jewish prisoners with whom he conversed in Yiddish; liberating another camp a few days later; observing the emaciated corpses of massacre victims; and moving out with...

  12. Edith V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith V., who was born in Tokaj, Hungary in 1930. This testimony includes the information from an earlier interview (HVT-1205). Mrs. V. additionally recalls summer vacations in Litka and she discusses losing her belief in God when she was in Auschwitz.

  13. Armin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Armin H., who was born in Nitra, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1910, the oldest of five children. He recalls apprenticing as a locksmith; enlistment in the military in 1930; discharge in 1932; marriage in 1937; moving to Prievidza; military draft in Žilina in 1938; transfer to Čadca; returning to Prievidza; moving to Topol̕čany; his daughter's birth (their first child had died); a friend in the Hlinka guard providing false papers and for a time protecting him from deportation; deportation with his wife and daughter to Nováky in May 1942, then t...

  14. Ketty L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ketty L., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1915. She recalls the deaths of her mother and stepmother; attending a French convent school; marriage; the births of two sons; benign Italian occupation in spring 1941; German invasion in 1943; hiding to avoid round-ups; leaving valuables with non-Jewish friends (they returned them after the war), who also offered to hide her sons; refusing to separate from her children; her husband obtaining Portuguese identity papers which they thought protected them; arrest on March 19, 1944; incarceration in Haidari; placement on a trai...

  15. Andre? E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? E., who was born in Parczew, Poland in 1935. He recalls observance of the sabbath and Jewish holidays; his extended family; German invasion; hiding with his parents and younger sister; non-Jewish families refusing to hide them; disappearance of his mother and sister (he never saw them again); he and his father joining a partisan group in the forest; living in bunkers; stealing food from local peasants; a Soviet soldier who protected him; actions against Germans including blowing up railroads; leaving the forest during a major German offensive; attacks by Polish...

  16. Steven P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steven P., who was born in Cuhea, Romania in 1928. He recalls observing Shabbat; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school and cheder; relatives in the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Ti?rgu-Mures?; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in April; selection for labor with his father; his brother staying with them for three days; separation from his father after a week (he never saw him again); transfer to Buchenwald; placement in a children's block; German Jews sharing parcels from Switz...

  17. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1937, the youngest of four children. He recounts living with foster parents in Bournemouth, England after being sent on a kindertransport (he thought they were his biological parents); good relations with them and their daughters; being told in 1946 that his parents were alive and he had three siblings; resentment at leaving the only home he had known; living with his siblings, uncle, and aunt in London for a year; reunion with his parents in New York in 1947; his sense he was living with strangers; and only recently learn...

  18. Joan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joan L., who was born in Lu?beck, Germany in 1920. She recalls her family moving to Berlin in 1926; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions and activities from 1934 onward; expulsion from school in 1938; destruction of the synagogue across the street on Kristallnacht; a store employee who provided food prior to legal Jewish shopping hours; one sister's emigration to England in 1939; sale of the family property; and receiving emigration papers in 1940. Mrs. L. recounts traveling via Moscow, Manchuria, Korea, and Japan, where she stayed four months; continuing to New York; ...

  19. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Hanna F., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mrs. F. notes that her first testimony was too short to convey her experience or say what she had wanted. She expands on the information contained in her previous testimony and recalls supporting her family by passing as a Polish non-Jew prior to deportation; obtaining Polish papers; separating from her family (neither her parents nor five siblings survived); forced labor in Germany as a non-Jew; denunciation in May 1943; imprisonment, which was "heaven" compared to concentration camps; deport...