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Displaying items 941 to 960 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Helen M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen M., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. She recalls the Hungarian occupation of 1938; anti-Semitic legislation; her escape with her sister across the Hungarian border to Slovakia in 1944; the experience of living and working under false papers; her flight to Bratislava to escape deportation; and her eventual arrest. Mrs. M. also describes her journey to Terezi?n; her vital relationship with her sister; their work regulating the showers in Terezi?n; their attempted escape; her postwar reunion with her father; and other details of her postwar life in...

  2. Israel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel S., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls his religious family and happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; escaping deportation to Poland; German invasion in 1944; evacuation with his family to a brick factory; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz (he never saw his mother again); two weeks in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in a coal mine in Melk; a prisoner saving him during an accident (he was seriously injured); assistance from...

  3. Klara V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara V., who was born in Shpola, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; religious observances ceasing due to Soviet secularization; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with her family; returning home; forced labor; a mass killing which included her father; ghettoization with her mother and young brother; a German warning them to leave; her mother hiding her with a non-Jewish acquaintance; returning to her mother; transfer to nearby labor camps; assistance from local peasants; contracting typhus; a doctor saving her when the sick were executed...

  4. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1916. Mr. S. recalls his childhood in L?vov; his Polish and Jewish identities; emigration of one brother to Palestine and another to New York; anti-Semitic incidents; his medical studies in Italy, France and Belgium; and return to Poland in the summer of 1939 due to his Polish patriotism. He discusses Soviet occupation; leading Polish student resisters; German occupation; mass murders and deportations; moving to the Warsaw ghetto with his parents, brother and sister-in-law; deteriorating conditions; extreme hunger; and dep...

  5. Tusia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimonies of Tusia H., whose family had deep roots in Be?dzin, Poland. She recalls active participation in a Zionist group; one brother's emigration to Israel; her father's deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 (she never saw him again); marriage; ghettoization in 1943; working in the hospital and pharmacy; a brother's resistance activities; his escape to Slovakia; following him with her mother, but not her husband, who was to have come later; assisting Jews escape to Slovakia; traveling to Budapest as non-Jews on false papers; contacts with Joel Brand and Rudolf Kasztner; organizing...

  6. Maria W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria W., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia in 1933. She recounts moving to Zvolen at age four; expulsion from school as a Jew; her parents being warned they were listed for deportation; paying to be smuggled from Lučenec to Hungary in September 1942; being robbed by smugglers except for their gold in her dress buttons; traveling to Budapest; her grandmother joining them; obtaining false papers; attending a Jewish school; her father's deportation to a labor camp in 1943; moving to a yellow star house; hiding with a non-Jewish friend during an Arrow Cross round-...

  7. Debora K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Debora K., who grew up in Prijedor, Bosnia, one of five children. She recalls attending university in Belgrade in 1934; marriage to a non-Jewish Serb in 1936; living in Smederevska Palanka; her son's birth; German invasion in 1941; partisan activities with her husband; their arrest; traumatic separation from her husband; transfer to a Belgrade prison, then Banjica; interrogations and beatings; transfer of Jewish prisoners to Zemun (Zajmiste) in December 1941; sharing food and clothing with Romani prisoners; becoming ill; assistance from fellow prisoners; her husband a...

  8. Celia K. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Celia K., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Ms. K. notes she had difficulty focusing during her first interview. She recalls reading, and thinking only about food while hidden in the hole; her sister's experiences prior to joining her in hiding; never crying during the war; a suicide attempt in ?o?dz? after the war; seeking psychological help for herself and her son in the United States; believing no therapist understood her; isolation from the community; wishing she were closer to her brothers in Israel; the risks the farmer who hid he...

  9. Loni K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Loni K., who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1913. Mrs. K. recalls illegally emigrating to Holland in mid-1933; working as a servant and a legal secretary in Amsterdam; German occupation; her mother and sisters' emigration (her father was deported in 1942 and died in Theresienstadt); imposition of antisemitic restrictions; protection from deportation because she worked for the Joodse Raad; transport to Westerbork in mid-1943; transport to Theresienstadt in February 1944; working in a coffin factory; and details of her arrival at Auschwitz in May 1944. She tells of tran...

  10. Elsa and Kurt S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsa and Kurt S. Kurt S. was born in Munich, Germany in 1917. He recalls being first in his class, but not matriculating due to anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of the family business; his father's death in 1936; his deportation to Dachau on Kristallnacht; release contingent upon his emigration; Hechalutz arranging his emigration to the Netherlands; working on a farm; and marriage in 1941. Elsa S. was born in Heidelberg in 1921. She recounts her family's move to Ludwigshafen in 1925; expulsion from school; preparing to emigrate to Israel with Hechalutz; meeting her futu...

  11. Hans L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans L., who was born in Colmar, Alsace (then Germany, now France) in 1906. He discusses the death of his father shortly after his birth; his childhood in Kassel, Germany and then, from the age of five, in Berlin; and his feelings of Jewish identity within an assimilated family. He recalls the atmosphere in Berlin during World War I; the post-war political instability; and the Nazi rise to power. He speaks of his education as a philosophy student under Martin Heidegger; his pursuit of a medical degree; the anti-Jewish order resulting in his dismissal from his internsh...

  12. Andre? R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? R., a twin, who was born in Lyon, France in 1924, one of four children. Mr. R. recounts his mother was Jewish and his father the child of a Jew and Christian; living in Paris; German occupation; being sent with his twin brother to live with a Christian family in Lyon in 1942; his parents and sisters joining them; his father's arrest in May 1943 for Resistance work (he never saw him again); his Resistance activities; arrest with his family in May 1944; incarceration in Montluc prison; transfer to Drancy in June; deportation in July to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separat...

  13. Nisim A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nisim A., who was born in Bitola, Serbia in 1917, one of five children. He recalls his family's poverty; religious observance; cordial relations with the Macedonians; participating in Tehelet Lavan, a leftist Zionist organization; military service in Maribor; joining a hachsharah in 1935 located on farms in Subotica, elsewhere, and in Sušak; attempting illegal emigration to Palestine in 1940 from Vukovar; being stopped in Kladova; traveling to Belgrade, then to Sušak; hearing he was recalled to the military; serving for six months on the Albanian border; moving to Z...

  14. Manek F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manek F. who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925. He recalls his family's move to Danzig; friendships with German children; exclusion when they joined the Hitler Youth; his bar mitzvah in the Great Synagogue; moving to ?o?dz?; not being able to attend school since he did not speak Polish; and the outbreak of war. Mr. F. relates their move to Warsaw; his father's smuggling food into the ghetto in partnership with well-connected Germans; his father's round-up in 1941; unsuccessful efforts of his German partner to have him released from transport to Treblinka; the Warsaw...

  15. Bela F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela F., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1924. She recalls her happy, observant childhood; attending Jewish school; being rounded-up in September 1939 while playing; forced labor in Polano?w; joining her family in the Radom ghetto; continued forced labor in Polano?w; obtaining false papers; her father's arrest outside the ghetto; his execution in February 1942; working in a factory outside Radom; her mother's refusal to join her; the ghetto's liquidation (she never saw her mother, sister, and brother again); transfer to Bliz?yn in May 1943; forced labor; beatings; co...

  16. Arnold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. In a detailed, vivid, and insightful testimony, he describes his family background; completing medical studies in Rouen and Toulouse; returning to Poland; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; working in a hospital; returning to ?o?dz?; working in the Jewish infirmary; ghettoization; limited contact with Germans; corresponding with his father in the Warsaw ghetto; deportations; arrest by Jewish police for helping Bund demonstrators; working in a hospital; visiting the ghetto's Romani section; his agony over being forc...

  17. Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam W., who was born in approximately 1929 and lived in L?viv, Poland. She recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; hiding during round-ups; being found; her mother urging her to run; escaping; finding her older sister, who did not look Jewish; her sister arranging their trip to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; a friend finding her a servant's job; leaving, fearing denouncement; her friend finding her another job; frequently traveling to her employer's mother in Otwock; her employer briefly hiding...

  18. Moses S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses S., who was born in 1912 in Stare Sambor, a small town, and grew up there and in nearby Sambor, Poland (now Ukraine). He describes his difficult youth; his move to Borislav; his marriage in 1938; German occupation, Soviet occupation, and German re-occupation in 1941, when he was taken to Russia; his escape to his home town; and his return to Borislav, where he rejoined his wife and young daughter. He relates the ghettoization of Borislav; the round-up of Jews, which he escaped but his wife and child did not; living in a bunker in the forest and working by day in...

  19. Frank N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1927. He recalls his close, extended family; antisemitic incidents in public school; transfer to a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation with his parents to an overcrowded, yellow-star house; the contrast between the reality of the ghetto and poetry readings in the house; working as a messenger for the Jewish council, then for the Swiss embassy until the Arrow Cross takeover on October 15, 1944; being caught in a round-up with his father and sentenced for execution by La?szlo? Ferenczy as a Swi...

  20. Italo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Italo S., who was born in Gallarate, Italy in 1922. He recounts his family's deep roots in Pitigliano (he had his bar mitzvah there); complete absence of antisemitism prior to 1938; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school; attending a Jewish high school in Milan; studying with Nathan Cassuto; attending a Jewish community-organized university in 1941; draft into labor service in October 1942; being sent to a farm; a manager allowing him to return to school in Milan (he commuted from Gallarate); Allied bombing of Milan; being warned by non-Jews to leave ...