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

  1. Michele P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michele P., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1932. She recalls her orthodox home; she and her brother accompanying their mother to the family store; German occupation; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); being hidden on a farm in Marche-en-Famenne in 1943, posing as a niece; sexual abuse by the grandfather; visiting her mother, who was hidden at a neighboring farm; her mother returning to Brussels to hide (she was denounced and deported); liberation by United States troops; living in an orphanage with her brother; and their emigration to Canada in 1947,...

  2. Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in Dobrzyn? nad Wis?a?, Poland in 1925. Mr. S. tells of his father's death in the army in 1939; German neighbors his mother hid during the Polish withdrawal; being driven from town with his family by those neighbors; joining relatives in the M?awa ghetto; public hangings and shootings; obtaining false papers and Catholic training; and leaving the ghetto in 1941 (he never saw his family again). He relates living with a Polish farmer in P?on?sk; joining a resistance organization; living in bunkers in the forest near ?omz?a; capture by Germans; tra...

  3. Tony M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tony M., who was born in Freiburg im Bresigau, Germany in 1918, one of three daughters of a prosperous manufacturer. She recalls her father's military service in World War I; her family's strong German identity; increasing antisemitism with Hitler's rise to power; the family's decision to emigrate as conditions deteriorated; the coordinated destruction of businesses and synagogues on Kristallnacht; her father's and uncle's incarceration in Dachau; her father's release due to their bank's intervention; departure with her sisters for England in April 1939; working in Li...

  4. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in 1924 in Topol?c?any, Czechoslovakia. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her father's medical practice; gradual anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Hlinka guards; assistance from her father's pharmacist colleagues; a non-Jewish neighbor warning them teenage girls were to be deported; she and her cousin being smuggled into Hungary via Sered; assistance from relatives in Galanta; traveling to Budapest; living with her grandparents; her parents' arrival; living on false papers; arrest; incarceration with Hannah Szenes; deportation to Auschwitz...

  5. Ya'akov V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov V., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1931, one of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing with his family; arrest of his father and older brother; returning home; finding their home occupied by Lithuanians; ghettoization; visiting his brother and father at a work camp (he never saw his father again); his brother's escape; moving to his aunt's home with his sister; his sister caring for him; her marriage in 1943; working in a factory; deportation to Stutthof; separation from the women; transfer to La...

  6. Hela F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela F., who was born in Ludmir, Russia (presently Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Ukraine) in 1913, one of six children. She recalls her marriage; her son's birth; Soviet occupation; German invasion; transfer to a ghetto; her father's death; separation from her mother; hiding with others during a round-up; leaving to find water for her son; returning to find everyone gone; learning they had been shot; escaping; learning of the mass grave; hiding with a Polish woman in the country; assuming a Polish name; obtaining food and hiding places for a friend and a cousin; hiding with ...

  7. Myriam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myriam S., who was born in Paris, France in 1934, the youngest of five children of Polish émigrés. She recounts her parents' orthodoxy; her mother's illness; anti-Jewish laws precluding her treatment; her father's deportation to Drancy in 1941; her two older brothers arranging for a Jewish doctor to do surgery on their mother in their home; her brothers' departure when Paris became too dangerous; round-up with her mother, sister, and younger brother on July 16, 1942 to the Vélodrome d'hiver; transfer to Pithiviers; deportation of her sister and mother; her brother'...

  8. Erich G. Holocaust testimony

    Erich G., a survivor of the Holocaust, teaches a course on the Holocaust at Harvard University. In this interview Professor G. speaks as a scholar and educator rather than as a survivor. He discusses the unprecedented, almost universal sadism of the Nazis, the uncharacteristically violent behavior of many Jews, and the difficulties in accounting for the occurrence of this world of extreme cruelty and aggressiveness. He compares and contrasts the psychology of the executioners and their victims. The necessity for and difficulty of maintaining clinical detachment in Holocaust scholarship are ...

  9. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's socialist activities; his mother's death in 1935; his family fleeing to Antwerp; his father's death while a physician in the Spanish Civil War; his brother's service in Spain; working in Brussels, then France; incarceration after war began in 1939; release; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers; organizing a children's home near Montpellier with assistance from Cardinal Pierre Gerlier; imprisonments and escapes; arrest at the children's home; incarceration in Vénissieux, then Drancy ...

  10. Moishe H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moishe H., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1917, the third of eight children. He recalls his orthodox family; his and his father's Zionist activities; conscription into the Polish army in January 1939; capture by the Germans; escaping to Zawiercie; and taking his father's place for forced labor. Mr. H. describes experiences in Auenrode, Gross Sarne, Gross Pogul, Kittlitztreben, Bunzlau and other camps including sabotaging machines and slowing down the work; his sister's visit; receiving mail and packages from home; sending bread to his younger brother in a nearby...

  11. Naoimi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naomi W., who was born in Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933, the elder of two sisters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending kindergarten; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; mass shootings of Jews in September 1942; hiding with her family for about two weeks; placement in another ghetto; hiding with a non-Jew in a nearby village; escaping when the village was bombed and burned in winter 1944; her sister being shot; her parents and uncles finding shelter for them in other villages; Soviet liberation in Ju...

  12. Otto S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto S., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of two brothers. He recounts his father's career as a judge; moving to Nové Zámky, then Nitra due to his father's transfers; attending a Jewish school from 1930-1934, then a secular school; cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish discrimination beginning with Slovak independence; harassment by non-Jewish students; his teacher's dismissal for defending the Jewish students; joining Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; living on a hachsharah between 1940 and 1941; returning home; his f...

  13. Jolana R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jolana R., a Romani, who was born in Roštár, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, the eldest child. She recounts not being able to attend school because she had to cook and care for younger siblings starting at age eight; her mother refusing to give her food resulting in her having to beg; working with builders from age nine; a German soldier dying from a gunshot near her home; having to billet seven or eight Romanian soldiers in their house; pervasive fear during the war; marriage at age seventeen to escape her mother's abuse; her husband's abuse; building ...

  14. Pearl K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pearl K., who was born in Zwierzyniec, Poland in 1922 to a family of eight children. She recounts moving to Warsaw around 1925; their poverty; attending Jewish labor movement schools; the deaths of her mother, sister, and sister's child in the German bombardment; ghettoization; starvation, lice, lack of sanitation, and frequent deaths; working outside of Warsaw in a sanatorium for Jewish children; support from the Bund; obtaining false papers; hiding when the sanitorium was liquidated; returning to Warsaw with assistance from a Pole; acting as a courier for the underg...

  15. Sidonia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidona B., who was born in 1924 in Ca?ra?s?eu, Romania, one of eight children. She recounts her family was Hasidic; her father serving as a shoh?et; attending public school; working on the family farm; delivering kosher butter to Satu Mare; her sister's marriage in 1937; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; round-up, then transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; remaining with two sisters after selection (she never saw the rest of her family again); slave labor with two Czech women; d...

  16. Morris R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in a village near Krosno; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Russia; deportation to the Krosno ghetto; his father's death from a beating; transfer to Rzeszo?w labor camp; escaping with his mother back to the Krosno ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w (he never saw his mother again); slave labor in a shoe factory; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk one month later; slave labor digging tunnels; a death march to Ebensee in 1945; Allied bombings; liberati...

  17. Fenya B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fenya B., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1932. She describes hiding from bombardments in catacombs during the German invasion; evacuation with her mother, brother, and aunt to Novorossii?sk; living for a month in Krasnodarskii? krai?; renting an apartment in Makhachkala; traveling to Tajikistan; living for six months near the Afghanistan border; traveling to live with her grandparents in Krasnoarme?isk; and returning to Odesa in 1944. Mrs. B. recalls attending school; marriage; the birth of her sons; and emigration to the United States.

  18. Ferdinand B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ferdinand B., who was born in Sec̆ovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending the local school; cordial relations with non-Jews; receiving religious instruction with his brother from a tutor; the whole town attending his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish restrictions after Slovak independence; pervasive presence of Hlinka Guards; draft into the forced labor Sixth Battalion; working in tunnels in several locations, including Sabinov; being moved to Humenné, then Svätý Jur; remaining with a group from S...

  19. Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in Poland in 1927 and grew up in ?o?dz?. She recalls her happy youth as the eldest of six children; German invasion; a public hanging; transport with her father and siblings to Krako?w; smuggling themselves back to ?o?dz? to rejoin Mrs. K.'s mother; ghettoization; hiding during deportations; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and youngest siblings; hearing her father was alive; transfer twelve days later with two sister to Stutthof; frequent deaths including one sister's; a death march in February...

  20. Martin B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin B., who was born in Za?luzs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He describes his family farm; their orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; deportation to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; briefly staying with his father; transfer as a slave laborer to coal mines; the death march to Gliwice; assistance from a prisoner when he could not walk; train transport to Nordhausen; forced labor in a V2 factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; some prisoners taking revenge; leaving with friends; replacing thei...