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Displaying items 1,081 to 1,100 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Marguerite J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marguerite J., who was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1926 and lived in Hoffenheim. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment starting in 1933; commuting to Heidelberg to attend a Jewish school; her sister's emigration to the United States in 1938; Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Dachau; his release as a World War I veteran; deportation with her parents to Gurs in October 1940; transfer to Rivesaltes; release to a Jewish children's home in Beaulieu in April 1942; hiding in the forest durin...

  2. Frania R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frania R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1932. She speaks of her memories of prewar life; life in the ?o?dz? ghetto, into which she, her brother, and her parents were among the first to move in February, 1940, and where they remained after the ghetto's liquidation until liberation by the Russians in January, 1945; and her postwar difficulties in adjustment.

  3. Nora G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nora G., who was born in Trenčin, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1930, an only child. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish laws following Slovak independence, including closing of her school and wearing the yellow star; kindness from some non-Jews, including former friends who were in the Hlinka guard; confiscation of her family's business and home; an unsuccessful attempt to enter Hungary illegally; her parents' three-week incarceration; hiding in Bratislava; entering Nováky ...

  4. Sonia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia P., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1925. She recalls her Orthodox family background; attending Hebrew day school; helping in the family store in Troskunai; Soviet occupation; living with her brother while learning bookkeeping in Kovno; German occupation; learning her family perished in a mass murder; ghettoization; her brother's murder; forced labor at the airport; working two shifts to enable her sister-in-law to care for her niece; selections and killings; arranging, with others, for her niece to be hidden by non-Jews; forced labor with her sister-i...

  5. Yekutiel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yekutiel S., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1928, one of two children. He recalls a large, extended family; attending Jewish and Polish schools; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1938; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; German occupation in June 1941; ghettoization; forced factory labor; smuggling food into the ghetto; hiding during round-ups; his sister being taken from work; round-up by Ukrainians; being beaten unconscious and, upon awakening, seeing his mother shot; deportation to Bliżyn; slave labor in a quarry; trading va...

  6. Rena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena B., who was born in Lv?ov, Poland in 1925. She recounts an affluent childhood; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; round-ups and mass killings, including her uncle and sister; forced labor; ghettoization; public hangings; working outside the ghetto; her father's death; purchasing false papers; leaving with her mother for work and not returning; a non-Jew taking them to his aunt in Warsaw; feeling they had come from hell into heaven seeing people living normally; observing the Warsaw ghetto burning from afar; hiding with another non-Jew in Jelonki; be...

  7. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921 and raised in Vienna. He recalls his affluent childhood; his family's assimilation, emphasis on Viennese culture, and education; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; his older sisters' emigration; traveling to Prague to continue school; arrest; returning home; being sent to Paris in September 1938; internment in Melsay-du-Maine as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war in September 1939; release and emigration to the United States in January; assistance from HIAS in New York; being drafted in 1942; special tr...

  8. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., a Lutheran, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1918. She recalls her family's commitment to and activities on behalf of the Social Democrats; the rise of fascism; her arrest for anti-Nazi activities; two one-year jail terms; release; helping found a home for children of suicides; hearing the Gestapo was seeking her; hiding; illegally entering Switzerland with assistance from the Communist Party; acceptance as a political refugee; meeting her future husband, a German-Jewish refugee; receiving contraband from an unknown source; arrest; learning she was pregnant...

  9. Jean I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean I., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. His first memory is of hiding in a castle with his mother and grandmother and sixty other Jews in May 1942 with assistance from the underground. He recalls their move to Durbuy because it was dangerous to be with a large group; attending school; receiving ration cards from the mayor; hiding in a convent when locals warned them of danger; attending mass in the convent; housing retreating Germans in their home in September 1944; liberation by British and United States troops in October 1944; their return to Antwerp in J...

  10. Y. Abraham Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Y. Abraham Z., who was born in P?ock, Poland in 1925. He recounts antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; escaping to G?abin; returning home; confiscation of his father's business; ghettoization; smuggling food; his father's election to the Judenrat; deportation to Dzia?dowo, then Suchednio?w; his grandfather's death; escaping with his father; railroad work with non-Jewish Poles; friends calling from a passing train that his mother was aboard (it went to Treblinka); separation from the non-Jews; a forced march to Szyd?owiec; transfe...

  11. Sophie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913 to a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She recalls a happy childhood; celebrating Christmas as a secular holiday; not observing Jewish customs or seeing herself as Jewish; leaving school at seventeen to work; feeling threatened by the Nuremberg laws; her parents' move to Lower Lusatia with assistance from a non-Jewish friend; her brother's emigration to Italy; engagement to and living with a non-Jew, although their marriage was legally prohibited; the birth of their son in 1938; being horrified at Kristallnacht; ...

  12. Walter Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter Z., who was born in C?esky? Te?s?i?n, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his father's local prominence; Polish annexation of the city in 1938; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat and working with Moshe Merin to smuggle children out of the area; deportation with his family in June 1941; removal from the train in Sosnowiec due to Merin's influence; his deportation to Sakrau a year later; a beating by Polish Jews for working too hard; transfer to Brande; a privileged position (about which he still feels guilty) due to his father's nam...

  13. Ann L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann L., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. She recalls that her father was chief physician of a hospital; a privileged childhood as an affluent Czech; her father's refusal to emigrate due to his strong Czech patriotism; Hitler's arrival in Prague in March 1939; her older brother's emigration to the United States in October; anti-Jewish regulations; expulsion from school after third grade; her father losing his position; and the family's transport to Terezi?n in July 1943. Mrs. L. recounts her mother's illness; her father working as a physician; contacts w...

  14. Zvi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi N., who was born in 1924, and raised in Tyszowce, Poland, one of two children. He recounts his father's death when he was two; moving to his Hasidic grandfather's farm; attending cheder and a Polish school; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; the German return; moving to Komarów; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a German cutting off his grandfather's beard; forced labor; escaping with his sister and others to the forest; separation from the group (his sister remained); assistance from a Polish friend; locating a group of Jews, including his mother a...

  15. Sara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara S., who was born in Vylok, Czechoslovkia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of five children. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother fleeing to Budapest; another escaping to the Soviet Union; apprenticing as a seamstress; German invasion in spring 1944; her parents entrusting possessions to a non-Jewish neighbor; deportation with her parents and sister to the Sevluš ghetto, then a month later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her sister from her parents (she ...

  16. Rita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929, the youngest of four children. She recounts the flags changing in 1933; her father's strong German patriotism; her older sister's emigration to Palestine that year; a close extended family; attending a Jewish school; being beaten on the street by Hitler Youth; her oldest brother's emigration to Buenos Aires in 1935; her father and brother hiding when Polish Jews were rounded up for deportation; a warning from non-Jewish neighbors prior to Kristallnacht; another neighbor saving their store from vandalism; deciding to le...

  17. Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born in Nagykaroly, Hungary (presently Carei, Romania) in 1908. Mr. G. recalls his orthodox home as one of ten children; briefly attending Yeshiva; cordial relations between Christians and Jews; joining an older brother in Paris in 1922 to become an apprentice in the handbag industry; building a successful business employing over 1,000 people; marriage in 1936; his son's birth in 1937; and the birth of twins in 1940. He describes leaving Paris for Vichy France prior to German occupation in 1940; living in Toulouse and Grenoble; buying visas from the...

  18. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna F., who was born in Czemierniki, near Lublin, Poland in 1923. She mentions prewar life in a mixed neighborhood and details the changes which occurred in the wake of the German occuption, including her slave labor. She relates her family's evacuation to Parczew in 1942; their hiding during round-ups for deportation; and the splitting up of her family (she alone survived the Holocaust). She tells of escaping from a slave labor camp near Parczew, securing false papers, and joining a Polish (non-Jewish) labor transport to Germany, where she remained from October, 19...

  19. Gerson F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerson F., who was born in 1913 in Poland. He recalls his parents' deaths in 1920; emigration to Antwerp, Belgium in 1929; hearing Le?on Degrelle speak in Antwerp; fighting fascism in Spain until 1938; returning to Belgium; traveling to Cuba in 1939; returning to Belgium via England in April 1940; fleeing to France when Belgian police notified him he would be arrested by Germans; working in coal mines; arrest in Lyon in autumn 1941; imprisonment; release under police control; re-arrest; forced labor; transfer to Drancy in August 1942; deportation the day after; and se...

  20. Adele J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele J., who was born in Belgium in 1936, the youngest of three children. She recalls the family's unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland after German invasion in 1940; their internments in Rivesaltes, Brens, and Gurs between 1940-1943; her father working as a carpenter and her mother working in the kitchen in Rivesaltes; her father hiding to escape deportation; being smuggled out of Rivesaltes by the OSE into Switzerland with her siblings and other children in June 1943; three months in a detention camp; and living in a children's home. She describes not reco...