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

  1. John H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John H., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1918. He recalls a happy youth in an assimilated family; participating in Zionist organizations; beginning medical school; German invasion; unsuccessfully attempting to escape to Prague; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish friend purchasing a train ticket for his escape; traveling to San Remo, then Nice, in July 1939; the outbreak of war in September; enlisting in the Czech military; retreating from the Germans; evacuation to Liverpool in 1940; continuing medical training in London; rejoining his military unit, which...

  2. Gita B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gita B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, the youngest of seven children. She recalls her affluent childhood; attending gymnasium; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; her brothers' marriages; one sister attending school in Paris; her mother's death in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of the family business; her father and three brothers moving to Warsaw, thinking it safer; ghettoization; living with one brother and sister; forced factory labor; avoiding round-ups due to her brother's factory management position; her sister disappeari...

  3. Adolf S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf S., who was born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovkia) in 1919, one of seven children. He recalls attending public and religious schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; a sister's death from illness; working in the family bakery; his father's death in 1936; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of the bakery; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; two years slave labor in Hungary; transfer to the Russian front; traveling home from Belgorod after the Russians stopped the German offensive in 1943; ...

  4. Alexander H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander H., who was born in Poland in 1919, the oldest of seven children. He recounts living in Łódź; moving to Sompolno when he was seven; attending public school; his family's participation in the Bund; apprenticing to a tailor; working in Łódź; German invasion; returning home; daily forced labor; traveling with his sister to Łódź, Warsaw, then to Soviet-occupied Białystok; working in Vaŭkavysk until Germany invaded the Soviet Union; walking to Homelʹ; separation from his sister en route; traveling to Kazanʹ, Azerbaijan, Ekaterinburg, then Türkmenabat; dra...

  5. Sabina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sabina G., who was born in Ulano?w, Poland in 1922. She recalls her family's comfortable, observant life; attending Polish and Jewish schools; antisemitism; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; antisemitic measures; being beaten by a German; her brother's arrest; bringing him food in Janow Lubelski; obtaining his release through the Judenrat and her father's Polish colleague; her adopted brother's arrest (she never saw him again); the murder of her uncle, his family, and other Jews in Wo?lka Tanewska by ethnic Germans; their burial in a mass grave; obtaining fals...

  6. Lily L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily L., who was born in Tolcsva, Hungary, in 1928. She describes prewar life in the small town where her family lived for generations; deportation to the ghetto in Sa?toraljau?jhely; experiences in Auschwitz and as a slave laborer in Latvia and Germany; her return to Tolcsva after liberation; postwar experiences in France; emigration to the United States; and the importance of her husband and children in her life.

  7. Shmuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. He recounts attending a Jewish German language school; participating in the Bar Kochba swim club; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; studying plumbing; his father's death in 1940; slave labor for the Hlinka guard; release after four months; deportation to Sered; his mother hiding with non-Jews; bringing her to Sered with assistance from Alexander Pressburger, the head Jew of the camp; moving her out to a Czech family; his privileged position ...

  8. Birgit N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Birgit N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. She recalls her assimilated family; being allowed to attend public school as a Jew only because of her father's service in World War I; his emigration to Holland in 1935; her present guilt at not intervening when a Jewish student was harassed; emigration with her mother to Holland in 1938; attending a Quaker school; their departure by ship to Chile; the sinking of the ship by a German mine and their rescue (many passengers perished); remaining in England as disaster refugees; going to Shanghai via Canada in 1940, the...

  9. Liesel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liesel A., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1930, one of four children. She recalls their affluence; destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration and release from Dachau; his telling her she was going to camp before she was smuggled to France by a non-Jewish woman using her own child's documents; placement in a children's home in Paris; German invasion; traveling to Limoges with a group of Jewish children who were being brought to the United States by Quakers; stopping in Gurs so some children could visit their parents; traveling to Madr...

  10. Izzi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Izzi S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; working as a tailor with his brothers; German occupation; working at a munitions factory; his father's death from starvation in May 1942; deportation with his brother; their escape from the train; returning to the ghetto; his brother's death from starvation in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother upon their arrival; transfer to Gleiwitz with his older brother; working as a nurse in the infirmary with assistance from two Jewish prisoner-doctors; sharing extra food...

  11. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  12. Madeleine M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine M., who was born in Paris, France in 1920. She speaks of the German occupation; joining a resistance group in Paris in 1941; hiding British pilots; her arrest in 1943; solitary confinement in a prison on the outskirts of Paris; finding a way to communicate wtih other prisoners; interrogations and beatings; witnessing prisoners condemned to death; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; the depressing view of the camp and prisoners; interacting with women of different cultures and nationalities; starvation and beatings; receiving packages from the Vatican; inconsistent tre...

  13. Rosa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa F., who was born on Rhodes Island, Greece. She describes her happy childhood in a vibrant Jewish community; cordial relations with non-Jews; Italian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1938; one sister's emigration to Africa; her decision not to emigrate in order to remain with her family; German occupation; learning of the deportations of Salonika's Jews; deportation of all Jews in Rhodes to Greece in July 1944; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival (she never saw them again); language difficulties; singing songs written by an Italian pris...

  14. Ernest R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest R., who was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1935. He recalls attending Jewish school until 1941; takeover of his father's business; wearing the yellow star in 1942; being smuggled to Koma?rno, Hungary because it was safer in Hungary than Slovakia; hiding with his younger sister at his grandparent's house; joining his parents in Mako?; and hearing that his maternal grandparents had been deported from Nitra. Mr. R. describes attending a Jewish school; his father's service in a Hungarian forced labor battalion; business restrictions and food shortages imposed on ...

  15. Helena G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena G., who was born in Varín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1913. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's death; anti-Jewish measures after Slovak independence in 1939; forced evacuation from Varín; working in Žilina; former non-Jewish friends' hostility; transfer with her sister and mother to Poprad in March 1942; their return to Žilina; office work; volunteering for a transport to remain with her mother and sister; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a privileged office position; using connections to place her mothe...

  16. Rev. Michael V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael V., who was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1946 to a Christian father and a Jewish mother. He speaks of his mother's family, most of whom perished in Auschwitz; his parents' decision to raise him as a Christian; and his response to the Holocaust from the perspective of both a Jew and a Christian. He also discusses his decision to become a minister and his belief that his becoming a Christian is not a refutation of his Judaism.

  17. Rosalie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalie S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. Ms. S. recounts her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her father fleeing east (he did not return); briefly moving to a nearby town; ghettoization in Krako?w; deportation of her family (she never saw them again); marriage; daily forced labor; hiding her grandmother (she was discovered and deported); frequent murders of Jews; her husband's transfer to P?aszo?w; her deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; public hanging of a friend who had helped her; a b...

  18. Shlomo V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo V., who was born in Yahilʹnytsya, Poland (presently Ukraine), in approximately 1927, the oldest of three children. He recounts completing public school; briefly joining Gordonia (he was not a Zionist); attending university in Lʹviv; antisemitic harassment, particularly by Endecja members; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; staying with an uncle in Zolochiv; Germans and Ukrainians forcing him and other Jews to bury hundreds of those killed by the retreating Soviets; Germans shooting the burial workers; escaping from the pit at night with f...

  19. Erika H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika H., who was born in Schivelbein, Germany (presently Świdwin, Poland) in 1921. She recounts the birth of her twin sisters in 1923; summers with grandparents in Kolberg (Kołobrzeg); her family's sabbath observance; antisemitic harassment by other children; her father's bankruptcy in 1930; attending gymnasium; their landlord forcing them to leave their apartment in 1934; moving to the same building as her grandmother in Berlin; attending Jewish schools; working as a tutor; membership in a leftist youth group; men asking for her father on Kristallnacht; non-Jews hi...

  20. Gustave J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustave J., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1923, the oldest of five sons. He recounts his father was a rabbi; attending a Jewish school; his father leaving for France in spring 1933 due to antisemtism; being sent to live with relatives in Prague; joining his family in Strasbourg in September; leaving for Vichy when war began in 1939; his father's three month internment as an enemy alien; German invasion in May 1940; internment in Montluc?on; release; traveling to Limoges; joining his family in La Chartre; deportation orders in November; escaping to Monte?limar; l...