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

  1. Genia T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia T., who is from Chrzanów, Poland. She speaks of her life under German occupation, working as a forced laborer making buttons. She recounts the round-up, while she was away at work, of her husband, father, and siblings for deportation from the Chrzanów ghetto. Only her husband survived. Mrs. T. describes her transfer to a slave labor camp in Bernsdorf, Czechoslovakia, and details conditions there, where she remained as a worker in a mattress factory until her liberation by the Russians. She also mentions her return home after the war; her reunion with her husba...

  2. Evgenia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Evgenia L., who was born in Bar, Ukraine in 1921. She recalls moving often when her father was transferred (he was a teacher); many deaths during famine years; returning to Bar in 1935; attending teachers' college in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; teaching in Kopaygorod; marriage; returning to Bar when Germany invaded (she never saw her husband again); ghettoization; forced labor; selection with other younger people, including her sister, during a round-up; hearing shots all night long; learning her father had survived; escaping from another mass killing with help from her father's f...

  3. Ruth B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth B., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1934, the first of two children. She recounts not knowing she was Jewish; attending Maccabi events; German invasion; her first sense of being Jewish based on anti-Jewish restrictions; her grandparents' deportation to Theresienstadt, then hers with her family in July 1942 (her grandfather died before their arrival); her father's assignments outside the camp; her mother and aunt working with the elderly, many of whom died; performing in the children's theater; sham improvements prior to a Red Cross visit; liberation by ...

  4. Moritz G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moritz G., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family belonging to the Ger Hasidic movement; attending Jewish schools; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father's escape to the Soviet Union; his mother's three-month imprisonment; a round-up including his two-year-old brother; ghettoization; forced labor as a tailor; his clandestine bar mitzvah; transfer with his family to the ?o?dz? ghetto; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation with his brother from his family...

  5. Chaskel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaskel S., who was born in Wielopole, Poland in 1910. He recounts his parents' deaths when he was a child; moving to Tarno?w at age thirteen; a successful business with his brother; German invasion; expropriation of Jewish property; ghettoization; using influence with a Judenrat member to avoid deportation; hiding with his brother and future wife during round-ups and mass killings; deportation to P?aszo?w; working in Schindler's factory; transfer to Gross-Rosen, then Brne?nec, with his brother; reunion with his future wife who had been in Auschwitz; liberation by Sov...

  6. Malka S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka S., who was born in Halmeu, Romania in 1922, the second of eight children. She recalls speaking Yiddish at home; celebrating Shavuot; Hungarian occupation in 1940; being sent to Budapest; marriage; returning home due to her pregnancy; German occupation in March 1944; her husband joining her; ghettoization in Nagyszollos (presently Vynohradiv); her daughter's birth; deportation to Auschwitz; a prisoner telling them to give the baby to her mother; selection with two sisters (she never saw her parents, daughter, or husband again); forced labor; starvation; a French...

  7. Ema P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ema P., who was born in Holíč, Slovakia in 1924. She recalls her father's death; her mother's remarriage to a non-Jewish, Russian physician; leaving school as a result of anti-Jewish laws; her adoptive father arranging for her to avoid deportations beginning in 1942 with assistance from other non-Jews; his work with the partisans; fleeing to Slatina nad Bebravou using false papers; her father leaving them when he fought in the uprising; traveling with her mother to Bratislava during the chaos of German attacks; her father joining them; exposure by a German from Holi...

  8. Emanuel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel S., who was born in Sa?rospatak, Hungary in 1929. He recalls his first day at religious school on his third birthday; antisemitic harassment by children; his father's death in 1941; his bar mitzvah in 1942; membership in a Zionist group; German invasion on March 20, 1944; anti-Jewish laws; transfer with his family to Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto on April 19; deportation to Auschwitz in June; separation from his mother and aunt upon arrival; separation from his brothers three weeks later when he was transferred to Mauthausen, then Gusen; slave labor in a quarry and...

  9. Manus D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manus D., who was born near Katowice, Poland, in 1921, the fourth of five children. He recounts his family's move to Katowice in 1932; their affluence; attending a Jewish school; fights with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending a lecture by Jabotinsky and Zionist summer camp; he, his parents, and younger sister joining his brother in Warsaw in late August 1939; meeting Janusz Korczak; German invasion; he, his parents, and younger sister joining relatives in Sosnowiec; establishing an agricultural commune in cooperation with the Judenrat and its ...

  10. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in 1919 in Wadowice, Poland, one of ten children. He recounts his family's successful jewelry business; their adherence to hasidism; attending public school (his classmate was the future Pope John Paul II), cheder, then a yeshiva; his bar mitzvah; rebelling against hasidism; being sent to live with an uncle in Piešt̕any in 1934; expulsion as a non-Slovak in 1937; returning home; moving to Bielsko; participating in Mizrahi; working in a textile factory; his father preventing his sister and her husband from emigrating to Palestine on orders from ...

  11. Amalia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalia B., who was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in 1930. Ms. B. notes she has few memories of life prior to hiding. She recounts her father was director of a milk factory laboratory; one of his assistants hiding her (her parents and brother were elsewhere); feeling very loved by her foster family despite not being able to go outside; knowing she had to hide if Germans came in; being sent to her foster family's relatives in the country; liberation by Canadian troops; not wanting to leave her foster family; never feeling close to her father; learning her parents had ...

  12. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in 1922, the youngest of three children, into an assimilated family in Breslau, and moved to Berlin at the age of seven. He is now a professor of Religious Studies and much of his testimony is suffused with a psycho-historical critique of the topics he discusses. From his personal experience, Professor F. tells of his early politicization; his parents' fear for the family; his education in England, where he became a religious Christian (while his father, still in Germany, renounced his own conversion and returned to Judaism as a political protest...

  13. Anna M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna M., who was born in Mielec, Poland, one of six children. She recalls close relations with her extended family; their orthodoxy; moving to Krako?w in 1935; an anti-Jewish boycott; German invasion; one sister fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; forced labor; a friend, disguised as a non-Jew, smuggling food to them; her sister's marriage; her family's deportation in October 1942 (she never saw them again); deportation to P?aszo?w; a public hanging; transfer nine months later to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; helping a fellow prisoner...

  14. Itzchak H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak H., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's Hasidism; attending cheder and public school; his family's Zionism; his mother' death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; living with his younger sister in a children's home starting in June 1940; a Zionist leader, Shalom K., giving them hope; returning with his sister to his family in October 1942; obtaining food for his family; many deaths from hunger and disease; being slapped by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the ghetto, when asking for food for his brother;...

  15. Rosalyn O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalyn O., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1925. She recalls her comfortable childhood; being taunted by non-Jewish students; her father reporting for army duty after the outbreak of war; his capture and imprisonment in a camp near Ostende, Belgium; and her mother's belief that as a POW's wife she was protected by the Geneva Convention. She describes the requisitioning of part of their apartment for a "decent" German couple; moving to the Krako?w ghetto; her mother's and two aunts' deportation in 1942; her transport to P?aszo?w in January 1943; witnessing executi...

  16. Lili I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lili I., who was born in Pribeni?k, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls a comfortable and happy life as one of five children; Hungarian occupation in 1938; cancellation of her father's business license; her brother's conscription for forced labor; transfer to Sa?toraljau?jhely for six weeks; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her parents, whom she never saw again; selection of one sister for gassing; transport five months later to Lichtwerden-Freudenthal with another sister; work in a military uniform factory; kindness from civilian German workers; a Jewish docto...

  17. Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in 1909, one of six children. He recounts moving from Radomys?l Wielki to work in Krako?w; starting a shirt factory; anti-Jewish boycotts; draft into the Polish military; German invasion; being wounded and captured; escaping; returning to his family home in Radomys?l Wielki; brief arrest in Tarno?w while smuggling food; ghettoization in Radomys?l Wielki; hiding with his family in the forest during a round-up; walking to the De?bica ghetto; bribing the Judenrat to obtain documents so they could remain; slave labor on a railroad; transfer with his...

  18. Vera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera B., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922, the oldest of six children. She describes the German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving with her family into the ghetto; hiding her father during round-ups; mass killings on the ghetto streets on March 2, 1942, when hospitals and orphanages were liquidated; forced labor in a laundry outside of the ghetto; returning to the ghetto after a round-up on July 28, 1942 to learn her entire family was taken (later she learned they were killed in Maly Trostinec); the arrival of transports of German Jews after local Jews...

  19. Lisa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa C., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1922, the youngest of four children. She recalls a large and close extended family; observing Jewish holidays; attending public school; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school from 1939 until German invasion in June 1941; fleeing east; German troops overtaking them in Stolbt︠s︡y (Stoŭbtsy); bringing food and water to captured Soviet POWs; traveling with her siblings and their families to Baranovichy, Slonim, then Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; returning to Grodno in November; ghettoization; hiding during rou...

  20. Andre M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre M., who was born in Paris, France in 1931, the second of four children, to Polish immigrants. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's military service; German invasion; his father's return; anti-Jewish regulations; support from friends and teachers; his father's arrest and acquittal (they did not know he was Jewish); his father moving to unoccupied France, thinking it safer; being smuggled with two siblings to Mont-de-Marsan, then Grenade-sur-l'Adour; reunion with their father and sister in Pau; their mother joining them; German occupation of th...