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

  1. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Po?aniec, Poland in 1917. He recalls escaping with two friends from a forced evacuation of the town in October 1942; being hidden in a cave by farmers (they had been his father's customers), who also hid a Jewish girl in their home; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; working for the Soviets; fleeing to ?o?dz? after Jews were killed by soldiers of the Polish underground; marriage to a concentration camp survivor; and emigration to Cuba in 1947, then to the United States in 1961. Mr. K. sings a song from the Warsaw ghetto.

  2. Marko M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marko M., who was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (presently Macedonia) in 1920, one of two children. He recalls visiting relatives in Istanbul; his mother's sister and her father emigrating from Istanbul to live with them; attending synagogue daily with his grandfather; his mother's death when he was eight; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending university in Belgrade in 1938; German invasion in 1941; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a Jew, whose entire family had been killed, volunteering for a suicide task to save the group; escaping to his family in Skopje; ...

  3. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Beclean, Romania, to a family of six children. He recalls his large and close extended family; the small Jewish community and family life; attending a yeshiva in Sighet for eighteen months; antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; implementation of anti-Jewish measures; his two older brothers' draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; German invasion; deportation with his family to Dej; three weeks of forced labor in an open field; deportation to Auschwitz; and separation from his parents and younger brother upon arrival (he never saw them a...

  4. Rudolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1923. He recalls several generations of his family in Holland; German invasion; gradual implementation of anti-Jewish laws, including his expulsion from medical school; working in the Jewish hospital; the role of the Jewish council; forced relocation of Jews to south Amsterdam; frequent round-ups; incarceration with other Jews at Gestapo headquarters; his father's arrest and deportation (he perished); his sister hiding with her fiance with help from the underground; hiding elsewhere with his mother; deportation of t...

  5. Shlomo L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1930, the older of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; participation in Betar; Soviet occupation; his father's workers testifying to protect their his from deportation as bourgeoisie; attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hearing mass shootings from the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; his father's round-up in a mass killing of intelligentsia; public hangings; trading valuables for necessities; raising chickens and rabbits; playing soccer; attending concerts and sho...

  6. Bartolmej D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bartolmej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Šaštín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924. He recalls his parents encouraging education; attending the local school; cordial relations with other ethnic groups; his father's government employment; his mother and sisters working for Jews; a Jewish physician who did not charge for treating them; restrictions of Romani rights under the Hlinka guard beginning in 1939; his brothers' deportation for forced labor; trying to comfort the local Jews when they were rounded-up and deported; cruel treatment by Hlinka gu...

  7. Jolan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jolan K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls Hungarian occupation; her father's and three brothers' conscription into a forced labor battalion; traveling from Solotvyno to Munka?cs (Mukacheve) to arrange her father's release; traveling to Kos?ice and Uz?h?horod to arrange one brother's release; learning her other two brothers had been killed; ghettoization; help from the town's mayor obtaining food for the ghetto; deportation with her parents and two brothers to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her mother again); transfer t...

  8. Al and Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al and Joseph B., who were born in Proszowice, Poland. They discuss people who collaborated with the Germans; the tragedy of Jews deported from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, whom they viewed as not "coping" well in the camps; and executions and humiliation in Graz and Jawischowitz. Joseph B. describes a trip with his son to Poland in the early 1980s.

  9. Lotte S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lotte S., who was born into an upper middle class family in Frankfurt am Main. Mrs. S. describes her early childhood in Germany and emigration to Amsterdam after the Nazis came to power; the outbreak of the war; support by the Dutch; anti-Jewish legislation; and the beginnings of ghettoization and deportations. She tells of her arrest, along with her mother and sister, despite their acquisition of Paraguayan passports; their arrival in Westerbork; and conditions there. She recalls her transport to, and daily life in, Ravensbru?ck, where her mother died; her relationsh...

  10. Pinchas H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pinchas H., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary in 1924. He recalls living in Va?c and Kisva?rda; working in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; returning to Kisva?rda; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assignment with his father and brother to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer with his brother to Buchenwald, then to Tro?glitz; slave labor; Allied bombings; his brother's hospitalization; their transfer to Berga, then Buchenwald; his transfer to Ohrdruf; public hangings; hospitalization; transfer to Crawinkel, then back to Ohrdruf; transfer to B...

  11. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, the youngest of thirteen children. She discusses prewar family and religious life in Satu Mare, Romania; ghettoization during German occupation; and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her father upon arrival and remained with her sister from May until October, 1943. She recalls the selection during which she was separated from her sister, who was chosen for death, while she was sent with a forced labor transport to Horneburg, where she worked in a factory until her liberation by the Ru...

  12. Sonia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia M., who was born in Dolginovo, Poland, near Vilna. Mrs. M. describes working in a labor camp near her town after the war's outbreak; the slaughter of one thousand people in her town in 1942; and a second massacre, in which her mother was killed. She recalls life in the town's ghetto; her and her father's escape; and their joining partisans hiding in the woods. She recounts scouting enemy movements for the partisans; liberation in 1944 by the Russians; and her return home, where she found only one surviving sibling of four. Mrs. M. relates her psychosomatic respo...

  13. Jacques F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recalls attending Jewish school; living with his grandmother when his mother emigrated to Paris; promising his grandmother that he would remain observant; joining his mother in 1934; inadvertently breaking his promise to his grandmother; attending a Jesuit school; German invasion; being influenced to go to London by Gaullist radio in 1941; difficulty crossing the Allier River into unoccupied France; detainment as a refugee; joining a Resistance group in Montluc?on; expulsion from vocational school in Thiers due to...

  14. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Kishinev, Romania (presently Chișinău, Moldova) in 1924, one of four children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; Soviet occupation; her twin's death in 1939; her father's death in 1940; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brothers; walking for three months; separation from her older brother; living a week with a Ukrainian villager; Romanian soldiers confiscating her mother's valuables; arrival at Berezivka; finding her older brother; transfer to Domanevka, then Bogdanovka; hearing shots from a mass kill...

  15. Agnesa U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnesa U., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. She recalls a pleasant childhood; attending a Jewish school for three years; her family convering to Protestantism, thinking it would help; hiding with a friend in Čemice, then in Bobrovček; escaping to the nearby forest in October 1944 when a neighboring village was burned (her grandmother and disabled cousin remained using false papers); being caught in December; imprisonment in Liptovský Mikuláš, Ružomberok, then deportation with her mother to Sered, and ten days lat...

  16. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R., a historian and research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Mr. R. discusses his decision in the 1970s to research the economic history of Vichy; writing his doctoral dissertation on that topic, and incorporating the study of antisemitism and collaboration; initial difficulties obtaining access to the archival material and publishing his book; changes in attitudes resulting from the trials of French collaborators in the 1980s, questions posed by those born after the war, and the changing demographic of French Jewry; open discussion...

  17. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia in 1914. He describes his family's completely assimilated life; medical studies in Prague; participation in socialist and anti-Nazi groups; German occupation in 1938; brief arrest due to his political activities; rearrest at the outbreak of war; deportation to Dachau as a Czech political prisoner; sensing he would not survive slave labor; pretending to be ill in order to remain in the hospital; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to several prisons, then to Auschwitz in 1943; volunteering to work as a doctor; transfer to ...

  18. Milan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milan K., who was born in Požarevac, Yugoslavia, one of four children. He recalls cordial relations with Serbs; moving to Belgrade in 1923; marriage to a Serbian; traveling to Sarajevo, intending to emigrate; German invasion in 1941; his daughter's birth in June; returning to Belgrade; forced labor; a round-up from which 120 volunteers were solicited; learning the next day they were shot; two German soldiers giving him bread; a failed escape attempt; being allowed to join his wife in another city; a beating by Germans; escaping; joining the partisans; serving in Vrnj...

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  20. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Súlovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, one of five children. He recalls his father was a musician; moving to Žirany when he was six; attending a Hungarian school; learning to play the violin; caring for his younger siblings when his parents worked; joining a band when he was seventeen; German troops entering the village; being forced to dig trenches; playing for the Germans; observing Jewish women fleeing from Nitra; his mother hiding them briefly in their home; evacuation to Jelenec; assistance from the lo...