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

  1. Mala Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mala Z., who was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1920. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending Catholic school; her father's death in 1936; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; antisemitic incidents; preparing for emigration to Israel to a kibbutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; returning to Kalisz; her mother's refusal to flee; helping to move a kibbutz from Wohyn?; traveling to Warsaw, posing as a Volksdeutsche; escaping to L'viv in the Soviet zone; Zionist activities; deportation to Siberia in 1940; forced labor; ...

  2. Manfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manfred S., who was born in Josbach, Germany in 1924. He describes his family's long history there; his father's death in 1929; cordial relations with non-Jews until the rise of Nazism; his mother arranging his emigration to the United States in 1938 and his brother's to Palestine six months later; traveling by himself from Hamburg to New York; living with his aunt in Chicago; corresponding with his mother until 1941; being drafted into the United States Army in March 1943; participating in the liberation of Holland and the Battle of the Bulge; translating documents f...

  3. Ire?ne Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ire?ne Z., who recalls evacuation with her family from Paris to the Nie?vre region after the outbreak of war; her father's death; living in a village for a year; returning to Paris; working with her mother in their boutique; her older brother's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); hiding on July 16, 1942; arrest of her mother and brother; unsuccessfully trying to join them in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; learning they were sent to Pithiviers; arranging to hide her twelve year old brother; acquiring false papers in Lyon; joining the Resistance as a courier in ...

  4. Marianne D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne D., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls that her father was a blind musician; anti-Jewish regulations; Kristallnacht; being stoned by Hitler Youth in 1941; deportations of friends in 1941 and 1942; expulsion from school; her parents' forced labor; legal restrictions against Jews entering shelters during Allied bombings; her sister losing a leg in a bombing raid; her mother's determination to keep the family together; hiding during 1942 and 1943 in Berlin, then with friends in the country; and liberation in 1945 by Soviet troops. Mrs. D. recou...

  5. Israel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel W., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1922 to a family of five children. He recalls their orthodoxy; his father working as a kosher butcher; antisemitic harassment; his parents' deaths in the 1930s; working as a furrier in Sosnowiec, ?o?dz?, then Zawiercie; German invasion in 1939; reporting for forced labor in 1940; slave labor in Auenrode, Marksta?dt, Janislawice (Johannisdorf), Gross Masselwitz (he was separated from his brother there and never saw him again), Breslau-Neukirch, and Fu?nfteichen/Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; train transfer to B...

  6. Zipora V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipora V., who was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; learning one was killed; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; round-up with her family; the escape of two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her parents; slave labor with her sister sorting deportees' belongings; burying jewelry she found as an act of sabotage; being beaten for throwing food over a fence to a cousin; tr...

  7. Regina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina G., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1935. She recounts living above her parents grocery store; playing with her younger sister; German invasion in May 1940; having the yellow star on her clothing; her father leaving their home on German orders (she never saw him again); her mother moving them every night, then placing her and her sister in a Catholic orphanage; a few visits from her mother; placement in another orphanage, then in foster homes; transfer to an orphanage in Wezembeek; evacuation during fierce fighting; living in the cellar when Germans occupie...

  8. Yehoshua G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua G., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts completing gymnasium; antisemitic violence and restrictions; moving with his family to Ujpest (IV. Kerület); working in a knitting factory; participating in Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940, his brother's draft in 1942, and his in 1943; slave labor in several locations, including Szentes; marriage to his girlfriend while on leave; transfer to Szeged, Budapest, Deli︠a︡tyn (Ukraine) and other locations; being wounded; ca...

  9. Golly D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Golly D., who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1922 of a Jewish father and a Christian mother who had converted to Judaism. She recalls her orthodox upbringing; antisemitic incidents; her brother's and father's arrests on Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; studying nursing in Berlin in 1940; working in the Jewish Hospital, where she met her future husband, a physician; her brother's deportation from Bremen (he was killed); joining her fiance in Theresienstadt in 1943; their marriage by Dr. Leo Baeck; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; he...

  10. Iosif D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iosif D., who was born in Gorodno, Poland (presently Haradnaya, Belarus) in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recalls attending cheder and Polish school; holiday and Sabbath observances; his father's death; working to help support his family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in summer 1941; fleeing to Turov; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; peasants informing them in September 1942 of pits being dug nearby; escaping to a forest; a mass shooting including his sister and mother; encountering his brother; assistance from local non-Jews; living ...

  11. Herman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman B., who was born in Beuthen, Germany in 1909. He recalls the family's move to Berlin in 1918; their great affluence; his father's significant art collection (sold in 1931); attending opera, concerts, and other cultural events; one sister's emigration in 1933; appointment as a judge due to his high standing in law school; dismissal due to the Nuremberg laws; moving to Bordeaux, then Paris; returning to Germany due to his father's illness; his emigration to the United States in 1936 (his other sister also subsequently left); his parents' refusal to leave; marriag...

  12. Josef R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef R. who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1928. He recalls expulsion from public school in 1939; ghettoization; his older sister arranging for the family, including his six-year-old sister, to go to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp when the ghetto was liquidated; sorting prisoner's clothing; the killing of a co-worker which affected him deeply; hiding the younger sister during inspections; finding a diamond which his father traded for food; transfer to Cze?stochowa, then, with his father, to Buchenwald in late 1944 (he later learned his mother and sisters ...

  13. Helen N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland in approximately 1925, one of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public hanging; Germans confiscating their possessions and killing her grandfather; a round-up; selection for work (she never saw her family again); forced factory labor; obtaining false papers with assistance from her father's friend, a Jewish policeman; escaping with two other girls; traveling to Warsaw; living with a non-Jew...

  14. Regina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with her family; returning to Krako?w; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; ghettoization; starvation; her father's death; stealing food; her brother hiding her mother, another sister, his wife, and child with a Pole; deportation; jumping from the train with her twin sister; a Polish woman hiding them; returning to Krako?w; hiding with a non-Jewish family friend; obtaining false papers for herself and her sister; both posing as Catholics; her sister working f...

  15. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., who was born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1919, one of eleven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; Hungarian occupation; obtaining an exemption from forced labor from a physician in Budapest due to ill health; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; the draft of two of his brothers into another battalion (they did not survive); a brief visit to his family in spring 1944; their deportation immediately afterwards (his parents, siblings, and their children were all killed); returning to his battalion; a deat...

  16. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the oldest of five children. He describes his orthodox, middle-class family; attending a Jewish school; assisting at his father's store; his bar mitzvah; cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish laws, including expropriation of his father's business; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in 1942; remaining with his father (the others were killed); thinking he "was in hell"; forced labor; public executions; assignment to the bricklayers' school in Birkenau; assistance from fellow prisoners; learni...

  17. Margit K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930 to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls her father often traveled to Romania as a journalist; being sent to a Catholic boarding school; her mother's last visit prior to emigrating to the United States; antisemitic discrimination by the students; embracing Catholic practices; a schoolmate's mother treating her like a daughter; her father transferring her to a Protestant school; running away to her maternal grandparents; her father returning her to the Catholic school; financial support and visits from her...

  18. Hilda N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda N., who was born in Neded, Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Catholic schools in Neded, Sellye, Nitra, and Nové Zámky; Hungarian occupation; attending nursing school in Budapest; working in the hospital; marriage in October 1942; her husband's draft into a slave labor battalion; working as a cook for railroad employees and soldiers at a railroad freight yard; round-ups by Arrow Cross soldiers; protection by her non-Jewish supervisor; receiving postcards from deported relatives postmarked "Waldsee"; severe bombings; ...

  19. Marek H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marek H., who was born in Lʹviv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1927, the oldest of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; he and his brother living as non-Jews on the Aryan side; smuggling food to his family; his mother's and sisters' deportation; bringing food to his father at Janowska; denouncement as Jews; escaping during his brother's interrogation; obtaining false papers from a Ukrainian friend; Italian soldiers befriending him; traveling with them when...

  20. Marcel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel B., a Catholic, who was born in Thy-le-Chat̂eau, Belgium in 1926, the third of five children. He recounts attending Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing to Avesnes, France; living several months in Ardèche; returning home; working in a monastery; his arrest with thirteen other suspected Resistance members at the monastery; incarceration in Charleroi prison; deportation to a camp; transfer to Blumenthal; separation of Jewish prisoners; forced labor in a submarine factory; brutal beatings and humiliations by kapos; public hanging of two Polish saboteurs; pr...