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

  1. Alexander V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander V., who was born in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands in 1938. He notes he has only vague memories and describes his family's orthodoxy; his father's position as caretaker of the Amsterdam Sephardic cemetery in Ouderkerk; German invasion in May 1940; his sister's birth in July 1941; his family's exemption from forced relocation because of his father's position; his brother's birth in November 1943; being taken by a member of an underground movement to Amsterdam, then Arnhem; living openly with a Catholic family, posing as their nephew; hiding during the B...

  2. Helen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen L., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the youngest of seven children. She recalls anti-Semitic incidents; German occupation; working in a labor camp in Radom; transfer with her brother to Bliz?yn; working as a seamstress; her brother's deportation to Mauthausen; her transfer to Birkenau; selections, beatings, and appells; working in an ammunition factory in Kratzau; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Radom; joining a kibbutz when she didn't find any surviving family members; reunion with her brother in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; attending ...

  3. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. He describes his parents' moving from central Europe to Paris, in transit to the United States, and remaining due to currency devaluation; during childhood, his general unawareness of being Jewish; his family's flight to Poitiers (German invasion); returning to Paris; his father's internment in Beaune-la-Rolande; several visits to him until he was deported; escaping the large round-up in 1942; he and his mother smuggling themselves to join his uncle in Saint-Fortunat (the uncle was arrested and deported); being hidden...

  4. Sophi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophi Z., who was born in Volochisk, Ukraine in 1923. She recounts her family's affluence; her brother's birth in 1927; entering university in Kiev in 1940; their move to a village for her father's job managing a sugar factory; traveling to Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ for a tonsillectomy; returning home on June 20, 1941; German invasion; confiscation of their home; the murder of five prominent Jewish leaders; her father continuing to manage the factory; her mother informing people she was not Jewish (she did not "look Jewish"); ghettoization; receiving letters in spring 1942 from s...

  5. Charles M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Hebrew and public schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in a Bundist children's group; German invasion; ghettoization in October 1939; working in a forced labor camp in 1940, then in a factory near the ghetto; mass shootings, which included his mother and brother; and his father's deportation. Mr. M. recounts deportation in 1942 to Ostrowiec; transport to Birkenau, then Auschwitz, in 1944; the death march to Melk in early 1945; slave labor digging underground bunkers; tran...

  6. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1930. He describes his family's non-participation in the Jewish community; attending Jewish school twice a week; German invasion; his father's refusal to register them as Jews; being placed into hiding by the underground with his two sisters; transfer to Haarlem (learning later this was when his parents were caught); separation of the three siblings; living openly as a relative of Christian farmers in Friesland; hospitalization in Groningen; living with a doctor's family in Groningen, then with a farm family elsewhere f...

  7. William L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William L., who was born in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1911. He recalls his father's death during World War I; his mother's orthodoxy; a sister's emigration to England; attending schools in Pies?t?any and Topol?c?any; apprenticeships in Dunajska? Streda and Filakovo; marriage in 1939; his son's birth; service in the Czech army; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); returning to Filakovo; anti-Jewish laws; losing his job; deportation to a labor camp in 1943 (he never saw his family again); forced labor on a farm, a munitions factory in P...

  8. Elsie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsie B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Chernivt?s?i, Ukraine) in 1912. She recalls her father's death in World War I; two sisters' emigration to the United States; a brother's death in 1927; marriage in 1936; Soviet occupation; her daughter's birth in 1941; German invasion; living with a cousin to avoid deportation; traveling to Mogilev, then Luchenits; living with a Jewish woman for a year; her husband leaving for forced labor; hospitalization; insisting her daughter remain with her; liberation about eight months later; reunion wit...

  9. Abram C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram C., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1922, the oldest of four children. He recounts moving to Będzin when he was eleven; his father's privileges and high status due to heroic service in the Polish military; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; slave labor assignments; deportation to Klein Mangersdorf in fall 1940; slave labor building roads; transfer nine months later to Gross Sarne; privileged work in the kitchen; transfer to Blechhammer; privileged work ...

  10. Berta C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berta C., who was born in approximately 1924 and raised in Mšeno, Czechoslovakia by her ethnic German mother and grandfather. She recalls her grandfather's death when she was seven; her mother's death in approximately 1938; renting most of her house to a German family; working for institutions which cared for German women, children, and wounded soldiers; imprisonment of her aunt's son while in the German military because he criticized Hitler; after the war, as a German who remained in Czechoslovakia, being required to watch films of concentration camps, of which she...

  11. Boris W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris W., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland. He recounts living in Zalozhtsy; friendly relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation in 1939; housing a Soviet official; German invasion in June 1941; hiding during round-ups of Jewish men; briefly working for the German Army; hiding with his wife in a bunker located in the nearby forest; discovery by two Ukrainian boys; hiding with local acquaintances; discovery; transfer to a concentration camp from which he soon escaped; hiding with his father and wife; being joined by two brothers; liberation by Soviet troops; his brothers'...

  12. Ilse K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse K., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1925. She tells of her parents' divorce; living in a foster home, then with her mother from age five to ten, followed by a Jewish children's home in Munich; her mother's emigration to the United States in 1939; working in Jewish children's homes in Frankfurt; a non-Jewish friend offering to hide her; refusing since it would place him in danger; and deportation to Estonia in September 1942. Mrs. K. recounts meeting a cousin; living in Tallinn prison where her cousin protected her; transfer to Kivio?li; working for ...

  13. Mark F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1919. He recalls many older siblings who were married; his family's orthodoxy; attending yeshiva; learning typesetting; joining his brother-in-law's business; military forced labor in Podolinec; buying his way out; confiscation of the business; forced relocation; coworkers hiding him, his brother, and two friends; arranging train transportation to Switzerland; betrayal; moving to another town with his friends; exposure as Jews; deportation to Sered; exemption from transports due to his brother-in-law...

  14. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...

  15. Ursula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula K. who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Budapest shortly after her birth; happy times as part of the German community; a decline in her family's economic circumstances leading to their return to Germany in 1933; Jewish holiday observances; antisemitism in school; her mother's wish to emigrate and her father's refusal; and her sister's emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. K. recounts their arrest on Kristallnacht; release with the other women and children; her father's detainment (she never saw him again); ...

  17. Ben G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1925. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; the 1939 influx of German Jewish refugees; German invasion in September; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; attending a clandestine school; forced labor; deportations; exemption from deportation due to his job; his father's deportation; separation from his mother and siblings when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Cze?stochowa, then Buchenwald; transfer to Dora in January 1...

  18. Maximillian K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maximillian K., who was born in Vienna in 1925. He describes his childhood and how it suddenly changed after the Anschluss, the more drastic changes which took place in the wake of Kristallnacht, and his family's life in occupied Vienna, which included slave labor, until the city was made free of Jews in the spring of 1941. He speaks of their deportation to Poland, where they lived with Polish Jews in the town of Opole, near Lublin; their flight to Kunow, a small town east of Opole, where his grandparents were living; and slave labor in Boz?echo?w as a surveyor's assi...

  19. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  20. Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

    A continuation of the videotape testimony of Rachel A., who recalls meeting her father in Zemun; traveling to Belgrade in June 1941; staying with Rafael A.'s parents (her future husband); traveling to Niš, then Pirot; living with her grandparents; Rafael A.'s parents joining them; living a year under Bulgarian occupation; Rafael's arrival; his draft for forced labor; visiting relatives in Sofia; attempting as a group to join partisans in Yugoslavia in September 1942; arrest and interrogation; her father bringing her food; a trial three months later; her release; escaping with her sister an...