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

  1. Bert E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bert E., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts serving in a tank battalion of the 4th Armored Division; deployment to Europe in 1944; entering Ohrdruf concentration camp; emaciated prisoners; stacks of corpses; his state of shock; and assignment to occupation forces in Wilseder Berg where they found prisoners bodies in a mass grave, and then organized a proper funeral. He reads excerpts and shows photographs, including his own, from the history of the 4th Armored Division.

  2. Shmuel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918, one of two sons. He recalls his parents moving to Łódź in 1933; studying at university; antisemitic harassment; a close friendship with Yitzhak Zuckerman, who recruited him as an officer in Deror; joining his parents to head Deror in Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with friends in October; crossing the border at Małkinia to Slonim in the Soviet-occupied zone; teaching in Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; sending packages to his family; visiting a friend in Kobryn; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Minsk to en...

  3. Albert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert K., who was born in Forth, Germany in 1923, the youngest of three sons, one of whom was deaf. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish policies; attending a Jewish school in Nuremberg; his hearing brother's emigration to Argentina; moving to Nuremberg in 1938; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; assistance from non-Jewish friends; futile efforts to emigrate; internment with his family in Langwasser in November 1941; deportation to Jungfernhof in December; his mother hiding him when he w...

  4. Anica D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anica D., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1924. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; a large, extended family; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; leftist political leanings; cordial relations with non-Jews; not emigrating to Palestine due to financial constraints; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws and violence by the Ustaša; her uncle's summary execution; her father's arrest (he did not return); a Muslim man taking her to Italian-occupied Mostar to join her aunts; learning her mother and sister were betrayed during their escape attempt (they perished at Jasenovac...

  5. Edith V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith V., who was born in Tokaj, Hungary in 1930. She recalls attending Jewish school; childhood antisemitic incidents; transfer with her family to a ghetto; she and her sister being separated from their parents and other siblings upon arrival in Auschwitz on May 20, 1944; forced labor sorting people's belongings next to the gas chambers; transfer with her sister to a labor camp in Germany; working in a Telefunken underground factory; she and her sister assisting a prisoner to walk during the death march to Hamburg; and Swedish Red Cross workers taking them from a mas...

  6. Karel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karel H., who was born in approximately 1920. He recalls a carpentry apprenticeship in Ostrava; German occupation; moving to Prague; deportation to Theresienstadt in fall 1941; forced labor as a carpenter; public hangings; pervasive deaths; leadership by Fredy Hirsch and Jacob Edelstein; organized concerts by prisoners; deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; volunteering as a carpenter after a few weeks; transfer to Gleiwitz; better treatment by the soldiers than the SS; a death march in winter 1944-1945; escaping into the woods; entering Blechhammer after it had...

  7. William N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William N., who was born in 1923 and served with the United States Army 12th Armored Division of the 7th Army in World War II. He recalls coming across several small labor camps while advancing across Germany in March 1945; coming upon a group of emaciated Dachau survivors in late April; recognizing them as "camp people" because of their uniforms; and giving them rations, water, and blankets before leaving. Mr. N. shows photographs his friend took when liberating Landsberg.

  8. Tuvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tuvia B., who was born in Filakovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), one of four children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending public school; an antisemitic neighbor; his bar mitzvah; attending high school for four years in Bratislava; joining a Zionist group; returning home; working in Haniska; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; being allowed to return home six months later; recall; slave labor in a factory in Romania; transfer to the front lines near and in Poland; building roads; transfer of h...

  9. Helena C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena C., who was born in Piaseczno, Poland in 1926. She recalls attending public school; German invasion; forced transfer to the Warsaw ghetto; living with relatives due to a housing shortage; her father's difficulty finding work resulting in his volunteering for "settlement in the East;" her brother's transport soon after; and living in an orphanage with her younger sister. Mrs. C. comments on the "normality" of the dead and dying on the streets, typhus and starvation since, as a child, she knew nothing else. She describes hiding during round-ups; social and educat...

  10. Rose W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls her father's death in 1937; German invasion; ghettoization; her brother volunteering for labor in another city in 1941; forced labor in a uniform factory; she and her sisters saving bread for their mother; her mother's and sisters' deportation to Auschwitz in March 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944, then Christianstadt three days later; slave labor in a factory; transfer to Kratzau; slave labor doing construction; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Poland with other...

  11. Louis B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis B., who was an American soldier in the 45th Infantry Division during World War II. Mr. B. describes being raised in New Haven, Connecticut; military training; being stationed in North Africa; the invasion of Sicily on D-Day; moving north through Italy and France; and the liberation of Dachau in Germany. He discusses the lack of knowledge regarding the camps and the "Final Solution;" coming upon thirty-nine boxcars filled with bodies on a railroad siding outside of Dachau; the horrendous condition of the prisoners; the American soldiers' efforts to assist them; a...

  12. Valerie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valerie F., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts her comfortable, happy childhood; her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in January 1944; German invasion; ghettoization; her father buying them false papers; one sister and brother escaping; her escape being cancelled when her companion refused to go; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May; remaining with her mother and other relatives; keeping their spirits up discussing their pasts, fut...

  13. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1915. Mr. B. recounts attending a Jewish school; working in a shoe factory; increasing antisemitism; studying English; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1933; emigration to the United States in 1936 (he never saw his parents again); military draft in 1941; officer training school; assignment to military intelligence in 1943; deployment to London in May 1944; German rocket attacks; landing in Normandy; participating in the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge; entering Frankfurt; searching fo...

  14. Oscar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar A., who was born in Bulgaria in 1911. He recalls his family's French identity; attending school in Sofia; studying in Paris; marriage to a Jewish convert in 1938; mobilization in 1939; his parents' and sister's emigration to Paris; capture in a battle in 1940; escaping to Paris with help from a German rail official; moving to Nice; his daughter's birth; arrest with five family members in 1943; his wife's release as a non-Jew (their daughter was not arrested); deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy; selection for forced labor in Buna/Monowitz (I.G. Farben) with his ...

  15. Agatha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agatha B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. She recalls her close, extended family; attending English school; German occupation in March 1944; her family moving into a building designated for Jews; her parents' deportations (she was left alone with her younger sister); assistance from Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors; postcards from her father; refusing to convert or to leave their home with an aunt (she wanted her parents to be able to find them); a mass killing including her aunt; her parents' return in September after their escape from deportation trains; ...

  16. Gerda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerda H., who was born in Ansbach, Germany in 1922. She recounts her father was a kosher butcher; attending lyceum after documenting her father's World War I service; expulsion due to additional anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school in Berlin; moving with her family to Munich after Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to England; being unable to join him once war began; her sister being sent to nursing school in Frankfurt and she in Berlin; learning her mother had been deported (she never saw her again); occasionally seeing her sister (she was working in a Ber...

  17. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Galicia in 1913. He recounts his family fleeing to Vienna during World War I; his determination to learn Austrian German and assimilate into the culture, thinking his future was there; working in a textile factory; attending law school; attending a Nazi convention in Munich in 1936 with fellow students; German occupation in 1938; marriage; arrest on Kristallnacht; beatings and shootings; an Austrian officer releasing him; emigration to Geneva via Italy; obtaining emigration papers to Cuba with assistance from a non-Jewish banker in Zurich; e...

  18. Moses K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and ...

  19. Clara L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara L., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary in 1925. She recalls Sabbath observance at home; her older sister's emigration to England; her older brother's conscription into a labor battalion (she never saw him again); accompanying her father to Budapest for several months while he was hospitalized; German occupation in 1944; return to Kisva?rda with her parents; ghettoization; deportation; a family's suicide on the train; her mother's advice to do anything to survive; and separation from her parents upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again). She describes ...

  20. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls increasing antisemitism; anti-Jewish restrictions prohibiting her father's law practice; placement in an orphanage with her sister due to financial difficulties; her mother's arrest in 1935 and two-year incarceration resulting from her father's smuggling (he remained in Luxembourg); joining her father (her sister remained behind); their move to Brussels; her mother and sister joining them in 1937; German invasion in 1940; her father's arrest in 1942; working for a lawyer; arrest with her mother and sister; d...