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

  1. Doris S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris S., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1925, the younger of two sisters. She recalls expulsion from public school in 1933; attending Jewish school; their maid leaving due to anti-Jewish laws; her father's sense of safety due to his status as a decorated World War I veteran; being rounded-up with her family on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; his release due to his veteran's status; his efforts to secure the release from Dachau of family and friends; visiting her grandparents in Berlin; placement on a Kindertransport with her cousins to London via Rotterdam; ...

  2. Bianca B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bianca B., who was born in Roz?kovany, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Zionist activities in Lipany; her father believing they were safe due to their essential farm; anti-Jewish laws when Slovakia became independent; expulsion from school; a non-Jewish schoolmate saving her from a round-up; a Catholic women hiding her when she received a deportation notice; one sister's deportation with other relatives in 1942; a policeman warning them they would be taken in 1943; an aborted escape attempt; imprisonment in Sabinov; her father's b...

  3. Sandra M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sandra M., who was born in Romania in approximately 1924. She recalls her family's orthodoxy (her father was a rabbi); living in Baraolt; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding family possessions; a round-up in May 1944 to a school; transfer three days later to the Oradea ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau three weeks later; separation from her mother, brother and sisters; briefly seeing her brother; a child's birth in he...

  4. Jack T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack T., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1930. He recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; his brother's transfer for forced labor; his mother selling their house to "buy back" his brother; being caught in a round-up in October 1942; escaping; finding his brother's body; he and his sisters burying him; deciding not to tell their mother; incarceration in the newly established Bełżyce concentration camp; one sister's deportation; hiding during a mass killing (his mother and other sister were killed); transfer to Budzyń; slave labor for Heinkel; transfer to W...

  5. Joseph P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph P., a Catholic, who was born in Bonheiden, Belgium in 1924. He recalls his father's death in 1935 from World War I injuries; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to France; returning to Belgium via Poperinge; seeing Hitler and other high German officers there; visiting his grandmother in Arlon to obtain food; hiding a Jewish family in 1942; having them leave when exposure was imminent; joining the Resistance; broadcasting to the British from a clandestine radio in their home; arrest on January 3, 1944 with his brother, sister, and mother; separation from his br...

  6. Louis G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Ve?subie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly;...

  7. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1931, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending school; visiting relatives in Vilnius; Soviet occupation; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; returning weeks later; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; becoming religious; his bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; digging a bunker with his brother; round-up in July 1944 (his brother was killed in the bunker); deportation with his parents to Stutthof; transfer with his father to Landsberg; transfer with a group of children to ...

  8. Hans D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935, an only child in an assimilated household. He recalls warm relations with his extended family; his parents' businesses; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; visiting Rotterdam after it was destroyed by German bombing; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father transferring businesses to non-Jews; his father obtaining a permit exempting them from deportation; his father and uncle disappearing when out on business (they never saw them again); deportation with his mother to Westerbork in fall 1942; vainly hoping h...

  9. Jacob B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. He describes his family's affluence; moving to his grandfather's house in Czernowitz before the Anschluss in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Transnistria; his grandfather's murder en route; remaining with his father (his mother was nearby); slave labor in a quarry; limited contact with his father; random executions; adults in the barracks teaching him a variety of subjects; constant fear; being smuggled out briefly by an uncle's friend in 1943; returning three months lat...

  10. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1926. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending German school; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; former friends ignoring her; anti-Jewish restrictions; her violin teacher discontinuing her lessons; a woman in their building, whose son was a Nazi official, offering her lessons despite the prohibition; Kristallnacht; her father's and grandfather's deportation to Buchenwald; their release several weeks later; her father's ruined health; expulsion from school; obtaining vis...

  11. Toman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toman B., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. A distinguished Czech historian, Mr. B. speaks of his childhood in a well-to-do, assimilated family; his strong Czech patriotism; collecting money in school for national defense; his father's death on the eve of the Munich agreement; previously hidden antisemitism; humiliation at having to wear a star; and help from a Christian ex-servant when the family home was commandeered by Germans. He relates deportation with his mother and brother to Theresienstadt in July 1942; organization and sociocultural life in th...

  12. Chava L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chava L., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's relative affluence; attending a German, then a Slovak school, until the expulsion of Jews; her father's dismissal from his bank job; participating in a Zionist youth group beginning in 1938, despite her parents' disapproval; her mother's brothers converting to Christianity in 1939; her refusal to do so; living on a Zionist training farm; being sent home because she was under sixteen; helping produce false papers and ration coupons with...

  13. Friedrich L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedrich L., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1915, one of eight children. He recalls their traveling musical show; expulsion from the national musicians organization and no longer being allowed to travel due to anti-Romani laws; escaping with his sister to Yugoslavia (they were the only survivors); posing as a German musician; Ustas?as burning a barn filled with people; living in Austria; returning to Munich after the war; meeting his wife; and performing with his son because all his colleagues had been killed. Mr. L. discusses not speaking o...

  14. Michael V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He relates his family's long history in Hungary; his father's successful career as a textile businessman; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; his father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion and subsequent disappearance (he never saw his father again); German occupation in 1944; moving into a building designated for Jews; good relations with non-Jews; learning of deportations; obtaining false papers of protection from the Swiss consulate; living in a Vatican protected house; escaping a round-up of reside...

  15. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland, in 1923. He was one of nine children, three of whom survived the Holocaust. Mr. G. tells of a pogrom which took place in Cze?stochowa in 1933; the rise of antisemitism there beginning in 1938; and the German occupation and the increased anti-Jewish activities which followed. He describes his life in the Cze?stochowa ghetto, where he worked as a forced laborer at the railroad station; his escape from the ghetto on New Year's Eve, 1941; and his eventual return home because there was no help forthcoming from the Poles. He re...

  16. Concert for Life

  17. Lieselott E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lieselott E., who was born in Parchim, Germany in 1920. She recalls holiday observances in the local synagogue; deteriorating conditions beginning in 1933; the arrest and brief imprisonment of all Jews in Parchim in 1935; her father's belief that conditions would improve; laws banning her from school; visiting relatives in other cities so she could be anonymous; her father's stroke in 1936; destruction of their house and business on Kristallnacht and her father's second stroke; and fleeing to Berlin, where he died. She recounts returning home with her mother; selling ...

  18. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slav...

  19. Elise S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elise S., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1906. She recalls German invasion; fleeing with her non-Jewish husband and daughter from C?esky?n Krumlov to Bechyne? where her parents lived; fleeing with her family to C?eske? Bude?jovice; her parents' and brothers' deportations to Terezi?n in 1942; sending packages to them in Zamos?c?; learning from her brother's letter that her parents disappeared (she never saw them again); her husband's draft in August 1944; sending her daughter to an orphanage when she was arrested; deportation from a prison in Prague to Terez...

  20. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. He recalls religious family life; singing in the Norzyk Synagogue choir under several famous cantors; playing soccer for Jewish sports groups; working as a furrier from the age of thirteen on; conscription into the Polish army when Germany invaded; returning to Warsaw after defeat; ghettoization; the last synagogue service at which Cantor Gershon Sirota sang; selling fur clothing to feed his family; sleeping in a bunker to avoid deportation; and the disappearance of his parents and others until only he and his brother r...