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

  1. Regina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She recalls involvement with Zionist movements; working in the Jewish hospital; German occupation; humiliating forced labor; marriage in 1939; her husband's departure for Italy in 1940; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); deportation to Theresienstadt in October 1942 with her mother, sister, and other relatives; assignment to a work detail registering Jewish prisoners; asking Rabbi Murmelstein (head of the Jewish Committee) to allow her to go with her mother in May 1944; their transfer to Birkenau; separat...

  2. Shirley D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shirley D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (now Chervonoarmeisk, Ukraine) in 1914. She recalls her family's comfortable life; Soviet occupation; transports of many Jews into the Soviet Union; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; a round-up of the children and elderly, during which Mrs. D. witnessed a child's murder that still haunts her; and hiding with her husband, son, family members, and other Jews in several places until liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944. Mrs. D. tells of their return to Radzivilov; moving to Dubno; fleeing to Germany; livin...

  3. Rachel E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel E., who was born in 1932, and raised in Compie?gne, France. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion; bombing of their house; moving to Paris; her father's military enlistment; his return; returning to Compie?gne; anti-Jewish measures; her parents' arrest in July 1942 (she never saw them again); their Catholic neighbors volunteering to care for her and her younger brother; being treated better than their own children; wishing she was not Jewish; attending school; teachers and students colluding to hide their identity; their foster parents fleeing wi...

  4. Maria Gilda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria Gilda S., who was born in Sfax (Safa?qis), Tunisia, in 1923. She describes her childhood in a prominent Jewish family, as the daughter of a shipping executive and granddaughter of a well-known politician; social, political, and religious life in an Italian enclave in the French protectorate of Tunisia; and the absence of prewar antisemitism. She tells of her family's Fascist sympathies; her brother's 1938 deportation to Italy by French colonial authorities; her brother-in-law's service in the French army in 1940; and the German occupation of Tunisia in late 1942...

  5. Manasha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manasha B., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1917. He describes his family's prewar life; antisemitism beginning in 1937; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; sharing food and shelter with Jewish refugees from Warsaw; separation from his mother and sister when the ghetto was liquidated in May 1942; transfer with two brothers to De?blin; building airfields; assistance from other inmates, Jewish police, and a doctor when he had typhus; deteriorating conditions after the Warsaw uprising in 1943; learning his two sisters were killed while working in a munitions ...

  6. Hela R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1921, one of five children. She recounts her father living in Berlin; her mother running a business; her death in childbirth; her father's return; living with her maternal grandparents; attending a Polish school; studying with Marek Bieberstein; working as a clerk; active participation in Akiba; German invasion; traveling as a non-Jew to visit her father in Sanok, smuggle children to Tarno?w, and visit Warsaw; smuggling into and out of the ghettos in Warsaw and Krako?w, acting as a courier for Zionist movements...

  7. Sam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam B., who was born in Vel?ke? Ras?kovce, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls attending the Jewish gymnasium in Brno; training for illegal emigration to Palestine; a local official who offered to hide his sisters when deportation orders arrived; their refusal, wanting to stay with the family; his deportation to Theresienstadt in spring 1942; sharing food with his sister; transfer to Auschwitz in fall 1944; receiving extra food from his sister; transfer to Kaufering; slave labor; escaping from an evacuation train with others; receiving...

  8. Moussa A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moussa A., who was born in Damascus, Syria in 1910. He describes childhood in the Jewish section; his mother's death when he was twelve; being raised by his religious grandparents; attending primary school at the Alliance israe?lite universelle, then a Catholic secondary school; denial of a scholarship to the Ecole de Chartres in France because he was Jewish; obtaining Syrian government funding to study in Paris provided he returned to teach in Syria; discovering his love of theater while in Paris; teaching in Damascus despite his desire to remain in France; becoming ...

  9. Ernest E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest E., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia in 1917. Mr. E. describes his work as a studio photographer; his first awareness of the Nazis; the Hungarian takeover of his part of Czechoslovakia; the antisemitism of the Hungarian Nazis; and the changes in his lifestyle because of legal restrictions. He relates receiving aid from his parents, who had emigrated to the United States; moving to Budapest; and being drafted as a slave laborer in the army in 1942. He tells of his work for the army; his escape, with a friend, helped by false papers; his capture; and the ...

  10. Frances R. Holocaust testimony

  11. Frank L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank L., a former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, who was an American infantry soldier in World War II. He speaks of the need to remember the Holocaust; his experience in combat; the bureaucratic nature of the Nazi regime; and the lessons which must be learned from history.

  12. Ernest B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest B., who was born in Debrad?, Czechoslovakia in 1920. He recounts moving to another village when he was three; fighting back against anti-Jewish violence; attending Catholic school; his father's death when he was thirteen; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest to support his mother and siblings; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; assignment to a uniform factory; German occupation in 1944; learning his mother had been ghettoized (she did not survive); friends assisting him to alter his documents to show him as Catholic; posing as a Nazi; war...

  13. Kathe P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathe P., who was born into a large Orthodox family in Poland in 1909. Mrs. P. remembers growing up in Dortmund, Westphalia; ever-present antisemitism; working for the association of eastern Jews (Ostjudischer Verband) where she met her husband, whom she married in 1933; the boycott against Jewish stores; and violence, plunder, and cruelty by German soldiers. She recounts her attempts to get exit visas for herself and her husband, resulting in their departure for France three days before the mass deportations began; her emigration, with her husband, to Bolivia; and he...

  14. Magda L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda L., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1916. She recalls living in Velykyi? Bereznyi?; returning to Uz?h?horod; a rich cultural life; observing Jewish holidays; Hungarian occupation in 1938; marriage in 1940; her husband's and brother's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion (they did not survive); remaining home when her mother and sister were ghettoized; deportation with them to Auschwitz; her mother's selection for death; transfer to Guben in August 1944, then Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. ...

  15. Abraham U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham U., who was born in Gre?boszo?w, Poland in 1911, the youngest of seven children. He recalls apprenticing as a tailor in 1926; working in Tarno?w; returning to Gre?boszo?w when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Lut?s??k; returning to Gre?boszo?w after one year; seeing his mother prior to her death from cancer; earning extra food working as a tailor for the police; being warned of a round-up by the police chief; escaping to Barano?w; and brief protection from round-ups by a non-Jewish friend. Mr. U. recounts severe conditions and slave labor in Biesiadka; being be...

  16. Julia A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia A., who was born in a small town near Zaleszczyki, Poland in 1932. She describes her happy, loving home life with her parents on a farm until the Russian invasion in 1939; and her family's escape to L?vov in 1940, where she first hid with her parents and later was sent by them to live on a farm with a Polish Catholic. She speaks of her life on the farm, where she pretended to be the Catholic niece of the owner and where she remained until the war ended. She describes her reunion with her father after the war and alludes to her present ambivalence toward Poland.

  17. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928. He recalls childhood in an observant home; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with his family to Latvia; witnessing many killings in Daugavpils; returning to Kovno; observing blood-stained streets resulting from pogroms; ghettoization; frequent brutal killings and beatings; and deportation with his family in 1943 to Stutthof. He recounts parting from his mother; transport with his father and brother to Dachau; arduous work constructing cement bunkers; reassignment tending the soldiers' quarters; sh...

  18. Ella A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ella A., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of six children. She recalls being poor, but happy; cordial relations with non-Jews; apprenticing as a seamstress; belonging to Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of her father's business; one brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German occupation in spring 1944; round-up to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her immediate family; staying with cousins; crying all the time; refusing to eat; a prisoner co...

  19. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and affluence; attending Hebrew school; German invasion; fleeing to Olkusz; Germans arresting her father, uncle, and brothers; traveling to Kielce to obtain their release; returning home; marriage; her father and one brother working for the Judenrat; ghettoization; having an abortion; hiding with her family and others in a bunker during a round-up in August 1943; their discovery; deportation to Birkenau; separation with her sister-in-law from her pare...

  20. Georgia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgia G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930, the only child of a prominent attorney. She recalls not realizing the danger of the war until the early 1940s when a cousin was drafted into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; being warned of the German invasion in March 1944 by a non-Jewish friend; anti-Jewish restrictions; non-Jewish friends supplying her family with food; her father's round-up (she never saw him again); obtaining false papers with assistance from a soldier; her mother's arrest; obtaining her release with assistance from a non-Jewish client of h...