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

  1. Sara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara K., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1928, the older of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father's several businesses; moving to Warsaw in 1937 where her parents thought she and her brother would receive better educations; German invasion; she and her brother walking with her father to protect him from forced labor; ghettoization; being sent with her brother to live with an aunt in the Piaski Luterski ghetto, where it was easier to obtain food; returning to the Warsaw ghetto a year later after being warned of a round-up (her aunt ...

  2. Miriam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam B., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1921. She recounts her family's poverty; cordial relations with Muslim neighbors; attending school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; her father's round-up in June; one month in a slave labor camp; contact with partisans when she returned home; obtaining false papers; deportation of her mother, grandmother, and other relatives to Djakovo (they were all killed); hiding in several locations; capture by the Ustaša; transfer to a concentration camp; escaping; hiding with a non-Jew; joining the communist...

  3. Ilse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her assimilated family background; expulsion from public schools; joining the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement; anti-Jewish laws; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her father's decision to leave after a legal prohibition against Jews practicing medicine was passed; emigration with her family from Hamburg to Havana via Amsterdam in 1939; adjusting to life in Cuba; emigration to New York in 1940; joining Hashomer Hatzair; attending school; working at Hadassah; and her marriage to...

  4. Fritzi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fritzi S., who was born in Sadagura, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls the family's move to Cerna?uti in 1932; antisemitism; Soviet occupation; leaving school because she did not know Russian; expropriations of jewelry from the family store; fear of arrest and deportation to Siberia; marriage in May 1941; German invasion; her parents encouraging her to escape with her husband; their train journey to Kam?i?a?net?s?'-Podil's'kyi?; walking to Vinnyt?s?'ka and traveling by train to Rostov; working on farms; friendly Russian farmers; fleeing the German advan...

  5. Henry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry M., who was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1923. Mr. M., a violinist in a renowned string quartet, recalls his youth in a musical family; playing solo with the Dresden Philharmonic; giving recitals with his brother as a member of the Jewish Kulturband; his music studies in Prague in 1936; returning to Dresden after the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938; and a brief imprisonment following Kristallnacht. He describes the difficulties of being a Jewish musician at war's outset; acts of kindness by sympathetic non-Jews; forced labor (making condoms and later assem...

  6. Hélène A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène A., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending Czech public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in March 1939; her parents sending her with a sister to Budapest in 1942; working for a tailor; anti-Jewish restrictions; a Hungarian soldier from their hometown assisting them; obtaining false papers; hiding in their apartment during Allied bombings; denouncement; arrest and interrogation; transfer to Gestapo custody; deportation to Kistarcsa; re...

  7. Ursula R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula R., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recounts that the children of Jewish neighbors were her best friends; her parents' arrest for anti-Nazi activities; their release one year later; studying art; helping Jewish friends obtain false papers; the outbreak of war; collecting ration cards for Jews in hiding; Allied bombings; observing round-ups; sharing rations with Ukrainian slave laborers; destruction of their home in a bombing; her father's military draft; moving with her mother to the Saarland, then by herself to Wu?rzburg, then a small v...

  8. Hans W. Holocaust testimony

  9. Ruth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth F., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland. She recalls her affluent family; German invasion and bombardment; her older brother's draft into the Polish army; anti-Jewish measures; public hanging of Jewish men at the end of 1939; ghettoization; forced labor at a munitions factory; the ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her family to ?o?dz?; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); separation from her mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944 (she never saw her again); prisoner observance of Rosh ha-Shanah; becoming ill; transfer to the hospita...

  10. Edyta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edyta S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her parents' divorce; living with her maternal grandparents and uncle; their Polish patriotism; her mother's remarriage; her grandmother's death in 1937; German invasion; briefly fleeing east; her grandfather's death in 1940 from abusive Germans; ghettoization; attending privately organized classes; stepping over the dead in the street becoming "normal"; lice infestation despite their cleanliness; Jewish police saving her from round-ups; her uncle's deportation; her paren...

  11. Fishel Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fishel Y., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921, one of four children. He recounts his father's bakery; German invasion; fleeing with his family to his paternal grandparents in Rejowiec; Germans compelling them to work; smuggling themselves into the Łódź ghetto two months later; working in his father's bakery; one brother's deportation in September 1940; his deportation to Grunow three days later; slave labor building the Reichsautobahn; adequate food, access to showers, and clean barracks (better conditions than the ghetto); corresponding with his brother through...

  12. Rachel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel R., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1910. Mrs. R. tells of her home town; the German occupation; her marriage in 1940; and the birth of her child in 1941. She describes her escape from the first Aktion in Dzia?oszyce; her capture a few weeks later; and her transfer to Krako?w, where she and her husband worked in P?aszo?w while her mother and son were interned in the Krako?w ghetto. The liquidation of the Krako?w ghetto, during which Mrs. R.'s mother and infant son were killed, is recalled. Mrs. R. also relates her husband's transfer to Flossenbu?rg; her ...

  13. Jolly Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jolly Z., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She tells of leaving her hiding place in order to be with her parents; their transfer to the ghetto shortly thereafter; and their deportation, a few weeks later, to Auschwitz. She recalls their total ignorance upon arrival; aspects of daily life in Auschwitz; her and her mother's transfer to Hamburg for slave labor; and the mistreatment she suffered; the birth of a child;and a German killing the baby. She relates her transfer to Bergen-Belsen, where she was put to work digging mass grave...

  14. Else D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Else D., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland. She describes moving to Krako?w at age twenty-five; German invasion; ghettoization; round-ups in the ghetto; transfer to P?aszo?w (her husband perished there); random killings and public executions; being placed on Oskar Schindler's list due to her cousin's influence; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then to Bru?nnlitz, with the other women on Schindler's list; knitting socks to trade for extra food; liberation by Soviet troops; staying briefly in Prague; returning to Bielsko-Bia?a; difficulties reclaiming family property...

  15. Samuel T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel T., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. He recalls entering the United States military in 1942; serving with the Third Army in France and Germany; noticing the beautiful countryside and a terrible odor as he approached Gunskirchen with the 71st Infantry Division; being told not to feed the prisoners since they could die; knowing what he was seeing, but being unable to characterize it; speaking with a few prisoners; moving forward the next day; and meeting Soviet troops. Mr. T. discusses having no idea what a concentration camp was prior to entering Guns...

  16. Gabriel D., Sylvain D., and Danielle H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of three siblings born in Paris, France: Gabriel D. (1937), his brother Sylvain D. (1939), and their sister Danielle H. (1936). They recount their grandparents' emigration from eastern Europe; their father's United States citizenship and their mother's British (she was born in Palestine); German invasion; their father's arrest in December 1941, after the U.S. entered the war; his privileged status as a U.S. citizen; visiting him; receiving financial support from relatives in Palestine; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; applying to join their grandparents in Palestine...

  17. Moses F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses F., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1930, one of ten children. He recalls his family moving to Hajdúhadház; their orthodoxy; his father working as a teacher; his mother's business selling milk; his older brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; an older sister moving to Budapest; round-up with his parents and younger sister to the Hajdúhadház ghetto in spring 1944; his bar mitzvah there; transfer to the Debrecen ghetto; deportation to Austria; a forester taking his family, including cousins, aunts, and uncles, to cut trees; having to fill ...

  18. Henry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry L., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1927. He recalls antisemitic violence in school; German invasion; his father's arrest; his return three days later, beaten; anti-Jewish regulations; separation with his father from his mother and brothers in a 1942 selection; deportation with his father to Majdanek; assignment to a machine shop; receiving extra food from political prisoners; transfer in November 1943 to P?aszo?w; his father's death; transfer to Wieliczka, Mauthausen, then Gusen; assignment to a machine shop, a privileged position; liberation in May 1945; reco...

  19. John P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904. Mr. P. describes the atmosphere and political conditions in Vienna; prewar antisemitism; his family's desire to assimilate; his marriage in 1933; early observations of changing conditions; watching a boycott against Jews from a rooftop in 1938; his mother's refusal to leave because she was the widow of a World War I veteran, was married to another at that time, and was reluctant to leave her art collection; and his escape with his wife to Paris. He relates their incarceration in a French jail for one month; release and...

  20. Berl G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berl G., who was born in Vilkija, Lithuania in 1919. He recounts moving to Kaunas; his younger brother's death; belonging to Betar; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with his family to Ukmerge?; returning to Kaunas; mass killings by Lithuanians; ghettoization; forced labor at the airport; a mass killing on October 28, 1941 which included his parents; remaining with his brother and sister-in-law; their assignment to a work brigade outside the ghetto; organizing resistance with assistance from the Judenrat and Jewish police; escaping with a small group...