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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Leonard B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. He recalls his father's high position in a German company and his mother's as a school principal; living with his grandparents due to his parents' work situations; attending a private school; German invasion; closure of all schools; moving with his parents and grandparents to the ghetto area; an uncle being summoned by the Gestapo (they never saw him again); his aunt working in the hospital; his mother arranging a tutor for him in their home; hospitalization three times; his aunt saving him from a hospital deportatio...

  2. Boris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris G., who was born in Skalat, Poland in 1922, one of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death when he was six; living in an orphanage; working for an aunt; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; one brother being killed; fleeing to Kharkiv, then Krasnodar; working on a collective farm; draft into the Soviet army in Rostov; postings in Stalingrad and Beketovka; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; an acquaintanceship with Nikita Khrushchev; commanding several hundred soldiers; interrogating captured Germans; liberating Auschwitz; entering the cathe...

  3. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Rozwadów, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. She recalls living with a loving, extended family; attending Polish and Jewish schools; German invasion; expulsion of all the Jews across the San River to Soviet territory; living with relatives in Z︠H︡ovkva for nine months; deportation with her immediate and extended family to Siberia; briefly living in a barrack, then with a family; her father organizing her brother's clandestine bar mitzvah; transfer to another barrack; one aunt's death; forced labor; meager rations; receiving Pass...

  4. Mark W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917, one of three children. He recounts his family's emigration to Palestine in 1924; their return to ?o?dz? in 1927; his father's successful textile business; studying textile engineering in Verviers beginning in 1935; assisting German anti-Nazis; becoming engaged during a visit home; Germany invasion of Poland; moving to Brussels; his father fleeing to Trieste with assistance from a German associate who was a Nazi; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Dunkerque, then Paris; being sent to a Polish army camp in central France...

  5. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1925. He recounts moving frequently due to his father's career in the Polish military; living in Kielce, then Warsaw; participating in Maccabi; attending public school; German invasion in 1939; no contact with his father; he and his mother remaining outside the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; his mother placing him in a boarding school for children of Polish military; observing her hiding Jews when he visited; imprisonment in Pawiak in 1943; refusing to divulge where his mother was (she had been be...

  6. Sally B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally B., who was born in Sieniawa, Poland in 1924. She recalls her parents' general store; attending Jewish school; observing religious holidays; antisemitism; Soviet occupation; living with her aunt in another town; returning to Sieniawa; German invasion; one brother's arrest (she never saw him again); her father's death from a beating; leaving prior to ghettoization; working as lumberjacks with her mother, sister, and another brother; their escape; their capture by Ukrainians; her repeated escapes and captures; escape with her mother; their reunion with her brother...

  7. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. He recalls his family's affluence; their immersion in cultural activities; increasing Nazi influence leading to his expulsion from Boy Scouts; joining a Zionist youth group which provided positive experiences; the Anschluss; he and his mother visiting every embassy, hoping to emigrate; his sister moving to England in fall 1938; being stripped of all rights by the Nuremberg laws; hiding in his maternal grandmother's villa during Kristallnacht; his arrest in a round-up; his father obtaining his release through the Nazi...

  8. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David K., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1937. He recounts moving to Spišská Nová Ves in 1941; attending cheder; his grandmother's arrest; living with his aunt in another town; conversion to Protestantism with his brother for protection; their placement in a convent orphanage; affection for a sister who cared for him when he was sick; awareness of other Jewish children; warm relations among the Christian and Jewish children; being hidden during German searches; the director's arrest; attending church; his uncle's visit (he was a partisan); evacuation in Ap...

  9. Vilma H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vilma H., who was born in Szollos, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1921. She recalls her family's comfortable life; Czechoslovakia's liberal atmosphere which resulted in their minimizing the danger of German antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother, sister, and niece (she never saw them again); assignment sorting clothing; providing friends with clothes; the pervasive odor of burning flesh; volunteering for transfer; forced labor in a Sude...

  10. Marianne G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne G., who was born in Hagen, Germany, in 1924. Mrs. G. recalls her parents' hat and yardage business; ostracism by non-Jewish schoolmates and teachers; her parents' decision in 1936 to sell their business and move to Dordrecht, Holland; her grandmother's arrival from Germany; the loss of other relatives who remained; the 1940 German invasion; moving to Gorinchem when Jews were forbidden to live in coastal areas; and a warning from Dutch police that she and her sister go into hiding. She tells of a Dutch family, active in the resistance, which provided her famil...

  11. Shirley K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shirley K., who was born in Oshmyany, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1930. She recalls Soviet occupation; German invasion; the murder of all Jewish men including her father; ghettoization; hiding cousins; aktions; and deportation to a labor camp with her mother, sister, and other relatives in 1942. Mrs. K. recounts slave labor in Poniewiez?; selection of her grandmother, sister, and cousins (she never saw them again); several transfers ending at Stutthof; learning of the gas chamber; constant brutalization; a guard who allowed her to join her mother after they were sep...

  12. Sabina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sabina S., who was born in Zawa?ow, Poland (today Zavalov, Ukraine), in 1931. Mrs. S. recalls her family being attacked by Ukrainians; seeing German soldiers who "killed with white gloves on"; ghettoization in Podhajce; hiding during Aktions; and posing as a boy to escape with her parents while digging graves in 1942. She recounts the taking of her younger sister and grandparents (who had remained behind in the ghetto); hiding in the woods with others in bunkers; assistance received from a Ukrainian family; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; return to Podhajce; esca...

  13. Leo G. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Leo G., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mr. G. discusses attending survivor gatherings; pervasive memories; his futile attempt to find his brother's body after liberation; pain upon viewing photographs from his hometown at a kibbutz founded by Be?dzin survivors; regretting that he cannot remember the names of those he buried in camps in order to tell their relatives; his agony imagining his parents' and siblings' suffering; constantly seeing their faces; knowing other people can sympathize, but never understand; being left for dead af...

  14. Julius H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius H., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1918 to a family of six children. He tells of the anti-Jewish atmosphere in Cze?stochowa; antisemitic incidents increasing after 1933; membership in the Zionist organization Gordonyah; German invasion; escaping mass killings; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; harsh conditions and slave labor; actions of the Judenrat; recovery from typhus; and liquidation of the hospital. Mr. H. details hiding his parents and sister in a bunker; liquidation of the ghetto; selection for slave labor in factories in the remaining "s...

  15. Edita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita S., who was born in Červený Kostelec, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She describes her assimilated and close, extended family; visits to her grandparents in Chcebuz; moving to Prague; marriage in 1940; following her husband to Theresienstadt in December 1941; a two-month transfer to Křivoklát, where conditions were better under Czech guards; return to Theresienstadt; obtaining cigarettes for her father; comforting her mother; her father's death in June 1944; her husband's deportation to Auschwitz that fall; volunteering to join him (she never saw her mother again);...

  16. Yoel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoel S., who was born in Rus, Romania in 1928, one of four children. He recounts attending a public school, cheder, then a Jewish school in Cluj in 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including his school closing; his mother's death; attending carpentry school; returning home; his father's remarriage; deportation with his family to the Dej ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from his father and younger brother; assignment with his twin brother to the twins barracks; a prisoner smuggling him to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer two weeks later ...

  17. Maurice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915. He recalls joining a Zionist organization in spite of his family's Hasidic roots; antisemitic harassment; attending a private Hebrew school; emigration with his family to Antwerp, Belgium in 1929; joining his father's business; fleeing toward France during the German invasion; returning; moving to Brussels in late 1941 or early 1942 after receiving German orders to report for work; obtaining false papers; placing his parents in hiding with an Italian woman; removing them after Germans came and the woman protected the...

  18. Shelley Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shelley Z., who was born in Zboriv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1935. He recalls Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and round-ups; ghettoization; crowding, starvation, and disease; his father's contacts with a non-Jew while working outside the ghetto; being smuggled out with help from his father's contact; hiding with his parents and brother in the contact's attic; fleeing to the woods when their hiding place was discovered; returning since there were no other options; their contact and his brother digging a hole for them in his cellar; hiding ...

  19. Pepa G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pepa G., who was born in Buchach, Poland in 1924. She recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; one brother being killed in 1941 (he volunteered for work to save the family); hiding in a basement during round-ups; going to another town to hide; her father being killed; returning to Buchach; her mother not returning when she went to find a better hiding place; separation from her brother; going to a Polish village where she knitted and crocheted for Polish families; their warnings of German raids; liberation in March 1944; returning to Buchach; stayin...

  20. Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in Germany in 1905. He describes moving to Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1910; involvement with a Zionist youth movement; living in Palestine from 1923-1926; returning to Cze?stochowa at his father's request; marriage and the birth of two sons; and his prosperous business. He recounts increasingly restrictive legislation against the Jews by the Germans; escaping round-ups in the ghetto; cooperating with the Germans to save Jews; activities in the underground; escaping deportation to Radom because he was considered valuable by the Germans; constant effo...