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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Geoffrey D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Geoffrey D., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1924, the younger of two sons. He recounts attending Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing briefly; his mother's involvement in the Resistance; he and his brother cutting German telephone cables; joining a resistance unit; his parents arranging for him and his brother to escape to England in 1943; their arrest; incarceration in Fresnes; separation from his brother; transfer to Aix-la-Chapelle /Aachen; learning their "smuggler" was a double-agent; solitary confinement for eight months; seeing his brother...

  2. Martin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland. He describes working in the family bakery; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; German invasion; his grandfather's shooting because he did not obey orders (he was deaf); anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; social services provided by the Judenrat; his mother's death; transfer with his father and brothers to P?on?sk in 1942; separation from his father upon arrival at Auschwitz; separation from his younger brother during a selection; forced labor in a gravel pit, then as a plumber cleaning sewer pipes; his older broth...

  3. Hanne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanne S., who was born in Hagen, Germany in 1922. She recalls her parents' successful millinery and yarn shop; attending lyceum; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; Nazi intimidation of their non-Jewish customers; escalating vandalism; their emigration to Dordrecht, Netherlands; her parents establishing a similar store; attending school; German invasion; compulsory transfer inland to Gorinchem; her parents' decision to go into hiding with the help of non-Jewish friends (the Hucks); being separated from her sister and parents to hide with a farm family; moving when susp...

  4. Emrich G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emrich G., who was born in Ivanka Pri Nitre, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, one of two children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a local elementary school; high school in Nitra; anti-Jewish laws in March 1939, resulting in school expulsion; training as a dental assistant; confiscation of the family business; deportation by Hlinka guard to Sered in March 1942, then a week later to Majdanek; slave labor building a camp; arrival of his uncle, then his father in April; arranging to be together; observing an officer smothering his uncle ...

  5. Joseph D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph D., who was born in Bangha?zi?, Libya in 1921. He recalls his father's death at age five; cordial relations with non-Jewish Italians; Zionist activities; increasing anti-Jewish legislation with the rise of fascism; expulsion from a secular school; attending a Jewish school; compulsory work on Saturdays; the arrival of Austrian Jewish refugees; outbreak of war; anti-Jewish violence by Arabs in April 1941; working as a secretary for the local Zionist organization; receiving protection from his non-Jewish employer; refusing to take false papers and live among non-...

  7. Helena H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1918, one of six children. She recounts she and her sister living with a family in Turka to learn violin and attend school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending a Zionist conference in Uz︠h︡horod; obtaining a visa to the United States in Lʹviv in 1939; Soviet occupation; joining her family in Turka; marriage to a physician; German invasion; Ukrainian violence against Jews; finding her cousin's body; round-ups and mass killings; her son's birth; hiding with a non-Jewis...

  8. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls a happy childhood in an assimilated family; increasing antisemitism after 1933; expulsion from public school; a prohibition against her father treating non-Jews (he was a physician); little impact from Kristallnacht (they did not live in a Jewish area); impoverishment; having to move; assistance from her father's former patients; studying nursing; forced labor in a munitions factory beginning in October 1941; her brother's forced labor for Siemens; going into hiding in January 1943; moving several times; as...

  9. Rena C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena C., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1933. She recalls her affluent household; a large, extended family; German invasion; ghettoization; children smuggling food; her father's privileged position as a tailor; deportations of almost all the Jews in fall 1942; forced labor sorting the deportees' possessions; deportation with her parents, brother, and other relatives to Bliz?yn in May 1943; her parents hiding them when children were taken; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from the males; finding a cabbage to give to her aunt on her bi...

  10. Greta E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. She speaks of her very traditional, orthodox family; her parents' arranged marriage; their move to Hungary in 1938; their life in Budapest in 1940; and her father's service in a compulsory labor battalion. Ms. E. recounts her mixed feelings when her father was taken away including fear; being left alone in her crib; separation from her mother and sister, who went to a Wallenberg safe house when she was sent to a non-Jewish Red Cross home with her brothers; and transfer to a Jewish orphanage. She relates her return hom...

  11. Dov N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov N., who was born in 1930 in Tarnogród, Poland, one of three children. He recounts attending both Hebrew and Polish public schools; antisemitic harassment; summers with his grandparents in Chmielek; German invasion; Soviet occupation; days later fleeing east with the Soviets; joining his father's sister in Vinniki; attending Ukrainian school; joining the Communist youth group; his sister's birth in 1940; forced relocation due to their legal status; German invasion in June 1941; his father hiding during round-ups of men, then surrendering, fearing reprisals against...

  12. Eva B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva B., who was born in Prague. She describes German and Czech nationalism in prewar Prague; the German occupation of Prague; conditions and experiences in Theresienstadt, where she and her mother remained for two years, and in Auschwitz and various German labor camps; and their liberation from Theresienstadt, to which they had been transported again shortly before the end of the war. Mrs. B. speaks of her boyfriend, who did not survive the war and whose loss she still mourns; the psychological coping mechanisms which aided her survival; postwar adjustment and effects...

  13. Menashe L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Menashe L., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1934, a twin. He recalls his family's affluence; attending cheder and a Neolog school; his father leading prayers in local synagogues; Hungarian occupation; being beaten by Arrow Cross youth; his father and uncles being drafted into Hungarian slave labor battalions; participating in Bene-ʻAḳiva; German invasion in spring 1944; his mother sending him and his twin sister to their grandparents' village; transfer to the Szilágysomlyó (Șimleu Silvaniei) ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; he and his sister being separ...

  14. Rachel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel W., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1938. She recalls her father being taken away when she and her mother were out; her mother taking her to non-Jews to live, then, shortly afterwards, to a convent in Brussels; abusive treatment because she did not eat well and wet her bed; occasional visits from her mother; asking to leave and not being told why she had to stay; her mother taking her out in order to illegally enter Switzerland; being caught by Germans at the border; a stranger paying the Germans to release them; living in a Jewish pension in Switzerland; r...

  15. Sol R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol R., who was born in Velikiye Luchki, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He recounts Hungarian occupation; going to work at age thirteen after his father was taken to a forced labor battalion; his father's return; a four-week incarceration with his family in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); his father giving him his bread; separation from his father (he never saw him again); transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk, with his friend Sam; slave labor digging tunnels; assistance from Sam, who had a privileged j...

  16. Ray K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ray K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls antisemitic violence in school in Ka?y; relief at attending an all-Jewish school in ?o?dz?; her oldest brother's death in June 1939; living in Ka?y when Germany invaded; assistance from one non-Jewish family; moving to ?o?dz? three weeks later; ghettoization in April 1940; her father's death; one brother volunteering for forced labor (they never saw him again); her mother's death from starvation; forced labor; plays and concerts; hiding during round-ups; her brother's deportation in spring 1944 (they never sa...

  17. Larry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. He recalls ghettoization; extreme hunger; escape; living on the streets and stealing food; returning to the ghetto in 1942 to be with his family; fleeing with his sister during the Jewish uprising in 1943 (he never saw his parents and brother again); hiding in bunkers and apartments; separation from his sister; posing as a Catholic and working in Cze?stochowa and Kozlov; receiving assistance from Polish friends of his family; and liberation in January 1945. Mr. L. describes returning to Warsaw; finding his sister; livi...

  18. Karola D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karola D., who was born in ?o?dz? in approximately 1920, the tenth of eleven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and poverty; her parents' early deaths; the siblings remaining together until they married; attending public school; participating in Agudat Israel; German invasion; some siblings fleeing east; ghettoization; working in a factory; hiding during round-ups; attending a wedding; her sister-in-law giving birth (the child died); the deaths of some siblings; hiding during the ghetto's liquidation; being found; transport with her family to Auschwitz/Birk...

  19. Lori B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lori B., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece. She recounts her family's affluence; attending private French schools, then university; German invasion; marriage in 1941; her son's birth; confiscation of her father's business and assets; her husband's arrest; arrest with her parents and nine-month-old baby; incarceration in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; their deportation to Bergen-Belsen; her son's death; contacts with Dutch prisoners, including Abraham Asscher; observing cannibalism in another section of the camp; slave labor in a factory; a German soldier bringing he...

  20. Agnes V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1940. She describes her father's cosmopolitan, professional background; her mother's rural, extremely observant background; life in a wealthy Budapest Jewish family; and deportations of relatives to Hungarian labor battalions. She recalls her father's decision to disperse the family in hiding after the 1944 German occupation; posing as a Christian peasant girl; living with her younger sister in a dilapidated section of Budapest; an air raid in which her guardian was wounded; traveling with her guardian to rejoin her moth...