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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Cypora G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cypora G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. She recalls her family's extreme poverty; her mother's efforts to feed them; attending a Bund school; working from age ten to help support her family; her mother's death; studying theater on a scholarship; meeting her future husband; performing in many locations with a theater group; the emigration of three sisters; German invasion; her future husband having her smuggled to Bia?ystok; working in Yiddish theater; moving to Vilnius; traveling to Tashkent; living in Farghona; marriage; returning to...

  2. Richard S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard S., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. He recalls moving to Brussels in 1928; participating in socialist groups; repatriation to Be?ziers, France in 1940; returning to Brussels; registering as a Jew in 1941; support from socialist friends; his sister hiding with a Belgian family; destroying orders for the family to report to Malines; returning to Be?ziers in 1942; his parents' deportation from Brussels shortly thereafter; working as a resistance courier; a brief association with the Maquis; arrest and brutal interrogations in 1944; and transfer to Compie?g...

  3. Chaim C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim C., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1935. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's prominence in the Jewish community and presidency of Mizrahi; his father's arrest in 1940; hiding with his mother and older sister in his father's factory during a mass killing the following day; searching for him among the corpses on the street; his return a few days later; increased antisemitic restrictions and violence, including a public beating of his father; the remaining Jewish community caring for each other; liberation by Soviet troops; fleeing to Bucharest; emi...

  4. Adam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam B., who was born in 1922 in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?, Czechoslovakia. He recounts his mother's death prior to his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage; Slovak independence in 1939 resulting in anti-Jewish restrictions; daily forced labor; his sister's deportation in April 1942 (she did not survive); confiscation of their house; his family's exemption from deportation due to his father's work as an electrical engineer; paying a non-Jew to construct a bunker in the mountains for them; hiding there with three other families beginning in August 1944; partisans joining th...

  5. Zachar T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachar T., who was born in Russia in 1912 and raised in Kiev. He recounts working in a factory; marriage to a non-Jew; few people knowing he was Jewish; their daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; observing Germans shooting Jews and prisoners of war; being forced to move; displaying an icon and an image of Hitler in their new home to dispel suspicion; exchanging the property of a cousin for food in nearby villages; betrayal by a friend; arrest; frequent torture; transfer to Syrets concentration camp in February 1943; slave labor outside the camp; clandestine comm...

  6. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who enlisted in the United States army in 1943. He recalls assignment to the signal corps of the 3rd Army; landing in England in December 1944; antisemitic treatment by fellow soldiers; entering a factory in which slave laborers had worked; shock at observing piles of clothing, especially baby shoes; observing torture devices, documents, and photographs in a prison near Du?sseldorf; and questioning locals about the fates of their Jewish neighbors (they feigned ignorance). Mr. S. discusses involvement in anti-war groups due to his experiences.

  7. Frances W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances W., who was born in Kon?us?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1918, one of eight children. She recalls living in Uz?h?horod; training as a seamstress; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; all her brothers, except the youngest, being drafted into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with her parents, sister, sister-in-law, and their children to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); volunteering as a dressmaker; a death march, then train transport to Bergen-Belsen in...

  8. Moses D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1933, the oldest of four children. He remembers their affluence; a maid caring for the younger children; separation from their parents when they were placed on a train in July 1939; adults from the kindertransport accompanying them to London; being met by an uncle and aunt; his younger siblings being sent to foster homes; briefly staying in a hostel; living with his uncle and aunt; close calls during the blitzkrieg; visiting his siblings; antisemitic and anti-German harassment; learning his parents had left Germany; his un...

  9. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an i...

  10. Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. who were born in Kozienice, Poland, in 1917, 1919, and 1923, respectively, to a family of five children. They recall their family's orthodoxy; participating in Betar; antisemitism in school; German invasion; briefly fleeing to a nearby village; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; ghettoization; Chai?m's and their father's transfer to work in Pionki; their father's return; Chai?m's marriage to Pola D.; Albert's and Henri's deportation to Pionki concentration camp (they never saw their parents and younger sister again); ...

  11. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Koněšín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1906, one of five brothers. He recounts moving to Kunowitz; learning songs from soldiers during World War I; attending school in Uherské Hradiště; participating in Zionist youth groups, including Tehelet Lavan, Makkabi Hatsair, and Maccabi; cordial realtions with non-Jews; studying law in Brno; military training in Litoměrǐce and Terezín; practicing law; German invasion; his father's death; moving to Prague in 1939; working with Jacob Edelstein in the Jewish Agency fo...

  12. Elizabeth K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth K., who was born in Nagyrozva?gy, Hungary, one of seven children. She recalls a close extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; her family's orthodoxy; not attending high school due to new anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization with her family in Sa?toraljau?jhely; her grandfather's death; assistance from a Romani who had worked for them; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with two sisters from their family; humiliation at having to strip for selections; remaining with her sisters, but not...

  13. Ludwig B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig B., who was born in Pfungstadt, Germany in 1911. He recalls his observant childhood within the small Jewish community; antisemitic harassment in the local school; his mother's death; his father's remarriage; attending school in Darmstadt; the absence of antisemitism; attending medical school in Frankfurt; moving to Geneva in 1933 to continue his studies (his departure was the day before enactment of a law requiring visas for Jews); emigration to the United States to join an uncle; passing his medical exams; and marriage, divorce, remarriage, and divorce. Mr. B....

  14. Hannelore R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannelore R., who was born in Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he lost a leg); expulsion from school; her father's confidence his veteran's status would protect them; hiding in a non-Jewish neighbor's apartment during Kristallnacht; the destruction of their business; deportation with her parents, grandfather, and brother to Gurs in 1940; minimal rations; her mother giving her her bread; her grandfather's death; transfer to Rivesaltes six months later; two months later receiving notice to go to a French orp...

  15. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Zago?ro?w, Poland in 1917. He recalls antisemitic harassment, particularly at Easter; the deaths of his parents; living with a sibling in Siedlce; one brother's emigration to the United States; rabbinic training in Warsaw; serving in the Polish military starting in April 1938; retreating to Deblin and Kovel?; disbanding of his unit; returning to Siedlce; anti-Jewish regulations; smuggling himself to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; living in S?iauliai; obtaining a visa for Japan; traveling to Vladivostok, then Ko?be-shi; involuntary transfer to ...

  16. Irene T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene T., who was born in Poland in 1912. She recalls her schooling in Drohobych; moving to Krako?w in 1930; marriage; her son's birth in 1938; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; moving to Krzeszowiec, her husband's hometown; searching for her husband in Krako?w after he was taken for forced labor; a German officer who allowed him to leave the labor camp in 1943; hiding until they were reported a few days later; his return to camp in an effort to protect Mrs. T. and their son; obtaining false papers; working as a seamstress; finding hiding places for her ...

  17. Marion O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malme?dy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Mi...

  18. Herman P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman P., a psychiatrist who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany, in 1892. He describes his childhood; his medical education; conscription into the army and service during World War I; his marriages; and his medical practice in Berlin, where he was Chief of Neurology at the Jewish Hospital. He tells of the encroachment of Nazi influence and anti-Jewish legislation; his attempt in late 1941 to inform the United States Embassy of the plight of the Jews in Poland; and going underground with his wife in 1943 after enabling his sons to flee the country. He recalls the help h...

  19. Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminen...

  20. Mania L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania L., who was born in Ukraine in 1910. She recalls leaving for Palestine with her family in 1919, staying in Kiev and Sevastopol?, and arrival in 1920; attending Arabic school in Tel Aviv; moving to Paris in 1933 to attend university; her parents' anger at her marriage to a non-Jew; her daughter's birth; her husband's mobilization, capture, and release; arrest in 1943; imprisonment in Fresnes; internment in Paris and Drancy; working as a tailor; sharing food packages with prisoners; observing the deportation of children; liberation by United States troops; reunion...