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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. John S. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Reverend John S., whose first testimony was recorded in 1983. Reverend S. relates satisfaction from his first testimony, particularly in countering Holocaust deniers; detailed visual and aural recall of events he experienced during the Holocaust, despite hazy memories of others; his walking away from the train without protesting as symbolic of an entire generation; despite taking great risks to hide Czech resistants, his continuing sense of personal tragedy in not having helped Jews; speaking at length about this on the rare opportunities when he...

  2. Herman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman W., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; his older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three-week ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and uncle; transfer to Wolfsberg a few days later; slave labor on the railway; a foot injury resulting from wearing clogs; hospitalization; the prisoner doctor hiding him during selections; sharing extra food wi...

  3. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning t...

  4. Philip P. and Sofia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip P., who was born in Kamʹia︠n︡e Pole (Kamenka), Ukraine in 1925. He recalls observing Jewish holidays and attending synagogue; a large, extended family; joining Komsomol; his father's draft in August 1941; German occupation; hiding with his mother, with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors, when most Jews were slaughtered; fleeing to a nearby village; returning with his mother and sister to Kamenka; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a forest; assistance from a German officer; transfer to forced labor outside Kamenka; escaping with his mother and sister w...

  5. Zalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalie G., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of three children. She recalls a happy childhood; observing the Sabbath and kashruth; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest in 1941; her mother bribing officials for his release; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her sister joining the Resistance in Alenc?on; receiving papers to join relatives in the United States; her father refusing to leave; his arrest in the July 1942 Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up (she never saw him again); her mother hiding during round-ups; her brother being sent to jo...

  6. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  7. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...

  8. Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph B., a non-Jew who was born in Stráže, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1921. He recalls attending school in Prague; enlisting in the Czech air force; German annexation; joining the underground; traveling with a group being smuggled to England; hiding in Komárno where a Jewish woman was hiding; bringing her with them; arrest at the Hungarian border; imprisonment in Budapest; release by the underground; traveling to Constanța, then to England; training in Scapa Flow and then an RAF school; flying missions against German planes; being shot down over Germany; ar...

  9. Fishel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fishel R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917, the fifth of eight children. He recounts studying to be an engraver until age sixteen; a factory job in that trade; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; a failed attempt to flee with his brother; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; volunteering for work in Germany six months later to help support his family; deportation to Brójce; slave labor constructing roads; hospitalization in Świebodzin; visits from camp friends; giving them his extra food; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, also doing road construct...

  10. Philip C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip C., a non-Jew, who was born in Malines, Belgium in 1923. He recalls joining the Resistance in school at age eighteen; receiving weapons instruction; arrest in June 1942; imprisonment in Antwerp, Saint-Gilles, and Essen as a "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoner; transfer to Bochum; forced labor; transfer to Esterwegen a year later; help from Belgian physicians in the infirmary; a brief transfer to Sachsenhausen; a public hanging; choosing not to escape in Berlin, during transfer to Natzweiler-Struthof in 1944, because he had no documents; assistance from friends...

  11. Emilia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emilia S., who was born in ?o?dz? Poland in 1938. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-330), Mrs. S. recounts her father leaving Poland; ghettoization of her relatives; her mother obtaining false papers from a priest in Mroczkowice; moving to Warsaw; her mother smuggling food to her parents and parents-in-law in the ghetto; an aunt sending her seven-year old cousin from the ghetto to live with them; moving to Krako?w; spending weekends with her aunt and uncle who were living as non-Jews in Bochnia; her baptism; her mother sending...

  12. Riva B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Riva B., who was born in Nemirov, Ukraine in 1919. She recounts her father's death in a pogrom; her mother storing grain for a Ukrainian peasant and returning it during a famine, thus saving their lives; moving to Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ in 1934; German invasion in June 1941; returning to Nemirov; German occupation in July; forced relocation; an uncle's appointment to the Judenrat; his warning of a mass killing in November; her mother, fleeing with her mother to Medvezhʹye, then Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; returning to Nemirov with her mother and aunt to escape mass killings in May 1942; be...

  13. Dvora F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dvora F., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1932, the third of four children. She recounts celebrating Jewish holidays with her extended family; her brother's birth in 1937; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; her father being taken for occasional forced labor; non-Jews hiding her, her mother, brother, and one sister underground, then in an apartment; ghettoization with all her family; sneaking into her parents group during a selection; deportation to Kraśnik, then Budzyń; her father remaining in Kraśnik; she and her brother hiding when her family worked;...

  14. Rosette G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosette G., who was born in Paris, France in 1938. She remembers living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; her father's military service; being in a basement during an air raid; being sent to live on a farm with non-Jews in Vaulandry; nightly visits from her father who worked in a nearby labor camp; his failure to visit one night (she never saw him again); her mother's visit (she remained in Paris); hiding during German searches; reunion with her mother after the war; their return to Paris; placement in a Jewish children's home in Barbizon; learning Jewish customs and reli...

  15. Luisa D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luisa D., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1936. She recounts her father's emigration to Bolivia in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and older brother to Bia?a Podlaska; living in a ghetto; smuggling food with her brother; his death; hiding in an attic with other Jews during deportations; discovery; escaping into the forest with her mother; living with Jewish, then Russian partisans; her mother's refusal to go to Moscow without her; following the front to Lublin where they were liberated; their journey to a displaced persons camp in Munich; contacting ...

  16. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1919. He describes attending public school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; joining his younger brother at a work camp (he never saw his parents or older brother again); escaping; his brother joining him in Lubarto?w; living briefly in the Majdan Tatarsky ghetto; obtaining false papers from the underground; being caught escaping; getting into a work group (his brother was deported); traveling to Tereszpol; working in ?uko?w; secretly sharing his food with Jews in the ghe...

  17. Anne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne R., who was born in Ichenhausen, Germany in 1925. She recalls her observant home; attending a Jewish school; a large and close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's death in 1936; attending boarding school in Frankfurt; being called home at Kristallnacht; violence against Jews by former friends and neighbors; living with an aunt in Augsburg; receiving papers for a kindertransport in July 1939; parting from her mother and younger sister in August (they were supposed to join her in October, but war intervened and she n...

  18. Zundel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zundel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, the youngest of five siblings. He recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1940; participating in Komsomol; visiting relatives in Alytus; German invasion; returning to Kaunas; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė, then Jonava; arrest; bribing a policeman to release them; returning home; their Lithuanian neighbor saving them from a round-up; ghettoization; one brother fleeing to Soviet territory; transfer to a labor camp; working in a munitions factory; brief hospital...

  19. Emma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emma S., a singer who was born in Russia, emigrated to the United States in infancy, and at the time of her interviews lived in both Israel and the United States. She tells of her musical education and training and the beginning of her career. She details her motivation for joining a cultural delegation sponsored by the World Jewish Congress which toured displaced persons camps in Europe in 1946. She recalls the devastation she encountered upon arrival; the vitality of the survivors in the more than fifty camps where she sang, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Landsbe...

  20. Irving S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Surawno, Austria (now U.S.S.R.) in 1907. He recounts attending cheder; his father's Austrian patriotism; fleeing to the Carpathians, Vienna, and Teplice during World War I; returning home where everything had been destroyed; attending school under Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet auspices as governments changed; and his brother's return from Austrian Army service, having lost a leg. Mr. S. tells of living with his aunt in Teplice; activities in Zionist groups; returning home; graduation from university and law school in Krako?w; legal clerkship...