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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Dina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland circa 1932. She recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; hiding with Polish neighbors during German bombardment; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto, posing as a non-Jew; escaping, with her sister, to Szczekociny in 1941 with assistance from a Polish friend (she never saw her parents again); joining relatives in Wodzis?aw; walking to Sosnowiec; hiding with her sister during a round-up; ghettoization in Srodula; her sister's deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a round-up; livi...

  2. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Steinbach, Germany in 1924. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-146). Additional topics discussed include his father's release from Dachau; his sister's emigration to the United States under Quaker auspices in 1941; his parents' deportation to France; being beaten by the Gestapo (he could not speak of this for years); and being forced to submit to homosexual advances by veteran prisoners in a concentration camp. He recounts returning to Steinbach after liberation; meeting his wife in a displaced person...

  3. Andre? R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? R., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Villefagnan, France in 1921. He recalls his childhood in Angoule?me; German invasion in 1940; protesting anti-Jewish restrictions in 1942; joining the Resistance in Paris; escaping to the Pyrenees in 1943 using false papers; arrest in Dax; interrogations in Biarritz; imprisonment in Bayonne and Bordeaux; transfer to Compie?gne in September; deportation to Buchenwald in October; transfer to Dora, then Majdanek, in February 1944; transport to Auschwitz in April; assistance from a Polish doctor; working near the crematoria in ...

  4. Rita A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita A., who was born in Baca?u, Romania in 1931. She recalls her family's strong sense of Romanian identification; anti-Jewish laws in 1939 precluding her attendance at public school; attending a Jewish school; her family's privileged position due to her father's work for a Romanian officer; hiding during pogroms by local Romanian fascists; her father avoiding deportation due to the influence of the officer; liberation by Soviet troops; her brother escaping to Austria; traveling to Vienna with her parents; living in Rothschild Hospital, then Wegscheid and Salzburg di...

  5. Rachelle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachelle S., who was born in Tlumach, Ukraine in 1921. She describes her family of seven children; German occupation in 1941; a two day forced march initiated by local boys; returning to their ransacked home; ghettoization; difficult conditions including hunger (her sister smuggled food); hiding during round-ups; her father's murder in an "aktion"; their escape with help from Polish people who knew her father; traveling to Buchach; and a mass killing after which her brother had to bury the bodies. Mrs. S. tells of escaping to the woods during which her mother and a si...

  6. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of nine children. He recalls their evacuation to Maine-et-Loire in August 1939; their conversion to Catholicism; his strong Catholic faith; arrest with his mother and older siblings on July 15, 1942; internment in Angers; his mother's release and father's arrival; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his father and brother; assignment to the masonry school; slave labor doing construction; learning his father and brother had been killed; remaining with French friends; hiding injuries during selections; transport to...

  7. Gunther S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gunther S., who was born in a small town near Poznan, then Germany, in 1908. Mr. S. speaks of his family's move to Berlin in 1918; his education; job training; and his work as an export salesman. He tells of the worsening situation for Germany's Jews; his departure from Germany in 1938; and the deportations and deaths of his parents and a sister, who had remained in Germany. He describes his emigration to the United States and his successful effort to help his other sister emigrate. He recounts joining the United States army; wartime transfers to France, Belgium, Holl...

  8. Judah N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judah N., who was born in 1912. Rabbi N. recalls serving as the senior Jewish chaplain in the European theater of operations in Paris; appointment as advisor to General Eisenhower on Jewish affairs; observing Dachau in August 1945; leading high holiday services in Frankfurt for survivors and Jewish soldiers; meeting with residents of Feldafing displaced persons camp; reporting to Generals Eisenhower and Smith, suggesting improvements; helping transfer survivors to Fo?hrenwald; UNRRA administration of Landsberg; accompanying David Ben-Gurion from Paris to Frankfurt, Ze...

  9. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in 1925 in the Galician town of Vizezhany and grew up in Grudziadz, Poland. She describes her life as the daughter of a prominent local musician; her family's move to Bia?ystok in 1938; and their life there under Russian and German occupation. She speaks of the ghettoization of Bia?ystok; ghetto life; her underground activities there; and her capture and transport to Majdanek by way of Treblinka. She tells of her experiences in Majdanek; in a small nearby labor camp; in Auschwitz; and as a slave laborer in Germany where she was liberated by the ...

  10. Steffi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steffi W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; being impressed by Rabbi Joseph Carlebach when attending synagogue; attending public school; transfer to a Jewish school when Mein Kampf was read in class; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; her father and brother emigrating to Uruguay in October 1938; observing evidence of Kristallnacht the next day; emigrating with her mother to Montevideo in December 1939; socializing with the German immigrants; learning the fates of relatives after th...

  11. Jacqueline F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; close relations with grandparents; emigrating to Strasbourg with her family in April 1933 after her uncle's arrest and torture; moving to Tours in 1934; her father's business success; relatives en route to the United States urging them to leave; her father's refusal; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her family in Gurs as enemy aliens; liberation in 1940; living in Limoges; moving alone to Grenoble; studying law; participating in the communist Resistance; ...

  12. Avraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, the second of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and a Jewish high school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in April 1941; round-up when visiting friends in August 1942; slave labor in a factory; escaping; return to the ghetto; learning his family had been deported (none survived); assistance from friends; deciding not to eat bread during Passover; his future wife sending him vegetables; Poles throwing food over the wall; volunteering for depor...

  13. Dietrich G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dietrich G., who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1914, one of three children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1106), he recounts his family practicing Protestantism; his father's German nationalism; moving to Stuttgart, then Potsdam, where his father worked at the Reichsarchiv; visiting his Jewish grandparents in Hamburg; his brother's emigration to England; participating in a German Christian student group; attending a lecture by Niemöller; his sister's emigration to England; graduation from the Technical Univ...

  14. Abe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe M., who was born in Chortkiv, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls membership in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; Ukrainian collaboration in rounding-up and shooting Jews; anti-Jewish regulations which resulted in impoverishment, hunger, and isolation; formation of the Judenrat; with assistance from non-Jews, hiding and finding jobs to avoid round-ups; ghettoization in April 1942; rumors of mass killings; his family's Judenrat exemption from deportation; hiding during "aktions"; his father and sister disappearing; and disbelie...

  15. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919, the youngest of six children. She recounts her family's move to Brussels in 1923; her happy childhood; their assimilated lifestyle; working in her father's business from age thirteen; one brother's emigration to Lyon; becoming more religious after marriage to an orthodox man in 1937; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to Paris, then Buzet; one brother fleeing to England; returning to Brussels a year later; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; she and her husband hiding with a family in...

  16. Bernice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice S. who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1923. She recalls her traditional orthodox family; Russian occupation; her father losing his job; her brother's arrest and exile to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto for a German who protected her (he was honored as a "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem); formation of an underground; and deportation to Majdanek, then Bliz?yn. Mrs. S. decribes transfer to Auschwitz; the death march to P?aszo?w, Gross Rosen and Ravensbru?ck in 1945; release of the prisoners; wandering through Germa...

  17. Tomaš S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tomaš S., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Slovak school; Hungarian occupation; transfer to a Hungarian school; loss of his father's factory; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in March 1944; their exemption from deportation due to his father's World War I service and false claim to a particular medal; his father and sister bringing soup to those rounded-up for deportation; visiting Streda nad Bodrogom and Budapest with his family; apprenticing ...

  18. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's assimilated life and strong German identity; his father's service in World War I; experiencing bombardments during the First World War; playing field hockey in London, Paris, and Berlin; rejection from Germany's Olympic field hockey team in 1936 and law school due to antisemitism; emigrating to the United States in 1936 after bribing an official for a visa; sponsoring his sister's and brother's emigration; his parents' arrival; volunteering for military service in 1942; marriage in 1943; serv...

  19. Ela L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ela L. who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in approximately 1924. She recounts German invasion; wearing the yellow armband and forced labor clearing rubble; Germans killing 100 Jews as retribution, including her grandfather; non-Jewish friends hiding her father; obtaining false papers; traveling by train with her parents and sister to the Toplice region in November 1941; living in Kurs?umlija; assistance from non-Jews; leaving in 1942 when Germans were approaching; living in a village with a Serb for more than a year; leaving when warned the Gestapo knew of them; fle...

  20. Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a r...