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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Miki H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miki H., who was born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of nine children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Hebrew and Czech schools, then gymnasium in Munka?cs; membership in Betar; his father's death in 1931; Hungarian occupation followed by violent antisemitism; working in 1941 as a watchmaker in Budapest; a year later being drafted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Puspoek Ladany; transfer to Sziylagy-Falu, Hajdubo?szo?rme?ny then Nyi?regyha?za; escaping and hiding in the fall of 1943; liberation by Soviet troops; joining a Jewish...

  2. Gunter N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gunter N., who was born in Filehne, Germany (presently Weiluń, Poland) in 1913 and raised in Schneidemühl (Piła, Poland) and Berlin. He recalls his family's distinguished rabbinical lineage; attending gymnasium and university; antisemitic violence; participation in leftist organizations (SAJ, SPD, SAP); marriage in 1934; expulsion from university; continuing illegal political activities; arrest with his wife; imprisonment in Moabit and Brandenburg; restrictions on Jewish prisoners after Kristallnacht; meeting Bruno Baum; their release contingent upon leaving Germany...

  3. Dov L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov L., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1925. He recalls his family's Zionist commitment; attending Hebrew school with his twin sister; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; joining the underground; his family's deportation in October 1943; hiding with underground fighters in bunkers; escaping to partisans in the forest on March 9, 1944; relying on Z?egota for food; moving with partisans to Vilna to join Soviet troops; the killings of German collaborators after ...

  4. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911. He recalls vague memories of World War I; his father's successful lumber business; his father's death in 1929; attending Cambridge University from 1930 to 1934; visiting Palestine in 1932; his mother's emigration to France in 1934; establishing a lumber business with his brother in 1936; marriage; his brother's emigration to London in 1938; awareness of the danger for Jews due to business trips to Germany; German invasion in September 1939; escaping to Lublin with his wife and her family; assistance from Polish officers...

  5. Jacob P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob P., who was born in Viseu de Jos, Romania in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Jewish and Romanian schools; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in 1944; transfer to a ghetto in a larger town; deportation several months later with his family to Auschwitz; separation from all but one brother; transfer to Birkenau; his brother helping him; their transfer to Doernhau, Wu?stegiersdorf, and Waldenburg; separation from his brother in Flo?ssenburg; evacuation of the camp in April 1945; disappearance of the guards; and l...

  6. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in Prague in 1922. He recounts his family's strong Czech rather than Jewish identity (he was not circumcised); cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death in 1936; support from Czech friends when anti-Jewish laws were passed; his mother's suicide after he and his brother received transport notices; their transport to Theresienstadt in April 1942, then to Auschwitz in October; difficulty believing that people were being gassed; assignment to the I.G. Farben plant in Buna/Monowitz; admission to the hospital, then release; readmission; telli...

  7. Bienvenida M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bienvenida M., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918, one of five children. She recalls her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; her father's death; never attending school (she worked to help support her family); German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother, siblings, and their children (she never saw them again); slave labor demolishing nearby houses; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; wishing for death; transfer after nine months to block 10 for specious medical ex...

  8. Margit M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit M., who was born in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia in 1929 to a Jewish father and a Czech mother who had converted to Judaism. She describes her parents' concerns about growing German nationalism; German occupation in 1938; harassment at school; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; a German girl assisting them; learning her father was in Sachsenhausen; his release on Christmas; her mother agreeing to divorce him to protect them, but never following through; her father moving to Prague, thinking it safer; remaining with her mother, sister and maternal grandmother; e...

  9. Naftali W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls beatings by non-Jews; visiting grandparents in Se?dziszo?w; German invasion; returning home; his father's departure for Soviet territory; his family's return to Se?dziszo?w; incarceration in a forced labor camp; escape; his father's return; ghettoization; a round-up; selection with one brother (he never saw his family again); transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto; deportation to Mielec without his brother; a privileged position; receiving food from a German engineer and Polish civilian work...

  10. Sara B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara B., who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Mrs. B., one of nine children, tells of her youth; her observant and locally prominent parents; the sympathy of young people for communism; her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1930; marriage; and the birth of her daughter in 1933 and son in 1939. She recalls her husband's internment as a foreign Jew at Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; smuggling false papers to him; his escape in 1942 with a fellow prisoner to Sancerre in Vichy France; her own flight with their children from Paris to Sancerre; her husband's activity as ...

  11. Cecile H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile H., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1923. She recounts her father's ancestors were Moses and Felix Mendelssohn (Nazi policy categorized him as "three-quarters Jewish"); being raised as a Protestant; her father's death in 1930; not being allowed to join the female Nazi youth due to her Jewish ancestry; her half-brother and fiancé serving in the Wehrmacht (they both died); expulsion from school due to a suggestive photograph, not due to racial reasons; hospitalization in Altdorf for tuberculosis; attending university as a "guest student"; doing dissertation...

  12. Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's bir...

  13. Shlomo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recalls his father's pharmacy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; having to billet a German officer; his father's arrest and execution; transporting his body to the cemetery on a sled; ghettoization; forced labor; Rumkowski scolding his work group for supporting a strike; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer to a coal mine after two weeks; slave labor in an I.G. Farben facility; receiving extra f...

  14. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Tros?ku?nai, Lithuania in 1924. She recalls antisemitic hostility increasing in the 1930s; attending school in Paneve?z?ys; returning home for holidays; Soviet occupation; being sent to school in Kaunas; receiving a letter from home instructing her not to return after German invasion; murders and violence in Kaunas; staying with a cousin; being saved from a mass killing by a non-Jewish janitor; ghettoization; learning from escapees of mass killings in the Seventh and Ninth Forts; her future brother-in-law's escape; volunteering to go to Kaue...

  15. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Turka, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He describes his family's farm; antisemitic harassment by other children; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; confiscation of most of the family farm; obtaining a government job; altering his father's documents to prevent his deportation to Siberia as a capitalist; German invasion in 1941; being beaten by a former Ukrainian friend; working as a beekeeper; arrest by the Ukrainian police; ghettoization in Sambor; his mother's deportation (she did not survive); a mass killing at the cemetery; brief impri...

  16. Shiela Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shiela Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921. She describes German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; hiding her brother and father after learning about the mass killings at Ponary; forced labor in a brick factory; hiding during round-ups; an unsuccessful attempted escape from the ghetto; hiding with her parents and brother in the sewers during the ghetto's liquidation; receiving assistance and food from a religious Pole; her father's death from illness; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; traveling with her mother and brother to Poland in 1946; living ...

  17. Reinhold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reinhold R., a Romani, who left Berlin in 1936 when all Romani trailers were expelled during the Olympics. He recalls marrying in 1937; working at a wharf; his son's birth; arrest on May 16, 1940; deportation to a labor camp in Poland; the deaths of many, especially children; release; traveling to Lublin with his wife and child; going into hiding in Krako?w; obtaining false papers; arrest and imprisonment in Montelupich; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; learning his father had died from typhus; classification as a Polish political prisoner; transfer to Buchenwald two w...

  18. Lilly T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly T., who was born in Szikszo?, Hungary in 1930. Mrs. T. details her family history; their comfortable and assimilated lifestyle; arrival of Jewish refugees from 1938 onward; anti-Jewish regulations; her older brother's resistance efforts; and deportation with her family to Kos?ice, then Auschwitz. She recounts immediate separation from her family; transfer to Birkenau; her sense that she grew up immediately; inclusion with a group of children; escape from that group with the assistance of a Wehrmacht soldier; transport to Estonia; slave labor cutting wood; receiv...

  19. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Wielu?n, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. She recalls her family's Hasidism; being injured during German invasion in 1939; hospitalization; living in ?o?dz? with her parents and some siblings, then in the Warsaw ghetto; hiding in bunkers during round-ups; her father's and youngest sister's deportation; deportation with her mother and some siblings; separation from them all; slave labor in Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; dreaming of her parents; transfer to Weisswasser; slave labor in a munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops on Ma...

  20. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Prague in 1907. Mrs. S. describes her early family life; her family's move to the Sudeten in 1909; and her family's reaction to her marrying a non-Jewish child survivor of the Armenian genocide. She recounts the plight of the Jews in the wake of Kristallnacht and her husband's help in assisting her and her parents to flee to Czechoslovakia. She recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; her designation, along with her oldest "Jewish" daughter, for transport to a labor camp (a younger daughter was not designated as Jewish); and her husband's conscript...