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Language of Description: English
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  1. Margit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915 while her father was serving as a medical officer at the front in World War I. She describes her family's German patriotism; their assimilated and affluent life; activities in a Social Democratic youth organization; anti-Semitic propaganda; her desire to leave Germany beginning in 1933, despite her parents' pro-German sentiments; the April 1, 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals, including her father; fleeing to Switzerland with her mother; returning to Berlin; going to England with a Quaker group; and ...

  2. Sprinta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sprinta T., who was born in Rona de Sus, Romania in 1920. She recalls her large, Hasidic family; a happy childhood; attending school until age twelve; the family farm; her older brothers attending school elsewhere; Hungarian occupation in 1944; transfer with her family to a ghetto, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); slave labor building roads; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by train, then a death march; her cousin sharing food that she had found near the road; liberation by British troops; recuperating in Malmö, Sweden; as...

  3. Irene P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene P., who was born in Paris, France in 1931. She recounts living in Montreuil; French naturalization at age five; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's incarceration in Drancy in 1941 (he did not return); her older brother's placement in a Catholic children's home; being warned by a non-Jewish policeman in July 1942 of an impending round-up; her mother and younger sister going into hiding; staying with her grandmother; their arrest; a non-Jewish policeman (her friend's father) obtaining their release; finding her mother; her mother and sister ill...

  4. Victor M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor M., a non-Jew, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1925. He recalls his family's strong patriotism; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing with his father and uncle to Versailles, Limoges, and other French cities; returning to Brussels in mid-August; joining the Resistance; passing university entrance exams; arrest with others in his group in August 1944; incarceration in St. Gilles; receiving Red Cross parcels; transfer to Neuengamme; slave labor outside the camp; remaining with his friends; transfer in September 1944 to Schandelah; his privileged position ...

  5. Wolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in G?ogo?w. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separat...

  6. Alex G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex G., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919. He describes his upbringing in a religiously observant, middle-class setting; the tendency to underestimate the significance of anti-Semitic measures in Germany; outbreak of war in 1939; and escaping to Lwo?w in the Soviet occupation zone, where he worked in a bakery and organized athletic functions. He tells of the German invasion; his reunion with family in the Bochnia ghetto; the killing of his parents in 1942; and traveling to Vienna on false papers. Mr. G. recalls staying in Vienna; acquaintances he made there; se...

  7. William Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William Z., who was born in Znacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919. He recalls attending school until age thirteen; apprenticeship and working for his father as a cabinet maker; Hungarian occupation; forced labor in a Hungarian army battalion; visits to a local Jewish family; a promise of protection from a Hungarian general; and obtaining weapons for partisans with funds from the local Jewish family. Mr. Z. recounts obtaining a leave from the general; finding his home abandoned; learning his family was in the Munka?cs ghetto and joining them; smuggling his two brothers out w...

  8. Itzcak D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzcak D., who was born in Corfu, Greece in 1929, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; speaking Italian at home; his older brother's death; attending Greek and Hebrew school; visiting Athens with his father; benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Kamára; round-up of all Jews; their ship transfer to Lefkáda, Patrai, then Piraeus; imprisonment; transport by cattle cars from Athens to Birkenau; singing for extra food; a beating for smuggling food to his father; slave labor; public hangings; observing cannibalism; trans...

  9. Roger C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger C., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. He recounts the important influence of scouting; apprenticeship as an electrician; enlisting in the French military; retreating to Tarbes; demobilization; working as an electrician; his family and fiancee joining him; creating false papers for the Resistance in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; an unsuccessful attempt to illegally enter Spain; joining Sixie?me, a network rescuing Jewish children in Rodez, Clermont Ferrand, and Aix-les-Bains; arrest in Lyon in May 1943; transfer to Montluc prison; digging graves for executed prison...

  10. Abram Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1924. He recalls the flourishing Jewish culture; his father's Bund activities; the outbreak of war in 1939; his parents sending him to Pinsk; meeting Bund leaders including Victor Erlich; returning to Vilna; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest (he never saw him again); a pogrom when Lithuania became independent; German invasion in June 1941; hiding when Lithuanians began killing Jews; going to a forced labor camp outside of Vilna to avoid mass killings; bringing his mother there; returning to the Vilna ghetto; organization...

  11. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1934. She recalls her parents were physicians who worked in a small village (Jews were banned from hospital positions); taking an orphan into their home; close relations with a large, extended family; moving to Gherla; Hungarian occupation; her father being taken for Hungarian slave labor battalions from 1942 to 1944; frequent visits; German occupation in 1944 (her father was home); anti-Jewish regulations; the round-up of Jews into a factory; train transfer to the Cluj ghetto; a friend warning her father not to go on transp...

  12. Sara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara M., who was born in Kaunas, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1915, the oldest of three children. She recounts her family's move to Jurbarkas, then Ukmergė; attending a Russian school, then a Jewish school where Jacob Gens, the future head of the Vilna ghetto, was her teacher; moving to Kaunas in 1934 for a job; her brother joining her; her sister's emigration to Palestine in 1939; Soviet occupation; living with her aunt and grandmother; German invasion; local Lithuanians rounding up and killing Jewish men, including her brother; ghettoization; slave labor at an a...

  13. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was three; living with her father; the painting of Stars of David on his shop windows in 1935; having to attend a Jewish school (the Goldschmidt School); participating in Zionist organizations; her father's harassment during a business trip; visits to family members in Poland and England who doubted that the Nazis represented a real danger; attending the 1936 Olympics; her father's marriage in 1937 in New York to an American for emigration purposes; receiving a United States ...

  14. Minya J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Minya J., who was born in Warta, Poland in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family living there for seven generations; a happy childhood; German invasion; briefly staying with her married sister in ?o?dz?; returning home; ghettoization; smuggling food to her family; public hangings of escapees and hostages; a privileged position caring for a German child outside the ghetto; her father's arrest; obtaining his release; escaping from a round-up with one sister (she never saw them again); their transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with their sister;...

  15. Larry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry R., who was born in Lez?ajsk, Poland, in 1929. In this exceptionally vivid and detailed testimony, Mr. R. describes his privileged childhood; his family's move to Zakliko?w in 1937; and the outbreak of the war in 1939. Mr. R. recalls seeing his father beaten; his family's eviction from their estate; their eventual betrayal and arrest; and the deportation of Jews from Zakliko?w. He describes conditions in the freight cars to Budzyn? and in the camp, where he arrived with his brother in April 1943. He tells of witnessing a mass murder and his consequent desire to ...

  16. Arthur R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur R., who was born in Derecske, Hungary in 1928, one of seven children. In a reflective and detailed testimony, he remembers centering their life on the synagogue, religious school, Sabbath, and Jewish holidays; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; rescinding of Jewish business licenses, including his father's; increasing poverty; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in Nagyva?rad (Oradea); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and younger brothers (they perished); pervasive hunge...

  17. Martin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1931, the youngest of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence; their orthodoxy; attending cheder and Romanian school; his father's emigration to Palestine with two brothers and sisters; his return with one brother; Hungarian occupation in 1940; German invasion in 1944; his bar mitzvah; forced relocation with his family to the Vis?eu de Sus ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Birkenau; selection with three brothers; their transfer to Do?rnhau; slave labor; risking death to sneak into the kitchen for extra fo...

  18. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder at age three; completing Jewish trade school in 1938; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; he and his older sister working to support the family; ghettoization; smuggling food; working in a battery factory; volunteering for road building near Łęczna; assistance from a non-Jewish woman; escaping; doing farm work posing as a non-Jew; arrest; incarceration in Lublin; release by a...

  19. Lea P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea P., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1923. She recalls attending a Jewish school; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; speaking Judeo-Spanish at home; cordial relations with non-Jews; joining SKOJ, the communist youth movement; her sister's death in childbirth; German invasion; one brother joining the partisans (he was killed); her other brother's capture as a POW (he survived); German invasion; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; her father's incarceration in Topovske Šupe; visiting him until his "disappearance"; forced labor; learning she was want...

  20. Beatrice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment of her brother; moving to Warsaw in 1932 or 1933, then to Brussels; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in 1941; obtaining false papers; capture with her brother by Germans in Besançon while fleeing to Switzerland in 1942; their release by an officer because she resembled his daughter; returning to hide with their parents; a German raid; her escape (she never saw her family again); assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; hiding briefly with a non-Jewish ...