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  1. Betty C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty C., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1919, the youngest of five sisters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish school; participating in a Zionist youth group; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1936; her father's death; preparing to emigrate to Palestine on a Hechalutz kibbutz in Beverwijk; German invasion; returning to Amsterdam; marriage; operating a children's kibbutz in Elden with her husband; arrest in October 1942; deportation to Westerbork; arrival of her mother and one siste...

  2. Lucie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie W., who was born in Bad Berleburg, Germany in 1924. She describes instances of Nazi-related antisemitism in public school; her family's experiences during Kristallnacht and its aftermath; her journey to Belgium, along with her brother and sister, on a children's transport; and her unsuccessful attempt to escape into France. She also relates her illegal entry into Germany in February 1941, in order to emigrate to the United States with her family, and her subsequent emigration to the United States via Portugal.

  3. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. He recalls enlisting in the United States military; training as a radio operator; assignment to the XVIII Airborne Corps; and entering Ludwigslust concentration camp shortly after its liberation by the 82nd Airborne Division. He discusses having only two vivid memories: two emaciated prisoners (nothing but skin and bone) in striped uniforms with shaved heads lying by the gate, barely alive; and a building filled with corpses in total disarray emitting an incredible odor. He recounts being stunned; feeling totally ina...

  4. Rabbi Armin F. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Rabbi Armin F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1926. Mr. F. describes growing up in a small town near Bratislava; Hungarian occupation; studying at Yeshivoth; and his first awareness of danger when a Purim festival was cancelled in Bratislava because of the Anschluss. He recalls German occupation of Budapest, where he had been studying; increased restrictions on Jews; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from them; and incarceration in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager). He discusses Nazi methods of dehumanizing the p...

  5. Susi R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susi R., who was born in Germany in 1929 and grew up in Eisenach. She recalls implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions; her parents' close friendship with a non-Jewish woman; Kristallnacht; their friend smuggling her father to Brussels; living with her mother in Cologne, then Aachen; reuniting with her father in Brussels in January 1939; fleeing to Paris after the German invasion; her father's incarceration in Le Vernet (the last time she heard of him); and returning to Belgium. She recounts her mother arranging for her to live in a convent in Louvain in the summer ...

  6. Anka R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anka R., who grew up in Warsaw, Poland, one of six children. She recalls her marriage in 1938; food shortages after German invasion; ghettoization; her husband and a friend building two attached bunkers; hiding with twenty-one others during round-ups; hiding there with her husband, his brother and sister, and others during the ghetto uprising; some leaving after the larger bunker was destroyed; using drains to obtain food from Poles; her husband negotiating with Poles who killed him; staying with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the drains for three more days; ...

  7. Brigitte R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Brigitte R., who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1928. She recalls her mother (she was Jewish) had been baptized, as had she (her father's family was Christian); his committed membership in the Nazi Party; her parents' divorce in 1934; antisemitic harassment in school, while at the same time other students and teachers were supportive; having to move to "Jewish" housing; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; her mother's hospitalization for tuberculosis; her maternal uncle's arrest and release upon promising to leave Germany (a relative in the United States...

  8. Bronia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923, the eldest of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; celebrating Jewish holidays in their secular home; attending a Jewish pre-school, a public school, a Yiddish school for a year in 1933, then gymnasium; studying violin; participating in Zionist youth groups; committing to Deror; a local pogrom; Soviet occupation in 1939; destruction of their home during the June 1941 German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village for a week; obtaining food by doing agricultural work with her siste...

  9. Abraham P. and Morris P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Abraham P., born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1913 and Morris P., born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. They recall their family of six children; their father's death in 1923; attending school a half day and working long hours as tailors; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; and ghettoization in 1940. They describe extreme hunger, forced labor and round-ups; transport to Auschwitz with their family; transfer ten days later to Dachau together with their older brother; conditions of hard labor, beatings, selections, cold and hunger; transfer to Kaufe...

  10. Hyman M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hyman M., who was born in Huedin, Romania, in 1927. He recalls helping in the family store; attending Hebrew school; local conflicts between Vizhnitz and Satmar Hasidim; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his family selling their store rather than complying with Saturday opening requirements; his parents refusal to hide in the woods (his mother was pregnant with her ninth child); transfer to a Cluj brickyard in 1944; and his resentment when the Satmar rebbe escaped to Switzerland. Mr. M. recounts transport to Auschwitz; transfer with his father and brother to Kaufering (he...

  11. Hana P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana P, who was born in 1927, one of eight children in an orthodox family. She recounts living in Będzin, Poland; attending a Jewish school; antisemitism immediately before the war; German invasion; soldiers beating her father and cutting off his beard; her family's deportation; her deportation to Grünberg; slave labor in a textile factory; a death march to Neusalz; becoming depressed; several prisoners committing suicide; a death march to Ravensbrück, then Flossenbürg one month later; her friend sharing extra bread; train transfer to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen...

  12. William H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William H., who was born in 1916. He recounts his medical education; enlistment in the United States Army Medical Corps; sailing on the Queen Elizabeth to England in May 1943; caring for field casualties; and entering Germany in January 1945. Dr. H. describes his disbelief upon entering Buchenwald on April 21, 1945; walking through Buchenwald with a Catholic priest and a Belgian officer; and seeing debilitated survivors in the barracks and corpses of women and children in the "killing area." He reads from letters to his wife written on April 22 and May 14, 1945, descr...

  13. Leopold P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold P., who was born in Moravia, Czechoslovakia in 1923. As a non-Jew, he speaks of the arrest, imprisonment in concentration camps, and heroism of his father, who was active in the Resistance; of his own arrest and torture by the Germans; and of his subsequent involvement with the resistance movement. He also discusses his awareness of the situation of Jews in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia, and his experiences as a slave laborer. Mr. P. reflects, in his capacity as an anthropologist as well as an eyewitness, on the origins and implications of the Holocaust.

  14. Sam M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam M., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in approximately 1920. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; their poverty, which led to the deaths of two brothers; attending yeshiva in Kon?skie; antisemitic harassment; attending a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; moving to Warsaw in 1937; participating in Betar; German invasion in 1939; returning home; being caught in a round-up; transport to do slave labor constructing a dike; people in Szyd?owiec securing release of those from the town; returning home; deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory;...

  15. Masha P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Masha P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two daughters. She recalls a very happy childhood among a large extended family; attending a Bundist school; her parents' atheism; her sister moving to Białystok in 1939; attending a Bund summer camp; her father coming for her; German invasion the next day; anti-Jewish restrictions, including closing schools; working at a Bund sanitarium outside Warsaw; returning immediately prior to ghettoization; caring for young children in their building; obtaining food in a Bund kitchen; selling goods on the street;...

  16. Fela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fela W., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family's Hasidism; being mocked by non-Jews; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; one SS man providing help for her family; a public hanging of Jewish young men; ghettoization; transfer with her family to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family except her sister; transfer a few days later to Poppenbu?ttel-Sasel (Hamburg); clearing rubble from Allied bombings; transfer nine months later to a POW camp; treatment for blood poisoning by a prisoner doctor; tra...

  17. Israel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel F., who was born in the United States in 1913. He recounts his experiences as a United States soldier trained as a bacteriologist in the medical corps. He shares his recollections of liberated Weimar; the odor of the boxcars containing prisoners who had been bound for Buchenwald; the history of the camp; and the prisoners' self-liberation. He describes the condition and activities of the liberated prisoners, including some children, when he arrived three days later; and the denial of local citizens who were forced to visit Buchenwald. Mr. F. tells of the nation...

  18. Ruth C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth C., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, the older of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; her sheltered childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of family valuables; learning to be a seamstress; eviction from their home; slave labor cleaning streets; ghettoization in March 1941; their Ukrainian maid trading their valuables for money and food; forced factory labor; her parents hiding her and her brother during a round-up; her parents' deportation in October 1942; deportation to Płaszów; visiting her brother; public exe...

  19. Devorah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Devorah S., who was born in Paberžė, Lithuania in 1922, one of six children of a rabbi. She recalls moving to Myadzyel; attending gymnasium in Vilnius; marriages of older siblings; Soviet occupation in 1939; she and her sister becoming teachers; attending summer school in Maladzechna; German invasion; returning home; her father encouraging them to run away; he and her brother being murdered in a mass shooting in 1942; she and her sister burying him and others; forced labor; escaping toward the forests; a non-Jewish acquaintance hiding them briefly; escaping with her...

  20. Rose B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose B., who was born in Ashmi?a?ny, Poland in 1924. She recalls the vibrant Jewish community; antisemitism beginning in 1933; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; a mass killing of Jewish men, including her father; ghettoization; deportation to Mielagenai in June 1942; forced labor building a highway; bartering for food with non-Jews; her brother's arrival; her transfer to H.K.P. and his to Keilis; transfer to Kazlu Ruda, then the Kovno ghetto; train transport to Stutthof; digging trenches; train transfer to Torun? in January 1945; abandonment by ...