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Language of Description: English
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  1. Elly K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elly K., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1926. She recalls her happy childhood; her older brother emigrating to Palestine after the outbreak of war; imprisonment of her father and two brothers; illegally traveling to Hennef to visit them; learning they had been transferred to Sachsenhausen; deportation with her mother and younger brother to the Ri?ga ghetto in January 1942; slave labor outside the ghetto; assistance from Wermacht soldiers; her mother's and brother's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer to Kaiserwald after the ghetto'...

  2. Lore L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore L., who was born in 1924 in Hagen, Germany. She recalls life in a wealthy home; her father's strong sense of German identity and pride in his World War I service; increasing antisemitism; her parents' reluctance to leave; Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; confiscation of their assets; futile attempts to emigrate; attending dressmaking school in Dortmund; her desire to hide the compulsory yellow star; forced labor; transport to an assembly site in Dortmund in 1942; travel by cattle train to Litome?r?ice; and the march to Terezi?n. Mrs. L. decribes her emotiona...

  3. H. D. S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of H.D. S., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts assignment to a POW camp in New Mexico; landing in Le Havre; moving into Germany; entering Dachau; giving all his food to the starving prisoners; entering barracks and a crematorium; traveling to Salzburg three weeks later; delivering supplies to Ulm displaced persons camp; and discharge in 1945. Mr. S. notes nightmares and physical ailments resulting from the war and never discussing his experiences. He shows documents.

  4. Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of six children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1769), Mr. B. recalls his family's poverty, their orthodoxy, and holiday observances; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1942; working in a shoe factory; meeting a friend in Mittergars who told him how to survive; receiving extra food from kitchen workers; recovering in Feldafing displaced persons camp and Sopron after liberation; and hospitalization in So...

  5. Hedy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. She recalls a happy childhood in an affluent, assimilated home; studying in Lausanne; her brother's service in the Austrian army; marriage in February 1937; the Anschluss in March 1938; obtaining documents to emigrate to the United States in two years; moving to Krako?w in October 1938 to wait; German invasion; their flight to L?viv in the Soviet zone in November 1939; refusing Soviet citizenship; deportation to a forced labor camp in Siberia; harsh conditions; German invasion in June 1941; release; moving to Bukhoro; ...

  6. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who served in a hospital unit of the United States Third Army in World War II. He describes entering Buchenwald shortly after its liberation in 1945; setting up a hospital; capturing German guards; treating starved, sick prisoners, many in a state of shock; rooms filled with emaciated corpses; survivors dying from eating; guiding journalists and dignitaries through Buchenwald, including Clare Booth Luce, General Hoyt Vandenberg, and Margaret Bourke-White; compulsive visits of nearby residents to view Buchenwald (they denied knowing what happened there); esta...

  7. Rafael A. Holocaust testimony

    A continuation of the videotape testimony of Rafael A., who recalls German bombing of Belgrade in April 1941; escaping southward, intending to emigrate to Palestine; encountering German tanks in Užice; returning to Belgrade; forced labor removing corpses in Smederevo; his parents' visit; a furlough in Belgrade; traveling to Niš, then to Pirot to join his family; living near Rachel A., his future wife, and her family; benign Bulgarian occupation; visiting relatives in Sofia; conscription for forced labor in spring 1942; returning to Pirot in November; anti-Jewish restrictions; a round-up w...

  8. Janet B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janet B., who was born in Berlin in 1935 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. Mrs. B. details her childhood memories of antisemitism; the divorce of her parents so her father could join the German army; and her friendship with a German boy with whom she went places where Jews were not allowed. She tells of her and her mother's arrest following the death of her father on the Russian front; her brief return home for provisions, enabling her to destroy possessions and leave a bucket of urine and excrement to be tripped over by anyone who entered the apartment to l...

  9. Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in Poland in 1922, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts his father's emigration to Belgium; he and his family joining him in Brussels in 1926; attending public school; antisemitic name-calling; involvement with leftist causes beginning with the Spanish Civil War; apprenticeship to a tailor in 1937, despite aspirations to become a doctor; attending night school; his father's visit to brothers in the United States in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; his brothers' mobilization; fleeing to Paris, then southern France; brief military mobil...

  10. Alain D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain D., a non-Jew, who was born in Pâturages, Belgium in 1925. He recalls attending school until 1941; working in a bakery; his older brother escaping to England after receiving a notice for forced labor; arrest in November 1943 in place of his brother; forced labor in Watten for Organisation Todt; observing French and Belgian camp officials and Slavic guards; his friend's shooting on his way to the latrine at night; observing a few Jews, but having no contact with them; increased rations, which they were not allowed to eat, during a Red Cross inspection; release ...

  11. Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel A., who was born in Grimaylov, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1916. He recalls attending public school; participating in Betar; working in the family restaurant; being drafted into the Polish military in 1939; German invasion; being captured; separation of the Jewish POWs; escaping with help from a Pole; returning home; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; establishment of the Judenrat; hiding to avoid becoming a member of the Jewish police; agricultural work at a labor camp; release of all the prisoners by the camp commander; hiding with his brother in Kopychy...

  12. Paulette G. and Denise B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulette G., who was born in Paris, France in 1933. She recalls her mother dressing her and her sister beautifully; German invasion in 1940; her brother's birth; her father's disappearance; humiliation and harassment when wearing the star; learning her father had been killed; her mother arranging to hide her and her sister with a Catholic family in Seiches; their conversion to Catholicism; cessation of payments from their mother (she was deported and killed); arrival of her brother; his placement in an orphanage; hardships due to their hosts' poverty; consolation from...

  13. Veronika B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Veronika B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. She recalls her family's affluence (they owned a large couture house); their assimilated lifestyle; attending gymnasium; vacationing in Czechoslovakia and Italy; German occupation in March 1944; confiscation of their business, apartment, and possessions (they received a receipt that she shows); entrusting family jewelry to non-Jewish friends; her brother's conscription for forced labor; moving to a safe house; forced labor with her parents in a workshop supplying custom-made clothing and shoes to the SS, their fr...

  14. Denise W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Denise W., who was born in Paris. She recalls her parents were both from Poland; being sent to boarding school in Les Sables-d'Olonne after the outbreak of war; returning to Paris; her father's deportation; fleeing with her mother, grandmother, and brother to Nice; living in Aix-les-Bains; hiding in the mountains during a round-up; returning to Aix-les-Bains; arrest with her family; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her mother; being protected by the Czech head of her block; her mother's last visit; sorting clothes and luggage near the ...

  15. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Boskovice, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recounts his family's move to Vienna when he was six months old; his parents' divorce; moving to Czechoslovakia in 1922; apprenticeship in C?eska? Li?pa; joining his mother in Vienna in 1934; joining Haganah; losing his business after the Anschluss; moving to Prague in March 1938; illegally emigrating to Palestine through Betar; joining the Irgun; enlisting in the British army in 1939; serving in France; fleeing from Dunkerque to England; marriage in London; serving in Egypt in 1941, then in Nor...

  16. Fred M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred M., who was born in Trenc?i?n, Czechoslovakia in 1906. He recalls family life; his athletic abilities; education in a Jesuit school; his successful plumbing business; marriage; and moving to Trenc?i?n. Mr. M. describes his exemption from wearing a yellow star because the Germans needed his plumbing skills; working in the Tatra Mountains; hearing that all the Jews in Trenc?i?n had been deported, including his family (he knew his son was hiding with a former employee); escaping to the partisans headquartered in Banska? Bystrica; various forays against the Germans; ...

  17. Stanley R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1934. Mr. R. recalls his assimilated home; his German governess; German invasion; his father's and uncle's flight to the Soviet Union; moving with his mother to his uncle's home in Wieliczka; the horror of witnessing a building being burned containing Jewish adults and children; their return to Krako?w using false papers; his mother working as a domestic; SS confiscation of her employer's home; his mother continuing to work there while hiding him in a closet for six months; being smuggled to Bratislava with his mother, an...

  18. Sara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara K., who was born in approximately 1926, the older of two sisters. She recounts living in Wielun?; her family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east; separation from her family; assistance from the Red Cross; finding an aunt in Be?chato?w; traveling to Pabianice; returning home; destruction of their home by German bombardments; living with relatives; reunion with her mother and sister (her father never returned); forced labor clearing rubble; joining a cousin in Zie?bice in 1940 (her mother and siste...

  19. Blanche H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Blanche H., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1934. She recalls her affluent home; German invasion; her family's unsuccessful attempt to flee via Dunkerque; returning to Antwerp; antisemitic restrictions; humiliation at having to wear the yellow star; her father's deportation, followed by her brother's and sister's; moving to Namur with her mother; her mother seeking help from a Catholic priest to hide her; living with a family of nine children in Rhisnes (her mother hid in Antwerp); arrival of her mother; having to leave due to fear of exposure; relocation to an or...

  20. Willy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willy K., who was born in Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium in 1920, a non-Jew. Mr. K. recalls participating in a Protestant youth group; leaving school at age fifteen; working odd jobs; learning to be a baker from his father; military enlistment in September 1938; assignments in Florennes, Konigslo, Rossignol, and Bruges; a futile attempt to leave with British troops after German invasion; volunteering for the bakery when he was incarcerated; transfer to a prison in Bruges; escape; traveling to Brussels, then his home; joining an organization of war veterans; contacting a...