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  1. Aron Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron Z., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; their butcher shops; antisemitic violence; visiting relatives in Radoszyce; summers in Ko?o; German invasion; his father's arrest; assistance from their German landlord to free him; being sent to relatives in Kielce and Mnio?w; walking home because he missed his mother; ghettoization; forced labor; occasionally driving H?ayim Rumkowski; deportations including siblings, nephews, and nieces; deportation with his brother and parents to Auschwitz/Birkenau in ...

  2. Abe A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe A., who was born in approximately 1923 in Bodzanow?, Poland, one of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his large, extended family; visiting relatives in P?ock; participating in Agudat Israel; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; forced labor; organization of the Judenrat; slave labor in Drobin in spring 1940; his cousin being shot; illness; returning home; transfer with his family to Dzia?dowo in March 1941, then four weeks later to Cze?stochowa; ghettoization; slave labor in Gidle; visiting...

  3. Reiza R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reiza R. She recalls living in Z︠H︡danov; moving to Tulʹchin in 1937; German occupation in July 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; transfer to Pechora with her parents, three sisters, and nephew; the shooting of eight young men in front of them to demonstrate the guards' severity; a four month illness (her parents died prior to her recovery); being told they would all be killed in a mass shooting; the trucks leaving with one group and not returning; feeling no joy at their reprieve; escaping with another prisoner; arrest; imprisonment and torture in Tulʹchin; being se...

  4. Margaret P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret P., who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1923. She recounts her father's death before she was born; her mother's return to her parents in Budapest; visits with her paternal grandparents in Czechoslovakia; and anti-Semitic incidents in school. Mrs. P. describes sudden changes when Germany occupied Hungary; her marriage on April 8, 1944 during her husband's leave from a Hungarian labor battalion; a round-up in December; a fascist guard giving her the opportunity to escape but refusing since she had no place to go; and arrival in Bergen-Belsen on the last trans...

  5. Maria B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She recalls her affluent childhood; rampant antisemitism; German invasion in September 1939; her father's unwillingness to leave despite having the financial means; anti-Jewish measures; her younger brother's escape to the Soviet zone; refusing an offer to hide with Poles because of her reluctance to leave her family; ghettoization in March 1941; marriage in 1942; her family running a ghetto factory; her father and brother being arrested; bribing an official to release them; transfer with her family to P?aszo?w; mass ...

  6. Fanny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny S., who was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1924, the oldest of three daughters. She recounts her father earned the Iron Cross in World War I; his orthodoxy; attending public school; visiting relatives in Dresden; antisemitic restrictions after 1933, including expulsion from school; attending camp in Leiden in 1937; confiscation of her father's business; her father's severe beating; his emigration to the United States in 1938; forced relocation; arrests and destruction on Kristallnacht; emigration with her mother and two sisters via Hamburg to the United States...

  7. Zelda P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zelda P., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1921, one of six children. She recalls her family's poverty; attending Catholic school; Hungarian occupation; working for an architectural firm; German occupation in 1944; her employers hiding her; leaving to join her family in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; briefly seeing her sister; transfer to Nachtsheim; slave labor; friends helping her when she couldn't walk; transfer to Ravensburg; liberation by Soviet troops in April 1945; hospitalization until July; traveling to Bucharest; learning a brother and sister had su...

  8. Elaine L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elaine L., who was born in Bilki, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recounts six siblings; her father being killed in crossfire during Hungarian occupation in March 1939; learning of mass killings in Poland from an escapee; her brothers's draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; traveling to Budapest to help her sister-in-law with their business in Berehove; returning to Bilki; deportation with her mother and sister to the Berehove ghetto; separation from her mother and sister-in-law upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer with her sister to Gels...

  9. Bertha W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha W., one of ten children, who grew up in Mukacheve (presently Ukraine). She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Hungarian school; their move to a mixed neighborhood in 1918; cordial relations with non-Jews during the Czech period; Hungarian occupation; the draft of three brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions (another had emigrated to France); her father's death in 1941, and her mother's in 1943; ghettoization with her sisters in a brick factory for one week; deportation with one sister to Auschwitz in spring 1944; slave labor in a chemical facto...

  10. Eve C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eve C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1921. She recounts moving with her parents to Offenbach; her parents' divorce; moving with her mother to Erfurt; the boycott of her grandparents' store in 1934; disappointment at not being able to join the Hitler Youth; joining a club of German foreigners; her father's emigration to the United States in 1935; her uncle's arrest for being homosexual; brief arrest with her mother during Kristallnacht; emigrating to Great Britain with her mother's encouragement in 1939; and emigration to the United States in 1940. Mrs...

  11. Fred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred K., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1927. He recalls his father's butcher shop closing when kosher slaughtering was outlawed; harassment by non-Jewish children; his older sister's emigration to the United States in 1937; his father twice being arrested and released; hiding on Kristallnacht while their apartment was vandalized; and leaving on a children's transport to England in the summer of 1939. Mr. K. describes brief stays on the coast and in London; emotionally difficult years at the Bunce Court School in Kent; and nurturing weekends in the home of ...

  12. Richard R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard R., who was born in L?viv, Poland in 1923, an only child. He recalls his family's affluence; his father visiting relatives in the United States in 1939 to arrange their emigration, but not being able to return when war began; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Ukrainians taking Jews off the streets (they never returned); forced labor loading and unloading coal which exempted him and his mother from deportation; his mother obtaining false papers and traveling to Warsaw; learning she was denounced and killed; ghettoization; working in Janowska, but not staying ...

  13. Rabbi Baruch G. edited testimony

    Rabbi Baruch G., a survivor from Mława, Poland, tells of his childhood and youth. Recollections of the joyous Passovers of his childhood call to mind his feelings of loneliness at his son's bar mitzvah, at which there was no one present from his side of the family, since all had perished in the Holocaust. Rabbi G. chronicles the breakdown and destruction of his closely-knit extended family and his own personal deterioration as he experienced the degradations of numerous concentration and slave labor camps. He describes the process of his recovery and relates his insights into its limitatio...

  14. Marcelo G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcelo G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1913. He recalls living in Praga; learning to be a furrier at age fifteen; military service from 1935-1937; marriage in 1938; German invasion; service on the eastern front; capture by Germans; escaping home; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in fall 1940; traveling in 1941 to Siedlce to arrange food shipments to the Warsaw ghetto; helping to organize tree planting in the ghetto; exemption from deportation due to his job in a fur factory; observing the deportation of Janusz Korczak and his orphans; his parents' and siblin...

  15. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., who was drafted into the United States Army in January 1942. He describes entering Buchenwald in April 1945; many corpses; taking pictures; the reactions of Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley; entering barracks and the crematorium; and crying when he saw human ashes. Mr. C. notes he did not discuss this experience when he returned to the United States, but it left him scarred. He shows pictures he took in Buchenwald, and discusses his volunteer work with a fellow veteren visiting schools to describe entering concentration camps in 1945.

  16. Olga S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Bobrynetsสน, Ukraine in 1910. She recounts her father's death when she was an infant; her mother's remarriage; speaking Yiddish with her grandparents; placement in a Jewish orphanage by her family at age ten; American aid during the famine in 1921-1922; studying in Kiev beginning in 1928; marriage to a non-Jew in 1929; her mother's and brother's deaths; the births of her son and daughter; her husband's training as a pilot, leaving her alone in Kiev; German invasion; missing evacuation east; a German order for all Jews to gather on September 29...

  17. Pavel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pavel K., who was born in Borčice, Slovakia in 1938. He recounts deportation with his family to Žilina in 1942; their release due to intervention from a well-connected uncle; living in Bratislava; being hidden by their non-Jewish landlord in 1944; their arrest by Hlinka Guard; his father being tortured and stating their false papers were supplied by a cousin (Jozef K.), who was serving in the partisans so could not be found; deportation to Sered;̕ transport, with his mother, to Bergen-Belsen; her bringing a book and reading to him; starvation; serious illnesses; pla...

  18. Otto L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto L., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recalls living in Fancsika; his large extended family; their orthodoxy; attending cheder; Hungarian occupation; German invasion; deportation with his parents, siblings, grandparents, and other relatives to a ghetto in a nearby town, then to Auschwitz; separation from his family; throwing boots over a fence to his aunt; slave labor on a farm; escaping with a friend from a selected group; seeing his uncle once; transfer to another camp; slave labor in a mountain tunnel; transfer to Myslowi...

  19. Annette G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annette G., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1937. She remembers glimpses from her life before the German occupation: her Christian governess; her mother's business; and the family's upstairs apartment. She recalls how her father rejected an offer by Polish friends to hide her and her twin brother; life in the ghetto; deportation of her father and older half-brother; and being smuggled with her nineteen year old half-sister to hide with a Christian family in 1943. She describes bewilderment at being alone in a rat-infested basement for eleven months; her half-sister'...

  20. Ellsworth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellsworth R., who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in approximately 1924. He recalls military draft in 1943; assignment to the 26th Infantry Division; landing in England; combat in France; large numbers of casualties and injuries; an attack by Hitler Youth in Alsace; fighting in partnership with French Moroccan troops; encountering French and Belgian forced laborers in a work camp; coming upon SS troops shooting into a burning barrack which they later learned was occupied by Romanies; taking no prisoners after that episode; finding a train full of Jewish prisoners, ...