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  1. Aleksandar M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksander M., who was born in Yugoslavia. He recalls attending university in Belgrade; German invasion; applying to the military in Sarajevo; being warned by a Jewish soldier to leave; traveling to Herceg-Novi, Dubrovnik, then Split; benign Italian occupation; good treatment from the local population; receiving financial support from the Joint through Delasem, an Italian-Jewish welfare organization, and the local Jews; transfer to Korc?ula Island; organizing support of children without families, schools, and cultural activities; learning of imminent danger through a ...

  2. Samuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel G., who was born in Szastarka, Poland in 1926. He describes his large family; forced relocation after German occupation; taking his older brother's place as a slave laborer; his family bribing a Pole for his release after three months; hiding with his family for two weeks with help from a Pole; their capture; about two years in Budzyn? concentration camp; atrocities committed by camp commander Reinhold Feiks; incidents of mass punishment after escape attempts; transfer to Ostrowiec; and a mass killing including his father. He recalls transfer to Auschwitz in 19...

  3. Iakov N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iakov N., who was born in Minsk, Soviet Union in 1925. He recalls his parents laboring in factories; hunger until 1938; speaking Yiddish at home; German bombing in June 1941; fleeing and returning to Minsk twice; ghettoization; mass shootings in which relatives were killed (one cousin survived by crawling out of a mass grave); forced labor; building hiding places to use during mass shootings; arrival of German Jews; escaping in summer 1943 with help from the underground; joining the partisans in the forest; Hersh Smolar directing them to another unit; learning his par...

  4. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., a prominent Holocaust scholar, who was born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. He recounts his family moving frequently; their economic instability; his older sister's illness; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; his father's death; ghettoization; meetings of Hashomer Hatzair; supporting his family by doing forced labor in place of others; his older sister's and mother's deaths; placing his younger sister in the Korczak orphanage; delivering underground newspapers; acting as a counselor to Hashomer Hatzair children's groups which provided social ser...

  5. Elfi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elfi E., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She remembers living with her grandparents (her parents were divorced); a close relationship with her twin brother; being attacked by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; her mother's decision to send her and her brother to Belgium to join their father; the paid smuggler abandoning them in Aachen; their father finding them; placement with foster families; missing her brother; briefly seeing her mother who was emigrating to London; placement in an orphanage in Middelkerke; evacuation to an orphanage in Brussels during German in...

  6. Harry Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry Z., who was born in Be?z?yce, Poland in 1926. He recounts the war starting his first day of school; his father doing forced labor; working as a messenger for the Judenrat; the arrival of Jews deported from Germany (one family lived with them); hiding during round-ups; capture by Ukrainian guards; escape; locating his father; hiding in a cellar with his family and several others; entering the Lublin ghetto with his parents, then Be?z?yce concentration camp (his sister was hidden by non-Jews); slave labor in a shoe workshop, then demolishing buildings in G?usk; a ...

  7. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Stanisławów, Poland (presently Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine) in 1925, the younger of two sons. He recalls his family's upper-class, assimilated lifestyle; Soviet occupation in 1939; German/Hungarian invasion in 1941; ghettoization; his father's participation in the Judenrat; escaping with his parents and brother to the Buchach ghetto; his round-up for deportation; his father bribing a guard to let him go; his mother obtaining false papers for all of them; moving to Warsaw by himself; arrest for not having travel papers while on a train; imprison...

  8. Eugene D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene D., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in approximately 1930, one of seven children. He recounts his orthodox family's poverty; Hungarian occupation in 1940; antisemitic harassment by a teacher; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents and some siblings (he never saw them again); remaining with two older brothers; separation from his brothers when he was transferred to P?aszo?w about a week later; a rabbi being killed because he would not give up his tallit and tefillin; transfer to Gross-Rosen, then Gleiwitz; a privileged position a...

  9. Dorothy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy F., who was born in Stanislav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1929. She recalls her large extended family; Soviet occupation; German occupation in summer 1941; briefly hiding with her mother during an "aktion" (she never saw her father again); ghettoization; a non-Jewish farmer hiding her and her mother; fleeing to two aunts in another ghetto; transfer to a labor camp with her aunt and two cousins (she never saw her mother again); slave labor building roads; escape with her aunt and cousins to a forest; building crude bunkers; a raid in which her aunt was kille...

  10. Werner A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, the oldest of three sons. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; observing Friday night sabbath, Passover, Easter and Christmas; his strong German identification; antisemitic harassment at school beginning in 1932; some non-Jewish students protecting him; his bar mitzvah; participating in Maccabi, then in Schwarzes F̈̈ähnlein, a Jewish-German nationalist youth group; living in an agricultural training facility led by Curt Bondy; his mother and brothers emigrating to Amsterdam; joining them (his father follo...

  11. Ilse A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse A., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany circa 1922. She recalls a happy childhood; Hitler's ascent to power in 1933; one brother's emigration to Australia; anti-Jewish laws resulting in expulsion from school; her family's move to Amsterdam; discrimination because she was German; a dressmaker's apprenticeship; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures despite sympathy from the Dutch; her grandmother's deportation; her father learning they were to be deported; contacting the underground; receiving false papers; being transported to Apeldoorn with her parents (her br...

  12. Adolphe L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolphe L., who was born in Fumal, Belgium in 1919. He recalls that his family were very religious Christians and Belgian patriots; attending school in Huy; military enlistment in 1938; German invasion; fleeing with his battalion to France; sailing from La Turballe to England; enlisting in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to continue to fight against Germany; months of physical and intelligence training; parachuting into Belgium in fall 1941; reunion with his fiancée and family; living in Liège; condemning the treatment of Jews based on his Christian beliefs; ...

  13. Eduard T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eduard T., who was born in Rotterdam in 1916. He recalls his secular childhood; learning of German antisemitism from German-Jewish refugees; antisemitism from Dutch Nazis; his father's death in 1937; his mother's emigration; German invasion; attending radio school; living in Utrecht with anti-Nazi students; working for a friend in Voorburg; obtaining false papers; hiding in several different houses; narrow escapes; moving to the Hague; staying with several families, including a socialist and a Dutch Calvinist; war's end; reunion with his brother (he had been in hiding...

  14. Len D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Len D., who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1916. He describes his family's long presence in Germany; his father's kosher butcher business; cordial relations with non-Jews; apprenticeship; Hitler's rising influence; emigration of one brother to the United States; moving to Berlin in 1938; returning to Koblenz; his arrest on Kristallnacht; incarceration in the local jail, then Dachau; being beaten (he still suffers from that injury); release in February 1939; returning to Koblenz; illegally entering Holland; staying with relatives in Amsterdam; making diagrams of Dacha...

  15. Maks B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maks B., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in approximately 1920. He recalls the successful family store; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; his father hiding when Nazis came for him; a family meeting at which many, at his father's urging, decided to leave for Palestine (most who remained were killed); traveling to Palestine via Italy; his mother's death five years later; his father's remarriage; intending to visit relatives in Europe in 1939; leaving the ship to return to Tel Aviv upon learning policies against Jews in Palestine; joi...

  16. Lois and Abraham J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lois J., who was born in a small town near Vilna, Poland in 1927, and her husband Abraham J., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1921. Mrs. J. discusses prewar Jewish life in her home town; the Russian occupation in 1939; the German takeover in 1941 and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; ghettoization of her town and conditions under German rule; and her escape into the forest, where she lived with a group of 300 partisans and refugees from other ghettos. Mr. J. describes family life before the war; the displacement of his family following Russian occupation;...

  17. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in Paris in 1926. He describes the antisemitism he encountered as an apprentice jockey before the war; his escape to southern, unoccupied France when the Jews of Paris were ordered to assemble for deportation; and his detention in and escape from the internment camp at Rivesaltes. He also tells of his life in hiding on a French farm and his activities in the French underground, where, because of his small size, he was trained and employed to work with explosives. Mr. B. speaks with great emotion about his attempts to remember his Jewishness whil...

  18. Alexander G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander G., who was born in Nové Mesto nad Vahom, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1914, one of four children. He recounts his father leaving when he was only a year and a half; their abject poverty; joining his brother in Bratislava in 1928 as a barber's apprentice; playing on a Maccabi soccer team; military draft in 1936; postings in Piešt̕any and Solivar; discharge in 1939; formation of the Slovak state which promulgated anti-Jewish laws; arrest by Hlinka guards in 1942; incarceration in Žilina and Vhyne; working as a barber; liberation by par...

  19. Rachel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel Z., who was born in Zamość, Poland in 1931, one of three children. She recounts attending first grade in a Polish school; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family to a nearby village; returning home; ghettoization; moving to an aunt's home in Szcelatyn; a round-up to Grabowiec; the family being chosen for farm work by a German farmer who knew them; her parents paying a farmer to hide her and her younger brother; overhearing that all the Jews had been killed; the farmer telling them he was taking them to their parents; jumping from the horse carriage e...

  20. Fanny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny S., who was born in Paris, France in 1925, one of six children. She describes attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; taking care of her two younger siblings; evacuation with her family to Maine-et-Loire and Louroux-Be?connais when the war began; their return to Paris after German occupation in 1940; expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish laws; her youngest brother and sister being hidden by a non-Jew they had met in Louroux-Be?connais; arrest of her mother and two siblings in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up; neighbors suggesting they hide; h...