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  1. Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in a Hungarian village in 1915. She recalls life in the village and Budapest; attending boarding school in Budapest; marriage in 1937; the births of her sons in Novi Sad in 1938 and 1941; anti-Jewish measures; going to Budapest with her older son in 1942; learning her husband was killed in December; having her younger son brought to Budapest; German occupation; her arrest in Budapest (she never saw her mother and children again); transport to Kistarcsa, then Auschwitz; digging ditches in Birkenau; working in the Canada Kommando; assistance fr...

  2. Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph B., who was born in Tripoli, Libya (then Italian) in 1928, the youngest of four children. He recounts his family's British citizenship based on their roots in Gibraltar; their orthodoxy; attending cheder and Italian school; anti-Jewish laws with the rise of fascism; the outbreak of war; his father's imprisonment as a British national; his aunt's death in an Allied bombing; their move to the countryside to avoid bombings; their arrest as British nationals, then transfer to an internment camp in Civatella del Tronto; his father joining them in March 1942; receivi...

  3. Maurice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice P., who was born in Brussels, Belgium to Polish immigrants in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recalls a happy childhood despite his family's poverty; the sacredness of Friday nights despite their general secularism; cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in Zionist and socialist organizations; leaving school to begin work at age twelve; non-Jewish friends attending his bar mitzvah; German invasion; traveling to Gravelines intending to enlist; returning after encountering German troops; obtaining authentic papers as a non-Jew; distributing Resistance...

  4. Max T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max T., who was born in Buchach, Poland in 1901. He recalls fleeing with his family to Vienna in 1914; attending business school; joining a sports club in 1921; his father's death in 1926; marriage in 1928; his activities in the socialist uprising in 1934; the Anschluss; arrest on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; his wife obtaining visas to Sweden, with assistance from the trade union, resulting in his release; their emigration to Sweden then, with assistance from his uncle in the United States, to America ; his daughter's birth in 1946; and his subsequent care...

  5. Stanley W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley W., who was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1923. He recalls being called into military service in December 1941; posting to England; training as an intelligence officer; arriving in Celle, Germany via Belgium and Holland; hearing about Bergen-Belsen nearby; a Jewish friend who encouraged him to visit; disbelief at the mass graves and condition of the survivors; his friend organizing aid for the survivors; Josef Rosensaft organizing the displaced persons camp; his friend organizing other soldiers to write home for packages and delivering them to the DP cam...

  6. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Felso?ce?ce, Hungary in 1914 and grew up in Abau?jsza?nto?. He recalls a comfortable childhood within a large, extended family; moving to Miskolc in 1930; marriage in 1938; war mobilization; anti-Semitic regulations; his son's birth in 1940; compulsory service in a labor battalion in 1942 (two of his brothers perished); returning to Miskolc; German occupation in 1944; his parents' deportations; ghettoization; avoiding deportation by enlisting, with a brother, in a labor battalion; working under a protective commander in Jo?svafo? and on the...

  7. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Parkan (today S?tu?rovo), Czechoslovakia, in 1926. Mr. S. recalls his father's imprisonment as a "Hungarian master spy" in 1937; his release when Parkan was ceded to Hungary; his parents' separation in 1940; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; returning to Parkan with his mother in March 1944; smuggling food into the ghetto; losing his exemption (as the son of a Hungarian hero) from forced labor in August 1944; railroad construction in Transylvania; work as the commandant's wagon driver; a brutal sergeant whom he helped unmask after the war; and...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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 ...

  12. 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; ...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. 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;...