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  1. Gregor S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cantor Gregor S., who was raised in Liepa?ja, Latvia. This testimony includes much of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-104). Additional topics discussed include learning of mass murders in the Bikernieki Forest; resistance activities; feelings of being a "non-person" for years after the war; and his postwar marriage to an American. Cantor S. recites a Yiddish poem he wrote about meeting his wife.

  2. Allen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls fleeing to Russia during World War I; attending school in Russia and Poland; completing engineering school in Warsaw in 1935; his father's death; working in Czechoslovakia; returning home two days before the war; traveling with his mother and brother to Pruz?h?any, her hometown, in the Soviet zone; running a Jewish school under the Soviets; German invasion; his brother fleeing (he never saw him again); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; obtaining food from his boss; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz...

  3. Alzbeta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videtape testimony of Alzbeta L., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1909, one of five children. She recounts her family's observant Jewish life; attending business school in Kežmarok; working for a Jewish lawyer; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her boss sending her to Plavnica during the Slovak uprising; hiding with him and others in villages and the forests; digging and living in bunkers; capture by Germans in Jakubany; forced labor there and in Kežmarok; transfer from Poprad to Ravensbrück; crying all the time; transfer to Malchow; ...

  4. Irena W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena W., who was born in Nová Bystrica, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia), in 1909. She recalls living in Stará Bystrica; attending Hungarian, then Czech schools; studying in Žilina and Bratislava; working in Petržalka; relocation of her company to Bratislava due to anti-Jewish measures; deportation to Žilina in 1942; escape with assistance from a guard she knew; hiding in Bratislava with assistance from a policeman, then in Ružomberok; marriage; deportation exemption because her husband was a doctor; working as an accountant; hiding her hus...

  5. Isidore R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isidore R., who was born in Paris, France in approximately 1923. He recalls feeling French, not Jewish; German invasion; his father's arrest in August 1941; smuggling back and forth to the unoccupied zone; obtaining false papers; unsuccessfully trying to see friends who were rounded-up into the Vélodrome d'Hiver; being caught smuggling in Digoin in summer 1942; eight days imprisonment; transfer to Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, and Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz; a month quarantine; seeing his father; his suicide the next day (he never discussed this before); volun...

  6. Trudy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy H., who was born in Wachenheim, Germany in 1931. She recalls her parents' orthodoxy; the trauma of seeing them beaten on Kristallnacht; several days later being sent with her brother to Paris; living in children's homes, hospitals, and a chateau near Marseille; physical and emotional deprivation; being smuggled with a group of fifty children via Lisbon and Casablanca to the United States; and seeing her parents for the last time from the train en route. Mrs. H. recounts living at a Rothschild home in 1941; living with an aunt, where her brother remained when she...

  7. W?adys?awa Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of W?adys?awa Z., who was born in ?e?czyca, Poland in 1913. She describes her large, Hasidic family; participating in socialist activities; antisemitic experiences at Warsaw University; recuperating from a broken leg in Rabka with Zionists friends; brief imprisonment for leftist activities; moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; moving to Bia?ystok, then Stanislav in the Soviet zone; marriage; teaching near Korole?vka; cordial relations with Ukrainians and Poles; sending packages to her family in the Warsaw ghetto; visiting L'viv when Germany invaded the Soviet Union; return...

  8. Vera M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera M., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in April 1920. She recalls her assimilated childhood in Proseč; attending school in Vysoké Mýto; antisemitic incidents; transfering to schools in Prague, then Jeseník; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her father's expulsion from a club and expropriation of their house in 1939; living in Prague with her sister; marriage in October 1941; her husband's deportation to Theresienstadt in December; voluntarily following him ten days later; sharing food; forced labor; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; her parents' ...

  9. Vukica K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vukica K., who was born in Visegrad, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1911. She recalls attending high school in Sarajevo; graduating as a pharmacist in Zagreb; marriage; working in Sarajevo; German invasion in April 1941; losing her job; being forced to peel potatoes for the Ustaša; her husband being taken as a POW; being warned of raids by non-Jewish friends; hiding with a Croatian Muslim; leaving Sarajevo when it became too dangerous; being smuggled to Mostar in the Italian-occupied zone as a Muslim, using false papers; having her mother-in-law join her; going to Vis...

  10. Brenda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Brenda H., who was born in Horodenka, Poland in 1926. She recalls her mother's death in childbirth; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation in 1939; her oldest brother's draft; Hungarian, then German occupation in 1941; ghettoization; her father's membership on the Judenrat; forced labor; hiding with her siblings during a mass killing in December 1941 during which her father and grandparents were murdered; hiding in a bunker during a second mass killing; the ghetto's liquidation; being hidden with her sister and younger brother by her older brothers and uncle; being ...

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  12. Abe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on...

  13. Fredy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredy L., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1914. He recalls his childhood in Chalkis; finishing high school in Salonika; attending university in Athens; becoming a successful tailor; marriage in 1938; the benign Italian occupation; German occupation ; enforcement of anti-Jewish measures; hiding with his family; obtaining false papers through the Greek police; a one month detention with his father, who was released later, in Karditsa; return to Athens; and liberation in October 1944. Mr. L. recounts their complete impoverishment, leading to emigration with his famil...

  14. Klara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara K., who was born in U?jpest (IV. Keru?let), Hungary, a Budapest suburb. She recalls entrance quotas for Jews for educational institutions; attending a Jewish school in Budapest; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion (he did not survive); German occupation in spring 1944; obtaining false identity papers; living with a family as a non-Jew in Ra?kospalota (XV. Keru?let); joining her mother and siblings in Ko?ba?nya (X. Keru?let) due to fear of exposure; changing their hiding place after their safety became compromised; liberation by Soviet troops;...

  15. Ursula D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula D., a non-Jew, who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She recounts her parents' anti-Nazi sympathies; her father listening to Allied radio broadcasts; Allied bombing; constant fear; arrival of United States troops; postwar hardships, including rationing; an influx of refugees; her sense that Germans refused to admit culpability for the war and considered themselves "victims"; visiting relatives in Belgium, where she first learned about the Holocaust; confronting her parents; their unwillingness to discuss it; moving to Israel in the early 1960s; marriage to ...

  16. Sarah F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah F., who was born in Koshelevo, Ukraine in 1915 to a family of eight children. She recalls her father's death in 1933; Hungarian occupation; her brother obtaining Hungarian citizenship papers; hiding with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors when Jews were expelled in 1941; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization with her family in April 1944; their deportation from Khust in May 1944; separation from her mother and grandmother upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); forced labor with her sister in Fallersleben from July; trans...

  18. Philip V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip V., who was born in France in 1929. He describes his assimilated family life and strong French identity; attending schools in Vaucresson and Neuilly; his father's death; German invasion in May 1940, fleeing with his family to Les Sables-d'Olonne; their return to Paris months later; fleeing to the unoccupied zone in 1941; living in Bagne?res-de-Luchon; his Jewish education and identity formation by Mila Racine; hearing of rounds-up of Jews; fleeing to Italian-occupied Nice, then to Aix-les-Bains two months later in early 1943; denouncement in December 1943; his ...

  19. Georgette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgette S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She recalls her father's service in World War I; their strong Hungarian, rather than Jewish, identity; attending a private German school; escalation of anti-Jewish laws from 1939 until 1943; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; avoiding a round-up of young women because her mother claimed her German school certificate exempted her (the soldiers could not read German); their escape from the ghetto in October with assistance from non-Jewish friends; hiding with her parents in a room of their former villa...

  20. Sophie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1924. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving with her family to the countryside in 1942; forced relocation; working in a nursing home to avoid deportation; their futile attempt to board a ship to the United States in Ijmuiden; returning to Amsterdam; an uncle's suicide; the underground transporting her to her father's non-Jewish,business associate in Zutphen; hiding with his family; obtaining false papers; tutoring his children and doing housework; one visit by her parents; liberation by Canadian ...