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  1. Walter W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter W., who was born in Emmendingen, Germany in 1922. He recalls his family's strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; his parents assuaging his and his sister's alarm when a Jewish neighbor was killed by a Nazi in 1933; former non-Jewish friends shunning him; his father's belief in Germany and that his status as a veteran would protect them; his bar mitzvah; expulsion from school; his father's disbarment; attending a Jewish school in Berlin; watching the synagogue burn on Kristallnacht; learning his father and uncles had been sent to Dachau; return...

  2. Julian S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julian S., a famous Polish writer, who was born in Stryĭ, Austria (presently Ukraine) in 1905, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy and poverty (his father was a private teacher and his mother supported them); speaking only Yiddish at home; his sister's great influence upon him (she was a Polish teacher); learning Polish from her; negative feelings toward Judaism; visiting an uncle in Monastyrysʹka with his sister in 1914; outbreak of war; Russian occupation; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; writing in both Polish and Hebrew; his broth...

  3. Lea F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea F., who was born in Rome, Italy in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family moving to Anzio in approximately 1927; her parents' positions as school teachers; moving to Rhodes in 1936; her father serving as director of the Jewish school; his death; her mother taking his position; she and her older sister teaching there; her brother having to work at age thirteen; food shortages; German occupation; round-up of all Jews; deportation with her family by ship to Piraeus, then by train to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation of men and women; separation with her sis...

  4. Aleida A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleida A., a professor at the University of Konstanz, who was born in Germany, one of five children. She recounts her parents were both pastors; frequent family conversations about World War II and the Holocaust despite a "conspiracy of silence" in Germany during the 1950s; her parents' anti-Nazi perspective and activities, including hiding Jewish friends; her mother counseling Jewish teenagers in the 1930s who were converting, were able to emigrate and with whom her mother maintained lifelong contacts; attending a school with a strong anti-Nazi legacy; relations betw...

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  6. Shula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shula K., who was born in Transylvania, Romania. She describes her family's affluence; their charity; cordial relations with non-Jews; hearing rumors of ghettos and camps in Poland; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family; her twin sisters' selection for medical experiments; one twin bringing bread to her; selection for gassing; being removed from the selected group (she never knew why); slave labor; transfer to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); the death march to another camp in January 1945; libe...

  7. Clara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara G., who was born in Nyi?rba?tor, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her family's Hasidism; loss of their business in 1943 due to anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in March 1944; transfer to the Simapuszta ghetto; train transport from Nyi?regyha?za to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw her mother again); remaining with her cousins; briefly seeing her father and brother; lighting candles on Fridays; transfer to Stutthof, then to another camp in summer 1944; slave labor at a munitions factory; camp evacuation; disappearance of the guards; liber...

  8. Ursula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a close relationship with her maternal grandparents; two brothers; frequent street fights between communists and Nazis; attending public school and lyceum; cordial relations with non-Jews; disappearance of Jewish teachers when Hitler came to power in 1933; leaving to attend a Jewish school (she did not have to since her father was a World War I veteran); under her older brother's influence, joining the anti-Nazi group led by Herbert Baum; her brother's arrest; his release in an am...

  9. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Paris, France in 1926 to Polish émigrés, the second of four children. He recounts his family's move to Brussels when he was three; a happy childhood; his father's and his participation in the socialist movement; attending public school; observing Jewish holidays at home, but not attending synagogue; his older brother's influence on his intellectual formation; his death from appendicitis; fleeing briefly during the German invasion; attending art school for a year; his father arranging for false papers and a hiding place for the family in 19...

  10. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1928. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; Lithuanian independence; fleeing with his father and brother to Glubokoye; returning to Vilna in January 1940 to rejoin his mother and sister; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish measures; mass killings of Jews at Ponary; hiding with his father during a round-up in August 1941 (his mother, brother, and sister were taken to Ponary); ghettoization; sharing his father's identification so another family would be protected by his; liquidation of the small ghetto in late 1941; escap...

  11. Wolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf W., who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1921. He recalls attending French school; speaking Yiddish at home; living in several European cities from 1929 to 1931; settling in Antwerp; antisemitism in school; apprenticing as a diamond cutter; German invasion; fleeing to Ghent, then Saint-Vincent; living with French farmers; his parents' internment in Re?ce?be?dou in spring 1942; visiting them; arrest; imprisonment in Caussade, whose police chief had tried to warn him to hide; internment in Septfonds, then Drancy; deportation to Janislawice (Johannisdorf); singing Yiddis...

  12. Rachelle C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachelle C., who was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1919. Mrs. C. recalls attending Jewish schools; Hitler's rise to power; the Nazi boycott of her family's business; and imposition of the Nuremberg laws. She details events of Kristallnacht, including a teacher who hid her brother; seeing her father being taken away wearing his old army uniform and Iron Cross; and destruction of the family business. She tells of her mother proceeding with family emigration plans while her father was incarcerated; departure via Antwerp with her family in December 1938; arrival in San Sal...

  13. Helene J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helene J., who was born in Poland in 1918, one of six children. She recounts being orphaned (she does not remember her parents); her grandmother from Paris retrieving them; childhood poverty; marriage at eighteen; her daughter's birth in 1937; briefly evacuating when invasion seemed imminent; staying with a friend outside of Paris; German invasion; her husband bringing them back to Paris; evacuating to Saint-Laurent-de-Neste; locals welcoming them and providing food and other support; her son's birth; registering as a Jew with the mayor and later regretting it; her hu...

  14. Yan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yan G., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1927, one of three children. He recalls living with his parents and grandparents; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; speaking German at home; German invasion; traveling with his family toward the Soviet Union; staying in Lublin; walking west after German arrival; living in a small village with another Jewish family until 1941 (his grandparents were no longer with them); accompanying his father to market in Kazimierza Wielka; orders to report to Skalbmierz; escaping with his brothers to Kazimierza; return...

  15. Sally H. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Sally H., whose first testimony was recorded in 1979. She notes the painful nature of digging up memories for the first testimony; continuing to see vivid mental pictures of her painful incidents in the ghetto; being hidden briefly by a Polish neighbor; being chosen not to enter a deportation train and her sisters going with her at her mother's urging; feeling as though "it" was happening to someone else in Skarz?ysko; being kept alive there through her sisters' efforts; random shootings of every tenth person when there was an escape; returning h...

  16. Julius J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. He describes German occupation; immediate anti-Jewish acts; his parents sending him and his sister to Warsaw thinking it would be safer; returning to ?o?dz? due to homesickness; ghettoization; forced labor, starvation and round-ups; deportation of the sick, elderly, and children in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated in 1944; their capture; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. Mr. J. recalls separation from all his family except his brother; forced labor; his brother's continuous efforts to save him; their t...

  17. Lea I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea I., who was born in Mszczono?w, Poland. She recalls compulsory relocation of all Jews to Warsaw; deportation to Majdanek; the hanging of an eight-year-old girl; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then to a forced labor camp near Prague; constant hunger; a soldier who threw her bread; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Mszczono?w; learning none of her family had survived; moving to ?o?dz?; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to Israel, then to the United States two years later. Mrs. I. notes her strong belief in God and observance of the Jewish dietary laws.

  18. John R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army; moving from England through France to Germany; having no prior knowledge of concentration camps; arriving in Buchenwald shortly after its liberation; initial shock at the conditions; emaciated, lethargic prisoners; piles of corpses; several prisoners dying in front of him; the contrast between the prisoner and SS barracks; and taking pictures so he would not forget what he had seen. Mr. R. notes the lack of interest of those to whom he described his visit; ceasing to d...

  19. Rachel N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel N., who was born in Tomaso?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1914. She recalls anti-Jewish quotas preventing her from attending university in Warsaw; studying nursing in ?o?dz?; working for the district doctor in Brzeziny; German invasion; being forced to establish a separate Jewish hospital; ghettoization; marriage; public hangings of food smugglers; her husband's round-up (she never saw him again); clandestinely visiting her parents and sister in Tomasz?ow Mazowiecki; persuading a German soldier not to kill her father; returning to Brzeziny (she never saw her family ag...

  20. Rosa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa K., who was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1932. Ms. K. recalls her non-observant upbringing; her intellectual, politically active parents; a German Jewish boy temporarily left in the family's care when his parents fled Germany in 1939 (he eventually was deported); the Nazi invasion in May 1940; her parents' unsuccessful attempt to leave Holland; increasing anti-Semitic restrictions; the disappearance of many friends; and her parents' decision to go into hiding during an Aktion in late 1942. She tells of separation from her family; hiding with a succession of fam...