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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Rose F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose F., who was born in Szentgottha?rd, Hungary in 1924. She recalls attending high school in Ko?rmend; moving to Budapest in 1943; German occupation in March 1944; returning to Szentgottha?rd; transfer with her parents to the Szombathely ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents upon arrival (she never saw them again); transfer to a camp in upper Silesia and to Peterswaldau; sharing food with a friend; slave labor at a munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops; and receiving assistance from the factory owner. Mrs. F. describes trave...

  2. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., a twin, who was born in Paris, France in 1925. She recalls her father's death in 1934; an older sister's death in 1937; hiding in Vire and La Souterraine after German occupation; her mother's illness and death; traveling to Cher with her older sister; a non-Jewish woman hiding them in her country home; moving to Maine-et-Loire when the owner's daughter moved in; betrayal and arrest; becoming friends with a fellow prisoner; their transfer to Drancy (her aunt and cousin helped her there), then Birkenau; grouping themselves with other French women; always helping...

  3. Ruźena R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruźena R., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), in 1929, the older of two children. She recalls her family's affluence; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; anti-Jewish regulations following Slovak independence in October 1938; expulsion from school; harassment on the street; her family losing their businesses; a policeman warning them to leave; moving to Dolné Otrokovce; deportation with her brother and parents to Novák; slave labor as a seamstress; studying math weekly; their release; returning to Dolné Otrokovce; joining relatives in ...

  4. Abraham N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham N., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1926; his parents' orthodoxy; their poverty; attending a Jewish school; participating in Mizrahi and Yiddischer Arbieter Sport Klub (YASK); apprenticing as a dental technician at age fourteen; joining Maccabi and the Communist party in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; being evacuated to southern France; expulsion from a Belgian refugee camp in Rouens due to his Polish citizenship; living in Segur; returning home a few months later; anti-Jew...

  5. Fernand E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fernand E., a non-Jew, who was born in Malines (Mechelen), Belgium in 1923. He describes fleeing to France at the German invasion; returning home three weeks later; involvement with the underground press; arrest; imprisonment in Antwerp, St. Gilles, and Bochum; forced labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging the work; a trial in Essen; being sentenced to forced labor; transfer to Esterwegen in May 1943; hospitalization; a doctor who saved his life; forced labor in Hamburg and Darmstadt; transfer to Natzweiler-Struthof; concealing the fact that several prisoners were J...

  6. Odette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in 1914. She recounts completing medical studies in Paris in 1939; working in Montargis; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Nice; organizing a network with her future husband to rescue Jewish children; assistance from OSE, the Joint, the Bishop of Nice, and other church and civic officials; hiding some 450 children; manufacturing false documents; learning her father was hiding and her mother and sister were deported (they did not return); imprisonment; interrogations; transfer to Drancy; and deportation to Birkenau. Dr. A. describes c...

  7. Klára S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klára S., who was born in Trebišov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935, the younger of two daughters. She recalls her father's dental practice; their exemption from deportation due to her father's practice; deportation with her family to Žilina in 1942; their release, with assistance from friends and bribes, to Horní Jelenec; support from the local priest and people; moving to Staré Hory where her father practiced; conversion to Catholicism; obtaining false documents; increased danger during the Slovak uprising; her father and others building bunkers; hi...

  8. Jozef C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jozef C., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Kurima, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1916, one of three children. He recounts moving to Dubinné in 1918 when his father returned from the war; his mother's death when he was five; attending school to age eight; cordial relations with locals, including Jews; working as a musician and in the textile trade; discrimination beginning with the formation of the Slovak state; observing deportation of Jews; enlistment in the military in 1939; serving in Spišská Nová Ves, three months in Žilina, and six mont...

  9. Newton S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Newton S., a non-Jew, who was an American soldier during World War II. He tells of his military training and preparations for combat in 1943-1944; his arrival in England and participation in the Battle of the Bulge; his experience in a POW camp near Hanover; his postwar stay in a French field camp, where he was helped by a doctor whom he met again years later in New Haven; and the difficulty of resistance in the camps.

  10. Ilona S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilona S., who was born in Kapuva?r, Hungary in 1917. She recalls attending Jewish and secular schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; marriage in 1939; moving to Pa?pa; her daughter's birth in 1941; German occupation; her husband's arrest; seeing him only one more time; expulsion from her home; forced transfer to Budapest; the birth of her second daughter; bombing of the Jewish hospital; living in the ghetto; an accident in which the baby was seriously burned; cold, hunger and lack of sanitary facilities; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; her older daughter's dea...

  11. Daniel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel R., who was born in Brzez?nica, Poland in 1909. He recalls his sisters' marriages; his marriage in March 1937; living in Cze?stochowa; his son's birth; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; his wife and son hiding in a bunker; working at the HASAG munitions factory; his family's denouncement and deportation to Treblinka in 1942 (he never saw them again); his transfer to Buchenwald in 1944; slave labor in Weimar; finding food while clearing bombing rubble and sharing it with fellow prisoners; transfer to Allach; and liberation from a train by United States troops. ...

  12. Erica S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erica S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1909, one of two children. She recounts attending boarding school in Frankfurt am Main; meeting her future husband in Wiesbaden; marriage in 1932 after he completed dental school; the births of two children; laws prohibiting her husband from practicing; his trip to London to arrange for their emigration; sending their children to stay with her parents in September 1938; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; her husband's deportation to Buchenwald when she went to get the children; obtaining his release (her uncle died there)...

  13. Kariel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kariel G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. He recounts growing up in an assimilated family; his mother's death during his birth; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic legislation; a menial factory job; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor constructing airports; a medical furlough to Budapest; obtaining false papers; escaping to Budapest; his father convincing him to return; deportation to Bor; slave labor for Organization Todt; obtaining extra food from Serbian peasants; a death march to Zemun; transfer to Ustas...

  14. Vera G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. She describes her childhood in an affluent family; German invasion in 1944; closure of the Jewish school; being spat upon the first time she wore the yellow star; having to move to a building designated for Jews only; all people over seventeen being taken away, leaving her in charge of many children; help from a non-Jewish woman; her father and sister returning; her father placing her sisters in different hiding places; moving to the ghetto with her father; his continuing search for her mother; obtaining Swiss passpo...

  15. Guta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Guta T., who was born in Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Poland in 1919. She recalls prewar visits of high German officials; German invasion in 1939; fleeing the city; returning since Germans were everywhere; ghettoization which included Jews from surrounding areas; encouraging others to care for orphans; her daughter's birth in September 1942 assisted by a non-Jewish doctor; giving her daughter to a Ukrainian women who was fleeing to the Soviet zone (she never saw her again); and work in an ammunition factory in Starachowice from October 1942 to July 1944. Mrs. T. recounts a...

  16. Rae H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rae H., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. She describes her impoverished family's orthodoxy and closeness; good relations with Czechs; her Czech patriotism; Hungarian occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish measures; a sister's emigration to London and a brother's flight to Russia; a brother's and brother-in-law's draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; her father's death; the influx of Jewish refugees from Slovakia; staying with a cousin in Budapest; German occupation in March 1944; returning home posing as a non-Jew; escapin...

  17. Chaim L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim L., who was born in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his middle-class family in Wieluń, Poland; arrest in 1937 for fighting with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing to Łódź; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation in August 1941 (he never saw his family again); slave labor building roads in Loebau, Żabikowo, Kreising, and another camp; receiving letters and packages from home; transfer to Kreuzsee in spring 1941, then Eberswalde; working in a munitions factory with POWs; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau eighteen months later; r...

  18. Bernard E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard E., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father's World War I service; his family's prosperous business; attending public school; restrictions in the 1930s which eased in 1936 during the Olympics; his father's deportation to Zba?szyn?; Crystal Night; his bar mitzvah in December 1938 and his father's letter to him then; his father's return in July 1939; and the family's move to Sambor in August. Mr. E. relates the outbreak of war; Russian occupation; German invasion on June 22, 1941; and mass murders of Jews immediately following. He describ...

  19. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1926. She recalls ubiquitous antisemitism; Soviet occupation; destruction of their home during the German invasion; executions of prominent Jews; Polish collaboration; ghettoization in November 1941; her father's round-up for forced labor; non-Jewish acquaintances who gave him food to smuggle into the ghetto; her brother being severely beaten; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942 during which she was separated from her family (she never saw them again); and transport to Auschwitz. Mrs. K. rec...

  20. Daniel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel A., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1931, the youngest of five children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; his family being scheduled for deportation to Siberia; German invasion in June 1941; his sister Batya and her children living with them; his sister Dina working as a nurse in the Jewish hospital; ghettoization in September; Batya hiding gold in their basement; breaking valuables they could not bring with them so others could not have them; Dina obtaining a position for Batya at...