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  1. Ernest E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest E., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia in 1917. Mr. E. describes his work as a studio photographer; his first awareness of the Nazis; the Hungarian takeover of his part of Czechoslovakia; the antisemitism of the Hungarian Nazis; and the changes in his lifestyle because of legal restrictions. He relates receiving aid from his parents, who had emigrated to the United States; moving to Budapest; and being drafted as a slave laborer in the army in 1942. He tells of his work for the army; his escape, with a friend, helped by false papers; his capture; and the ...

  2. Frances R. Holocaust testimony

  3. Frank L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank L., a former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, who was an American infantry soldier in World War II. He speaks of the need to remember the Holocaust; his experience in combat; the bureaucratic nature of the Nazi regime; and the lessons which must be learned from history.

  4. Ernest B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest B., who was born in Debrad?, Czechoslovakia in 1920. He recounts moving to another village when he was three; fighting back against anti-Jewish violence; attending Catholic school; his father's death when he was thirteen; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest to support his mother and siblings; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; assignment to a uniform factory; German occupation in 1944; learning his mother had been ghettoized (she did not survive); friends assisting him to alter his documents to show him as Catholic; posing as a Nazi; war...

  5. Kathe P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathe P., who was born into a large Orthodox family in Poland in 1909. Mrs. P. remembers growing up in Dortmund, Westphalia; ever-present antisemitism; working for the association of eastern Jews (Ostjudischer Verband) where she met her husband, whom she married in 1933; the boycott against Jewish stores; and violence, plunder, and cruelty by German soldiers. She recounts her attempts to get exit visas for herself and her husband, resulting in their departure for France three days before the mass deportations began; her emigration, with her husband, to Bolivia; and he...

  6. Magda L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda L., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1916. She recalls living in Velykyi? Bereznyi?; returning to Uz?h?horod; a rich cultural life; observing Jewish holidays; Hungarian occupation in 1938; marriage in 1940; her husband's and brother's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion (they did not survive); remaining home when her mother and sister were ghettoized; deportation with them to Auschwitz; her mother's selection for death; transfer to Guben in August 1944, then Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. ...

  7. Abraham U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham U., who was born in Gre?boszo?w, Poland in 1911, the youngest of seven children. He recalls apprenticing as a tailor in 1926; working in Tarno?w; returning to Gre?boszo?w when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Lut?s??k; returning to Gre?boszo?w after one year; seeing his mother prior to her death from cancer; earning extra food working as a tailor for the police; being warned of a round-up by the police chief; escaping to Barano?w; and brief protection from round-ups by a non-Jewish friend. Mr. U. recounts severe conditions and slave labor in Biesiadka; being be...

  8. Julia A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia A., who was born in a small town near Zaleszczyki, Poland in 1932. She describes her happy, loving home life with her parents on a farm until the Russian invasion in 1939; and her family's escape to L?vov in 1940, where she first hid with her parents and later was sent by them to live on a farm with a Polish Catholic. She speaks of her life on the farm, where she pretended to be the Catholic niece of the owner and where she remained until the war ended. She describes her reunion with her father after the war and alludes to her present ambivalence toward Poland.

  9. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928. He recalls childhood in an observant home; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with his family to Latvia; witnessing many killings in Daugavpils; returning to Kovno; observing blood-stained streets resulting from pogroms; ghettoization; frequent brutal killings and beatings; and deportation with his family in 1943 to Stutthof. He recounts parting from his mother; transport with his father and brother to Dachau; arduous work constructing cement bunkers; reassignment tending the soldiers' quarters; sh...

  10. Ella A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ella A., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of six children. She recalls being poor, but happy; cordial relations with non-Jews; apprenticing as a seamstress; belonging to Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of her father's business; one brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German occupation in spring 1944; round-up to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her immediate family; staying with cousins; crying all the time; refusing to eat; a prisoner co...

  11. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and affluence; attending Hebrew school; German invasion; fleeing to Olkusz; Germans arresting her father, uncle, and brothers; traveling to Kielce to obtain their release; returning home; marriage; her father and one brother working for the Judenrat; ghettoization; having an abortion; hiding with her family and others in a bunker during a round-up in August 1943; their discovery; deportation to Birkenau; separation with her sister-in-law from her pare...

  12. Georgia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgia G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930, the only child of a prominent attorney. She recalls not realizing the danger of the war until the early 1940s when a cousin was drafted into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; being warned of the German invasion in March 1944 by a non-Jewish friend; anti-Jewish restrictions; non-Jewish friends supplying her family with food; her father's round-up (she never saw him again); obtaining false papers with assistance from a soldier; her mother's arrest; obtaining her release with assistance from a non-Jewish client of h...

  13. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L. who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1915. Mrs. L. recalls her sheltered childhood in a bourgeois family; her father's death when she was thirteen; expulsion from school in 1933; her uncle's desire for the children to leave Germany; finding a job in Hungary; joining her sister in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1934 (her mother and brother also emigrated); her niece Renee's birth in 1937; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish regulations; joining the resistance; hiding separately, with family or resistance members in Amsterdam, Bilthoven, Apeldoorn and Loosdrec...

  14. Egon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon K., who was born in Rathenow, Germany in 1918, the youngest of three sons. He recounts attending school; his father's prominent position in the Jewish community; anti-Jewish boycotts starting in 1933; training as an optician; anti-Jewish curriculum; the Nuremberg laws prohibiting him from taking his certification exam; his father's beating and arrest on Kristallnacht; fleeing to an aunt's home in Berlin; his middle brother's emigration to Palestine; his older brother's death from illness in 1939; emigration to Shanghai; organizing a Zionist youth group; deteriora...

  15. Lillian A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lillian A., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1925. Mrs. A. discusses her family history; prewar Berlin life; experiences of antisemitism during the rise of Nazism; relations with her parents and their attitudes towards Judaism; attending Jewish school; Kristallnacht; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; and departure for Cuba in 1940 with her parents, from where they later emigrated to the United States. Mrs. A. tells of her life in New York and assistance received from HIAS.

  16. Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1929, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's poverty; their move to Lublin; attending three years of public school; visiting her aunt in Bełżyce; German invasion; observing Germans killing family friends; returning home four months later; her family escaping in Piaski during their forced relocation; living with a family friend; returning to Lublin days later; her parents returning her to her aunt in Bełżyce, thinking it safer (she never saw them again); in 1942, her uncle sending her and two cousins t...

  17. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1922. He recalls moving to Brussels after middle school; attending an elite Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing briefly to France; working for the Red Cross; meeting members of the Resistance; working as a resistance courier; arrest in May 1944; incarceration in Antwerp; transfer to Buchenwald, then shortly thereafter to Dora; working in the hospital where he could help many other prisoners; transfer to Ellrich; public hanging of a prisoner who had cannibalized a corpse; transfer to Oranienberg; evacuat...

  18. Andy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andy F., an American Catholic, who was in the 11th Armored Division during World War II. He recalls fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; traveling to Austria; the surrender of Linz; liberating Mauthausen; shock at the stench, the prisoners' condition (walking skeletons), and the pervasive filth; feeding the prisoners which resulted in some immediate deaths; calling for engineers to assist in burying thousands of corpses; and compelling the locals to assist in the burials (they denied knowledge of the camp, an impossibility). Mr. F. discusses losing his faith in God up...

  19. Roland H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roland H., who was born in Paris, France in 1922. He describes his family's Alsatian roots; their strong French patriotism; studying in Marseille, Nantes, Bordeaux, Agen, and Lyon; joining the Resistance; hiding in Evian to avoid forced labor; joining a network which manufactured false papers; arrest in a Resistance office in Paris in March 1944; interrogations and torture in Fresnes prison; transfer to Drancy; return to Fresnes; and deportation to Auschwitz-Monowitz via Drancy. Mr. H. recalls minor surgery during a hospitalization; work in the chemical kommando; rela...

  20. Evelyn E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Evelyn E., who was born in Poland in 1934. She recounts staying with her grandparents in Ostro?w Mazowiecka in 1939; German invasion; their escape to Zare?by Kos?cielne; deportation to a village by Soviet authorities; her grandfather's brief imprisonment; moving to Tashkent several years later; her grandfather's death from starvation; moving to a kolkhoz; placement in an orphanage; running away to return to her grandmother; their return to Tashkent; placement in another orphanage; attending school; their repatriation to Poland in 1946; living in orphanages in Otwock a...