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Language of Description: English
  1. Channel 30, 90 Second Spot

  2. Those who were there

    This edited program serves to introduce and promote the goals of the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. It was first shown at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in 1983 to encourage survivors to come forward and give their testimony.

  3. Geoffrey H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Professor Geoffrey H., a distinguished literary scholar and advisor to Holocaust testimony projects, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. He tells of assimilated relatives; curiosity about Nazi flags and parades; antisemitic restrictions; placement at age seven in a boy's home supported by the Rothschilds, where his divorced mother thought he would be safer; his mother's departure for America in late 1938; evacuation on a children's transport in March 1939; and arrival with nineteen other boys at the James Rothschild estate in Waddesdon, England. He speaks of ...

  4. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three brothers. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; brief Soviet invasion, then German occupation; his father and brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone (he never saw them again); forced relocation; his mother posing as a non-Jew and earning money as a messenger; her disappearance; living with his brothers' friend; hiding with Polish friends when the Jews were liquidated; leaving when his rescuers feared discovery; learning some Jews were taken to Budzyn?; walking there; a privileged kitc...

  5. Stanislav T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanislav T., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He describes his wealthy family; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; witnessing suicides; his family's sense of being protected due to their wealth and connections; forced labor at the airport in October 1942; sabotaging the work; distributing resistance flyers; deportation with his family during the ghetto uprising; jumping from the train in May 1943; hiding in a forest; assistance from local Poles; returning to Warsaw; hiding with his sister; their move to the Hotel P...

  6. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1936. He recalls the outbreak of World War II; German invasion in 1940; his family's brief flight to northern France; his father telling him he was not Jewish; placement with his sister in a Protestant orphanage; a priest taking them to a convent in Bruges; the convent policy not to convert the Jewish children; liberation by British troops; hearing from his parents who had fled to the United States (they were detained in Oswego, N.Y.); transfer to a Jewish orphanage in Lasne; briefly living with relatives in Brussels; a...

  7. Leah K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leah K., who was born in Gertsa, Romania (presently Hert︠s︡a, Ukraine) in approximately 1932, the youngest of seven children. She recounts attending private Hebrew school; her mother's role as a midwife and healer; antisemitic violence; joyful holiday and Sabbath observances; Soviet occupation; Romanian takeover; fleeing with her family after being warned they would be killed; a reprieve from execution when a Romanian soldier recognized her mother as the woman who had delivered him; returning home; a death march to Edineț in fall 1941; continuing to Ataki; her father...

  8. Ivar S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivar S., who was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, in 1930. He recalls his sheltered life as an only child in a close family; the city's de facto unification with East Prussia in 1939; his family's departure for Lithuania; and several relocations to small towns. He tells of the Soviet and German occupations; moving to Kovno; ghettoization; a German Jewish member of the Judenrat who hid them from round-ups; training as a machinist in an ORT school; and his bar mitzvah in the ghetto in 1943. He describes the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with his parents to Stutthof; sep...

  9. Rahela A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rahela A., who was born in Bijeljina, Yugoslavia in 1927. She describes cordial relations within the multi-ethnic town; statehood for Croatia under the pro-Nazi Ustaša; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Jasenovac in August 1942 (he was killed); confiscation of their property; assistance from Serb peasants; a non-Jewish friend warning them of a round-up (he was recently honored by Yad Vashem); hiding with her siblings, mother, and aunt in a Hungarian neighbor's house; their move to Zagoni in partisan-controlled territory; membership in SKOJ; return...

  10. Juraj B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juraj B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. He recalls extreme poverty in his childhood; harassment against Romanies; observing arrest of Jews; military draft in 1940; assignments in Trnava, Rimavská Sobota, and near the Polish border; the Germans confiscating their rifles and impressing them into forced labor; particularly harsh treatment by the Hlinka guard; having to wear different uniforms; being sent to work for private farmers where they received better food; inadequate clothing for the harsh winters; esca...

  11. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1928. He describes his parents' backgrounds; his father's decision not to return to Germany from a business trip abroad when Hitler came to power in 1933; traveling with his mother, brother, and sister to Antwerp to join his father; a happy period in Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; fleeing with his family to Brussels, then to France; returning to Antwerp after unsuccessful attempts to find his father whom they lost along the way; his father's return; hiding in Brussels to avoid deportation; fleeing to Paris; and...

  12. Allen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen S., who was born in Miko?ajow, Poland, in 1929. In these detailed and graphic testimonies, Mr. S. recounts prewar life in Iwje; the rise of Nazism and Polish antisemitism; Soviet occupation; deportation of relatives to Siberia; German invasion; Polish harassment and violence against Jews; Einsatzkommandos killing his father; ghettoization of Iwje; hiding during a mass killing of 2,500, including his mother, in 1942; and forced labor. He recalls escaping; hiding with a neighbor in Miko?ajow; joining the partisans; smuggling himself to Iwje to find contraband for ...

  13. Leonid O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonid O., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1929, one of four children. He recounts attending school; his brother volunteering for the Soviet army (he never returned); his sister and father traveling to Moscow; German invasion; briefly fleeing during bombings; not knowing he was Jewish until defined as such by the Germans; round-ups and executions; ghettoization; forced labor in a carpentry shop; the arrival of German Jews in 1942; contact with the partisans; bringing Jews to the forest to the partisans led by Shalom Zorin in the forest; building hiding places for ot...

  14. Chaim B. Holocaust testimony

  15. Alfi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfi N., who was born in London, England in 1923. He describes his childhood in an affluent family; joining Habonim when he was eleven; attending technical school; active participation in Hechalutz; working at a kibbutz with young Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria; joining the British military in 1940; fighting throughout Europe; attending a Gordonyah meeting in liberated Brussels; contacts with the Jewish brigade; entering Bergen-Belsen; posing as a Polish soldier in an attempt to locate relatives in other camps; associating himself with the Palmah? to smuggle...

  16. Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930. She recalls her family's comfortable, assimilated life; German invasion; fleeing with her family; separation from her father (he was conscripted into the Belgian army); their return home; antisemitic measures; hiding in their apartment with the help of their Catholic housekeeper; the housekeeper arranging her placement in a convent in La Hulpe, her brothers' in an orphanage, and her mother's on a farm; attraction to Catholicism; baptism; hiding with Jewish girls during a German search; traveling to Brussels for an o...

  17. Ida B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida B., who was born in the Smolensk region of Russia in 1919. She recalls a happy childhood; participating in Komsomol; medical studies in Smolensk; internship in her town; German invasion in 1941; her family's futile attempt to flee; finding their house destroyed; receiving food and housing from non-Jewish friends; Germans taking her and her brother to Demidov; forced labor; sexual assault by a German soldier (another woman was raped); escaping with her brother; ghettoization; slave labor digging trenches; mass shootings; her father planning their escape; leaving se...

  18. Tamar G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tamar G, who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1933, one of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; vacations skiing and in Vienna; her brother's bar mitzvah in Piešt̕any; his emigration to Palestine shortly thereafter; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Žilina with her family in 1942; an influential uncle bribing the commander to release them; returning to Bratislava; hiding in a vineyard outside the city with assistance from her uncle; returning a few weeks later; hiding in an apartment owned by her father's friend;...

  19. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Piotrków, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in Łódź; attending a Jewish school; German invasion in September 1939; immediately fleeing with his mother and grandfather to Lublin; his father's arrival; their return to Łódź; joining their family in Piotrków; ghettoization in October 1939; Germans murdering his grandparents; slave labor with his father in the Hortensia glass factory (his father paid for him to work there and "changed" his age to eighteen); confinement to the factory during round-ups; his mother's deportation; returning to...