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  1. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Kobyl?nik, Poland (presently Narach, Belarus) in 1931, one of six children. She recalls antisemitic violence and boycotts; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish violence by local militiamen; a round-up of all the Jews in fall 1942; Germans hiding her older brother; her family's release because her mother made dresses for the mayor's family; transfer to Myadzyel; escape with her parents, two sisters, and infant brother during a partisan attack; hiding in a forest; cold and starvation; obtaining food by begging from...

  2. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Mir, Poland in 1909. He recalls the rich, Jewish culture growing up in Bia?ystok; learning several languages; Jewish holiday celebrations; attending medical school in Lie?ge, Belgium; his leadership role in Po'alei Zion; his parents's and sister's emigration to Belgium in 1932; German invasion in 1940; his parents' flight to Lyon in unoccupied France, then the United States; obtaining papers under a false name; hiding in Brussels; smuggling himself to Lyon in unoccupied France in 1942; joining the Resistance; his sister's incarceration when...

  3. Elias S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias S., who was born in Petrova, Romania in 1930, the oldest of six children. He recounts the family move to Strîmtura; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization in another town for a few weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Buchenwald a few days later; separation from his father when he was transferred to Dora, then Nordhausen; slave labor with his cousin constructing undergrou...

  4. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's emigration to the United States immediately before the war; attending a Jewish school; being warned by non-Jews there would be a raid on the school and all the students leaving; wearing the yellow star; frequent round-ups; his paternal grandparents living with them; his grandfather's death; obtaining identity papers from South America; deportation with his mother, sister, and grandmother to Westerbork; transfer in winter 1942 to Bergen-Belsen; finding a prayer bo...

  5. Joe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1929, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending the village school; his father's death; Hungarian occupation; his brothers' conscriptions into Hungarian slave labor battalions; round-up to the Munka?cs ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and two sisters (he never saw them again); giving extra clothing to his other sister; transfer a few days later to Buchenwald, then Leipzig; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; train transport a year later; escaping during an Allied bomb...

  6. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Volove?, Czechoslovakia (presently Mizh?h?ir?i?a?, Ukraine) in 1919 to an affluent family of seven children. He recounts cordial relations with Czechs; antisemitic harassment by Russians; learning upholstering in Ostrava; returning home; working in his father's business; Hungarian occupation; forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion; returning home due to his father's bribes; hiding to avoid conscription again; being sent to a labor camp in Kolochava in spring 1943; transfer to Khust that fall, then to the interior of Russia in winter; f...

  7. Vladimir L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir L., who was born in Rositsa, Belarus in 1928. He recalls Jewish holidays and an affluent life in Kharkiv; German invasion; fleeing to Saltov with his family; returning to Kharkiv; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents' severe beating by Germans; forced labor; ghettoization in a factory; shootings, beatings, cold, and starvation; mass killings in Drobitzky Yar in January 1941; escaping with his parents and brother to his father's business acquaintance; hiding with assistance from non-Jewish friends; his father's killing; fleeing with his mother and brother to ...

  8. Zinaida M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zinaida M., who was born in Illint︠s︡i, Ukraine in 1921. She recalls attending accounting school in Kiev; returning home; marriage in May 1941; German invasion in June; military draft of her husband, brother, and father; briefly fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; mass shootings of Jews; assistance from some Ukrainians; her son's birth; her husband's return from a POW camp where non-Jews protected him; escaping to the woods in August 1942; locating a partisan unit which refused them entry because they had no weapons and had a baby; building bunk...

  9. Adam P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam P., who was born in Hungary in 1938. He recounts his parents' conversion to Lutheranism when they married; living in Miskolc; his father's emigration to Chile when he was four months old; not joining him due to the war; his warm and loving extended family; German invasion in 1944; being sent to live with non-Jewish neighbors; visiting his mother in the ghetto once (he never saw her again); denunciation; deportation to Kecskeme?t; being retrieved by his foster grandfather; denunciation; deportation to Budapest; retrieval again by the grandfather; denunciation; hid...

  10. Josif L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif L., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1914. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in 1941; an unsuccessful attempt to enlist in the military; mandatory registration of Jews; forced labor clearing bombing rubble in Belgrade and Smederevo; volunteering as a hostage after a Jewish resistance attempt; an officer who knew him letting him go (the hostages were all shot); obtaining false papers; joining an uncle in Skopje for seven weeks along with his mother, sister, and brother-in-law, moving to Urosevac, then Prizren; moving around during...

  11. Irit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irit R., who was born in Min?sk Mazowiecki, Poland. She recalls her family's poverty; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's beating by Germans; public humiliation of a rabbi which ended her belief in God; her father's death from starvation in 1941; supporting her family doing farm work; her mother placing her with a farmer in 1942; learning of the ghetto's liquidation; being denounced as a Jew while working under an assumed name; a Polish woman from Ka?uszyn adopting her as a Christian; denouncement by her previous employer; obtaining Christian identity papers ...

  12. Gina E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gina E., who was born in Grajewo, Poland in 1905. She describes her childhood during and after World War I in Bia?ystok and Warsaw; her family's move to Berlin in 1928; and the institutionalized and legalized discrimination against Jews after 1933. She recounts the mandatory return of most of her family to Poland, including her brother, who was eventually deported to Auschwitz; her mother's hospitalization and eventual deportation; and the role of Berlin's Jewish communal organization in assisting the Nazis. Mrs. E. speaks of her forced labor in a factory; the entranc...

  13. Andre D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre D., a non-Jew, who was born in Ombret-Rawsa, Belgium in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts moving to Vierset-Barse at age ten; leaving school at age fourteen to help support his family; active participation in a socialist group; German invasion on May 10, 1940; mobilization with his brother; his family joining them; briefly fleeing to France; secretly joining the Communist party; recruiting members, disturbing Rexist meetings, writing and distributing pamphlets, posting anti-Nazi graffiti, and armed attacks for the resistance; hiding using false pap...

  14. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Dămăcușeni, Romania in 1926, one of seven children from her father's second marriage (his first wife, with whom he had five children, died in childbirth). She recounts her father's leadership of the Jewish community; his beating by Nazi sympathizers; Hungarian occupation in 1940; draft of her sisters' husbands into slave labor battalions; moving to a married sister's home in Reghin to assist with her business and family; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization with her sister and her children; deportation to Birkenau; separation fro...

  15. Leah B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leah B., who was born in Jaros?aw, Poland in approximately 1926. She describes her family's candy business; attending a private Hebrew school; attending Zionist summer camps; German invasion; she and her sister leaving her parents (she never saw them again); transfer with a group of Polish girls to a labor camp via Krako?w; working in a radio factory; suspicious Ukrainians denouncing them; transfer to a prison in Weimar; interrogation; transfer to Auschwitz in February 1943; transfer to Birkenau; a brutal beating by a Jewish inmate for leaving the barracks to voluntee...

  16. Georges G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges G., who was born in Pau, France in 1940. He details his family's history in Russia and Latvia; early recollections of hiding with his sister with a non-Jewish family until 1942; his parents' visits; living with an uncle near his parents' hiding place; a non-Jewish child on the their street warning Jewish children their parents had been arrested, thus saving the children; his ever-present fear of Germans; French doctors fabricating medical certificates to save Jews from deportation; his panic upon seeing French soldiers after liberation; and his family's lifelo...

  17. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., who was born in London, England in 1908. He recalls serving in the civil defense medical corps during the bombing of England; joining the British Army in 1942; and assignment to the Medical Corps. He recounts the stench of putrification for miles as they approached Bergen-Belsen; entering the camp a few days after liberation; shock at the emaciated prisoners and filthy conditions; a joyful response from prisoners when he spoke Yiddish to them; prisoners disfigured by medical experiments and beatings; efforts to prevent the former prisoners from eating too m...

  18. Vera L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera L., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, an only child. She recounts her family's Zionism; participating in Maccabi sports club; attending a Jewish school; joining Hashomer Hatzair; anti-Jewish restrictions preventing her from studying at the university; her fiancé's military draft (he was captured by the Germans); German invasion in April 1941; Ustaša searching their home and evicting them; her father's arrest and deportation to Jasenovac; living with several friends, Jews and non-Jews; moving to Sombor; obtaining false papers from friends; a policeman confisca...

  19. Adolf M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf M., who was born in Berlin in 1921 to a Jewish father and a Christian mother who had converted to Judaism. He recalls cordial relations with both his parents' families; minimal religious observances at home; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish harassment of his father's business; his father's reluctance to emigrate (he had served in World War I) despite his mother's desire to leave; apprenticeship to a textile merchant in 1935; his father's death in 1936; easing of restrictions during the Olympics; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; military draft, then reject...

  20. Madeleine D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine D., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Strasbourg, France in approximately 1923. She recounts attending Catholic school; German occupation; relocation with her family to Pe?rigueux for a year; returning home; working for an agency which enabled her to smuggle food, clothes and papers to French and English POWs for the underground; arrest in Saarebourg in 1942 and interrogation by the Gestapo; transfer to Schirmeck a month later; slave labor; the prisoners in her barrack surreptitiously praying at night; hospitalization; a prisoner-doctor smuggling her food; r...