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  1. Livia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Livia G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1912. She recalls her affluent family; European vacations; celebrating religious holidays with extended family; attending schools in Austria and Switzerland; marriage in 1933; her daughter's birth in 1934; her parents' and brother's emigration to the United States in the late 1930s; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; her husband's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion between 1940 and 1942; confiscation of his business; renting rooms to Germans and Austrians; obtaining information about round-ups from her Austri...

  2. Chaim D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim D., who was born in Neresnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic harassment; his father's deportation (they never saw him again); his siblings moving to Budapest; assistance from the Joint; German invasion in spring 1944; his siblings return; deportation with his family to the Mátészalka ghetto, then five weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his brother from his mother and sisters; transfer to Buchenwald a few days later; slave ...

  3. Gabriella Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabriella Z., who was born in Naples, Italy in 1923. She recalls her German-Jewish father and her mother's "old" Italian Jewish family; feeling "no different" than any one else; 1938 anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; passing the matriculation exam in June 1940; arrest of her parents a week later; their release; being forced to leave Naples; and life in Florence and Perugia. She describes German occupation; friends' warnings that they should "disappear;" travel to Rome; living with relatives; German officials requiring fifty kilograms ...

  4. Marta R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marta R., who was born in a small town in Moravia in 1921. Mrs. R. describes her happy childhood; her gradual awareness of antisemitism; the German occupation; her education and work as a teacher; her marriage; and her and her husband's deportation to Terezi?n in December, 1942. She tells of daily life in Terezi?n; her transport, with her husband, to Auschwitz, where they were immediately separated (she never saw him again); her transfer after two weeks to Birnba?umel, a labor camp in a small village; the death march to Gross Rosen, from where she was taken by train t...

  5. Joshua F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua F., who was born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls antisemitic incidents from his childhood leading to difficulties in school; working in the family business; Soviet occupation; working in Krivichi; returning to Dubrovitsa after the German invasion; forced labor; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; a brief forced transfer to Sarnopol? in 1942; being discovered while hiding from round-ups; deportation to Sarny with his father, sisters, and cousins; escaping alone from a mass killing; rejoining his mother and other siblings in hiding in...

  6. Madeleine H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine H., who was born in Ho?dmezo?va?sa?rhely, Hungary in 1933. She recounts her brother's birth when she was eleven; attending a Jewish primary and public secondary school; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in March 1944; deportation with her grandmother, mother, and brother to the Szeged ghetto, then weeks later to Strasshof without her grandmother; observing a woman give birth; transfer to an Austrian slave labor camp; watching her brother while her mother worked; begging food from locals; discussing food with the other...

  7. Edith H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith H., who was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in 1928. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-47), Mrs. H. recalls obtaining false papers; hiding in Lemmer; liberation by Canadian troops in April 1945; returning with her parents to Leeuwarden; reunion with her sister; resuming her studies; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. H. discusses the fate of family members, including an aunt and cousin who killed themselves; her sister's reluctance to talk about her wartime experiences; difficulties remaining Jewish in H...

  8. Howard O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Howard O., who was born in Herne, Germany in 1924. He recalls moving to Amsterdam in 1933 due to Nazi antisemitism; German invasion in 1940; his father's non-Jewish friend obtaining documents which protected Mr. O. and his sister from deportation to a labor camp; hiding in the attic of his father's former employee; his sister working for the underground; his father's disappearance after he had gone out; leaving Amsterdam with his mother fearing they would be discovered; hiding briefly in Weesp with a minister, his sister's superior in the underground; moving to the sc...

  9. Kurt W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt W., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1920, raised in Weikersheim until 1922, then in Ostro?da. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in Die Falken, the Social Democratic Party youth group; antisemitic harassment in school beginning in 1933; completing high school in 1935; moving to Breslau (Wroc?aw) for a masonry apprenticeship; his younger sister being sent on a kindertransport to the United States in 1937; his father's arrest in 1938, his release upon promising to emigrate; destruction on Kristallnacht, including b...

  10. Ruth T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth T., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in the early 1930s. She recounts her family's affluence; summer vacations in Krasnobród; German invasion; her father's military draft; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; delivering messages for her father to his colleagues in Hashomer Hatzair; hiding during round-ups; deportation of her parents and brother; escaping; a non-Jewish teacher hiding her; bringing food to her grandmother and two aunts in hiding; later seeing them killed; witnessing a mass shooting; being assigned to gather valuables from abandoned Jewish ...

  11. Leon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon M., who was born in Zaleschiki, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1933. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews, despite some "name-calling"; Soviet occupation in 1939; his father's draft into the Soviet military (they never saw him again); German invasion; hiding with his younger brother whenever German or Ukrainian police appeared; hiding during a mass killing which included his grandmother; moving to his other grandmother's in Tolstoye (Tovste); obtaining food from farmers in Lezhanovka, his mother's birthplace; his mother bribing someone to repla...

  12. Joseph T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph T., who was born in Rozwado?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his mother's career as a pharmacist and his father's as an attorney (he was a Polish military veteran); German invasion; expulsion of all the Jews across the San River to Soviet-occupied territory; traveling to L?viv where his mother had a sister; his father taking a low-level job to avoid Soviet deportation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization in November; being warned in 1942 by a non-Jewish friend of transports to extermination camps; his father obtaining false papers for him from the Polish u...

  13. Boris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris F., who was born in Petrograd, Soviet Union (presently Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 1923. He recounts his father's death; emigrating with his mother and brother to join relatives in Hamburg in approximately 1925; placement in a children's home; his bar mitzvah; expulsion from public school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; his brother's emigration to the Netherlands; visiting him in the Hague; expulsion from Germany with his mother in 1938; joining his brother; attending school in Charleroi; German invasion; living in Brussels; returning to Charleroi; arrest i...

  14. Majer A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Majer A., who was born in Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Bosnia) in 1915. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his father's active role in Jewish and civic affairs; developing leftist leanings; studying law in Belgrade and Paris; Yugoslav military service; discrimination against Jews in the military; briefly working for a law firm; German invasion in spring 1941; assignment to a unit in Slavonski Brod; being disarmed by Croats; returning to Sarajevo; sending his parents south; escaping as German troops arrived; meeting his parents in Konjic; traveling to...

  15. Esther F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. She recounts segregated seating for Jews at university in Krako?w; attending medical school in Paris in 1926 with one brother (he remained); returning to ?o?dz? in 1933; working as a physician; marriage in summer 1939; German invasion; her husband's draft into the Polish military (she never saw him again); ghettoization; living with her mother and another brother; working as a doctor; pervasive hunger, disease, and deaths; frequent round-ups and deportations; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from he...

  16. Djordje L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Djordje L., who was born in Sombor, Yugoslavia in 1928. He describes in extraordinary detail cordial relations among ethnic groups; Hungarian occupation in 1941; the deaths of Jewish resisters; conscription of men, including his father, as slave laborers in June 1942; learning his father had been killed; German occupation in March 1944; deportation with his family to Baja, then Wiener Neustadt; choosing deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau when his mother would not leave her sister and niece; spotting his mother after selection; transfer to a children's barrack; escaping...

  17. Margaret F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret F., who was born in Csengeru?jfalu, Hungary in 1927. She recalls her family's Hungarian identity; her five brothers; attending Jewish services in Csenger; her father's and oldest brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; anti-Jewish regulations; her father's release; ghettoization in a city; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); a baby's birth; visiting the hidden baby until its death; transfer to Stutthof; assignment with three friends to a farm; an ample diet; return to Stutthof; digging ditches in a village; Ge...

  18. Morris R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris R. who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1922 and grew up in Da?browa Go?rnicza. He recalls traditional family life; attending public school and cheder; Jewish scout activities; German invasion; attempting to reach Warsaw with his older brother; returning home upon learning that the Germans were everywhere; anti-Jewish restrictions; imposition of forced labor on the Jewish community through a Judenrat; his sister's deportation to Gru?nberg; ghettoization in 1942; and his family's deportation in August. Mr. R. recounts receiving food from a Gestapo chief for r...

  19. Jas?a A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotaped testimony of Jas?a A., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1918. He recalls leaving Belgrade with his cousins and sister on April 6, 1941, when Germany invaded; traveling to a village on the Bay of Kotor; being joined by his family, except one brother who was a POW; brief hospitalization in Cetinje; organizing a Jewish partisan unit; transport of the Jews by the Italians to a military camp in Kavaje?, Albania in July; benign treatment by the Italians; ship transfer in November to Bari, Italy, then Ferramonti; prisoner-organized cultural, sport, educational, and administrative...

  20. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1911. He describes his childhood; his apprenticeship to a baker in Dzia?oszyce; the German occupation of his town; his marriage in December 1939; and the birth of his child in 1940. He speaks of his forced labor until the liquidation of his town in 1942; his and his family's unsuccessful attempts to hide; his brief stay with his wife and child in a labor camp near Krako?w; and their internment in the Krako?w ghetto, where he and his wife were separated from their child and his mother-in-law and taken to separate labor c...