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  2. Philip V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip V., who was born in France in 1929. He describes his assimilated family life and strong French identity; attending schools in Vaucresson and Neuilly; his father's death; German invasion in May 1940, fleeing with his family to Les Sables-d'Olonne; their return to Paris months later; fleeing to the unoccupied zone in 1941; living in Bagne?res-de-Luchon; his Jewish education and identity formation by Mila Racine; hearing of rounds-up of Jews; fleeing to Italian-occupied Nice, then to Aix-les-Bains two months later in early 1943; denouncement in December 1943; his ...

  3. Georgette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgette S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She recalls her father's service in World War I; their strong Hungarian, rather than Jewish, identity; attending a private German school; escalation of anti-Jewish laws from 1939 until 1943; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; avoiding a round-up of young women because her mother claimed her German school certificate exempted her (the soldiers could not read German); their escape from the ghetto in October with assistance from non-Jewish friends; hiding with her parents in a room of their former villa...

  4. Sophie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1924. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving with her family to the countryside in 1942; forced relocation; working in a nursing home to avoid deportation; their futile attempt to board a ship to the United States in Ijmuiden; returning to Amsterdam; an uncle's suicide; the underground transporting her to her father's non-Jewish,business associate in Zutphen; hiding with his family; obtaining false papers; tutoring his children and doing housework; one visit by her parents; liberation by Canadian ...

  5. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recounts German invasion; public humiliation of Jews; ghettoization; forced labor; a round-up, including his parents; obtaining his mother's release through connections; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); selection for work with his brother; clandestinely leaving the children's camp to join his brother; their transfer to Altenhammer; obtaining privileged work in the kitchen; providing food to his brother and others; a death march, then train transpor...

  6. Pavel T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pavel T., who was born in Slovakia in 1941. He recounts living in permanent fear as a child; Jews meeting in their home in Ilava; his father's dental practice; being warned in summer 1941 they would be deported; escaping with his parents, grandfather, and uncle to woods in Zliechov; his father's patients helping them dig a bunker; near discovery; building another bunker near Valaská Belá; moving several more times; cold and starvation; his mother protecting him with her body when Germans approached; his uncle leaving to find food and not returning (he was arrested a...

  7. Rene D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene D., who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1923. He recalls his family's Catholic, right wing orientation; exposure to his grandfather's more liberal perspective; attending high school in Liège; joining the military during the German invasion in 1940; returning home after German victory; resuming his studies; learning his grandfather was hiding a Jewish family; being asked to join the Resistance; distributing pamphlets and tracking train movements; hiding to avoid forced labor; arrest; incarceration for five months at St. Leonard prison; transfer to Esterwegen as a "N...

  8. Teddy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Teddy R., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1922. He recalls his family's primitive standard of living; his uncle in the United States sending money for his high school education; belonging to No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; Hungarian occupation in 1940; confiscation of most of their possessions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in September 1943; his father visiting him in Ta?s?nad; slave labor in several locations including Dej; marching toward Budapest in winter with no shoes, minimal clothing and food; confinement to the Budapest ghetto guarded by the Arrow Cross; ...

  9. Josef G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef G., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their relative affluence; attending seven years of public school, then one year of business school; attending cheder afternoons; his father's death; German invasion in September 1939; working to help support his family; being rounded-up with twenty other young people to Sosnowiec; deportation a week later to Ottmuth; slave labor building the autobahn; a German soldier giving him extra food; transfer a year later to Markstädt; arrival of two brothers; volunteer...

  10. Cecile L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. She recalls moving to Antwerp; living in the Jewish quarter; being placed in a Jewish class at school; antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her parents to De Panne, then France (Ambleteuse and Calais); returning to Antwerp; arranging for her grandmother to join them by writing a letter to the Belgian queen; living with her mother (her father was in hiding); attending a Jewish teacher training course in Ghent; teaching in a Jewish orphanage in Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding with her parents in sever...

  11. Frieda P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda P., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919. She recounts her father's early death; moving with her family to Se?dziszo?w, then Sosnowiec; antisemitic harassment by other children; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; arranging a job for her mother with assistance from a German woman; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); transfer to Mys?owice (Fu?rstengrube), then Gra?ditz; public hangings; assistance from a German soldier; sharing food with her fellow prisoners; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to Langenbielau; forced labor at...

  12. Terrence D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Terrence D., a professor at Colgate University who was born in Effingham, Illinois in 1939. He describes his first awareness of the Holocaust as a child; his own childhood experience of loss and displacement; his undergraduate and graduate concern with martyred heroes in literature; his interest in factual accounts of personal experience in extreme situations; and his authorship of The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. He discusses the post-Holocaust need for new definitions of conventional terms such as conscience, dignity, and witness and details the ...

  13. Silva U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Silva U., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's affluence; observing Jewish holidays with a large extended family (her mother had converted to Judaism); her father's military service; finishing third grade; German invasion in 1941; her father's return; obtaining false papers; traveling to Kuršumlija with her brother and parents; hiding with non-Jews; threatened exposure; moving to Podujevo; arrest; escape with assistance from a prison guard; smuggling themselves to Italian occupied Priština; expulsion; moving to Bulg...

  14. Michael S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1934, one of two children. He recalls vacations in Zakopane; German invasion; fleeing to Kielce; returning home; public hangings of Jews; escaping deportation through a friend of the head of the Judenrat; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; fearing separation from his parents; his mother hiding him in her workplace during the day; his mother approaching a Polish prostitute and asking her to find them a hiding place; hearing she had found them a place; escaping with his parents and sister with assistance from a Germa...

  15. Mazaltov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mazaltov H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1921, the oldest of three children. She recounts attending a French school; her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; marriage to a man from Thessalonikē in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Toulouse; her brother's escape to Spain, then Palestine; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; going into hiding with her family in 1942; arrest in July 1944; deportation to Malines, then to Auschwitz three weeks later; a Greek prisoner advising them in Ladino of survival s...

  16. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Shereshevo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recounts attending cheder and a Tarbut school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism; his father's arrest for performing a kosher slaughter when it became illegal; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's execution; forced relocation through several towns to the Pruzh?a?ny ghetto; the Judenrat doing its best under the circumstances to allocate resources and forced labor fairly; forced labor outside the ghetto; participating in the ghetto underground; his family's ...

  17. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. He recalls growing up in Strasbourg, France; becoming a French citizen and a mechanical engineer in 1937; a visit with his sister in New York during officer training on the MS Lafayette; army enlistment; posting to Lebanon and Syria; defeat by Germany; and demobilization in Marseille in December 1940. Mr. K. remembers joining his family in Pe?rigueux; becoming a surveyor in Lyon; anti-Jewish regulations; arrest while attempting to escape to Spain with a brother and his sister's children; a one month jail term; learn...

  18. Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Nowy Z?migro?d, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment and beatings; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing to Lesko; returning; forced labor building roads; deportation to Frysztak; returning home; frequent round-ups; deportation to Jas?o, then P?aszo?w; slave labor constructing railways; receiving food from his sisters who were in hiding; their arrival; transfer with them and a cousin to Skarz?ysko; assignment to a munitions factory; meeti...

  19. Shalom Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom Y., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recalls moving to Raci??; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing to P?o?sk, then G?bin; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing a round-up with assistance from the mayor and an ex-employee; staying with relatives in P?o?sk, then moving to Warsaw; escaping to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok in January 1940; joining relatives in Rivne, then Ashmi?a?ny; moving to Smarhon?; German invasion; fleeing to Kurenet?s?; contacts with escaped Soviet POWs and f...

  20. Rachel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel H., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania (presently Chernivt?s?i, Ukraine) in 1921. She recalls her family's comfortable, observant life in the vibrant Jewish community; attending Romanian and Jewish schools; Soviet occupation in 1940; expropriation of her father's business; fear of Siberian exile; German occupation in 1941; antisemitic measures; her grandfather's deportation (she never saw him again); ghettoization in October; moving into a cousin's apartment; a mass deportation by train to Transnistria (Bessarabia); several weeks of forced marching; finding a ...