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  1. Karl S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl S., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1934. Stressing the isolation from other children and silence which characterized his entire wartime experience, he tells of being sent to Krako?w with his family in 1939; their being sent to Eastern Poland a year and a half later; and their 1941 move to a small town in the Carpathians which was under German control. He describes the ghettoization of the town; the cruelty toward his grandfather which he witnessed; and his flight from the town when his father was warned by an SS man. Mr. S. recalls his daily hiding in a labo...

  2. Willy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willy F., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1928. He describes his parents' move to a small village to run a business; remaining with his grandparents and siblings so they could attend Jewish schools; his parents' return due to antisemitic violence; their move to Sosnowiec in 1936; traveling to Dzia?oszyce with his grandmother in 1939; German invasion; food shortages; his parents' and brother's return (his sister remained in Sosnowiec); hiding with his family during a round-up; joining an uncle in Pinczo?w; briefly returning to Dzia?oszyce; fleeing to Wodzis?aw, ...

  3. Nicole H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nicole H., who was born in 1922 in Warsaw Poland, one of twelve children. She recounts moving to Paris when she was six months old; living in a building for large Jewish families; organized activities for the children, including summer camp in Cauville; antisemitic harassment; moving to Cabourg in 1939; she and a sister returning to Paris a year later; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; working for a non-Jewish doctor; his warning of the June 16, 1942 round-up and hiding her and one sister; joining another sister in Meulan; returning to see her parents; a Cath...

  4. Isidor M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isidor M., who was born in approximately 1916, the oldest of four children. He recounts living in Przytyk, Poland; his family's orthodoxy; working as a shoemaker in the family business; anti-Jewish violence in March 1936; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; forced relocation with his family to Radom; ghettoization; smuggling himself to a village; transfer to a city; escaping to the village with a friend; hiding with three cousins for three months; a Pole helping him return to Radom; joining his family; his father's death; slave labor in a nearby camp, then in Blizy...

  5. Malka B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recounts her family's move to Cze?stochowa in 1928; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including prohibitions against attending schools; separation from her mother in a round-up (she never saw her again); her father and brother doing forced railroad labor; their disappearance; her subsequent state of shock; slave labor in the HASAG factory; hiding a young child in their barrack; playing and singing with him which kept her sane (he survived); loosing her will to live when she was ill; a Jewish doctor taking ...

  6. Uziel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uziel L., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in 1916, the youngest of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending Jewish and public schools; moving with his family to ?o?dz? in 1929; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his sisters' emigration to Palestine in 1934 and 1935; training as a textile engineer; supporting his parents; his leadership role in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; attending officers' training school; German invasion; capture; imprisonment in Stalag II A; ...

  7. Witold F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Witold F., a non-Jew born in Pleszew, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending school in Chorzo?w, a military academy in Warsaw, and teaching in Silesia; German invasion; military service in Krako?w; being captured by Germans in Tomaszow Lubelski; attempting escape to Czechoslovakia using false papers; incarceration in Krako?w's Montelupich prison; and inclusion in the second transport to Auschwitz in 1940. Mr. F. describes camp life in detail; friends helping him to obtain a job, which included access to many areas; receiving and writing letters home (he shows them); obs...

  8. Rudolf G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf G., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1912. He recalls attending Jewish and German schools; participating in anti-Nazi organizations; his brother's emigration to Czechoslovakia; being arrested in 1937 due to a letter from his brother critical of the Nazis; release after seven months in prison; escaping to Czechoslovakia with the help of socialist organizations; traveling through parts of Europe; secretly returning to Germany to obtain funds for emigration; departure for the United States on November 10, 1938; and learning about Kristallnacht while docked in...

  9. Shoshana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana K., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children in a Hasidic family. She recounts attending a Jewish school; visiting relatives in Bardejov; transfer to a public school; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of her father's store; deportation with her family by the Hlinka guard to the Dęblin ghetto; slave labor; a German officer allowing her to eat extra food; giving her soup ration to her mother; slave labor at an air strip; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to the labor camp; assistance from a prison...

  10. Erwin B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erwin B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926, the youngest of seven children. He recounts his father's death in 1936; his mother's struggle to support the family; being accepted at the Korczak orphanage; German occupation; ghettoization; leaving the orphanage; watching Janusz Korczak's deportation with the orphans; smuggling food for his family; fleeing to the Wyszogro?d ghetto; joining his siblings in the P?on?sk ghetto; working as a non-Jew for a Polish farmer; deportation with his mother and siblings to Auschwitz in late 1942; separation from his mother and sis...

  11. Léo W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Léo W., who was born in Kellersberg, Germany in 1923, the youngest of three children of Polish immigrants. He recounts his family's move to Liège when he was three months old; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death in 1936; apprenticing as a tailor immediately after, German invasion; fleeing with his mother, sister, and her children to Toulouse; remaining there with his mother for ten months; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; working in a factory, hoping to avoid deportation; deportation in August 1942 to Dannes-Camiers, being told three ...

  12. Gilbert H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilbert H., who was born in Paris, France in 1941. He speaks of his parents, who emigrated to France from Warsaw; his father's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; his mother's arrest seven months after his birth; hiding with his grandparents in Parisian suburbs with assistance from French non-Jews; his grandfather's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz; fleeing with his grandmother to Lyon; hiding in a small town near the Swiss border; his grandfather's return after liberation; and emigration with his grandparents to Argentina after they learned his parents ha...

  13. Aliza R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza R., who was born in Zbaraz?, Poland (presently Zbaraz?h?, Ukraine). She describes life in a wealthy, politically aware family; attending secular school; attending law school at the University of Krako?w; marriage to another attorney; and life as a successful professional couple in the Warsaw area. She relates her journey from Warsaw to Zbaraz? at the outbreak of the war during which her daughter was born in a farmer's house; living in Zbaraz? under the Russian occupation; her feeling they should leave Poland prior to the German invasion; her refusal to register ...

  14. Leon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1919. Mr. H. tells of prewar antisemitism; becoming a carpenter like his father and brothers; his family's move to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1940; starvation; a German soldier who refused to believe that Jews could be tradesmen; witnessing atrocities while doing carpentry at the local Gestapo headquarters; his mother's death after a beating; and surrendering to join his father and siblings when they were rounded-up. He details conditions on the deportation train; separation from his father and sister at Auschwitz; selection and t...

  15. Arkadi︠i︡ P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arkadi︠i︡ P., who was born in Chashniki, Belarus in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; earning teachers' certification; teaching third grade; visiting Minsk in June 1941; German invasion; riding trains with German soldiers to Barysaŭ; walking to Lukomlʹ; staying with an aunt for three days; returning to Chashniki; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor in a peat factory; a non-Jewish woman who offered to help him; hiding with his mother and sister during a mass killing in February 1942; his mother forcing...

  16. George G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. He describes being the oldest child of three in a traditional family; the family move to Poznan?; anti-Semitic incidents in public school and law school (he attended for only three months due to the outbreak of the war); returning to ?o?dz? in September 1939; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor managing a clothing factory; H?ayim Rumkowski's role; starvation and epidemics; round-ups, first of the sick, then of entire areas; buying black market food to enable his family's survival; and mass deportations in 1943. Mr. G....

  17. Mary L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. She recalls her large, extended family; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; one sister's emigration to Palestine; observing the destruction after Kristallnacht; being sent with her older sister to the Netherlands (her parents planned to join them); placement in a children's home; her sister leaving since she was too old; transfer to a refugee home in Rotterdam, where her sister lived; placement with a foster family in Haarlem; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; transfer to a Jewish home for girls in Amsterdam; ...

  18. Rose R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose R. who was born in Luxembourg in 1927. She recalls her family's candy factory; attending Catholic school until Jews were expelled; her father's belief that the Germans were just passing through; her older brother's emigration to Chile; the family's move to Brussels; attending school there for a year; her sister being hidden by priests; the family's flight to Roubaix, France; and her arrest (she was about twelve). Mrs. R. recounts deportation to Majdanek; being brutally beaten; a guard who saved her from being gassed; forced labor in coal mines for a year; having ...

  19. Renee B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renee B., who was born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1927. Mrs. B. recalls her discomfort as the only Jew at a Catholic primary school; older Jewish friends who left Germany in the 1930s; fleeing with her parents on Kristallnacht to a former housekeeper's home; commuting daily to a Jewish school in Cologne after 1939; detention in a slaughterhouse before deportation; and arrival at the Ri?ga ghetto in December 1941. She describes her family's narrow escape from a selection; seeing the bodies of Jewish policemen executed for an attempted uprising; transfer to a railroad wor...

  20. Pierre B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pierre B., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1916. He recalls disenchantment with Rex, an extreme rightist political movement; marriage and birth of a daughter; military service; returning to Brussels when his regiment surrendered in May 1940; forming a Resistance unit; arrest; imprisonment in St. Gilles, Essen, Bochum, and Hameln; Allied bombings; praying to maintain his morale; prisoner discussions of food and recipes due to their hunger; transfer to Esterwegen, then Blechhammer, where he observed Jewish prisoners; Allied bombings; a trial in G...