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  1. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, the sixth of sixteen children from her father's third marriage and her mother's first. She recalls their relative affluence; believing she was protected by God from age eight; attending public school; being tutored in Hebrew; living with an uncle in the next village when she was sixteen; her brothers' drafts into Hungarian slave labor battalions; deportation with her parents and some siblings to Auschwitz in August 1945; separation from her parents, brother, sister and her children; encountering another sis...

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  3. Mariia A. and Elizaveta Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mariia A., who was born in Belarus in 1912, one of six children, and her daughter Elizaveta Y., who was born in Besedสน, Belarus in 1935. Mrs. A. recalls her father's death; being sent to live with relatives in another town; her arranged marriage in Besedสน; moving to Lahoysk (Logoysk); German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; escape with her children from a mass killing; fleeing to Gayna; hiding in a forest; walking to Pleshchany, then to her mother's village; leaving her younger daughter with her mother; living with a convert from Judaism and her husband; her hosts be...

  4. Frieda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda Z., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1920. She recalls her happy childhood; attending public school; the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938; German invasion; her family's unsuccessful attempt to flee east; her brother's deportation in November 1941; warnings from a friend on the Judenrat to hide with her sister during round-ups; forced labor with her sister in a munitions factory; deportation to Birkenau in August 1943; separation from her parents upon arrival; her sister's selection; bringing her bread and water in the "dead barrack"; obtaining ...

  5. Egon and Mina H. and Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon and Mina H. Egon H. was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He recounts his family's proud German identity; destruction of their business on Kristallnacht; his father's decision to emigrate to Shanghai, the only place open to them; his father opening a grocery store; working in a metal factory; Japanese occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including ghettoization; assistance from the Joint and HIAS; food shortages and lack of sanitation; Allied bombings in July 1945; learning of the Holocaust after the war; and emigration to join uncles in the United States. Mina H...

  6. Ruth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth F., who was born in Altona (Hamburg), Germany in 1926, the youngest of three children. She recounts attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her sisters' emigration to Palestine; the milkman warning them of a round-up of Polish Jews (her mother was from Galicia); Kristallnacht; being shunned by former non-Jewish friends; her father leaving for Budapest in June 1939 (he was a Hungarian citizen); joining him in Budapest via Vienna; assistance from the Jewish community which supplied her with tutors; working in a factory; German invasion in March 1944; ghe...

  7. Dmitrii M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dmitrii M., who was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine in 1927. He recalls his prosperous family; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in 1941; the influx of refugees; fleeing, with his parents and sister, to Kremenchuk in July and Poltava in August; his father's draft; German occupation in September; fleeing alone to Gradizhsk, then Cherkasy; losing contact with his mother and sister; living with his grandmother and cousin; learning his grandmother was shot in November and of the Babi Yar massacre; living in an orphanage in Kiev as a non-Jew; acquaintances who did not r...

  8. Roger P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Roger P., who was born in 1922. He recalls implementation of anti-Jewish measures in France; incarceration in Pithiviers; hiding in Brunoy after his release; obtaining false papers; fleeing to Nice, then Grenoble; working in Vif; his arrest in Uriage in 1942; escaping; hiding with his father; unsuccessful attempts to emigrate; returning to Grenoble; living under false papers in Nice; arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo in 1943; refusing to identify Jews in hiding; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz in October; assignment to the night shift in the Janina mines; bea...

  9. Boris Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris Z., who was born in Kalininskoye, Ukraine in 1935. He recounts his family's return to Sharhorod (his mother's family had a long history there) in 1939; his brother's birth in June 1941; his father's and uncle's military draft (neither survived); German invasion; a German soldier billeted in their house leaving them food and money; German departure; occupation by Hungarian troops, then Romanians; arrival of Jews from Besserarbia; ghettoization; extreme hunger; his mother's non-Jewish colleague bringing them flour; a non-Jewish couple who fed, rescued, and hid the...

  10. Mirko L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mirko L., who was born in Novska, Yugoslavia in approximately 1920. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school in Novska, Nova Gradiška, and another town where his sister and her husband lived; German invasion in 1941; emergence of local Ustaša; anti-Jewish regulations including the armband and forced labor; empathic indignation from most of the population; imprisonment of Romanies in Jasenovac; learning they were being sadistically killed; corpses floating in the river; local Ustaša killing Serbs, then rounding up Jews; arrest with his brother as...

  11. August D. Holocaust testimonies

    Videotape testimony of August D., a Romani, who was born in 1914. He recalls serving in the German military in Braunschweig; discharge in 1938 due to anti-Romani laws; arrest on July 14; transfer from Hannover to Sachsenhausen; slave labor in a Heinkel factory; transfer to Dachau after thirty months; liberation in Czechoslovakia; learning his parents and four siblings had perished in Auschwitz; his desire to forget these experiences and inability to do so; and receiving compensation for seven years in concentration camps at the rate of five marks per day. Mr. D.'s sons and others discuss th...

  12. Daniel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, an only child. He recounts his family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; a large and close extended family; attending Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; his father working in the transport system; telling Germans his parents were out when they hid during round-ups; hiding during the childrens' round-up; capture; escape with his father's help; deportation with his parents to Stutthof; separation from his mother (he never saw her again) when they were sent to Landsberg, then,...

  13. Klara H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara H., who was born in Szombathely, Hungary in 1921. She recalls summer holidays visiting maternal grandparents in Austria; visits to Budapest; her bat mitzvah; pervasive antisemitism; leaving school to learn dressmaking; working and living with relatives in Budapest; her aunt's arrival from Austria after the Anschluss, then her emigration to India; her father's death in 1939; moving to Gyo?r with her mother and sister; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoziation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); a cousin who...

  14. Louis F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his large and close extended family; attending the Katzenelson school; German invasion; fleeing with his parents and brother to the Piotrków ghetto in late 1939; being hidden on a peasant farm from March to June 1941; hiding with his mother and brother with a non-Jewish physician in Warsaw in 1942; joining his father in the ghetto when exposure was imminent; staying in a large bunker; being forced out during the ghetto uprising; separation from his father (all the men were shot); deportation to Lublin (Lip...

  15. Eleazar Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eleazar Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, one of four brothers. He recalls attending gymnasium; one brother's death; participating in clandestine communist organizations; Soviet occupation in 1940; Lithuanian violence and killing of Jews prior to German invasion on June 24, 1941; mass killings in surrounding former forts; ghettoization in August; his father's death in January 1942 resulting from a German beating; forced labor; joining a Jewish underground movement led by Haim Yelin; connecting with partisans outside the ghetto; public hangings; organizing...

  16. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Potrete, Hungary, in 1929. Mr. S. describes prewar life in the small town where his family, the only Jews, lived for generations; friendly relations with non-Jews; the difficulty of believing stories of atrocities coming from Poland; moving to Nagykanizsa; Jewish holiday observances; imposition of anti-Jewish laws, which reached their peak after German occupation in 1944; work in a labor camp; deportation to Birkenau; and separation from his family upon arrival. He details life in Birkenau; physical and psychological aspects of hunger and de...

  17. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Vilna in 1924. In this unusually detailed testimony, Mr. S. speaks of prewar family and community life; Polish antisemitism; the beginning of German occupation; Russian occupation; the ghettoization of Vilna; and the mass shootings at nearby Ponary. He describes the razing of the city's synagogues; the frequent Aktions, physical abuse, and forced labor that marked the life of the ghetto; and the ghetto's liquidation in August, 1943, recalling throughout acts of kindness offered by various non-Jews. He relates his transport by cattle car to ...

  18. Cy J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cy J., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland in 1914. He recalls the outbreak of war; beatings and killings during a brief imprisonment with his father and brother; his brother fleeing to Russia; his sister fleeing to Ukraine; ghettoization; efforts of Jakub Lemberg, the head of the Judenrat, to save lives; public hangings; working at an ammunition factory; mass killings at the cemetery during the ghetto's liquidation led by Hans Biebow in 1942; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; his father's death; unloading freight trains; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then Althamme...

  19. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  20. Nat G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nat G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1896. He describes Vilna; education in Jewish and technical schools; training as a mechanic; serving three years in the Russian army in World War I in an auto battalion; Polish occupation of Vilna in 1920; marriage in 1936; the prosperous family business; and the birth of his twin children. Mr. G. recalls ghettoization; mass murders; hiding during a round-up; discovery and deportation with his stepson to Narwa; work as a mechanic; unsuccessful attempts to save his stepson; extreme conditions of deprivation; transfer a year late...