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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. 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...

  2. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1928. He recalls the integration of Jews in his hometown, Niederrad; his father's position as a university professor of medicine; his family's ties to Jewish culture, even though they were not religious; his first anti-Jewish experience when he was not allowed to play with a non-Jew in 1933; his father's dismissal from his position due to anti-Jewish laws; and the family joining his maternal grandparents in Zurich. Mr. S. recounts his father's efforts for the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars; thei...

  3. Andy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andy F., an American Catholic, who was in the 11th Armored Division during World War II. He recalls fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; traveling to Austria; the surrender of Linz; liberating Mauthausen; shock at the stench, the prisoners' condition (walking skeletons), and the pervasive filth; feeding the prisoners which resulted in some immediate deaths; calling for engineers to assist in burying thousands of corpses; and compelling the locals to assist in the burials (they denied knowledge of the camp, an impossibility). Mr. F. discusses losing his faith in God up...

  4. Aneta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aneta W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930 to an affluent and large, extended family. She recalls German invasion; briefly fleeing to Zg?obien?; moving to L'viv; Soviet occupation; returning to Krako?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups (they were warned by an SS-man for whom her mother made hats); sending her younger brothers to Bochnia; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w after liquidation of the ghetto; burial of all the children who were killed in the ghetto; working with her mother at the Madritsche factory; volunteering for transfer to the Tarno?w g...

  5. Anica D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anica D., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1924. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; a large, extended family; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; leftist political leanings; cordial relations with non-Jews; not emigrating to Palestine due to financial constraints; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws and violence by the Ustaša; her uncle's summary execution; her father's arrest (he did not return); a Muslim man taking her to Italian-occupied Mostar to join her aunts; learning her mother and sister were betrayed during their escape attempt (they perished at Jasenovac...

  6. Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S.. Anita B. was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1929. She recalls German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of their home; moving to a Jewish old age home; forced relocation to Amsterdam; attending a Jewish school; round-ups; her parents' decision in 1943 that they would go into hiding; her parents' and sister's departures; being taken by Anna S., her camp counselor, to hide with a non-Jewish family in the south; kind treatment by her foster parents; and liberation by British and United States troops in September 1...

  7. Anita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anita S., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls her family's affluence; German occupation; confiscation of their house; her mother bribing an official to avoid the family's deportation; her uncle's suicide in 1940; deportation with her family to Theresienstadt in 1942; living with her mother and brother; participating in organized activities, including an opera; their transfer to Auschwitz in 1943; assignment to Birkenau's family camp; her father's transfer to Germany in 1944; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); trans...

  8. Anka R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anka R., who grew up in Warsaw, Poland, one of six children. She recalls her marriage in 1938; food shortages after German invasion; ghettoization; her husband and a friend building two attached bunkers; hiding with twenty-one others during round-ups; hiding there with her husband, his brother and sister, and others during the ghetto uprising; some leaving after the larger bunker was destroyed; using drains to obtain food from Poles; her husband negotiating with Poles who killed him; staying with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the drains for three more days; ...

  9. Ann B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann B., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1928. She recalls an idyllic childhood in a large, extended family; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family, then returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; two brothers being taken to a labor camp; their weekend visits in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with her parents and remaining brother during round-ups; forced factory labor with her mother; replacing her mother when she was sick; a public hanging in 1942; separation from her parents during the ghetto's liquidation in February 1943 (she never saw them again); depo...

  10. Ann C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann C., who was born in approximately 1925, the oldest of four children, and raised in K?obuck, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; her father's beating by antisemites; German invasion; separation from a family friend who was taking her to a nearby farm; returning home; obtaining work on a German farm; the owners warning her of round-ups; her father's deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; hiding with her future husband and his sister during the ghetto's liquidation in June 1942; marriage; entering K?obuck concentration camp;...

  11. Ann E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he was in a Russian POW camp for several years); not being admitted to public school because she was Jewish; the Anschluss; expulsion from private school; her father's imprisonment in Dachau on Kristallnacht; his release after six weeks due to his veteran's status; she and her sister being sent on a kindertransport to London in March 1939; living with a foster family in Bedford for over two years; her parents arriving later in 1939; visiting them; her father's incarcerat...

  12. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in 1925, in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; her father's Polish friends bringing them food; a public hanging; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; separation from her family (she never saw them again); a suicide in the cattle train transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with a cousin; a friend's family sharing food with her; transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; meeting her future husband; an old...

  13. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...

  14. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Panevėžys, Lithuania in 1918, one of ten children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's charitable giving; antisemitic violence; two older brothers emigrating to South Africa; joining a married sister in Kaunas; Soviet occupation; marriage to a cellist in February 1940; her daughter's birth; German invasion; mass killings by Lithuanians, then Germans; ghettoization; an abortion in 1942 since Jewish women were forbidden to bear children; a non-Jewish neighbor hiding them during a round-up; starvation; deportations of many relatives...

  15. Ann H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in seve...

  16. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whi...

  17. 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...

  18. Ann L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann L., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. She recalls that her father was chief physician of a hospital; a privileged childhood as an affluent Czech; her father's refusal to emigrate due to his strong Czech patriotism; Hitler's arrival in Prague in March 1939; her older brother's emigration to the United States in October; anti-Jewish regulations; expulsion from school after third grade; her father losing his position; and the family's transport to Terezi?n in July 1943. Mrs. L. recounts her mother's illness; her father working as a physician; contacts w...

  19. Ann R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. She recalls early happy memories; German bombardment; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; watching the Gestapo round-up her parents; and their wanton destruction, including the "evisceration" of a doll. She remembers informing the sanitarium where her brother was hospitalized that her parents had been taken away (they would not keep him anymore since there was no one to pay); giving him to a strange woman; wandering the streets with her sister; a nun offering to help them; moving many times; a visit from h...

  20. Ann S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann S., who was born in Rome, Italy in 1928. She recalls her family had lived in Italy for seven generations; Jewish holidays in a large, extended family; expulsion from school in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; German occupation; one brother escaping; escaping with her parents and sister to a mountain village; her other brother later joining them; attending school; returning to Rome after the war; reunion with her brother; working as a translator for the United States military; marriage to an American in 1948; and emigration to the United States. Ms. S. notes she seldo...