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

  1. Witness: voices from the Holocaust /

    The stories of nineteen Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including an American POW, resistance fighters, a Jesuit priest, an American liberator, a Hitler Youth, and ghetto and camp survivors, create a narrative of the Holocaust in the words of those who experienced it. This edited program includes historical and personal photographs and footage.

  2. 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...

  3. Wolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in G?ogo?w. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separat...

  4. Wolf R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf R., who was born in Łask, Poland in 1914, one of three brothers. He recounts graduation from public school; attending university in Warsaw in 1932 in preparation for medical school in Berlin; returning home in 1933 due to the election of the Nazi government in Germany; his relatives in Berlin emigrating to London; active participation in Maccabi; attending Maccabi courses in Skole; becoming the bookkeeper for his father's and grandmother's businesses; attending university in Warsaw beginning in 1936; organized and random antisemitic harassment; one professor who ...

  5. Wolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf W., who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1921. He recalls attending French school; speaking Yiddish at home; living in several European cities from 1929 to 1931; settling in Antwerp; antisemitism in school; apprenticing as a diamond cutter; German invasion; fleeing to Ghent, then Saint-Vincent; living with French farmers; his parents' internment in Re?ce?be?dou in spring 1942; visiting them; arrest; imprisonment in Caussade, whose police chief had tried to warn him to hide; internment in Septfonds, then Drancy; deportation to Janislawice (Johannisdorf); singing Yiddis...

  6. Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf Z., who was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. He recalls attending public and Jewish schools; extreme poverty; poor relations between Jews and Christians; German invasion; forced labor at Pruszko?w, the Krako?w airport, P?aszo?w, Gross Rosen, Falkenberg, and Ludwigsdorf; the routine hangings and shootings in P?aszo?w, where he was a tailor; learning to be an electrician from Hungarian inmates in Falkenberg; transfer to Ebensee; and liberation. Mr. Z. recounts traveling to Italy to attempt emigration to Palestine; reunion with his twin brother; living with his tw...

  7. Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wolf Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland, in 1923 and raised in nearby Sosnowiec. Mr. Z. recalls the town's primitive conditions; Jewish prewar social and cultural life; rapid deterioration following the German invasion; ghettoization; and the suspicions about the deportations and construction of Auschwitz. He tells of hiding; capture in a 1942 round-up; transport to Sakrau, then to Karvina?, Czechoslovakia; work as a carpenter's helper; transfer to Klettendorf in 1943; work as a farm hand; and surviving on vegetables normally fed to pigs. He describes transport to Fu?...

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  11. Xavier D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Xavier D., a Catholic, who was born in Bertrix, Belgium in 1925. He recalls attending boarding school; his father's death in 1937; leaving for France with his family in 1940; remaining in Libourne for two months; returning home; billeting of German soldiers in their house; joining the Resistance with his brother; obtaining false papers as a student to avoid forced labor in Germany; hiding; being arrested with his brother for underground activities; imprisonment in Charleville and Amou; their deportation to Buchenwald in June 1944; receiving extra food from Scandinavia...

  12. Y. Abraham Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Y. Abraham Z., who was born in P?ock, Poland in 1925. He recounts antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; escaping to G?abin; returning home; confiscation of his father's business; ghettoization; smuggling food; his father's election to the Judenrat; deportation to Dzia?dowo, then Suchednio?w; his grandfather's death; escaping with his father; railroad work with non-Jewish Poles; friends calling from a passing train that his mother was aboard (it went to Treblinka); separation from the non-Jews; a forced march to Szyd?owiec; transfe...

  13. Ya'akov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov B., who was born in 1926 in Rotterdam, Holland, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death in 1937; living with his grandparents; attending a Jewish school; living in an orphanage until his father remarried; fleeing with his family to the Hague during German bombing of Rotterdam; attending school in Amsterdam; anti-Jewish restrictions; joining the underground; being assigned to smuggle microfilm to Paris and Antwerp disguised as a Hitler Youth; arrest in Paris in 1942 when his false papers were exposed; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwi...

  14. Ya'akov G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov G., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1924, one of four children. He recounts attending a Jewish school and yeshiva; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; witnessing a mass killing of the town's rabbis; round-up to a synagogue; separation from his father (he was killed in a mass shooting); ghettoization; forced factory labor; trading goods to non-Jews for food; setting his house on fire, and hiding in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping to the forest; assistance from farmers; walking to Hantsavichy; returning to the fo...

  15. Ya'akov L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recounts his sister's birth in 1936; his parents' and uncle's fabric businesses; their leftist views; visiting relatives in Šakiai; attending a Yiddish school and a yeshiva; his father's 1936 visit to Palestine, where he purchased land, and his mother's visit to her brother in the United States; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying in Germany; expropriation of his family's factory; German invasion in summer 1941; a Lithuanian protecting his family during Lithuanian killings immediately prior to German troops en...

  16. Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a r...

  17. Ya'akov V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov V., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1931, one of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing with his family; arrest of his father and older brother; returning home; finding their home occupied by Lithuanians; ghettoization; visiting his brother and father at a work camp (he never saw his father again); his brother's escape; moving to his aunt's home with his sister; his sister caring for him; her marriage in 1943; working in a factory; deportation to Stutthof; separation from the women; transfer to La...

  18. Yaakov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recounts his brother's death from pneumonia; attending a Jewish school; compulsory transfer to a public school; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's business from age fourteen; German, then brief Soviet occupation; traveling with his father to an uncle in Volodymyret︠s︡ʹ; their return home; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation with his family to Sobibór in spring 1942; separation from his mother and sister; slave labor with his father cutting t...

  19. Yaakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov E., who was born in Częstochowa, Russia (presently Poland) in 1904. He recounts attending Jewish and Polish schools; starvation during World War I; marriage and the births of two children; leaving his family to work in Paris for two years during the Depression; German invasion; ghettoization; his mother's murder by Germans in 1942; burying her; deportation with his wife and children to Treblinka; his selection as a carpenter (his family was killed); sadistic public executions; escaping; assistance from a local non-Jews who brought him to Jewish partisans; flee...

  20. Yaakov F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov F., who was born in Suwałki, Poland in 1924, the sixth of eight children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and violence; one brother enlisting in the Polish military; brief Soviet invasion, then German invasion in 1939; a local German warning his father of imminent deportations; his parents arranging for him to hide with a non-Jewish family; attending church and wearing a cross; moving to the barn when the family feared discovery; escaping to the forest when the Pole hiding him tried to kill him; assistance fro...