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

  1. Yaakov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov M., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, one of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Polish school, then a Katzenelson school and summer camp; antisemitic harassment of orthodox Jews; volunteering in a civil defense corps during the German invasion; forced labor; a German assisting his father receive payment for his store merchandise; ghettoization; receiving food from the same German; attending a school and a haschshara in Marysin; slave labor in a shoe factory, then a printing factory; receiving extra food from the manager when a s...

  2. Yafa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yafa R., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's business in Niedrzwica Duża; spending summers there; participating in Gordonyah; living with relatives in Lublin to attend high school; briefly living with a family in Zaklików; German invasion in September 1939; confiscation of the family business; her father obtaining false papers for her; arranging for a job in Kraków as a non-Jew; deciding not to go in order to remain with her family; hiding jewelry in their cellar and placing possess...

  3. Yaffa N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaffa N., who was born in Łask, Poland in 1919, the youngest of seven sisters. She recounts a happy childhood; attending school; antisemitic harassment; attending Zionist training courses in Warsaw, then Łódź; visiting her family in Łask; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Łódź; ghettoization; working in a soup kitchen; contacts with members of the Judenrat; a public hanging; round-up of all the Jews to a church; selection with three sisters and her future husband for a group of the young and healthy; her group's transfer to the Łódź ghetto; her parents' deport...

  4. Yaffa U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaffa U., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1927, the youngest of three children. She recalls her large, extended family; their affluence; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of their land and houses; her brother and sister leaving; German invasion in June 1941; Lithuanians taking her father (she never saw him again); giving their valuables to non-Jewish neighbors; forced labor in Polygon; living with her extended family; her uncle bribing a Lithuanian for their release (her mother remained and she never saw her again); returning to Šv...

  5. Yakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school;...

  6. Yakov P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov P., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, an only child. He recounts living in Čadca; attending Jewish school; participating in Gordonyah; his mother's arrest as a communist; he and his father visiting her in prison at Ilava; his father securing her release; her escape to Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions; being warned of deportations in 1942; their relatives ignoring the warning (they were all killed); escaping with his father to Zvolen; illegally entering Hungary when his father bribed a train engineer; joining his mother in Budapest; being hidden...

  7. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's Hasidism; attending yeshivot in Tomaszo?w and ?o?dz?; harassment by non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in September 1939; deportation to Cze?stochowa a few days later; slave labor constructing a concentration camp; his anguish at being forced to work on Yom Kippur; transfer to Go?rlitz, then Rawitsch; praying for help; transfer to Buchenwald; sleeping next to a rabbi; a non-Jew smuggling medicine to him; sharing it with others; suffering after the rabbi died; observing Hanu...

  8. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Slonim, Poland in 1920. He recalls attending Jewish schools; pervasive antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying in Lʹviv; returning home to help support his family; working in Białystok; German invasion in 1941; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; Polish friends turning on them; ghettoization; forced labor; being caught in a round-up for a mass shooting; being left for dead in the grave; tunneling out at night; returning to the ghetto; his brother advising him not to tell anyone what happened; joining the underground with his b...

  9. Yan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yan G., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1927, one of three children. He recalls living with his parents and grandparents; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; speaking German at home; German invasion; traveling with his family toward the Soviet Union; staying in Lublin; walking west after German arrival; living in a small village with another Jewish family until 1941 (his grandparents were no longer with them); accompanying his father to market in Kazimierza Wielka; orders to report to Skalbmierz; escaping with his brothers to Kazimierza; return...

  10. Yasha M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yasha M., who was born in Szczuczyn, Poland (presently Shchuchyn, Belarus) in 1920. He recounts attending school in Vilna; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; being sent to Lida to work in a factory; German invasion; fleeing with a friend to Baranovichy; traveling on a train with other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto; escaping; returning to Szczuczyn via Hrodna; forced agricultural labor; a round-up and mass killing of the Jews (he, his father and stepmother were selected for work); transfer to Lida in May 1942; working as a carpenter; escaping to the fore...

  11. Yasha'ayahu F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yasha'ayahu F., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1927, the second of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; relatives moving to Palestine; attending a Zionist school; his father hiring guards to protect their business from Endecjas; German occupation in September 1939, followed by Soviet occupation; confiscation of the family business; German invasion in June 1941; a round-up that included his father (they never saw him again); ghettoization; smuggling food with friends; hiding during round-ups; non-Jewish friends helping him obtain extra food; separat...

  12. Yehoshua G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua G., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts completing gymnasium; antisemitic violence and restrictions; moving with his family to Ujpest (IV. Kerület); working in a knitting factory; participating in Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940, his brother's draft in 1942, and his in 1943; slave labor in several locations, including Szentes; marriage to his girlfriend while on leave; transfer to Szeged, Budapest, Deli︠a︡tyn (Ukraine) and other locations; being wounded; ca...

  13. Yehoshua L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua L., who was born in approximately 1923 and raised in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus), one of five children. He recalls attending a local Yavneh school, then yeshiva in Luninets; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; his sister's evacuation east during the German invasion in June 1941; his futile attempt to flee east; slave labor for Organisation Todt; ghettoization in spring 1942; solidarity promoted by the Judenrat led by Dov Lopatin; bringing food to Jews in a Hungarian slave labor battalion when they passed through; non-Jews informing t...

  14. Yehoshua R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua R., who was born in 1923, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a yeshiva; German invasion of Jaworzno; forced labor; moving to Chrzano?w to support his sister and her eight children; being sent from a round-up to Bunzlau; slave labor there and in several other camps ending at Klettendorf; escaping with a friend; being caught on a train; incarceration in Myslowitz, then Birkenau; assignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chambers to open pyres; public hangings; losing his faith (he later returned to orthodoxy du...

  15. Yehoshua S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1925, the second of four brothers. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; secretly participating in Zionist youth groups; antisemitic violence; his father's and older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in March 1944; deportation with his mother, brothers, and aunt to Vienna; slave labor, first cleaning streets, then on nearby farms; a death march to Mauthausen; encountering his uncle; transfer to Gunskirchen; separation from his family; observing cannibalism; liberation by United States...

  16. Yehuda A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda A., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's liberal orthodoxy; attending school; antisemitic harassment and violence after Hitler's ascent to power; emigration with his family to Palestine in 1935; enlisting in the British army in 1941; smuggling arms and refugees to Palestine after his discharge; joining the Haganah in 1946, then the Palmah? in 1947; serving in the Israel-Arab War; meeting the poet Haim Gouri in the military; beginning to write poetry; marriage in 1949; and writing a novel resulting from his visit to Wu?rzburg and t...

  17. Yehuda B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda B., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; summers with his family in Birštonas and Panemunė; attending Lithuanian school; participating in Betar; Soviet occupation in 1940; attending a Soviet camp in Palanga in 1941; German invasion; separation of the Jewish and non-Jewish children; confinement of the Jews in a synagogue; abuse and beatings by Lithuanians; return to Kaunus with the other Jewish children; his parents taking a boy whose parents had fled east; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization...

  18. Yehuda L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda L., who was born in Radomys?l Wielki, Poland in 1920. He describes attending a Tarbut school; participating in Zionist activities; working in his parents' business; trying to persuade his parents to flee to Israel after Germany annexed Austria; German invasion; gradual anti-Jewish measures; the role of the Judenrat; the first killings in 1941; hiding during "aktions"; mass killings at the Jewish cemetery in July 1942; his father's deportation to P?aszo?w; working at the airplane factory in Mielec; hearing about P?aszo?w's commander Amon Goeth when his father wa...

  19. Yehuda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda M., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts attending Hebrew school; participating in a Zionist group from age ten; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including schools closing; attending clandestine classes; joining Akiva; ghettoization; volunteering as a locksmith for Organisation Todt; sabotaging the work; establishing a Zionist training farm with Szymon Draenger in Nowy Wiśnicz; becoming a Judenrat courier; forming a Jewish resistance unit with Adolf Liebeskind and others in summer 1942; meeting outside the ghetto ...

  20. Yehuda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda M., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1914, the only child of an eighth generation Dutch-Jewish family. He recalls moving to Hilversum at age fourteen; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, then Betar; working in steel production; enlisting in the Dutch military; marriage in Rotterdam in 1940; capitulation to Germany; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; living as non-Jews; working with the underground to hide other Jews; his mother's death in Eindhoven; her Christian funeral; being shot when fleeing f...