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

  1. Yehuda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda S., who was born in S?iauliai, Lithuania in 1912, one of three children. He recounts his family's forced relocation by Russia to Vitsebsk during World War I; returning in 1920; vacations in Palanga; his siblings' emigration to South Africa; working in his father's leather business; his death in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing east with his mother; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his mother's deportation with other relatives (he never saw them again); he and his future wife hiding with Lithuanian non-Jews for four month...

  2. Yehudit M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehudit M., who was born in Reghin, Romania in 1926, the oldest of four children. She recounts her family's participation in Mizrahi; vacations and holidays at her grandparents' village; attending Romanian school, then, briefly, German gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1940; transfer to a Jewish high school in Cluj; a non-Jewish family friend who was in the military informing her father of massacres of Jews at the front; her cousin's visit (he was in a Hungarian slave labor battalion); German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation...

  3. Yekutiel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yekutiel S., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1928, one of two children. He recalls a large, extended family; attending Jewish and Polish schools; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1938; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; German occupation in June 1941; ghettoization; forced factory labor; smuggling food into the ghetto; hiding during round-ups; his sister being taken from work; round-up by Ukrainians; being beaten unconscious and, upon awakening, seeing his mother shot; deportation to Bliżyn; slave labor in a quarry; trading va...

  4. Yelena M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yelena M., who was born in approximately 1934, the younger of two sisters. She recounts growing up in Odesa; their relative affluence; a close extended family; war beginning on June 22, 1941; her father's mobilization; hiding in catacombs; her father's return; arrival of Axis troops in the fall; her father hiding; her mother being beaten and her uncle being shot to death in front of her; her mother obtaining false papers; being denounced by a neighbor; her mother bribing a guard for their release; fleeing by train; ghettoization in Chechelสนnik, still posing as non-Je...

  5. Yeshayahu L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yeshayahu L., who was born in Ciechanów, Poland in 1928, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public school; many relatives emigrating to Palestine; visiting family in Mława; brief hospitalization in Warsaw; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his father and two brothers fleeing east; their return; one brother's successful flight to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; public executions; his bar mitzvah; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his family; useless slave labor; a supervisor giving him extra food and an easier wor...

  6. Yetta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Che?m, then ?o?dz?; lear...

  7. Yitzhak A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak A., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1926. He recalls a large and warm extended family; moving to Zamość, Lublin, and Warsaw as his father changed cantorial positions; German invasion in 1939; his bar mitzvah in November; he and his sister smuggling themselves to Švenčionys in the Soviet zone; attending Russian school; receiving letters from their parents; German invasion in June 1941; attempting to escape east; attacks by Lithuanians; returning home; hearing Stalin's radio call for partisan warfare; announcement of ghettoizati...

  8. Yitzhak F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1916, the oldest of five children. He recalls his father's sock business; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with his father; returning to Łódź; his mother and sisters going to Warsaw (he never saw them again); ghettoization; forced labor; functions of the Judenrat; deportations; encountering Ḥayim Rumkowski; moving to avoid deportations; arrest; deportation to Częstochowa, then Skarżysko three weeks later; slave labor in camp A; transfer to Częstochowa; slave labor in the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; a severe ...

  9. Yitzhak P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak P., who was born in 1906 in Recklinghausen, Germany, the oldest of four children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; living briefly under French occupation; participating in Maccabi; his father's death in 1928; emigration of two brothers to Palestine in 1930; working on a Zionist training farm in Neuendorf; anti-Jewish boycotts; his mother's paralysis; working in Gelsenkirchen; losing his job after Kristallnacht; forced labor in Paderborn; his mother's death in 1941; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor in Buna/Monowitz; sharing extra food recei...

  10. Yitzhak V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yitzhak A., who was born in Sulejo?w, Poland in 1917; his Hasidic home; antisemitism in public school; working in ?o?dz?; involvement in communism; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with his brother to defend Poland; capture by SS when returning to ?o?dz?; assistance from a fellow-communist; escaping with his brother; marriage in November; traveling with his wife toward Soviet territory; wandering for months in Hrodna; Presovtse; and Stolin; settling in Presovtse; working for the Red Army; German invasion in June 1941; meeting with a small group planning to find ar...

  11. Yochanan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yochanan K., who was born in a village near Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland, in 1923, the second of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, school, and synagogue in Nowy Wiśnicz; antisemitic harassment; leaving school at thirteen to become a cattle merchant; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; he and his older brother smuggling food to several ghettos; denouncement by a Jew; arrest and release; volunteering to enter Płaszów in his brother's place; slave labor laying rail lines; escaping after a severe beating; fleeing to the forest with his ...

  12. Yoel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoel S., who was born in Rus, Romania in 1928, one of four children. He recounts attending a public school, cheder, then a Jewish school in Cluj in 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including his school closing; his mother's death; attending carpentry school; returning home; his father's remarriage; deportation with his family to the Dej ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from his father and younger brother; assignment with his twin brother to the twins barracks; a prisoner smuggling him to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer two weeks later ...

  13. Yolana L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yolana L., who was born in Holubyne, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, a twin, and one of nine children. She recounts her father's death when she was about two; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning Yiddish in Svali︠a︡va; two sisters emigrating to Belgium; living with a sister in Svali︠a︡va; Hungarian occupation in spring 1944; deportation to the Munkács ghetto weeks later, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her sister; a brief encounter with her twin and another sister; assignment to Canada Kommando; throwing food and clothing that she had smu...

  14. Yorgan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yorgan L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father serving in World War I; attending Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father losing his job; deportation of friends who were Polish citizens; Kristallnacht; participating in Habonim; collecting money for the Jewish National Fund; agricultural training on a kibbutz in Rüdnitz; moving to Paderborn; forced labor; learning his parents had been deported in December 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1943; transfer to Monowitz; slave labor; transfer to the hospital in Auschwit...

  15. Yosef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; his father hiring a rabbi to tutor him for his bar mitzvah; studying graphic design at art school; German invasion in 1939; his mother paying a non-Jew to hide him and his brothers; ghettoization; working as a graphic artist for the Judenrat and German police, making signs in Gothic calligraphy; helping produce false papers; his thirteen-year-old brother's death; deportation to Płaszów; doing lettering for Kommandant Amon Goeth; receiving extra fo...

  16. Yosef D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef D., who was born in Vel'ký Meder, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of four children. He recounts his father's service as a Hungarian officer; attending local public school, then gymnasium in Bratislava; Hungarian occupation; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1939; studying at a technical school in Vitkovice; returning home; working for an uncle in Pápa until his business was forced to close; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning home; obtaining work in a factory in Budapest through Hashomer; his non-Jewish landlord warning him of a...

  17. Yosef F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef F., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1921, the older of two brothers. He recounts his elaborate bar mitzvah; cordial relations with non-Jews; summer vacations in Bukovina; visiting an uncle in Bucharest; antisemitism in the late 1930s; completing lyceum in 1940; teaching Latin; forced labor for the Romanian military; round-up with his family to the police station in 1941; his mother's release; deportation in crowded trains to Tîrgu Frumos; being beaten by a police officer; continuing to Stamora Română; jumping from the train en route to obtain water; sharing...

  18. Yosef P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef P., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. He recalls attending a Tarbut school, then a Jewish gymnasium in Baranavichy; his family's Zionist leanings; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1939; transfer to a Soviet school; German invasion; forced labor; a round-up in October 1941; his aunt including his family with her working group; thousands of others being shot in a mass killing; ghettoization; policeman surrounding the ghetto in July 1942; setting fire to houses, then escaping with others to a forest; learning his mot...

  19. Yosef S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921, one of four children. He recounts attending public school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and a sports group; German invasion; one brother's escape to Lʹviv; a non-Jew smuggling him and his father to Warsaw to meet this brother and escape to the Soviet Union; his father's return to Łódź; attemptinig to enter the Soviet zone with his brother via Siedlce; capture by the Soviets; being sent back to Warsaw; returning to the Łódź ghetto; working as a carpenter, sabotaging furniture he built for the Germans; building ...

  20. Yoseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoseph M., who was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his father's mobilization two days before German invasion in April 1941; Ustaša severely beating him and his brother; German soldiers billeting in their house; a German protecting them from Ustaša; his father's arrest; futile attempts to secure his release; arrest with his brother by Ustaša; their transfer to a prison in Zagreb, then to Jadovno and Gospić; slave labor harvesting wheat; transfer to Jasenovac; slave labor felling trees; Ustaša bruta...