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

  1. Yugoslav Voices from the Holocaust /

    Many aspects of the history of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia are told through the voices of those that survived it. This edited program includes excerpts of Jews rescued by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; a Serbian non-Jewish rescuer whose husband was shot for hiding Jews; survivors of concentration camps in Yugoslavia; those deported elsewhere; camp escapees; and partisans. The survivor and witness testimonies were recorded in the United States, Israel, and the former Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1996. They tell of the Sephardic Jewish community before the war, life under the Nazis, l...

  2. Yuri R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yuri R., who was born in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Ukraine in 1928. He remembers German invasion in 1941; round-ups of Jews; hiding with his father and brother; neighbors looting Jewish property; his brother, grandmother, and mother being caught (he never saw them again); assignment to a slave labor brigade; witnessing torture of POWs; transfer with his father to the Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ ghetto; receiving food from non-Jewish neighbors; escaping to a neighboring village; a futile effort to cross the Bug River into Romanian territory; working on a collective farm in Krasnoye; his detent...

  3. Yvette B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette B., who was born in France. She describes attending school in Paris; German invasion; her decision, along with her sister, not to declare themselves as Jews; obtaining false papers; joining her family in Lyon; entering the Resistance through Bertie Albrecht; activities in Vitteaux; providing social services for several Resistance groups; coordinating with Resistance leaders (she names many); secret marriage to a Resistance leader; arrest with her husband in January 1943; imprisonment in Blois; torture and interrogations; suffering a stillbirth; transfer to a ho...

  4. Yvette L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette L., who was born in 1926. She recalls German invasion of Paris; fleeing with her parents and grandmother to Cande?; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing the star; going to Noisy-le-Sec with the Scouts to help families whose husbands were deported; Allied bombings; working in a Jewish orphanage; deportation of the entire orphanage to Drancy; interrogations during which she said her parents were dead; deportation to Birkenau; dehumanization, lack of privacy, and selections; difficulties with non-French prisoners; the solidarity of her Sc...

  5. Yvonne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne B., a Catholic, who was born in Pipaix, Belgium in 1918. She recounts attending public school; completing advanced degrees in nursing school in Tournai; mobilization as a nurse; assignment to a military hospital in Nieuwpoort; evacuation to Avilley, Nantes, then a village in France; caring for a friend's five young daughters; transfer to Rochefort; working as a head nurse; returning to Belgium two months later; working at a hospital; hiding resistance members; the Red Cross and a local nobleman arranging for them to hide Jewish children; helping transport twent...

  6. Yvonne P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne P., a non-Jew, who was born in Havré, Belgium in 1912. She recounts her father becoming an invalid in World War I; completing teacher training in 1930; her father's death in 1933; marriage in 1935; moving to Antwerp in 1938; participating with her husband in anti-fascist activities; his military draft; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing to Havré; her husband's return; participating in the Resistance; hiding using false papers; visiting her husband in Tertre; his arrest in December 1941 and execution in February 1942; hiding with a friend, then with an a...

  7. Yvonne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne R., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1929, the oldest of four children. She recounts living in the Baron de Hirsch neighborhood; German invasion; ghettoization; deaths from starvation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she never saw her mother or siblings again); slave labor in a textile factory; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Canada Kommando; sorting clothing of murdered Jews; trading "stolen" clothing for food; hiding a friend selected for death; assistance from a Polish, non-Jewi...

  8. Yvonne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929 to a single mother. She remembers a close relationship with her grandparents; membership in the girls' Nazi youth group, Bund Deutsher Mädel; harassment of Jews in school; her family's friendship with a Jewish neighbor (they were deported when she was not home and their apartment sealed, then reassigned to Germans); her mother verbally declaring her an Aryan at school; working as a housekeeper, then with her mother at a Siemens factory in Marienfelde; secretly assisting French and Soviet prisoner of war forced labore...

  9. Yvonne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Paris in 1933; a comfortable life in Neuilly; attending Catholic school; her parents' divorce; moving to Holland with her mother and sister in 1938 to join her grandparents and other relatives; a brief stay in Paris; return to Amsterdam; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures including compulsory wearing of the yellow star and expulsion from school; attending Jewish school; disappearances of schoolmates; her grandparents' arrest and deportation (she never saw them again); going into hi...

  10. Zachar T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachar T., who was born in Russia in 1912 and raised in Kiev. He recounts working in a factory; marriage to a non-Jew; few people knowing he was Jewish; their daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; observing Germans shooting Jews and prisoners of war; being forced to move; displaying an icon and an image of Hitler in their new home to dispel suspicion; exchanging the property of a cousin for food in nearby villages; betrayal by a friend; arrest; frequent torture; transfer to Syrets concentration camp in February 1943; slave labor outside the camp; clandestine comm...

  11. Zachary A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachary A., who was born in Volkovysk, Poland (now Belarus) in 1918. He recalls growing up in Warsaw; his family's affluence; their non-orthodox holiday observances; attending university in Danzig in 1938; antisemitic harassment; outbreak of war; fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv) in the Soviet zone; visiting his parents and sister in Slonim; attending school; ghettoization with his family in Slonim in 1942; mass shooting when the ghetto was liquidated in June; his father's German acquaintance saving him and his father (his mother and sister were murdered); hiding with a woma...

  12. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-301), Mrs. S. recounts her father's struggle to support the family after anti-Jewish restrictions resulted in confiscation of his business; a public hanging in the Kos?ice ghetto; slave labor in Markkleeberg with her sister; her sister sharing extra food received from a civilian worker; escaping from a death march with her sister and two others; liberation by Soviet troops; staying near Dresden; identifying a former Hungarian soldier who had beaten her; revoking her accusation after ...

  13. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1929. She relates her family's strong Hungarian identity; friendly relations with non-Jews; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her father's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; and the difficulty of believing stories of atrocities coming from Poland. Mrs. S. recalls deportation to the Kos?ice ghetto; childish concern for her cat; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with her sister from the rest of their family; incarceration in Block 26 of Birkenau which had housed typhus victims and was used to see how many would...

  14. Zalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalie G., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of three children. She recalls a happy childhood; observing the Sabbath and kashruth; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest in 1941; her mother bribing officials for his release; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her sister joining the Resistance in Alenc?on; receiving papers to join relatives in the United States; her father refusing to leave; his arrest in the July 1942 Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up (she never saw him again); her mother hiding during round-ups; her brother being sent to jo...

  15. Zalman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalman H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, the youngest of six brothers. He recounts being the sole Jew in his public school class; antisemitic harassment; his oldest brother's draft in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death; two brothers escaping and working as non-Jews; smuggling food into the ghetto with Peretz, his next oldest brother; arrest by Polish police; escape; his father's non-Jewish friend once providing food; his mother's death; escaping with Peretz; moving from place to place; entering the ghetto often...

  16. Zdenka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdenka K., who was born in Rochov, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls forced relocation with her parents and sister to Kladno in 1942; their deportation to Theresienstadt; forced labor; receiving extra food from their Christian aunt; their train transport to Raasiku, Estonia; separation from their parents (they never saw them again); slave labor in Ja?gala and Kohtla-Ja?rve; incarceration in Tallinn and Reval; cleaning up bombing rubble; evacuation to a site in the woods, then another camp; becoming numb due to arduous conditions, starvation, and beatings; ship trans...

  17. Zdenka W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdenka W. who was born in Kolinec, Czechoslovakia in 1909. She recalls moving to Prague at age seventeen (her parents were deceased); German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in dismissal from her job; working for her brother; hearing of atrocities against Jews in Poland; her brother's deportation to Terezi?n in December 1941; and volunteering for transport to Terezi?n with her younger sister at her brother's urging by correspondence. Mrs. D. describes her office job; transports from Germany; her older sister's arrival after Heydrich's assassination; her ...

  18. Zdzis?aw S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdzis?aw S., a non-Jew, who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1914. He describes childhood friendships with Jews; defending Jews against attacks as part of Hashomer; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; membership in the Polish Socialist Party; mobilization in the Polish military; German invasion; capture; escape from a prisoner-of-war camp to W?oc?awek; helping Jews escape to the Soviet Union; escape to Warsaw to avoid arrest for helping Jews; his brother's execution for hiding Jews; ghettoization; observing terrible conditions during ghetto visits; smuggling Jews out; establ...

  19. Ze'ev D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the older of two brothers. He recounts living in a children's home organized by Janusz Korczak for two years when his father was ill; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Polish scout camp in summer 1939; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; working in a Korczak children's home; creating a puppet theater with friends; taking food to his parents; hiding during a round-up (his family and everyone in the children's home were deported); a factory job outside the ghetto; observing...

  20. Ze'ev G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of five children. He recounts his very close family, attending Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia, another to Vilnius); finding their home occupied upon return; moving to his grandfather's home (his grandfather had been killed); a non-Jewish neighbor bringing them food; ghettoization; his sister's return from Vilnius; his father's privileged position as a painter; working w...