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Displaying items 4,461 to 4,480 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Zoe R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoe R., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1925, an only child. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was three; attending the school of a Neolog synagogue; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic legislation; German invasion in spring 1944; round-up with her mother to a building with thousands of other Jews; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); fellow prisoners holding her when she fainted during an appell; frequent selections; transfer to Frankfurt; slave labor for Organisation Todt;...

  2. Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt...

  3. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  4. Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born in Nagykaroly, Hungary (presently Carei, Romania) in 1908. Mr. G. recalls his orthodox home as one of ten children; briefly attending Yeshiva; cordial relations between Christians and Jews; joining an older brother in Paris in 1922 to become an apprentice in the handbag industry; building a successful business employing over 1,000 people; marriage in 1936; his son's birth in 1937; and the birth of twins in 1940. He describes leaving Paris for Vichy France prior to German occupation in 1940; living in Toulouse and Grenoble; buying visas from the...

  5. Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born circa 1925 and grew up in a town in eastern Slovakia. Mr. G. describes his childhood and religious upbringing; the Hungarian occupation; his move to Budapest, where he worked as a cabinet maker; being forced, with his family, to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in 1944; and their deportation to Auschwitz. He relates his experiences as a laborer on a farm near Birkenau, where he was the favorite of an SS man; the death march in 1945 from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz, then Buchenwald; his liberation by the Americans; and his physical recovery. He also refle...

  6. Zoltan J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan J., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1922. He describes his large extended family and long history in the area; their affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; expulsion from school; reinstatement due to his father's connections; his and his father's exclusion from slave labor battalions due to their business; ghettoization; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with his father, uncle, and brother (his other relatives did not survive); their transfer to Warsaw four weeks later; c...

  7. Zoltan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan L., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's singing talent; attending a Jewish school, then gymnasium; his mother singing at Jewish and non-Jewish weddings; he and his brother learning songs from her; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from gymnasium, following Slovak independence; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his father attacking a man who painted antisemitic slogans on his bakery; their arrest by Hlinka guard and transport to Košice; returning home; his bar mitzvah; his fa...

  8. Zoly Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoly Z., who was born in S?ieu Ma?gherus?, Romania in 1922. He recounts his father's death when he was four; he and his brother living with his future stepfather's mother in Aiud; their move to Bucharest in 1932 to join his mother and stepfather; increasing antisemitism as the Iron Guard gained power; his stepfather's emigration to Palestine in 1938; obtaining papers as a "volksdeutche" from a German lieutenant (who believed he was); socializing with the lieutenant; friendship with a policeman; threatened exposure as a Jew; obtaining a passport from the policeman; alt...

  9. Zophia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zophia S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919 to Polish e?migre?s. She recounts the deaths of two brothers in World War I; a very assimilated lifestyle; completing school and university entrance exams; moving with her parents to Krako?w in 1936; attending university; German invasion; ghettoization; relocating to the Cze?stochowa ghetto; marriage; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); slave labor in a factory; obtaining false papers; escaping with her husband from the ghetto; traveling to Krako?w; smuggling food to her husband's family; arrest when ...

  10. Zsuzsanna O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zsuzsanna O., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1934. She recounts living in Be?ke?scsaba until 1941; moving to Budapest; spending Jewish holidays with her grandfather in Subotica; rumors of atrocities against Jews; her beloved uncle's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1941 (he was killed); German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the yellow star; ghettoization; her non-Jewish governess hiding her family's belongings and providing food; her father's deportation in October; his return several weeks later; Allied bombings; her gov...

  11. Zundel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zundel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, the youngest of five siblings. He recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1940; participating in Komsomol; visiting relatives in Alytus; German invasion; returning to Kaunas; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė, then Jonava; arrest; bribing a policeman to release them; returning home; their Lithuanian neighbor saving them from a round-up; ghettoization; one brother fleeing to Soviet territory; transfer to a labor camp; working in a munitions factory; brief hospital...

  12. Zuzana H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zuzana H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She describes attending English school; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; her father being fired (he was a physician); deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents in July 1943; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September; her father's selection to work as a doctor in the family camp; working as a nurse with her mother; the family camp liquidation in March 1944 (only medical staff was spared); transfer to a women's camp with her mother; assistance from an Austrian doctor; providing bread and water ...

  13. Zuzana M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zuzana M., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovkia in 1929, the younger of two children. She recalls not knowing she was Jewish; her father's suicide in 1931; celebrating Christian holidays; her mother having them convert to Catholicism; attending a Catholic school; having to move to Nové Mesto nad Váhom due to anti-Jewish restrictions; relatives in Hungary arranging to have them smuggled there in spring 1942; being caught; her brother's deportation to Žilina (she never saw him again); returning to Bratislava with her mother; living apart for safety; her mother's...

  14. Zvi A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi A., who was born in Beodra, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Novo Miloševo, Serbia), in 1913, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty and Hasidism; attending school in Kikinda, and Veliki Beckerek (Zrenjanin); antisemitic harassment; moving to Belgrade; studying under Rabbi Mortiz Levi and others at a Jewish seminary in Sarajevo; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; relocating to Budapest; ordination after completing his studies in 1940; his rabbinical position in Veliki Beckerek; military draft; serving in Skopje and Štip; German invasion in Apri...

  15. Zvi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi K., who was born in 1929 in a small town between Krako?w and Kielce, Poland. He describes attending the cheder; the German occupation; the influx of Jews into his town as the cities became ghettoized; the gradual imposition of restrictions on the freedom of Jews; the sudden siege of the town in 1942; and the mass killings which took place while Mr. K. hid in the fields, hating himself for being a Jew. Mr. K. also speaks of being sent, with his family, to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Werk C; and daily and cultural life there, where he escaped death, due in part to his moth...

  16. Zvi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi N., who was born in 1924, and raised in Tyszowce, Poland, one of two children. He recounts his father's death when he was two; moving to his Hasidic grandfather's farm; attending cheder and a Polish school; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; the German return; moving to Komarów; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a German cutting off his grandfather's beard; forced labor; escaping with his sister and others to the forest; separation from the group (his sister remained); assistance from a Polish friend; locating a group of Jews, including his mother a...

  17. Zvi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bu...

  18. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liber...

  19. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Komaro?w, Poland in 1931 one of nine children. He recalls German invasion; the murder of a friend; the outpouring of mourning at the funeral which still haunts him; killings whenever Germans entered town; his family hiding; ghettoization; digging a bunker under their room; hiding when Germans came; being attacked by a German dog; hiding with his family during the final liquidation; escaping one at a time; meeting one brother, one sister, and his father in the woods (the rest of the family was killed); hiding in a village; receiving food from Po...

  20. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...