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Displaying items 41 to 60 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Abraham O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham O., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland, in 1914. He describes the German occupation of Bia?ystok; the ghettoization of Bia?ystok and the round-ups of Jews that began several weeks later; building bunkers to hide from the Germans; and the routine Aktions and selections that characterized life in the ghetto. He discusses the liquidation of the ghetto, when he and his family went into hiding in a bunker; the formation of a small ghetto around the bunker; and the development of community life within this ghetto despite the difficult conditions. Mr. O. also relates ...

  2. Abraham P. and Morris P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Abraham P., born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1913 and Morris P., born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. They recall their family of six children; their father's death in 1923; attending school a half day and working long hours as tailors; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; and ghettoization in 1940. They describe extreme hunger, forced labor and round-ups; transport to Auschwitz with their family; transfer ten days later to Dachau together with their older brother; conditions of hard labor, beatings, selections, cold and hunger; transfer to Kaufe...

  3. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Mir, Poland in 1909. He recalls the rich, Jewish culture growing up in Bia?ystok; learning several languages; Jewish holiday celebrations; attending medical school in Lie?ge, Belgium; his leadership role in Po'alei Zion; his parents's and sister's emigration to Belgium in 1932; German invasion in 1940; his parents' flight to Lyon in unoccupied France, then the United States; obtaining papers under a false name; hiding in Brussels; smuggling himself to Lyon in unoccupied France in 1942; joining the Resistance; his sister's incarceration when...

  4. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Beclean, Romania, to a family of six children. He recalls his large and close extended family; the small Jewish community and family life; attending a yeshiva in Sighet for eighteen months; antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; implementation of anti-Jewish measures; his two older brothers' draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; German invasion; deportation with his family to Dej; three weeks of forced labor in an open field; deportation to Auschwitz; and separation from his parents and younger brother upon arrival (he never saw them a...

  5. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1928 to an orthodox family of seven children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; two brothers escaping to the Soviet Union; smuggling to support his family; escaping to Wodzis?aw during the first deportation (his family was taken); returning home; escaping a deportation six weeks later; hiding with Poles in a village, then in Wodzis?aw; traveling to Radomsko; ghettoization; deportation to Skarz?ysko in September 1942; obtaining extra food and a better placement thro...

  6. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his secular home; German invasion; moving to his father's hometown of Radoszyce; difficulties adjusting to orthodoxy and shtetl life; their return to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; his father's privileged status as a factory director; horrendous physical and psychological effects of the starvation; escaping a round-up due to his father's position; deportation to Auschwitz with his family in August 1944; separation from his brother and mother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; pretending to be ol...

  7. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Strîmtura, Romania in 1923, the seventh of ten children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing at yeshiva; deportation to Dragomirești in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer with a cousin to Buchenwald, then Dora; slave labor in tunnels; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; learning two sisters and a brother had survived; emigration to the United St...

  8. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Vilna in 1924. In this unusually detailed testimony, Mr. S. speaks of prewar family and community life; Polish antisemitism; the beginning of German occupation; Russian occupation; the ghettoization of Vilna; and the mass shootings at nearby Ponary. He describes the razing of the city's synagogues; the frequent Aktions, physical abuse, and forced labor that marked the life of the ghetto; and the ghetto's liquidation in August, 1943, recalling throughout acts of kindness offered by various non-Jews. He relates his transport by cattle car to ...

  9. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Chorzo?w, Poland in 1926, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Krako?w; deportation of his father and uncle for forced labor (they never saw them again); forced relocation to Sosnowiec; his brother's return; forced labor in a German uniform factory for two years; public executions; deportation to a labor camp (he never saw his mother and brother again); slave labor constructing roads; transfer to Graeditz, Laurahu?tte, and Chorzo?w; corresp...

  10. Abraham U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham U., who was born in Gre?boszo?w, Poland in 1911, the youngest of seven children. He recalls apprenticing as a tailor in 1926; working in Tarno?w; returning to Gre?boszo?w when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Lut?s??k; returning to Gre?boszo?w after one year; seeing his mother prior to her death from cancer; earning extra food working as a tailor for the police; being warned of a round-up by the police chief; escaping to Barano?w; and brief protection from round-ups by a non-Jewish friend. Mr. U. recounts severe conditions and slave labor in Biesiadka; being be...

  11. Abraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham W., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1906. Mr. W. describes the roles of Leon Reich and David Herzog in his admission to university in Graz; his association with Nobel laureate Victor Hess; transfer to Charles University in Prague in 1931 due to antisemitism; becoming a pharmacist in Rava-Ru?ska in December 1939; learning of his mother's murder by a Ukrainian; ghettoization; friendship with the Pole selected by the Germans to replace him; and sheltering a woman escapee from a deportation train to nearby Belzec. He recalls a Gestapo operativ...

  12. Abram C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram C., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1922, the oldest of four children. He recounts moving to Będzin when he was eleven; his father's privileges and high status due to heroic service in the Polish military; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; slave labor assignments; deportation to Klein Mangersdorf in fall 1940; slave labor building roads; transfer nine months later to Gross Sarne; privileged work in the kitchen; transfer to Blechhammer; privileged work ...

  13. Abram M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. He recalls living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; starvation; organizing an orchestra and performances; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from all but his father; their transfer three days later to Kaufering and Landsberg; bringing his father extra food when possible; useless slave labor; his father's death; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; reunion with three surviving brothers; living in Feldafing, then Munich; learni...

  14. Abram Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1924. He recalls the flourishing Jewish culture; his father's Bund activities; the outbreak of war in 1939; his parents sending him to Pinsk; meeting Bund leaders including Victor Erlich; returning to Vilna; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest (he never saw him again); a pogrom when Lithuania became independent; German invasion in June 1941; hiding when Lithuanians began killing Jews; going to a forced labor camp outside of Vilna to avoid mass killings; bringing his mother there; returning to the Vilna ghetto; organization...

  15. Aca S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aca S., who was born in Bačka Topola, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recounts his family's affluence; the Jews identifying as Hungarians; membership in Betar; Hungarian occupation in 1941; his father's immediate arrest and deportation; deportation with many Jews to Bečej; release after a few weeks; futile attempts to escape and join the partisans; German occupation in March 1944; incarceration in Bačka Topola concentration camp; his mother's arrival in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; transfer shortly thereafter to Oberwüstegiersdorf; slave labor in a textile facto...

  16. Achille D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Achille D., a non-Jew, who was born in Harelbeke, Belgium in 1924, one of two children. He recounts being orphaned when he was eight; living with loving grandparents; attending school to become a textile engineer in Kortrijk (Courtrai); distributing Resistance publications and doing reconnaisance for the Front de l'indépendance; arrest in April 1942; incarceration in Courtrai prison; a public trial; a five-month prison sentence; incarceration in St. Gilles and Merxplas; receiving Red Cross packages; visits from his aunt; attending classes; release in August; continu...

  17. Ada A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada A., who grew up in Krako?w, Poland. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; her father fleeing east; learning he was killed; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization with her mother and grandmother in March 1941; her grandmother's death; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w in March 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assisting a friend; transfer to Lichtewerden; slave labor in a textile factory; liberation by Sovie...

  18. Ada F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada F., who was born in Opalin, Poland (now Ukraine), in 1919. Mrs. F. describes her happy childhood in a rabbi's family; holiday observances; her family's disbelief about German antisemitic persecution in the late 1930s; the German invasion; separation from her family while on a train which was bombed en route to Che?m; and escaping with a girlfriend from the Che?m ghetto. She recalls hiding with other Jews in forest bunkers; betrayal by Poles; transport to a labor camp in ?o?dz?; witnessing atrocities; transfer to Auschwitz in November 1944; and liberation. She reme...

  19. Ada G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family's relative affluence; a large extended family; attending Polish school; cordial relations with many non-Jewish friends; an anti-Jewish boycott of businesses; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; fleeing to Skaryzew with her family; returning; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish neighbor giving them food; ghettoization; round-up with her brother and sister for forced labor in a munitions factory; living in barracks at the factory (she never saw her parents or ...

  20. Ada L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada L., who was born in Jarosław, Poland in 1915, the youngest of seven children. She recounts participating in Akiba; marriage; German invasion; her father's round-up and murder; one brother's escape to the Soviet zone; her husband's deportation (he was killed); deportation to Sobibór; meeting her future husband, Yitzchak Lichtman; assignment to the laundry; the stench of burning corpses; sharing food from incoming transports; learning of her mother's arrival; fellow prisoners preventing her from joining her mother; setting the table and standing close to Adolf Eich...