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

  1. Al H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al H., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. He recounts serving in the 104th Infantry Division; landing on Utah beach; fighting as they progressed through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands into Germany; liberating Nordhausen in 1945; the pervasive stench and corpses strewn about; his uncontrollable sobbing; observing General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction; taking photographs; ordering local Germans to bury the dead; their denial of any knowledge of the camp; assisting Jewish women prisoners who had been hiding nearby; leaving after two or three days; ...

  2. Ala D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ala D., who was born in Będzin, Poland in approximately 1931, one of eight children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her brother's deportation in 1940; one sister never returning when she went to the bakery; another sister's deportation in 1941; arrest when she went to get food for her family; deportation to Sosnowiec, then another labor camp; slave labor in a weaving factory and on railways; losing three teeth when beaten by a guard; being injured when a train hit her work group (almost all were killed); transfer to Gross-Rosen, then Parschnit...

  3. Aladár K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aladár K., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Podskalka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926. He recalls attending school until age nine; working for a hatmaker, then on a farm; a pleasant life where everyone worked, everything was clean, and stories were told at the fireside; persecution of Jews and Romanies when the Slovak state was established; being beaten by Hlinka guards; deportation of the Jews and some Romanies; hiding in the forests; being shot in the foot by Germans; living in Porúbka; attempting to enlist in the military (his brother had already);...

  4. Aladar M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aladar M., who was born in Ti?rgu-La?pus?, Romania in 1927. He describes Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in 1944; deportation with his parents and three brothers to Dej; living for three weeks in a forest camp; separation from his parents and youngest brother upon arrival in Birkenau (he never saw them again); transfer with his oldest brother to Longwy-Thil to build a factory; his indifference upon learning of D-Day; harsh conditions working in a salt mine in Kochendorf in the fall of 1944; transport with his brother to Dachau...

  5. Alain D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain D., a non-Jew, who was born in Pâturages, Belgium in 1925. He recalls attending school until 1941; working in a bakery; his older brother escaping to England after receiving a notice for forced labor; arrest in November 1943 in place of his brother; forced labor in Watten for Organisation Todt; observing French and Belgian camp officials and Slavic guards; his friend's shooting on his way to the latrine at night; observing a few Jews, but having no contact with them; increased rations, which they were not allowed to eat, during a Red Cross inspection; release ...

  6. Alain M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain M., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's poverty; their focus on religion and learning; one sisters's death from tuberculosis; attending Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment and violence; futile efforts to emigrate; working as a furrier; German invasion; forced labor; food shortages; his mother's death; ghettoization; deportation to Annaberg; slave labor building roads; observing Soviet POWs in very poor condition; transfer to Sakrau, Faulbru?ck, Go?rlitz, then Gross-Rosen; slave labor building factories as w...

  7. Alan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alan Z., who was born in Ko?o, Poland, in 1921. He describes the outbreak of the war and the resulting anti-Jewish legislation; the beginnings of extermination in nearby Che?mno in 1941; his escape to the village of Warta; the liquidation of Ko?o; and his flight, with his uncle, to the ?o?dz? ghetto, where he had the privileged job of vegetable gardener and had contact with high ghetto officials, including H?ayim Rumkowski. Mr. Z. relates his transport to Cze?stochowa, where he worked in the HASAG labor camp; his sudden transfer to Buchenwald, and two weeks later, to ...

  8. Albert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1932. He recounts living in a Jewish neighborhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; the outbreak of war; his father's enlistment and internment as a prisoner of war; anti-Jewish measures; release with his mother and brother from a round-up in 1942 due to his father's military status; their arrest with other veterans' families in February 1944 (presumably as hostages for German POWs); deportation to Drancy for three months, then to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to a men's barrack (he could visit his mother); forced labor in a chil...

  9. Albert D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert D., who served in the United States Army, 104th Infantry Division (Timberwolves). He recounts encountering emaciated prisoners in labor camps; German civilians denying knowledge of the existence of camps; entering Nordhausen in April 1945; the horrific sight of rows of thousands of corpses; and then entering Halle labor camp. Mr. D. shows photographs he took.

  10. Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. who were born in Kozienice, Poland, in 1917, 1919, and 1923, respectively, to a family of five children. They recall their family's orthodoxy; participating in Betar; antisemitism in school; German invasion; briefly fleeing to a nearby village; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; ghettoization; Chai?m's and their father's transfer to work in Pionki; their father's return; Chai?m's marriage to Pola D.; Albert's and Henri's deportation to Pionki concentration camp (they never saw their parents and younger sister again); ...

  11. Albert E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert E., who was born in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia in 1929 and was raised in Zagreb. He recalls expulsion from gymnasium in 1941 due to the anti-Jewish laws of newly independent Croatia; his father's deportation to Jasenovac (they never saw him again); a Croatian neighbor alerting them that the Ustaša were looking for them; he, his mother, and sister hiding with Croat friends; returning home; hiding several more times; an uncle sending them false papers; moving to Mostar in the Italian-occupied area; Italians helping the Jews to leave, knowing the Ustaša would so...

  12. Albert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert F., who was born in Paris, France in 1927 to Hungarian immigrants. He recalls his mother's family restaurant business; his parents' divorce; his mother's remarriage; German invasion; his stepfather's French military service; his capture as a POW; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; apprenticeship as an upholsterer; refusing to wear the yellow star; being caught with his family in a round-up; escaping at his mother's urging; hiding in a basement for two days; staying with his aunt; returning home with his uncle to take his family's valuables; moving to unoc...

  13. Albert H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert H., who was born in 1920 near Liège, Belgium, an only child. He recounts that his grandfather had been a priest but left the order; his father's union activities; German invasion in May 1940; military draft; serving in Charleroi; evacuation to Boulogne-sur-Mer; capture as a prisoner of war; release after a few weeks; marriage; his son's birth in January 1942; joining the Resistance; heading a clandestine press; hiding; living apart from his family in order not to endanger them; committing acts of sabotage; arrest in November 1943; imprisonment and torture; re...

  14. Albert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert K., who was born in Forth, Germany in 1923, the youngest of three sons, one of whom was deaf. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish policies; attending a Jewish school in Nuremberg; his hearing brother's emigration to Argentina; moving to Nuremberg in 1938; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; assistance from non-Jewish friends; futile efforts to emigrate; internment with his family in Langwasser in November 1941; deportation to Jungfernhof in December; his mother hiding him when he w...

  15. Albert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert L., who was born in Paris, France in 1929 to Polish immigrants. He recounts attending public school; their poverty; an assimilated life; going to a farm in central France with his school; his father enlisting in the French military; remaining at the farm; German invasion; returning to his mother in Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions; evading the July 16th round-up; his mother's arrest; staying on a farm until her release; his father's visit using false papers; his father moving to Pau; visiting his father; his father's arrest; staying with a non-Jewish friend of h...

  16. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., a non-Jew, who was born in Kessel-Lo, Belgium in 1917. He recalls becoming a master tailor; owning his own store; military draft in 1936 for eight months and again during German invasion; capture as a prisoner of war; release after eight weeks; returning home; becoming a Resistance courier; arrest in December 1943; incarceration in Breendonk; never revealing information during torture; starvation and slave labor digging ditches; frequent executions, including his friends; a privileged assignment as a tailor; transfer six months later to Buchenwald, Dora, th...

  17. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., a well-known writer, who was born in Tunisia in 1920 to a family of eight children. He recounts the influence of his father's rigor and his mother's laughter, dancing, and singing; speaking Judeo-Arabic; his diverse neighborhood; joining a Marxist youth group that included Arabs and Jews at age twelve; attending a Jewish school which exposed him to French culture; German occupation in November 1942; his uncle being taken hostage; executions and rapes; a German officer forcing his father to make a bag from a piece of Torah scroll; forced labor in concentrati...

  18. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1922. He recalls his military service beginning in 1942; transport to Scotland; and his battalion's progress from Omaha Beach east through the Ardennes. Mr. M. describes his arrival at Buchenwald in April 1945; complete lack of knowledge about such camps; the soldiers' shock at seeing piles of bodies; the horrible stench; the horrendous state of the survivors; and feigned ignorance of the local Germans. He notes an encounter with a German woman in another town who led him to a Jew in hiding. He discusses the permanence...

  19. Albert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1930, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment on the streets; moving with his family to Budapest in 1939; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; four of his siblings emigrating; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; his father being caught in a round-up (they never saw him again); learning to forge false papers; forging papers for his mother and himself as non-Jews; selling false papers to support themselves; hi...

  20. Albert V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert V., a non-Jew, who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1921, one of five children. He recalls his family's antipathy to Germany due to his father's four years as a prisoner-of-war in World War I; attending boarding school in Blankenberge for five years, then teaching there beginning in 1936; German invasion in May 1940; draft into the Belgian military; release after capitulation; a government job in Brussels; one brother going into hiding when drafted for forced labor in Germany; mapping German bunkers for the underground; fleeing with a friend in May 1942, intendi...