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Displaying items 161 to 180 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Alexander V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander V., who was born in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands in 1938. He notes he has only vague memories and describes his family's orthodoxy; his father's position as caretaker of the Amsterdam Sephardic cemetery in Ouderkerk; German invasion in May 1940; his sister's birth in July 1941; his family's exemption from forced relocation because of his father's position; his brother's birth in November 1943; being taken by a member of an underground movement to Amsterdam, then Arnhem; living openly with a Catholic family, posing as their nephew; hiding during the B...

  2. Alexandra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexandra L., who was born in Danzig Free State (presently Gdan?sk, Poland) in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; her maternal grandmother living with them; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1937; her father's arrest; looting of his store; his non-Jewish employees providing assistance; expulsion from school; not understanding sudden rejection by non-Jewish playmates; attending a Jewish school; a beating by Hitler Youth; destruction of their synagogue; her father contacting a cousin in the United States; her brother's birth in ...

  3. Alfi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfi N., who was born in London, England in 1923. He describes his childhood in an affluent family; joining Habonim when he was eleven; attending technical school; active participation in Hechalutz; working at a kibbutz with young Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria; joining the British military in 1940; fighting throughout Europe; attending a Gordonyah meeting in liberated Brussels; contacts with the Jewish brigade; entering Bergen-Belsen; posing as a Polish soldier in an attempt to locate relatives in other camps; associating himself with the Palmah? to smuggle...

  4. Alfons G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfons G., an only child, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's affluence; attending public school; expulsion in 1935; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1936; Kristallnacht; his mother purchasing passage to Shanghai the next day for six months hence; non-Jewish friends helping them move assets out of Germany; departure from Genoa in May; assistance from HIAS and the Joint (their representative was Laura Margolies); living in the international settlement; meeting Horace Kadoorie to obtain admission to the school he sponsored; J...

  5. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1922 to a Jewish father and Dutch Reformed mother. He recalls religion played no part in their lives; his brother's birth in 1937; German occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; receiving a notice to report to a central location; his father bringing him to a friend who was in the underground (his father had some protection from his mixed marriage); traveling with her friend to Rotterdam; obtaining false papers; hiding in twenty-two places during the war including Rotterdam, Leiden, Delft, and Amsterdam; learni...

  6. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., a non-Jew, who was born in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, Belgium in 1917. He recalls frequent visits to relatives in Paris and Normandy; attending school, then university, in Brussels; strong anti-Rexist feelings, resulting in active participation in a liberal student group; military enlistment; call-up in 1939; German invasion; capture; transfer to Emmerich; assistance from the Red Cross; forced labor in Alt Garge and Fallingbostel; a German official taking him to his home in Hannover; release; returning home; attending university; working with the r...

  7. Alfred C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred C., a non-Jew, who was born in Ciply, Belgium in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending school in Mons; working as a butcher to support his family; German invasion; fleeing to Marseille; returning home; working at a slaughterhouse in La Louvière; his father's death in December 1940; hiding with friends in Frameries to avoid compulsory labor; arrest; imprisonment in Mons; transfer to Watten; slave labor for Organization Todt; escape; returning home; hiding in Brussels; joining the underground; obtaining false papers; living in Braine-le-Comt...

  8. Alfred C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his grandfather was a cantor and his father an opera singer; his father's dismissal from his job in 1933 due to Nazi anti-Jewish laws; their resulting poverty; assistance from the Jewish community; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; obtaining documents for two from relatives in the United States; his father's and brother's emigration in June 1938; his father and brother obtaining visas for him and his mother; traveling to Hamburg on Kris...

  9. Alfred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927. He recalls emigration with his mother and brother to Holland in 1933; his father joining them; attending school in Zaandam; German invasion; difficulty dealing with anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his family to Westerbork; separation from his mother; living with his father and brother in a barrack; working as a messenger, and learning news from recent arrivals; attempts not to be "on the lists" for deportation; deportation with his mother, father, and brother to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; advantages due to th...

  10. Alfred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland) in 1920, the older of two siblings. He recounts his father's pro-German sentiments based on his military service in World War I; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; moving with his family to Berlin in 1935; participating in Hechalutz; attending their summer camp; hearing Martin Buber speak; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his family during Kristallnacht; his sister's emigration to England, then his to Wieringen, Netherlands with a hachsharah in M...

  11. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1931 and raised in Oradea. He recalls Hungarian occupation; his father believing Polish refugee stories of German atrocities; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; hiding with his parents and brother to avoid deportation; their former superintendent assisting their escape to unoccupied Romania; separation on the train (he stayed with his mother); his father's and brother's arrests; traveling to Arad, then Bucharest; returning home after the war; his father's insistence he learn a trade (watch making); illegally traveling...

  12. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; participating in socialist and Zionist organizations; Austrians welcoming the Germans during the Anschluss; one brother emigrating to relatives in the United States, the other, as a physician with a Kindertransport, to England; the concierge protecting him and his parents during Kristallnacht; fleeing with an aunt and uncle to Belgium; living in Antwerp; placement in Merksplas refugee camp; German invasion; fleeing to France;...

  13. Alfred N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French s...

  14. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in approximately 1913. He recounts his father's death in 1925; working with his mother; pervasive antisemitism; deportation to Dachau; forced labor; observing Jewish holidays; transfer to Buchenwald six months later; release due to his future wife obtaining a ticket for Shanghai; selling his ticket because he would not leave his future wife; marriage; emigration to Milan; leaving for Palestine from Sicily; arrival in Bangha?zi?; incarceration under Italian occupation; being returned to Italy; imprisonment in Naples; transfer...

  15. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. Mr. S. describes his family's strong sense of German identification and patriotism; the appearance of Nazis and antisemitism in his school; his growing sense of Jewish identity; alienation from his parents due to their refusal to recognize the danger of antisemitism; and participation in Jewish youth groups including Hashomer Hatzair. He recalls his father's death in 1934; non-Jewish friends protecting him from police; voluntary transfer to a Jewish school in 1936; attending the ORT school in Berlin from 1937 onwar...

  16. Alfred T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred T., who was born in Konya?r, Hungary in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; joining a brother in Budapest in August 1936; apprenticing to a window-designer; attending art classes; gymnastics training; working as a window-designer; changing his name to conceal he was Jewish; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in October 1940; transfer to Belgorod on the Soviet front in November 1941; removing mines and corpses; execution of every tenth prisoner when two prisoners escaped; capture by Soviets in January 194...

  17. Alfred W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred W., who was born in Fu?rth, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Henry Kissinger's bar mitzvah; joining the family manufacturing business; serving on the town council; resigning after the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933; helping Jews emigrate; observing the synagogues burning on Kristallnacht and arrest by a former colleague; incarceration overnight in Nuremberg; helping a rabbi climb into the train, thus saving his life; internment in Dachau; assistance from...

  18. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Hungary, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's export business and their farm in the country; harassment by non-Jews; visiting a cousin in Budapest; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; completing high school; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation with her sister and cousins from their parents; reciting poetry, singing, and discussing their previous lives to raise their morale; her sister protecting her; their separation (she never...

  19. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1939; her parents hiding her with an aunt to prevent her deportation in 1942; her parents' and sister's deportation; hiding in sheds and with a non-Jewish relative; her aunt paying a smuggler to bring her and her grandmother to Hungary in 1943; betrayal by the smuggler; escaping; returning to her aunt; traveling to Zemianske Sady in 1944; working in tobacco fields; her uncle paying a man to hide them in Hlohovec; betrayal when thei...

  20. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. She recalls the Anschluss; her father's belief his World War I service protected them; his four-day arrest on Kristallnacht; futile efforts to emigrate; being sent with her brother on a children's transport to France; placement in a children's home in Paris sponsored by Baroness Rothschild; hearing from her parents until war in 1939; transfer to La Bourboule; difficulty parting from her brother; his arrival in Janaury 1943; his transfer six months later; transfer to an OSE home near Limoges; attending school; round-up...