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  1. Vera G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera G., who was born in Kecel, Hungary in 1938, the younger of two children. She recounts her grandmother living with them; confiscation of the family business due to anti-Jewish laws; her father's one-year imprisonment due to a supposed violation; cousins living with them; former non-Jewish business suppliers bringing them food; German occupation in spring 1944; deportation with her family (aunts, cousins, and her grandmother) to Szeged, a week later to Strasshof, then to Sankt Pölten; the older children organizing a "school" for the younger ones while the adults d...

  2. Celia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia R., who was born in Hungary in approximately 1923, one of five children. She recounts moving to Chrzano?w when she was three; her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her father's arrest, beating, and resulting death; anti-Jewish restrictions; her two older brothers fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; forced labor in a textile factory; public hanging of a family; her mother's and brother's deportation; deportation to Marksta?dt, then Klettendorf; slave labor in a textile factory; transfer to Reichenbach, then Langenbielau; slave labor in a weaving factor...

  3. Yaakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov E., who was born in Częstochowa, Russia (presently Poland) in 1904. He recounts attending Jewish and Polish schools; starvation during World War I; marriage and the births of two children; leaving his family to work in Paris for two years during the Depression; German invasion; ghettoization; his mother's murder by Germans in 1942; burying her; deportation with his wife and children to Treblinka; his selection as a carpenter (his family was killed); sadistic public executions; escaping; assistance from a local non-Jews who brought him to Jewish partisans; flee...

  4. Marianna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianna B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She recounts her family's Hungarian and Czech background; disbelief that events in Poland could occur in Hungary; German invasion in March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; her trauma when a Hungarian soldier shot their dog; her parents' deportations; wandering the streets and stealing food; reunion with her parents after their escape; hiding with them in her uncle's cellar; assistance from a non-Jewish family friend; liberation by Soviet troops; and emigrating to the United States in 1957. Mrs. B. notes her hostil...

  5. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in 1934 in Paris, France, the only child of Polish immigrants. He recalls boarding outside Paris since his parents both worked; their weekend visits; his father enlisting in the French military in 1939, partially to obtain French citizenship; his father's decommission after French surrender; he and his mother joining him in Montrabé; attending school; his father's military friends warning them in summer 1942 that Jews would be rounded-up; crossing to Spain; assistance from the Joint in Barcelona; HIAS sponsoring his emigration to the United St...

  6. Jacques F., David I., and Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques F., David I., and Paul S. David I. was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1938. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1941; his father arranging with an organization to hide the children; being taken with his brother by a member of the underground to the convent of the Brothers of St. Joseph in Gilly in July 1942; being moved to a children's home in Jamoigne in April 1943; schooling and outdoor activities; attending mass; a German raid; the director's kindness; and not recognizing his father in September 1944 when he came to retrieve them. Mr. I. notes eighty-...

  7. Karoline H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karoline H., who was born in Barmen, near Wuppertal, Germany in 1911. Mrs. H. recalls childhood in a comfortable, non-observant family; lack of early exposure to antisemitism; attending the University of Freiburg, where she was mistaken for an "Aryan" by Nazi students; working in her parents' store after being barred from law school; her older brother's marriage to a Catholic in 1934; increasing antisemitic restrictions; her parents' naivete? about Nazism; and marriage to a naturalized Dutch Jew in 1936. She describes deteriorating conditions in Danzig (where her husb...

  8. Julie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julie F., a non-Jew, who was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium in 1908. She recalls her family's affluence and Catholicism; memories of World War I; living in Louvain; her father's accidental death when she was thirteen; briefly living in Düsseldorf with family friends; returning to Brussels; marriage in 1925; her son's birth in 1928; separation from her husband in 1939; living with her mother; opening a fashion shop; German invasion; closing her shop; a friend hiding Jews; working as a Resistance courier; arrest in April 1941; incarceration in St. Gilles; friendship with ...

  9. Johnny G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Johnny G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah at home in 1939; German occupation; ghettoization; forced factory labor; his brother's death from malnutrition, then his mother's a year later; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his father and sister (he never saw them again); slave labor on a nearby farm; a death march, then train transport to Weimar; clearing bombing debris; transfer to Bissingen; slave labor in a mine; ...

  10. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1919 to an impoverished family of four children. He recounts attending Greek public school; military service in Albania; attending university in Athens starting in 1940; benign Italian occupation; German invasion in September 1943; anti-Jewish regulations; obtaining false papers from a Greek police officer; hiding with friends; arrest; incarceration in Haidari; denunciation as a Jew; pointless slave labor; escaping from a deportation train in September 1944; discovering he was near Zolna? in Slovakia; assistance from ...

  11. Giselle W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Giselle W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1902, one of six children. She recounts their affluence; moving to Vienna in 1914 due to the outbreak of war; two brothers serving in enemy armies, one in the Austrian, one in the French; a rich and exciting cultural life after the war which ended with the Anschluss; non-Jews helping them; her engagement (her fiance? went to Australia); she and her sister traveling illegally to join three brothers in Paris (the fourth was in Italy); her parents joining them; becoming "legal" after German invasion; hiding from round-ups wi...

  12. Hersh A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hersh A., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1924, the oldest of four children. He recalls his impoverished family, hunger, and hardships; Hungarian occupation; forced labor during the day; German occupation; ghettoization; escaping often; obtaining food from non-Jewish farmers; one family attesting he was their child when Germans came; soldiers prohibiting him from entering the ghetto when deportations were occurring; lifelong sadness that he never said goodbye to his family; transfer to Budapest; liberation; walking to Debrecen; assistance from Soviet soldiers; return...

  13. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Katowice, Germany (presently Poland) in 1909. She recounts moving to Bytom in 1921; working in her father's insurance business; his death in 1930; managing her mother's candy store; marriage in 1936; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Brzeg; her son's birth in 1938; her mother joining her in Brzeg; her son's illness; bringing him to the Jewish hospital in Wrocław; his recovery; Kristallnacht; having to sweep the street; her husband fleeing with her brother; their incarceration in a concentration camp; her brother's release and emigration to ...

  14. Tzila P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzila P., who was born near Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine in 1905, one of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; falling under Romanian rule in 1918; obstetrical training in Iași; marriage; moving to Khotyn; the births of three children; Soviet occupation in 1940; German and Romanian occupation in July 7, 1941; her husband's arrest; learning he was shot in a mass killing; deportation with her children to Transnistria in August; trading belongings for food; transfer to Ataki; encountering her sister; their transfer to Mohyliv-Podil...

  15. Jan C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan C., a non-Jew, who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1922. He recalls being raised by his grandparents in Herentals after his father's death; his mother's remarriage; attending school in Turnhout; working in his stepfather's bakery; military conscription in 1940; posting to Gravelines, France; returning to Herentals; involvement with the Resistance; distributing pamphlets, tracking troop movements, and minor sabotage; arrest; imprisonment in Antwerp, then St. Gilles; harsh interrogations; admitting nothing; being condemned to death; deportation to Esterwegen, Börg...

  16. Mordechai L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordechai L., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; their German cultural orientation (Czech was their second language); cordial relations with non-Jews; questioning orthodoxy as he became more educated; German invasion in March 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother's emigration to Palestine; his father's arrest and release five weeks later; expulsion from school; his bar mitzvah; attending a Zionist Czech school; participating in Zionist youth movements despite his father's disapprova...

  17. Louise S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louise S., who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1929. She recalls a large extended family; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Amsterdam in 1942 due to frequent raids in Rotterdam; her parents hiding their valuables; visits from non-Jewish friends; hiding during raids; being placed in hiding with a distant, non-Jewish relative in Hilversum; transfer when it became too dangerous; a visit from her parents; joining her parents in hiding in Haarlem for five months; obtaining false papers from the underground; their move to Apeldoorn; staying in the same room for twen...

  18. Helen M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen M., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. She recalls the Hungarian occupation of 1938; anti-Semitic legislation; her escape with her sister across the Hungarian border to Slovakia in 1944; the experience of living and working under false papers; her flight to Bratislava to escape deportation; and her eventual arrest. Mrs. M. also describes her journey to Terezi?n; her vital relationship with her sister; their work regulating the showers in Terezi?n; their attempted escape; her postwar reunion with her father; and other details of her postwar life in...

  19. Israel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel S., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls his religious family and happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; escaping deportation to Poland; German invasion in 1944; evacuation with his family to a brick factory; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz (he never saw his mother again); two weeks in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in a coal mine in Melk; a prisoner saving him during an accident (he was seriously injured); assistance from...

  20. Klara V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara V., who was born in Shpola, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; religious observances ceasing due to Soviet secularization; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with her family; returning home; forced labor; a mass killing which included her father; ghettoization with her mother and young brother; a German warning them to leave; her mother hiding her with a non-Jewish acquaintance; returning to her mother; transfer to nearby labor camps; assistance from local peasants; contracting typhus; a doctor saving her when the sick were executed...