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  1. Gloria L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gloria L., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1925. She recalls living in Gerresheim; their affluent lifestyle; being over-protected as an only child; cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; her father's arrest; his release due to friendship with one of the policemen; moving to Du?sseldorf in 1937, thinking it would be safer; membership in Habonim; attempts to emigrate to the United States; attending a Jewish school; and their emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. L. discusses their strong German identity (her father was a World War I hero);...

  2. Ben H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben H., who was born in Pabianice, Poland in 1929, the oldest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Piotrko?w; attending cheder and a Jewish secular school; fighting back during antisemitic attacks; spending the summer of 1939 with relatives in Sieradz; German invasion; returning home; fleeing east to Sulejo?w; returning home; confiscation of his father's flour mill; restricted access to food; helping his father smuggle flour; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; his Polish supervisor saving him from a round-up; joining his parents in hiding; ...

  3. Andrew G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew G., who was born in Oradea, Rumania in 1929. He recalls holiday observances; his large extended family; anti-Semitic incidents in elementary school; Hungarian occupation; increased restrictions on Jews; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; and deportation to Auschwitz one month later. Mr. G recounts separation from his parents (he never saw them again); assignment to a children's barrack; escaping to an adult barrack after hearing that the children would be killed; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; transfer to Dachau; and liberation by United States tro...

  4. Dola K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dola K., who was born in Kraków, Poland in approximately 1929. She recounts her family's affluence and Zionism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband and expulsion from school; ghettoization two years later; deportations including her grandparents; continuing to study despite the hardships; a mass killing of children including many of her friends; her father obtaining forged American citizenship papers; imprisonment; deportation with her family, her father's siblings, and their families to Bergen-Belsen; placement in a section for for...

  5. Sam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam S., who was born in 1924 in Dubienka, Poland. He recounts his father's death when he was two months old; his mother's remarriage; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a rabbinical seminary in Warsaw; his stepfather's philanthropy; participation in Betar; brief Soviet invasion in 1939; German occupation; working as a secretary for the Judenrat; deportation of his parents and many relatives (they were killed in Sobibor); exemption as a Judenrat employee; obtaining an exemption for an aunt and her children (he claimed they were his ...

  6. Witness: voices from the Holocaust /

    The stories of nineteen Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including an American POW, resistance fighters, a Jesuit priest, an American liberator, a Hitler Youth, and ghetto and camp survivors, create a narrative of the Holocaust in the words of those who experienced it. This edited program includes historical and personal photographs and footage.

  7. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1928 and raised in Otwock. He recalls the impoverished Jewish community; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling himself in and out of the ghetto to obtain food; traveling on trains as a Polish beggar; the deaths of his stepfather and brother; learning of the ghetto's liquidation (he never saw his mother or other brother again); entering the world of black marketeers and beggars, traveling by trains via Warsaw to Siedlce, Garwolin, and many towns and stations; fleeing from the Warsaw uprising of 19...

  8. Sam R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam R., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1920. He recalls his father's strict orthodoxy; studying for the rabbinate in Lublin; returning home in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions, including confiscation of the family business; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau on August 26, 1943; separation from his family except his brother; his brother sharing extra food with him; their separation when Mr. R. was transferred to Lagisza (he never saw his brother again); witnessing his uncle's beating death an...

  9. Shalom E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom E., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, the eldest of two children. He recounts attending a Hebrew school; holiday visits to his grandfather, a rabbi in Viduklė; Soviet occupation; transfer to a Yiddish school; German invasion in June 1941; staying in a bunker for three days; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in August; his father's appointment to the Aeltestenrat, which saved many Jews, as ghetto historian; attending school; a large round-up in fall 1941 from which they were freed; the next morning hearing and seeing mass shootings in the distanc...

  10. Mania W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania W., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1922. She recalls German invasion; fleeing east with her family; returning home; ghettoization in Zawiercie; her parents' deportation; hiding with a friend in a bunker during a round-up; her friend inadvertently killing her baby daughter while trying to keep her quiet; a non-Jewish friend bringing her food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1941; slave labor in a gravel pit; her cousins arranging a privileged kitchen position for her; hospitalization for typhus; a friend bringing her food and removing her from the hospi...

  11. Margrit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margrit R., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1925. Mrs. R. describes her early childhood; anti-Jewish legislation; and her family's emigration to Amsterdam in 1935 where her father died of natural causes in 1937. She recalls the German occupation of Holland in 1940; her mother's reluctance to leave when they had the opportunity; deportations and their efforts to avoid them; arrest in October 1943; and the deportation to Westerbork of Mrs. R., her sister and her mother. Mrs. R. tells of their transport to Ravensbru?ck in February 1944; conditions and work;...

  12. Feiga and Yochel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Feiga F., who was born in Alse?dz?iai, Lithuania in 1919 and Yochel F. who was born in Rubi?a?z?h?e?vichy, Russia (Poland after World War I, presently Belarus) in 1911. Mrs. F. recalls her eight siblings; wanting to emigrate to Palestine against her father's wishes; Soviet occupation; meeting her husband; marriage in April 1941; German invasion; being left with her family to run their leather factory when the town's Jews were deported; the local priest offering to hide them; living in the attic of a house (fourteen family members and two babies subsequently born); lea...

  13. Mary K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary K., who was born in 1928 in Pa?pa, Hungary, one of eight children. She recounts her father's death in 1938; antisemitic legislation; the draft of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion in March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; transfer to a factory; deportation in cattle cars to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and niece (she never saw them again); catching a glimpse of her brother; the terrible stench; reunion with her sister; sharing bread with her; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer six weeks later to M...

  14. Selma A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma A. who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905. She recounts moving at age one to Halberstadt; her father volunteering during World War I; their assimilated lifestyle; attending high school; working in Hamburg; her mother's death in 1927; marriage in 1932 (her husband's father was American); anti-Jewish restrictions starting in 1933; her son's birth; leaving for Antwerp; German invasion in 1940; her husband's arrest and incarceration in Gurs; his release when his father sent United States citizenship papers; his emigration to the U.S.; traveling to Marseille; payi...

  15. Elizabeth K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth K., who was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1917, one of four children in an affluent family. She recalls marriage in 1942; her husband's deportation six months later for forced labor (she never saw him again); her son's birth six months after that; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; being forced to hand her son to her mother at the selection (she never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w the next day; seeing trucks of people pass by, then hearing them being shot; slave...

  16. Itzhak R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzhak R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland (then Russia) in approximately 1915, one of three children. He recalls his father's prominent role as a leader in the Jewish community; his family's affluence; his three-day bar mitzvah celebration; obtaining documents to emigrate to Palestine; remaining with his family due to his father's illness; working in a bank; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to ?owicz, then Warsaw; their return home; working with the Judenrat chairman, H?ayim Rumkowski, whom he had previously known; ghettoization; working at various jobs for t...

  17. Evelina M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Evelina M., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She describes her affluent, assimilated family; German occupation; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; deportation with her parents to Theresienstadt in July 1942 (her older sister and husband preceded them); living in the children's home; losing her optimism as conditions deteriorated; transport with her parents to Auschwitz/Birkenau; living in the family camp; Fredy Hirsch helping the children; her father's death in April; selection with her mother for a woman's barrack in July (those remaining were ga...

  18. David F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1928. The youngest of five children, he recalls the town's large Jewish population; anti-Semitic violence; his father's death; attending school until the German invasion; the family's forced relocation into one room; and two brothers' deportations, then his to a nearby labor camp in 1942. He tells of transfer to Bismarkshu?tte, then Reigersfeld and Blechhammer; a forced march in December 1944 to Gross Rosen; a SS officer killing prisoners with his bare hands; transport to Buchenwald, then Langenstein; hiding among dead bodi...

  19. Aaron P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron P., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1927 and raised in Amsterdam. He recalls attending public school; a pleasant life surrounded by extended family; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; round-ups of Jews; he and his sister being hidden by the underground with a family in Wormerveer; obtaining false papers; meetings with their parents who were hidden nearby; his parents' capture and deportation; returning to Amsterdam in August 1944; the underground hiding them two weeks later in a rural town; liberatio...

  20. Marcel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. He describes his family's move to France in 1931 due to antisemitism; participating in scouts and Zionist activities; working with his father as a watchmaker; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; incarceration with his family in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver in July 1942; walking out with his sister; returning, unable to abandon his parents; transfer to Pithiviers; organizing the children; deportation with his brother and father to Birkenau (he never saw his mother and sister again); assignment with his brother to the maso...