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  2. Henry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry W., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1927. He recounts moving to Mainz in 1929; his sister's birth in 1933; returning to Frankfurt in 1934; emigration to Paris in 1935; persecution as a foreigner and German; outbreak of war in 1939; his father's internment as an enemy alien; his bar mitzvah in 1940 (his father could not attend); German invasion in May 1940; escaping with his family to unoccupied France; living in Chartre, Bellac, and Limoges; his father's visits (he was detained nearby); hiding when non-Jewish neighbors warned them of German raids; ...

  3. Maria S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria S., a Romani, who was born in Medzev, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recounts her mother's death during her birth; living with her grandmother in Košice; deportation with her grandmother and local Jews to Komárno, then to Theresienstadt, Ravensbrück, and Buchenwald; slave labor; losing her wooden shoes and her grandmother obtaining another pair for her; her grandmother's death; frequently crying for her; being subjected to medical experiments; a Romani man giving her a potato (his wife and children were killed in Auschwitz); extreme debilitation from typhus; lib...

  4. Ivan Š. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan Š., who was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1924. He recounts his parents' family histories; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair, including attending summer camp; learning Hebrew from his grandfather; joining SKOJ, a communist youth group, while attending technical high school; helping to organize a school strike in 1940; Hungarian occupation in April 1941; shootings of many Serbs; his father's death in Budapest in July; difficulty obtaining permission to attend his funeral in Budapest; arrest in October as a member of SKOJ; refusing to admit anything under...

  5. Hilda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda G., who was born in Germany (presently Lithuania) and raised in Memel (presently Klaipe?da). She recalls her father's early death; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to relatives in Kaunas; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with her sister at the airport; exchanging possessions with peasants for food; an older Wehrmacht soldier providing them with easier work and extra food; transfer to Stutthof with her mother and sister; transfer to a slave labor camp; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); her mot...

  6. Léon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Léon H., a Catholic, who was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1918. He recalls the family's bakery; military service in 1940; deserting rather than surrendering; returning home; joining the Resistance; an encounter with collaborators; blowing up electrical lines; arrest on May 22, 1942; four months solitary confinement in the Citadelle de Liège; transfer to Bochum; forced factory labor; sabotaging the work; praying with other prisoners; transfer with other French and Belgian "Nacht und Nebel" prisoners to Esterwegen after four months; a friend sharing bread with him whe...

  7. Alice H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She recounts her family's emphasis on education; moving to Krako?w in 1937; marriage; German invasion; unsuccessfully attempting to flee East; joining her family in Warsaw; ghettoization; overcrowding and starvation; slave labor outside the ghetto; her father's death; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); returning to the ghetto after escaping from a deportation train; her husband obtaining false papers and arranging their escape through his acquaintances in the Polish underground; living as Poles outside the ghe...

  8. Isaiah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Isaiah W., who was born in Bad Kissingen, Germany in 1915, to a rabbinical family with a long German history. He recalls attending gymnasium in Wu?rzburg; rabbinical studies in Tels?iai and Berlin; his father's death in 1935; appointment to the rabbinate in Bad Kissingen, then a joint appointment in Ansbach; a summer visit to Palestine in 1938; being forced to watch the synagogue burn during Kristallnacht; imprisonment in Wu?rzburg; transfer to Dachau; humiliating exercises, long appells, and inadequate food; release after a few weeks provided he leave Germany; ...

  9. Raquel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raquel F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment by Polish children; her father's emigration to Argentina in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor with her mother; joining a Zionist youth group; sharing food and caring for each other; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and brother; remaining with a friend; their transfer to another camp; slave labor manufacturing airplane radios; Allied bombings; walking to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; ...

  10. Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who lived in Vilna, Poland among a large extended family. She recalls seders in her grandmother's village; her half-sister's and father's emigrations to Palestine; belonging to Betar; Lithuanian, then Soviet rule; German invasion; ghettoization; escaping; traveling to her grandmother's village; learning her grandmother had been killed; hiding with her grandmother's friend; traveling by night to another town; meeting her future husband; contact with partisans; hiding with her husband in a bunker in the Naroch forest; receiving food from local farmers; joinin...

  11. Simcha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simcha S., who was born in Pu?awy, Poland in 1914. He recalls working in Warsaw; antisemitism stimulated by Nazi propaganda; participation in the Polish Socialist party and Worker's Theater; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet occupied Poland; working in Lv?ov, then in a coal mine; becoming a Soviet citizen; being drafted and wounded after the German invasion; demobilization; and moving to Tashkent. Mr. S. recounts learning one brother had been killed by Ukrainians; enlisting in Anders' Polish army which went to Palestine, then Italy; enlisting in Britain's Jewish Brig...

  12. Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Marion P., whose first testimony was recorded in 1986. Mrs. P. notes that some memories seem engraved in spite of large gaps. She recounts assisting in rescuing a child, Katinka; persuading some SS to free children; inconsistent behavior of the Germans, killing some resistants and letting others go; six months in jail for being with others who distributed bulletins of BBC broadcasts; release for no reason; problems between rescuers and hidden Jews due to living in very close quarters; religious faith helping her deal with constant fear; killing t...

  13. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of twelve children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending school; a local priest and teacher taking an interest in him; continuing school in Banská Bystrica; persecution of Romanies after the formation of the Slovak state; forced labor with his father building roads under harsh conditions; threat of deportation by the Hlinka guard; commiserating with the Jews; observing their deportations; his family hiding a Jewish girl; her discovery; joining the partisans; b...

  14. Cipa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antis...

  15. Heinz W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz W., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1920, the second of three sons. He recounts his father's World War I service in the Russian army and capture in Germany as a prisoner of war (he remained there and established a successful tailoring business); difficulties finding a quorum for his bar mitzvah due to laws against Jews gathering together; his father's trip to Palestine in 1934, then sending his older brother to school there; antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school and an electrician's apprenticeship due to anti-Jewish laws; reluctantly jo...

  16. Estera K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Estera K., who was born in what was to become Poland in 1915. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; trying to persuade her family to emigrate (they had lived there for generations); joining a cousin in the Netherlands; enjoying the lack of antisemitism; receiving mail from her mother until 1941; deciding to go into hiding when ordered to report to Westerbork; hiding with her husband's non-Jewish friends in the Hague; placing her two-year-old son elsewhere; visiting him occasionally; moving several times; obtaining false papers from the underground; reunion with her son ...

  17. Zlata G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in...

  18. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1924. Mr. R. recalls his childhood in a predominantly Chrisitian neighborhood; the outbreak of the war; his family's forced relocation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; slave labor under the Germans; the liquidation of much of the ?o?dz? ghetto and the resulting formation of the small ghetto; sneaking food to his parents in hiding; the death of his sister; the Jewish police; and his father's death in a mass shooting. He describes his evacuation in September 1944 to Cze?stochowa; slave labor in a bullet factory; liberatio...

  19. Georges J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges J., who was born in 1927. He recalls growing up among extended family in Oradea, Romania; Hungarian occupation; little impact on his family from anti-Jewish laws; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau in May; selection for labor with his father (he never saw his mother and brother again); their transfer to Buchenwald, then a nearby camp; forced labor in a petrol factory; sharing extra potatoes with other prisoners; their return to Buchenwald; separation from his father (he never saw him again); posing as a Russia...

  20. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1926. He recounts his parents' and their siblings' emigration from Poland during World War I; speaking Yiddish at home; a priest espousing antisemitic ideas during religious instruction in public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Revelles, France; after three months, round-up with other non-citizens in Cape la Hague for six months; internment in Rivesaltes; release in February 1942 due to his Parisian aunt's bribes; returning from Vierzon to Brussels, using false papers; his sister's deportation (he neve...