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  1. Friedel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedel M., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in approximately 1921. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; being raised by their maid; her father's death when she was six; spending Jewish holidays with grandparents in Bierstadt; attending a Jewish school; her mother's remarriage in 1933; antisemitic harassment, restrictions, and boycotts; fearing arrest during her brother's bar mitzvah in 1935, since gatherings were prohibited; his emigration to the United States to join her mother's sister; obtaining U.S. visas in Stuttgart; emigration with her mother and ste...

  2. Beba L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beba L., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1925. She recounts her grandfather's partnership in Rom Publishing; attending private school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups of people who never returned; ghettoization in September; being hidden with a non-Jewish family for three months; their priest's efforts to convert her (she did not care, if it led to her survival); visiting the ghetto, not intending to stay; finding her immediate family of seven gone; living with an aunt; receiving food from her former non-Jewish mai...

  3. Tzvi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzvi K., who was born in Jazłowiec, Poland (presently Pomortsy, Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls younger twin siblings; attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; forced evacuation to Zolotyy Potik; returning home a few months later; his father's death from typhus; ghettoization in Buchach; forced labor in Borki Wielkic; escaping; returning to Buchach; escaping to the forest in a group, including his mother and siblings; separation from his mother and brother; hiding in a village; returning to Buchach; learning ...

  4. Ben S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben S., who was born in Opa?tow, Poland in 1925. He recalls attending public school and yeshiva; German occupation in 1939; ghettoization including Jews from surrounding areas; deportation in August 1942 with 800 others to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; forced labor in the ammunition factory; an injury resulting in blindness in one eye; appells; and brutality and killings by guards. Mr. S. tells of transfer after eighteen months; chaotic conditions in Piotrko?w; receiving food from a Pole who had worked for his father; transfer to Buchenwald in open rail cars; a German who gave...

  5. Bella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella M., who was born in Hungary in 1904 and grew up in Csecse. She recalls studying in Koma?rom, Budapest, and Vienna; obtaining a permit to retain her lingerie workshop despite the law against it; her husband's compulsory service in a labor battalion; an unsuccessful attempt to hide after Szaloshi came to power in 1944; incarceration in a brick factory; escaping with sick women to Gyo?r; organizing treatment and food for the Jewish women with assistance from a doctor and men from a Jewish labor battalion; contacting their friends and relatives through a peasant; es...

  6. Tibor M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1918, the youngest of three sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1940; draft with his brothers into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three months in Sa?toraljau?jhely; returning home; recall in 1942; reporting to Nagyka?ta; slave labor on the Russian front including Kiev and Seredyna-Buda; frequent beatings; learning one brother had been killed; Soviet partisans freeing them; separation from the partisans and re-capture; retreating with Axis troops; bombings by Soviets; improved treatment under the Wehrmacht in 1943;...

  7. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Slonim, Poland in 1920. He recalls attending Jewish schools; pervasive antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying in Lʹviv; returning home to help support his family; working in Białystok; German invasion in 1941; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; Polish friends turning on them; ghettoization; forced labor; being caught in a round-up for a mass shooting; being left for dead in the grave; tunneling out at night; returning to the ghetto; his brother advising him not to tell anyone what happened; joining the underground with his b...

  8. Sarah B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. She recalls antisemitic graffiti; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in March 1940; pervasive hunger and sickness; her father's death from starvation in May 1942; forced labor; her mother's efforts to raise their spirits; her sister receiving extra food after singing for H?ayim Rumkowski; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; learning of the crematoria; transfer to Ludwigshafen, then Unterlu?ss; slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; assistance from other prisoners en route; surgery on...

  9. Libiena E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Libiena E., who was born in Nová Paka, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, the youngest of five children. She recounts her family moving to Pardubice; attending school; their move to Prague in 1935; German occupation in 1939; surprise when her parents informed them they were Jewish; an uncle's arrest by the Gestapo (they never saw him again); anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from school; a non-Jewish teacher's offer to remain; choosing to work; removing her star to attend movies and swim; deportation with her parents to the Łódź ghetto; working in...

  10. Reuven L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuven L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1927. He describes his father's prominence as a lawyer and his mother's as a gynecologist; his father's assistance to Jewish refugees from Germany and Poland; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest as a capitalist; Lithuanians killing Jews after Germany invaded the Soviet Union prior to entering Kaunas; ghettoization; forced labor at the airport, hunger, and killings; his parents arranging their escape with assistance from a priest; hiding in a monastery, then, using false papers, on a farm and with a Lithuanian woman; f...

  11. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1924, the oldest of seven children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1936; attending yeshiva and public school in Krako?w until 1939; German invasion; ghettoization and formation of a Judenrat; finding his father's body after a mass murder; the influx of Jews from Krako?w to Wieliczka; forced labor at degrading tasks; transfer to Pustko?w; daily hangings; escape to Wieliczka; hiding; and working to obtain food for his siblings. Mr. K. recounts incidents in the Krako?w ghetto, Wieliczka, P?aszo?w, and anothe...

  13. Bill G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bill G., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1930. He recalls his large and close, extended family; pervasive antisemitism; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; his parents' disbelief that anything could happen to them; his older brother moving to Budapest; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his parents and sister; German guards taking over from Hungarians in Kos?ice; separation from his family in Birkenau (he never saw his mother again); his initial psychological trauma; help from prisoners in adjusting; his decision to be men...

  14. Esther S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918 to a family of five children. She describes their move to Paris in 1927; their orthodox home; antisemitic incidents at school; her brother's deportation in 1941; her father placing her niece with nuns and her nephew in a school in Brive-la-Gaillarde (they survived); hiding with her parents and sister in Donzenac for two years; obtaining false papers; her parents' arrest; voluntarily accompanying them with her sister; transfer to Drancy, via Brive and Pe?rigueux; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her pa...

  15. Avram-Albert G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avram-Albert G., who was born in Athens, Greece. He recalls joining EAM (National Liberation Front) while in high school; Italian invasion; helping the Greek police as a member of a national youth organization; hiding with his family in several locations in Athens; assistance from EAM; and involvement in the civil war. Mr. G. notes the leadership of Archbishop Damaske?nos and the police chief, Angelos Evert, in saving Athen's Jews; becoming a poet (he reads a poem dedicated to all ethnic groups and peace); and his involvement in the Athens Jewish community.

  16. Edit K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edit K., who was born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia in 1926, the younger of two sisters in an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts attending a Czech school; cordial relations with non-Jews; visiting grandparents in Teplice; moving to Prague in September 1938; German invasion in March 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; deportation with her family to the Łódź ghetto in fall 1941; working in a carpet factory; public execution of an escapee; receiving letters from her boyfriend who was in Theresienstadt; her father's deportation...

  17. Kristine K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kristine K., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1935. She recounts their affluence; her brother's birth; Soviet occupation; confiscation of the family business; German invasion; hiding with her brother during round-ups; ghettoization; her father organizing their escape with others by digging a tunnel to the sewers; sewer workers who agreed to help them; escape with her parents, brother, and others to the sewers in June 1943; moving several times within the sewers; one worker, Socha, consistently helping them, even after they had no funds; her uncle's drowning death; her...

  18. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1925. She recalls an idyllic childhood; family religious observances; German invasion; ghettoization in 1941; her father's deportation; gradual liquidation of the ghetto; hiding her mother with a Polish friend; forced labor; escaping to P?aszo?w to avoid deportation; working as a housekeeper for the camp Kommandant, Amon Goeth; frequent humiliation and beatings by Goeth; observing his arbitrary, sadistic treatment of prisoners; being comforted by Oskar Schindler and the other housekeeper; visiting her mother and sisters in ...

  20. 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; ...