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  1. Margit M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit M., who was born in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia in 1929 to a Jewish father and a Czech mother who had converted to Judaism. She describes her parents' concerns about growing German nationalism; German occupation in 1938; harassment at school; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; a German girl assisting them; learning her father was in Sachsenhausen; his release on Christmas; her mother agreeing to divorce him to protect them, but never following through; her father moving to Prague, thinking it safer; remaining with her mother, sister and maternal grandmother; e...

  2. Naftali W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls beatings by non-Jews; visiting grandparents in Se?dziszo?w; German invasion; returning home; his father's departure for Soviet territory; his family's return to Se?dziszo?w; incarceration in a forced labor camp; escape; his father's return; ghettoization; a round-up; selection with one brother (he never saw his family again); transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto; deportation to Mielec without his brother; a privileged position; receiving food from a German engineer and Polish civilian work...

  3. Sara B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara B., who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Mrs. B., one of nine children, tells of her youth; her observant and locally prominent parents; the sympathy of young people for communism; her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1930; marriage; and the birth of her daughter in 1933 and son in 1939. She recalls her husband's internment as a foreign Jew at Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; smuggling false papers to him; his escape in 1942 with a fellow prisoner to Sancerre in Vichy France; her own flight with their children from Paris to Sancerre; her husband's activity as ...

  4. Cecile H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecile H., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1923. She recounts her father's ancestors were Moses and Felix Mendelssohn (Nazi policy categorized him as "three-quarters Jewish"); being raised as a Protestant; her father's death in 1930; not being allowed to join the female Nazi youth due to her Jewish ancestry; her half-brother and fiancé serving in the Wehrmacht (they both died); expulsion from school due to a suggestive photograph, not due to racial reasons; hospitalization in Altdorf for tuberculosis; attending university as a "guest student"; doing dissertation...

  5. Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's bir...

  6. Shlomo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recalls his father's pharmacy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; having to billet a German officer; his father's arrest and execution; transporting his body to the cemetery on a sled; ghettoization; forced labor; Rumkowski scolding his work group for supporting a strike; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer to a coal mine after two weeks; slave labor in an I.G. Farben facility; receiving extra f...

  7. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Tros?ku?nai, Lithuania in 1924. She recalls antisemitic hostility increasing in the 1930s; attending school in Paneve?z?ys; returning home for holidays; Soviet occupation; being sent to school in Kaunas; receiving a letter from home instructing her not to return after German invasion; murders and violence in Kaunas; staying with a cousin; being saved from a mass killing by a non-Jewish janitor; ghettoization; learning from escapees of mass killings in the Seventh and Ninth Forts; her future brother-in-law's escape; volunteering to go to Kaue...

  8. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Turka, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He describes his family's farm; antisemitic harassment by other children; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; confiscation of most of the family farm; obtaining a government job; altering his father's documents to prevent his deportation to Siberia as a capitalist; German invasion in 1941; being beaten by a former Ukrainian friend; working as a beekeeper; arrest by the Ukrainian police; ghettoization in Sambor; his mother's deportation (she did not survive); a mass killing at the cemetery; brief impri...

  9. Shiela Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shiela Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921. She describes German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; hiding her brother and father after learning about the mass killings at Ponary; forced labor in a brick factory; hiding during round-ups; an unsuccessful attempted escape from the ghetto; hiding with her parents and brother in the sewers during the ghetto's liquidation; receiving assistance and food from a religious Pole; her father's death from illness; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; traveling with her mother and brother to Poland in 1946; living ...

  10. Reinhold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reinhold R., a Romani, who left Berlin in 1936 when all Romani trailers were expelled during the Olympics. He recalls marrying in 1937; working at a wharf; his son's birth; arrest on May 16, 1940; deportation to a labor camp in Poland; the deaths of many, especially children; release; traveling to Lublin with his wife and child; going into hiding in Krako?w; obtaining false papers; arrest and imprisonment in Montelupich; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; learning his father had died from typhus; classification as a Polish political prisoner; transfer to Buchenwald two w...

  11. Lilly T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly T., who was born in Szikszo?, Hungary in 1930. Mrs. T. details her family history; their comfortable and assimilated lifestyle; arrival of Jewish refugees from 1938 onward; anti-Jewish regulations; her older brother's resistance efforts; and deportation with her family to Kos?ice, then Auschwitz. She recounts immediate separation from her family; transfer to Birkenau; her sense that she grew up immediately; inclusion with a group of children; escape from that group with the assistance of a Wehrmacht soldier; transport to Estonia; slave labor cutting wood; receiv...

  12. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Wielu?n, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. She recalls her family's Hasidism; being injured during German invasion in 1939; hospitalization; living in ?o?dz? with her parents and some siblings, then in the Warsaw ghetto; hiding in bunkers during round-ups; her father's and youngest sister's deportation; deportation with her mother and some siblings; separation from them all; slave labor in Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; dreaming of her parents; transfer to Weisswasser; slave labor in a munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops on Ma...

  13. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Prague in 1907. Mrs. S. describes her early family life; her family's move to the Sudeten in 1909; and her family's reaction to her marrying a non-Jewish child survivor of the Armenian genocide. She recounts the plight of the Jews in the wake of Kristallnacht and her husband's help in assisting her and her parents to flee to Czechoslovakia. She recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; her designation, along with her oldest "Jewish" daughter, for transport to a labor camp (a younger daughter was not designated as Jewish); and her husband's conscript...

  14. Bridget S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bridget S., who was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1910. Mrs. S. describes her Christian family background; lack of prejudice in her family as well as the intellectual society in Stuttgart; meeting her husband, a Jewish doctor, during her nursing training; and her marriage and subsequent move to a sanatorium near Rottweil, where her husband received further psychiatric training. She recalls the birth of her two children; observing the Nazi rise to power; her mother's openly anti-Nazi sentiments and actions; hearing stories about Dachau; her growing fears; her brother's...

  15. Lina P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lina P., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; ghettoization; acquiring false papers from a non-Jew; illegally traveling to Athens; benign Italian occupation; hiding after German occupation; betrayal by other Jews; arrest; with her siblings, refusing to escape, not wanting to leave their parents (one cousin escaped with his family and survived); deportation from Akharnai? to Birkenau; remaining with her sister (they never saw their mother again); learning of the gas chambers; locating their father and brother throu...

  16. About the Holocaust

    This documentary, narrated by the child of a survivor and including testimony excerpts, introduces the secondary school student to the Holocaust. Originally produced for an inner-city school system and currently distributed by the Anti-Defamation League, this edited program has had a favorable response from both teachers and students, particularly at the ninth grade level.

  17. Félix G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Félix G., who was born in Forest, Belgium to Polish immigrants in 1926, one of three sons. He recalls growing up in Brussels; his family's focus on education; doing well in school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Abbeville; returning when overtaken by German troops; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school and wearing the star; arrest in September 1942; incarceration in Malines; love at first sight for another prisoner (Frieda); deportation to Sakrau; separation from Frieda (he never saw her again); transfer to Königshütte; slave labor b...

  18. Lily T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily T., a Catholic, who was born in Sampont, Belgium in 1921, the elder of two sisters. She recounts living with her maternal grandparents in Arlon; attending a Catholic boarding school from age ten; volunteering for the Red Cross in 1939; German invasion; helping the wounded; her father's involvement in the Resistance; distributing Resistance literature; arrest with her parents in November 1943; incarceration with her mother in Arlon; their transfer to St. Gilles; violent interrogations at Avenue Louise; their trial; her release in November, but not her mother's; li...

  19. Pola G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pola G., who was born in Stopnica, Poland in 1926, one of five children. She recalls their traditional shtetl life; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; transport with her sister and sister-in-law to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in 1942; slave labor in a munitions factory; smuggling food with help from civilian workers; their transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1944, then to Ravensbru?ck, Burgau, and Dachau; being wounded during liberation by United States troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage in 1945; moving to Brussels; her son's birth; emigration to Israel...

  20. Efraim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Efraim S., who was born in Poland in 1916, one of six children. He recounts attending cheder, then, briefly, a yeshiva in Ostrowiec; participating in Hechalutz; his uncle, father, and brother moving to Brussels for economic reasons; following in 1930; joining Hashomer Hatzair; printing a Yiddish paper; working with the Bund; German invasion; two brothers illegally emigrating to Switzerland to avoid deportation; printing underground newspapers; stealing ration cards to sell on the black market; refusing to register as Jews; marriage in 1942; hiding his younger sisters ...