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  1. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913. In addition to information included in HVT-995, Mr. R. discusses continuing nightmares and health problems resulting from his experiences; the difficulty of conveying the totality of his camp experiences; his lack of belief in basic human goodness; continuing anger toward the German people; and the injustice of their never really having been punished.

  2. Samuel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel Z., who was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. He recounts his mother's death when he was five; their abusive stepmother; anti-Semitic incidents; German invasion; forced labor; fleeing a round-up in 1942 with his older brother; hiding in several places, including Nowy Korczyn, with assistance from some Poles; slave labor at the HASAG factory in Kielce and Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; working outdoors in Przedbo?rz, which gave him the opportunity to purchase and share food with his brother; mass killings; their transfer to Buchenwald in 1944, then to Niederorschel; and ...

  3. Lola P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, one of seven children. She describes her family's orthodoxy and scholarship; taking in German-Jewish refugees; her parents' disbelief that anything would happen to them; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; her older sister escaping to Russia; ghettoization; forced labor, crowding, and starvation; her father's death in 1942; her brother's and sister's disappearance when the Jewish hospital was liquidated; hiding with her mother and younger sister during round-ups; Germans finding them; deportation to Auschwitz in Augu...

  4. Norbert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert M., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1922. He recalls his family's socialist leanings; Soviet occupation; ghettoization in October 1941; deportations; arranging to flee with his entire family to Mogilev; forced labor for the Romanian army; ghettoization; improved conditions while working for the retreating German army; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; being drafted with his brother into the Soviet army; deserting in Warsaw; returning to Romania; attending medical school; marriage; joining his family in Israel; and emigration to the United States.

  5. Erena A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erena A., who was born in Munich in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. She describes her Bohemian childhood in the town of Dachau; the early death of her father; her imprisonment with her mother, who had been arrested for communist tendencies; and her Catholic education in Vienna under the guardianship of her maternal grandparents, whom she discovered after the war to be Sephardic Jews. Ms. A. talks of life in the artistic communities of Berlin; the growth of politics within those communities from a peripheral to a central position; her underground activities as...

  6. Siegbert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegbert K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921 to Polish emigres. He recounts his family's return to Poland and immediate emigration to Brussels; speaking Yiddish, Polish, and Russian at home; the births of two sisters; his father establishing a business; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in 1940; efforts to enlist and rejection as a non-Belgian citizen; obtaining papers as non-Jews for himself and his sisters; joining the Front de l'Indépendence Resistance; hiding his youngest sister with non-Jews; his parents refusing false papers; their deportation in 1942 (t...

  7. David A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David A., who was born in approximately 1924 and served with the United States Army 4th Armored Division, Medical Battalion in World War II. He recounts fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; liberating Ohrdruf; emaciated prisoners; corpses piled in trenches; the pervasive stench which he still recalls; and forcing the townspeople to walk through the camp (their denials of knowledge of the camp were not credible). Mr. A. notes having no prior knowledge of what a concentration camp was, and sharing his experiences with his daughter. He shows photographs.

  8. Isaac W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac W., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1911, one of six children. He recounts attending a German school; manufacturing woolens; German invasion; fleeing to Lublin; traveling to Krako?w, posing as a non-Jewish Pole; living in a suburb to avoid ghettoization; brief imprisonment in Montelupich in 1942; forced relocation into the Krako?w ghetto; transfer with his family to P?aszo?w in March 1943; working at a factory; separation from his parents during the last selection in March 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; observing Yom Kippur; slave labor; trans...

  9. Ester B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ester B., who was born in Tulʹchyn, Ukraine in 1929. She remembers moving to a Jewish agricultural colony when her father was falsely accused of factory ownership; returning two years later to avoid starvation; moving to another village; returning to Tulʹchyn in 1937; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to a village; capture by German troops; returning to Tulʹchyn; ghettoization; transfer with her family and relatives to Peciora; she and her sister contracting typhus; surviving a mass killing; smuggling food; her parents and relatives dying of starvation; a severe beatin...

  10. Piera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piera B., who was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1923, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts attending a Jewish school, then secular high school; her father, a veteran of the First World War, ardently supporting Mussolini; participating in the fascist youth movement; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1938; expulsion from high school; working for her father; visiting friends in Padua and Venice; studying to be a teacher on her own; passing the certification exam in Rome; visiting a refugee orphanage in Nonantola; German invasion; her family entrusting their belong...

  11. Rose N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose N., who was born in a small town near Przemys?lany, Poland (today Peremyshli?a?ny, Ukraine), in 1922. Mrs. N. tells of the Soviet occupation in 1939; the German invasion; her father's decision to hide in the woods; going with her mother and sister to a relative's home in Przemys?lany; arduous living conditions; briefly returning home with her family in 1942; being forced to return to Przemys?lany when a ghetto was established; and escaping to the woods in December 1942 with her parents and sister. She recalls being left with her sister in the care of a local sher...

  12. Hermann R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hermann R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913 to Polish immigrants. He describes his father's military service; their orthodox home; the rich cultural life and the vibrant Jewish community; attending public school; antisemitic incidents in engineering school; the socialist uprising in 1934; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish measures; his father's decision to leave Austria even if the family separated; his sister's emigration to England; fleeing to Freiburg with his friend; obtaining false German citizenship documents; crossing to Luxembourg; traveling to Brussels, with...

  13. Hanna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna H., who was born in Warsaw in 1918. In this extraordinarily vivid and detailed account, Mrs. H. describes her childhood and education in Warsaw; extreme antisemitism; her marriage in 1939; her flight, with her husband, to Russian-occupied Rovnoe; and their return a short time later. She recalls the birth of her son in 1941; the formation of the Warsaw ghetto; the loss of her husband and, later, of her baby; her severe illness; hiding from a selection in a toilet; her discovery and narrow escape from death; and her reunion with her mother in the ghetto. She recou...

  14. Paul K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul K., who was born in 1927 in Carei, Romania. He recalls studying at home with his grandfather, a retired rabbi; disbelieving atrocity stories from Poland in 1940; Hungarian occupation; increased anti-Jewish restrictions in 1942; brief ghettoization in May 1944; transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto; his distrust of the Judenrat; volunteering with his parents for transfer to a work camp; transport to Birkenau; separation from his parents; transfer to Auschwitz, then Monowitz; hospitalization for two months; Allied bombing of the I.G. Farben factories; foraging for food;...

  15. Nathan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan K., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1923 to a family of six children. He recounts a happy family life before the German occupation in 1939; deportation to Lublin in 1940; forced labor digging trenches in Ciechano?w; escaping with an inmate to the Soviet border; their arrest by the Soviets; imprisonment for eleven months in Lv?iv and Berestechko; three months in Zolochiv prison; transport to Starobels?k; working on the barges in Vorkuta; being wounded while serving in the Soviet army; and his imprisonment until 1948. Mr. K. describes returning to Radom in 1948;...

  16. Johanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Johanna P., a non-Jew, who was born in Beverwijk, Netherlands in 1924 and lived in Amsterdam from 1934. She recalls no differences between Jews and others prior to the war; German invasion in 1940; Jews having to wear the star; their Jewish family doctor's suicide; people burning books fearing Germans would persecute them; relocation of Jews to a nearby housing complex; disappearance of Jews from school; observing an older Jewish woman being beaten by German soldiers; working for the police department; the famine and cold of the 1944-1945 winter; liberation by Canadia...

  17. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in Augusto?w, Poland in 1915, the youngest of eight children. He recounts his oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1923; draft into the Polish military in 1937; German and Soviet invasion in 1939; deportation as a POW by the Soviets from Baranovichy; release with a group born in Latvia; escaping en route to Vilnius; returning home; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; deportation to Bogusze, then Auschwitz; separation from his parents and sisters (he never saw them again); selection for work with three brothers; a death ...

  18. Zygmund L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmund L., who was born in Rokitno Szlachekie, Poland in 1903, one of eight children. He recounts his family's World War I experiences; moving to ?azy; marriage; the births of two children; German invasion; fleeing east; sending his wife and children home; traveling toward the Soviet Union; encountering Germans in Wodzis?aw; turning toward home; brief incarceration in Zawiercie; returning home; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his brother to Ottmuth; receiving packages from his wife; transfers to Fu?nfteichen and Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; tra...

  19. Uri Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uri Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1907. Mr. Z. describes his education as an accountant; his mother's death when he was sixteen; estrangement from his father; leaving home; studying voice and drama; a successful singing career; performances in many European countries; and his 1938 marriage in ?o?dz?. He recalls the German invasion; enlistment in the Polish army; capture by Germans; transport with some 3000 POWs to cities in Poland and Germany, terminating in Krako?w; escape; return to ?o?dz?; fleeing with his wife to the Soviet zone; travel to Bia?ystok; perfo...

  20. Walter R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter R., a non-Jew, who was born in Hamburg, Germany to Belgian parents in 1924. He recounts their move to Antwerp when he was three; his father's death; his mother's remarriage; housing German refugees; German invasion; mobilization; biking to Bordeaux with other conscripts; returning home; leaving for England with his friend Paul; traveling to Perpignan via Nantes, Bordeaux, and Narbonne; arrest by Germans while attempting to illegally cross the Spanish border; incarceration in Perpignan; transfer to Compiègne; slave labor in Paris uncovering unexploded bombs; tr...