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  1. Judah N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judah N., who was born in 1912. Rabbi N. recalls serving as the senior Jewish chaplain in the European theater of operations in Paris; appointment as advisor to General Eisenhower on Jewish affairs; observing Dachau in August 1945; leading high holiday services in Frankfurt for survivors and Jewish soldiers; meeting with residents of Feldafing displaced persons camp; reporting to Generals Eisenhower and Smith, suggesting improvements; helping transfer survivors to Fo?hrenwald; UNRRA administration of Landsberg; accompanying David Ben-Gurion from Paris to Frankfurt, Ze...

  2. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in 1925 in the Galician town of Vizezhany and grew up in Grudziadz, Poland. She describes her life as the daughter of a prominent local musician; her family's move to Bia?ystok in 1938; and their life there under Russian and German occupation. She speaks of the ghettoization of Bia?ystok; ghetto life; her underground activities there; and her capture and transport to Majdanek by way of Treblinka. She tells of her experiences in Majdanek; in a small nearby labor camp; in Auschwitz; and as a slave laborer in Germany where she was liberated by the ...

  3. Steffi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steffi W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; being impressed by Rabbi Joseph Carlebach when attending synagogue; attending public school; transfer to a Jewish school when Mein Kampf was read in class; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; her father and brother emigrating to Uruguay in October 1938; observing evidence of Kristallnacht the next day; emigrating with her mother to Montevideo in December 1939; socializing with the German immigrants; learning the fates of relatives after th...

  4. Jacqueline F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; close relations with grandparents; emigrating to Strasbourg with her family in April 1933 after her uncle's arrest and torture; moving to Tours in 1934; her father's business success; relatives en route to the United States urging them to leave; her father's refusal; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her family in Gurs as enemy aliens; liberation in 1940; living in Limoges; moving alone to Grenoble; studying law; participating in the communist Resistance; ...

  5. Avraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, the second of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and a Jewish high school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in April 1941; round-up when visiting friends in August 1942; slave labor in a factory; escaping; return to the ghetto; learning his family had been deported (none survived); assistance from friends; deciding not to eat bread during Passover; his future wife sending him vegetables; Poles throwing food over the wall; volunteering for depor...

  6. Dietrich G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dietrich G., who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1914, one of three children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1106), he recounts his family practicing Protestantism; his father's German nationalism; moving to Stuttgart, then Potsdam, where his father worked at the Reichsarchiv; visiting his Jewish grandparents in Hamburg; his brother's emigration to England; participating in a German Christian student group; attending a lecture by Niemöller; his sister's emigration to England; graduation from the Technical Univ...

  7. Abe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe M., who was born in Chortkiv, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls membership in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; Ukrainian collaboration in rounding-up and shooting Jews; anti-Jewish regulations which resulted in impoverishment, hunger, and isolation; formation of the Judenrat; with assistance from non-Jews, hiding and finding jobs to avoid round-ups; ghettoization in April 1942; rumors of mass killings; his family's Judenrat exemption from deportation; hiding during "aktions"; his father and sister disappearing; and disbelie...

  8. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919, the youngest of six children. She recounts her family's move to Brussels in 1923; her happy childhood; their assimilated lifestyle; working in her father's business from age thirteen; one brother's emigration to Lyon; becoming more religious after marriage to an orthodox man in 1937; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to Paris, then Buzet; one brother fleeing to England; returning to Brussels a year later; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; she and her husband hiding with a family in...

  9. Bernice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice S. who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1923. She recalls her traditional orthodox family; Russian occupation; her father losing his job; her brother's arrest and exile to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto for a German who protected her (he was honored as a "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem); formation of an underground; and deportation to Majdanek, then Bliz?yn. Mrs. S. decribes transfer to Auschwitz; the death march to P?aszo?w, Gross Rosen and Ravensbru?ck in 1945; release of the prisoners; wandering through Germa...

  10. Tomaš S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tomaš S., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending a Slovak school; Hungarian occupation; transfer to a Hungarian school; loss of his father's factory; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in March 1944; their exemption from deportation due to his father's World War I service and false claim to a particular medal; his father and sister bringing soup to those rounded-up for deportation; visiting Streda nad Bodrogom and Budapest with his family; apprenticing ...

  11. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's assimilated life and strong German identity; his father's service in World War I; experiencing bombardments during the First World War; playing field hockey in London, Paris, and Berlin; rejection from Germany's Olympic field hockey team in 1936 and law school due to antisemitism; emigrating to the United States in 1936 after bribing an official for a visa; sponsoring his sister's and brother's emigration; his parents' arrival; volunteering for military service in 1942; marriage in 1943; serv...

  12. Ela L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ela L. who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in approximately 1924. She recounts German invasion; wearing the yellow armband and forced labor clearing rubble; Germans killing 100 Jews as retribution, including her grandfather; non-Jewish friends hiding her father; obtaining false papers; traveling by train with her parents and sister to the Toplice region in November 1941; living in Kurs?umlija; assistance from non-Jews; leaving in 1942 when Germans were approaching; living in a village with a Serb for more than a year; leaving when warned the Gestapo knew of them; fle...

  13. Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a r...

  14. Eva Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes feeling both Hungarian and Jewish before the outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; living in a house designated for Jews; hiding under false papers in Budapest during a round-up; working at a munitions factory; arrest during a round-up in November 1944; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; working at the factory; witnessing a childbirth and the Germans killing the mother and her baby; liberation by United States troops; her emotional reunion with her parents in Budapest (they did not know she had survived); ...

  15. Buntea C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Buntea C., who was born in Soroca, Russia (presently Moldova) in 1911, one of five children. She recounts fleeing a pogrom with her family when she was six; Romanian occupation after World War I; one brother moving to the Soviet Union; her arrest at sixteen for communist associations; her father obtaining her release through a bribe; expulsion from school; emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1929; visiting her parents for two weeks prior to their emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university and working in factory; particip...

  16. Chaim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in ?omz?a, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a sp...

  17. Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in 1923 in Odrzywo??, Poland, the fifth of nine children. She recounts antisemitic violence leading to their moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; ghettoization; her parents returning to Odrzywo?? with her four younger siblings (she never saw them again); one brother escaping; another dying from physical exhaustion; working as a tailor; marriage in 1943; pregnancy; giving birth prematurely (the baby was not alive) which resulted in illness; her sister's deportation; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation of ...

  18. Anna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in B...

  19. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1923. He recalls his intellectual home life; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1931; his mother's emotional breakdown; living with a family in Berlin while she recovered; returning to her; beatings by Hitler Youth; their emigration to Italy, then Palestine; living with foster parents so his mother could earn a living; his emigration to New York in 1938 to join his mother's sister; attending Columbia; his mother's suicide in Palestine; being drafted into the United States Army; training as an intelligence in...

  20. Jeanette E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette E., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; attending boarding school in Cze?stochowa; German invasion; confiscation of her father's coal mine; moving to the Zawiercie ghetto; forced labor with her sister in a camp; joining her family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; forced labor in the Be?dzin ghetto; obtaining false papers; hiding during a round-up; escaping to the Kamionka ghetto; being hidden by her future husband; their escape with help from the underground; hiding in bunkers; being smuggled to Hungary with help from Poles a...