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  1. Robert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert M., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. He recounts a half-brother from his mother's previous marriage to a Jew who was killed in World War I; visits with his half-brother to his mother's first mother-in-law; his father's death in 1929; participating in a Boy Scout group; assisting Jewish refugees from Germany; attending university; German invasion; fleeing to Rouen, Les Sables-d'Olonne, and Toulouse; his brother joining the French army; returning home; participating in the resistance through Group G; giving his identity card to a Jewish woma...

  2. Zlatko V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlatko V., who was born in Sus?ak, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy(presently Croatia) in 1914. He recalls moving to Zagreb after World War I; attending school; participating in Maccabi athletics; working in a factory; his parents' deaths in the mid-1930s; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1938; German invasion in 1941; arrest by the Ustas?a on June 21, 1941; deportation to Pag Island; gruelling slave labor, starvation, and beatings; a speech by a camp official, Vjekoslav Luburic?, informing them of their evacuation in August; transfer to Krapje; slave labor building levee...

  3. Menachem O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Menachem O., who was born in Dębica, Poland in 1922, an only child. He recounts attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harrassment; participating in a religious Zionist youth group; his father's business exporting eggs; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; attending a clandestine yeshiva; his father's emergency surgery arranged through non-Jewish contacts; separation from his parents after a round-up (he never saw them again); deportation to Rzesźow; severe depression due to separation from his parents; after six weeks deciding to do...

  4. Anna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Biecz, Poland in 1915. She describes her childhood in the small town; her close family; education with a traditional female emphasis; marriage in 1939 and the birth of her son in 1940; her father's death from typhus; her husband's deportation to P?aszo?w in 1942; and hiding during the final liquidation with the aid of a Polish acquaintance who assisted her in leaving to join her husband. Mrs. K. recalls a few weeks in the Krako?w ghetto, working in the kitchen in P?aszo?w and her deep sense of hopelessness following her son's death in 1943. Sh...

  5. Charles F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles F., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. He remembers SA street marches; his parents' divorce; attending boarding school in Austria; moving to Florence with his mother; moving to Berlin because his father wished him to have a German education; the 1936 Olympics; attending boarding school in Coburg; destruction of his school on Kristallnacht; his father's arrest; moving to Paris with his mother; attending boarding school; German invasion; joining his mother in La Bourboule; their move to Nice; attending hotel management school; traveling illegally to Por...

  7. Regine B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regine B., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. She recounts her parents' emigration from Poland in the 1920s; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; transport with her parents to Drancy in July 1942 (her brother hid outside Paris); harsh conditions and the loss of dignity; release after her mother convinced authorities she was a French citizen; and reluctance to leave her parents. Mrs. B. describes hiding outside Paris for two years with her brother in the home of an uncle whose wife was not Jewish; her uncle's arrest; his wife's obtaining false papers for them...

  8. Leah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leah S., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933, the first of two children. She recounts attending a Jewish school; her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father traveling to Belgium for business; German invasion; her maternal grandparents moving in with them; learning her father had emigrated to the United States; her grandfather's death; Swiss relatives obtaining Paraguayan passports for them; her mother hiding Jews; denunciation; deportation to Westerbork with her mother, brother and grandmother from the Schauberg theater in spring 194...

  9. Gloria L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gloria L., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1925. She recalls living in Gerresheim; their affluent lifestyle; being over-protected as an only child; cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; her father's arrest; his release due to friendship with one of the policemen; moving to Du?sseldorf in 1937, thinking it would be safer; membership in Habonim; attempts to emigrate to the United States; attending a Jewish school; and their emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. L. discusses their strong German identity (her father was a World War I hero);...

  10. Ben H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben H., who was born in Pabianice, Poland in 1929, the oldest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Piotrko?w; attending cheder and a Jewish secular school; fighting back during antisemitic attacks; spending the summer of 1939 with relatives in Sieradz; German invasion; returning home; fleeing east to Sulejo?w; returning home; confiscation of his father's flour mill; restricted access to food; helping his father smuggle flour; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; his Polish supervisor saving him from a round-up; joining his parents in hiding; ...

  11. Andrew G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew G., who was born in Oradea, Rumania in 1929. He recalls holiday observances; his large extended family; anti-Semitic incidents in elementary school; Hungarian occupation; increased restrictions on Jews; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; and deportation to Auschwitz one month later. Mr. G recounts separation from his parents (he never saw them again); assignment to a children's barrack; escaping to an adult barrack after hearing that the children would be killed; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; transfer to Dachau; and liberation by United States tro...

  12. Dola K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dola K., who was born in Kraków, Poland in approximately 1929. She recounts her family's affluence and Zionism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband and expulsion from school; ghettoization two years later; deportations including her grandparents; continuing to study despite the hardships; a mass killing of children including many of her friends; her father obtaining forged American citizenship papers; imprisonment; deportation with her family, her father's siblings, and their families to Bergen-Belsen; placement in a section for for...

  13. Sam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam S., who was born in 1924 in Dubienka, Poland. He recounts his father's death when he was two months old; his mother's remarriage; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a rabbinical seminary in Warsaw; his stepfather's philanthropy; participation in Betar; brief Soviet invasion in 1939; German occupation; working as a secretary for the Judenrat; deportation of his parents and many relatives (they were killed in Sobibor); exemption as a Judenrat employee; obtaining an exemption for an aunt and her children (he claimed they were his ...

  14. Witness: voices from the Holocaust /

    The stories of nineteen Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including an American POW, resistance fighters, a Jesuit priest, an American liberator, a Hitler Youth, and ghetto and camp survivors, create a narrative of the Holocaust in the words of those who experienced it. This edited program includes historical and personal photographs and footage.

  15. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1928 and raised in Otwock. He recalls the impoverished Jewish community; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling himself in and out of the ghetto to obtain food; traveling on trains as a Polish beggar; the deaths of his stepfather and brother; learning of the ghetto's liquidation (he never saw his mother or other brother again); entering the world of black marketeers and beggars, traveling by trains via Warsaw to Siedlce, Garwolin, and many towns and stations; fleeing from the Warsaw uprising of 19...

  16. Sam R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam R., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1920. He recalls his father's strict orthodoxy; studying for the rabbinate in Lublin; returning home in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions, including confiscation of the family business; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau on August 26, 1943; separation from his family except his brother; his brother sharing extra food with him; their separation when Mr. R. was transferred to Lagisza (he never saw his brother again); witnessing his uncle's beating death an...

  17. Shalom E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom E., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, the eldest of two children. He recounts attending a Hebrew school; holiday visits to his grandfather, a rabbi in Viduklė; Soviet occupation; transfer to a Yiddish school; German invasion in June 1941; staying in a bunker for three days; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in August; his father's appointment to the Aeltestenrat, which saved many Jews, as ghetto historian; attending school; a large round-up in fall 1941 from which they were freed; the next morning hearing and seeing mass shootings in the distanc...

  18. Mania W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania W., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1922. She recalls German invasion; fleeing east with her family; returning home; ghettoization in Zawiercie; her parents' deportation; hiding with a friend in a bunker during a round-up; her friend inadvertently killing her baby daughter while trying to keep her quiet; a non-Jewish friend bringing her food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1941; slave labor in a gravel pit; her cousins arranging a privileged kitchen position for her; hospitalization for typhus; a friend bringing her food and removing her from the hospi...

  19. Margrit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margrit R., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1925. Mrs. R. describes her early childhood; anti-Jewish legislation; and her family's emigration to Amsterdam in 1935 where her father died of natural causes in 1937. She recalls the German occupation of Holland in 1940; her mother's reluctance to leave when they had the opportunity; deportations and their efforts to avoid them; arrest in October 1943; and the deportation to Westerbork of Mrs. R., her sister and her mother. Mrs. R. tells of their transport to Ravensbru?ck in February 1944; conditions and work;...

  20. Feiga and Yochel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Feiga F., who was born in Alse?dz?iai, Lithuania in 1919 and Yochel F. who was born in Rubi?a?z?h?e?vichy, Russia (Poland after World War I, presently Belarus) in 1911. Mrs. F. recalls her eight siblings; wanting to emigrate to Palestine against her father's wishes; Soviet occupation; meeting her husband; marriage in April 1941; German invasion; being left with her family to run their leather factory when the town's Jews were deported; the local priest offering to hide them; living in the attic of a house (fourteen family members and two babies subsequently born); lea...