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  1. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., who was born in a village in Czechoslovakia in 1928, the fourth of eight children. He recalls everyone was Orthodox; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1938; the draft of two older brothers into slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); ghettoization in Vynohradiv in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father and brother from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father and brother to Warsaw; slave labor clearing the former ghetto; trading salvaged v...

  2. Alice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice G., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, one of six children. She recounts speaking German at home; anti-Jewish events beginning in 1939; being sent to an uncle in Spišské Podhradie, thinking it was safer; returning home; confiscation of the family store; her twin sister's death from illness; deportation with another sister to Poprad, then Auschwitz in March 1942; slave labor hauling bricks in Harmęż, then sorting clothing in Canada Kommando; transfer to Birkenau; separation from her sister; bringing her fo...

  3. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, in 1933. Mr. S. recalls his happy childhood; the inferno of the German occupation; hiding in a small town; his arrival in the Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp, where he was separated from his mother; his decision to be a 'model prisoner' as a means of surviving in spite of his youth; his work in the camp; his extreme reactions to the brutality and dehumanization; his transfer, along with his brother, to Buchenwald; their liberation from Buchenwald; and their postwar return to Poland, where they found that their entire famil...

  4. Martin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls antisemitic harassment on the street; German invasion; his father protecting his German business partner from Polish violence; betrayal by the partner resulting in expulsion from their home; ghettoization; smuggling food; hospitalization of his father, mother, and sister; their deaths; living with an uncle; the deaths of his other two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; staying with his uncle; joining a group with two friends that left Auschwitz under cover of Allied bombing; transfer to Fried...

  5. Sol F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol F., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1907. He describes his mother's struggles to support the family after his father's death; becoming a dancer; deteriorating conditions for Jews from 1941 onward; forced labor on the Russian front in 1942; one family visit; transport to Auschwitz; beatings and hunger; and transfer to Longwy-Thil, France where he worked approximately one year. He describes a forced march; working in a salt mine at Heilbronn; transfer to Dachau, then Passau; desertion by SS guards; foraging for food; exchanging clothes with a German soldier; receiv...

  6. Rita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1935 to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls living with her maternal grandparents; close bonds with them and her maternal uncle; her father's brief military service in 1939 which protected them; having to wear the "star" beginning in 1941; beatings from children on the street; deportation of her uncle, his wife and children, and her grandparents in 1942 (only her uncle survived); being forced to move in 1943; assistance from prostitutes in the neighborhood; her father's forced labor service (they knew he was a...

  7. Harold G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold G., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls working in Budapest from age sixteen; belonging to a Zionist organization; lending his identity papers to a fellow member who had escaped from Slovakia; his friend warning him not to listen to any Nazi instructions; returning home for Passover 1944; German invasion of his Hungarian-occupied town; escaping prior to ghettoziation, posing as a non-Jew; buying bread from a non-Jew and sending it to his mother in the ghetto; joining a group escaping to Slovakia; smuggling themselv...

  8. Albert D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert D., who served in the United States Army, 104th Infantry Division (Timberwolves). He recounts encountering emaciated prisoners in labor camps; German civilians denying knowledge of the existence of camps; entering Nordhausen in April 1945; the horrific sight of rows of thousands of corpses; and then entering Halle labor camp. Mr. D. shows photographs he took.

  9. Eugene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene B., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the oldest of six children. He recounts leaving school at age fourteen, apprenticing as a tailor; Hungarian occupation; confiscation of his family's store; moving to Budapest by himself; working in a factory and selling used clothing; returning home in early 1944; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and one brother; transfer about a week later to Erlensbusch; good treatment because a friend from Uz︠h︡horod knew a German official there; s...

  10. Tatyana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatyana K., who was born in Berislav, Ukraine in 1934. She recalls a round-up (her two older brothers refused to go); escaping (she did not "look Jewish"); witnessing the mass shooting of Jews, including her parents and two younger siblings; hiding with her two brothers; receiving food from Romanian troops; hiding six months with her brothers and another boy in a haystack; leaving due to cold; separation from her brothers; returning to Berislav; hiding with a woman, who told her that her brothers had been shot; being forced to leave; begging for food and shelter at di...

  11. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Lypsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1920, the second of eleven children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; working in Budapest; returning home by train in spring 1944: removal from the train in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Czechoslovakia seeking relatives; learning one brother was in Israel; marriage in Chomutov; and emigration to the United States. Ms. K. discusses slave labor in the camps; prisoners he...

  12. Ado K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ado K., who was born in Visoko, Yugoslavia in 1915. He recounts cordial relations between the small Jewish community and Muslims, Serbs, and Croats; serving in the Yugoslav army; creation of Croatia in 1941; his capture in Doboj; anti-Jewish regulations enforced by the Ustas?a; deportations of Serbs and Jews; his deportation to Jasenovac in October 1941; forced labor in Lonjsko Polje; mass killings of prisoners; transfer to Gradis?ka in January 1942; observing the horrendous conditions of the women and children (his mother and sisters were there); sadistic public kill...

  14. James T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of James T., who was born in New Hampshire in 1923. He recalls enlisting in the United States military; joining the 90th Infantry Division; shipping out to England; landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy; transfer to the 4th Armored; moving through France; the Battle of the Bulge; encounters with General George Patton; entering Germany; liberating Buchenwald; having no previous knowledge of concentration camps; the pervasive stench of rotting flesh which still stays with him; not understanding they were viewing starved people; the expressionless eyes of the prisoners; and le...

  15. Ruth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth L., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1931, the older of two sisters. She recounts moving to C?esky? Te?s?i?n; her family's affluence; German occupation; her father attending the World's Fair in the United States in April 1939 (he did not return due to the outbreak of war); evacuation to Krako?w, then Bochnia in August 1939 in anticipation of German invasion; German bombings during which her aunt and cousin were killed; traveling to the Soviet zone; deportation to Siberia; forced labor with her mother; harsh conditions including starvation ...

  16. Ján V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ján V., who was born in Svätý Beňadik, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1932. He discusses his family's total assimilation; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning he was Jewish from children on the street; fascist takeover resulting in anti-Jewish restrictions, including his expulsion from gymnasium and wearing the star; the mailman warning his father that Hlinka Guard were coming for them; escaping with his parents and older sister to Stará L̕ubovňa; living as non-Jews, using false papers; playing with boys who were in the Hitler Youth; joining a parti...

  17. Anna C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna C., who was born in Aleksandro?w ?o?dzki, Poland in 1921. She recalls her family's move to Antwerp; antisemitic incidents in school; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Dunkerque in a futile attempt to leave with British troops; returning to Antwerp; fleeing to Paris; crossing to the unoccupied zone with her sister; moving to Marseille to obtain documents to emigrate to the United States; living in Bandol; receiving exit documents; convincing the authorities to allow her brother to join them; assistance from HIAS; and emigrating to the United States in summer 194...

  18. Michael N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael N. who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1919. He recalls attending public school; children throwing stones at him because he was Jewish; learning cabinet making; working in his parents' store; German invasion; persuading his parents after three months that he should go to the Soviet Union; smuggling himself across the border; living in L?viv; registering to work in a Soviet coal mine; leaving after two weeks; incarceration in a forced labor camp in Medvezh?yegorsk; release a year later; working in a munitions factory; military draft in 1944; serving in Lublin;...

  19. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

  20. Sam H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam H., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1935. He describes his happy childhood in an orthodox family; German invasion; his father being beaten and humiliated by Nazis; ghettoization; hiding to avoid deportation; being smuggled into De?blin concentration camp by his sister; liquidation of the ghetto as Soviet troops approached; deportation to Cze?stochowa; witnessing a mass shooting of other children; prisoners cherishing him as one of the few surviving children; being helped and fed by his sister, brother-in-law, and another prisoner; liberation by Soviet troops; r...