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  1. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school; his mother's death from a stroke; deportations of Jews; the family's exemption due to his father's business; moving to Nitra, thinking it safer; a Catholic man hiding his father, sister, and two brothers in his home for several months; moving to a bunker their rescuer built when it became more dangerous; liberation by Soviet troops four weeks later; returning to Bardejov; emigration to the United States in...

  2. Halina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She recalls her father's Swiss watch import business; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a former housekeeper; returning to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, posing as non-Jews using false papers; assistance from two Polish women, the Swiss counsel, and his secretary; her father helping relatives escape; moving to Podkowa Leśna, then the woods near Pruszków; hiding in a bunker; their rescuers bringing food and books; threats of exposure from the Polish underground; returning to...

  3. Gijsbertus V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gijsbertus V., a non-Jew, who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1915. He recounts attending school until age twelve; working for the Holland-America Line on ships, traveling many places; in 1939 working in a Rotterdam restaurant; German bombardment in 1940; losing his job due to the massive destruction; baptism as a Jehovah's Witness in June 1940; working as a preacher in Haarlem; arrest in Heemstede; incarceration in Scheveningen; his refusal to cease proselytizing in order to obtain his release; three months in solitary confinement; deportation to several prison...

  4. David H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David H., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1923, the ninth of ten children (four died before his birth). He recalls three years of high school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working until April 1941; briefly fleeing during German bombardment; German occupation; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; encounters with a Ustaša; a non-Jew warning them of a round-up; his brother's friend hiding him, his brother, and younger sister; his older sister, a dentist, obtaining false papers for the entire family from a patient; one brother not evadin...

  5. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Poland in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls his large, extended family; their orthodoxy; working with his father as a shoemaker; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; deportation with his father to Radom; his father being buried alive; escape home; a non-Jewish friend smuggling him into the ghetto; their forced relocation to Zwolen?; deportation to De?blin, then another camp (he never saw his family again); escaping while digging a mass grave; capture; placement in Budzyn?; public hangings; a severe beating; transfer to Majdanek...

  6. Margita D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Pusté, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, one of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; the family working for a woodsman and cleaning roads; her job as a housekeeper for their landlord; persecution and harassment by Hlinka guards; Germans burning their village; a Slovak soldier helping them to hide in a stream; villagers hiding them in their cellars; Germans rounding up those who assisted the partisans; her family bringing them food before they were killed by the Germans; helping to bury them; later ...

  7. Rosie L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosie L., who was born in Poland in 1933. She recalls growing up in Brussels; their secularism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; their flight to Lille, then a town in the Pyrenees; her father's military draft; France's surrender; her father's demobilization; returning to Brussels in August 1940 via Toulouse and Paris; antisemitic regulations; her sister's conscription for labor; being hidden with her brother on a farm; her mother retrieving them; seeing Germans near her house and assuming her parents had been taken; being sent to a Resistance member; his inabi...

  8. Perla Lina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Perla Lina K., who was born in Corfu, Greece in 1928. She recalls her wonderful youth; six months of bombing by Italy in 1940; the benign Italian occupation; German occupation in 1943; her father's decision to hide when the Germans registered all Jews; dividing the family to hide in monasteries and homes; her mother deciding that they should come out of hiding in order to be together; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; and separation from her family upon arrival (she never saw her mother again). She recounts a dog attacking her and killing her brother when he attempte...

  9. Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He describes his middle-class, orthodox family; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; helping Jews forced into the ghetto from surrounding villages; overcrowding, starvation, isolation, and deportations; refusing to believe rumors about concentration camps; working as a mechanic repairing sewing machines; his father's death from hunger; hiding his mother during round-ups; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau (he never saw her again); stealing ...

  10. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Chorzo?w, Poland in 1926, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Krako?w; deportation of his father and uncle for forced labor (they never saw them again); forced relocation to Sosnowiec; his brother's return; forced labor in a German uniform factory for two years; public executions; deportation to a labor camp (he never saw his mother and brother again); slave labor constructing roads; transfer to Graeditz, Laurahu?tte, and Chorzo?w; corresp...

  11. Sam Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam Z., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1918. He recalls having four sisters; injuries from antisemitic assaults; military induction in 1939; defending Warsaw; incarceration as a POW for about three months; returning home; fleeing to the Soviet zone to escape anti-Jewish regulations and violence; living in L?viv and Rivne; returning home to persuade his family to join him (they did not); returning to Rivne; German invasion; military draft; officer training; campaigns in Stalingrad and Moscow; transferring to W?adys?aw Ander's Polish army within the Soviet mili...

  12. George R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929. He recalls growing up in Budapest, Hungary ; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in March 1944; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; attack by Soviet planes; deportation from Budapest to Buchenwald in December 1944; transfer three weeks later to Neubrandenburg, then to Ravensbrück and Ludwigslust in April; and liberation. He describes travelling to the English zone; working for the Joint in Frankfurt; emigration to the United States; two years recuperating from tuberculosis in Denver...

  13. Sara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara M., an only child, who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1938. She recounts early memories of fear; living among many relatives; constant hunger; her mother soothing her; being smuggled to a non-Jewish family friend during a round-up in about 1943; being smuggled back to the ghetto two weeks later (her mother was gone); being cared for by her mother's half-sister; a painful separation from her father when forced to board cattle trains; her aunt caring for her in Ravensbrück; sexual abuse by guards on Christmas; a female SS guard giving her extra food ...

  14. Krystyna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Krystyna S., a non-Jew who was born in Poland in 1928. She discusses the bombing of Warsaw and her separation from her father at the outbreak of the war; life in Warsaw with her mother and younger sister; and the fact that the concentration camps were common knowledge. She tells of her evacuation from her house; her recollections of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; and her deportation to Bergen-Belsen, where she and her mother worked as slave laborers. She recounts her life in Bergen-Belsen; liberation; her postwar return to Bergen-Belsen and other displaced persons camps ...

  15. Remembering Częstochowa, Poland

    Seven survivors from Częstochowa, Poland describe their lives before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; mass killings; deportations; slave labor in German factories established in Częstochowa; liberation by Soviet troops, and their losses. This edited program was prepared for an exhibit in Częstochowa that was also shown in Kraków, Warsaw, and the United States. There is a version with Polish subtitles.

  16. Bruno G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bruno G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recalls an assimilated life in the Friedrichshain district; antisemitic harassment after January 1933; feeling secure because his father was a decorated war veteran; his parents' divorce; living with his mother; expulsion from school in 1935; attending a Jewish school; Kristallnacht; his brother's emigration to England in April 1939; outbreak of war; apprenticeship as a blacksmith; forced labor for Siemens-Schuckertwerke; sabotaging his work; his grandfather's deportation to Theresienstadt; his mother's and aunt's ...

  17. Paula G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula G., who was born in 1917. She recalls growing up in S?iauliai, Lithuania; her mother's dream foretelling her father's death; participating in Zionist youth groups; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; and the German invasion. Mrs. G. recounts her husband's arrest (she never saw him again); deteriorating conditions during her years in the Kovno ghetto; forced labor; frequent deportations including the children; working in an illegal bakery; deportation to Stutthof; her dream foretelling her mother's death; growing indifference to her fate; recovery from typhus wi...

  18. Susanne P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne P., who was born in Oppeln, Germany (presently Opole, Poland). She recalls street fights between Nazis and communists; being shunned by former non-Jewish friends; attending a Jewish boarding school in Breslau; mass destruction on Kristallnacht; returning home; destruction of her father's business; their non-Jewish landlord protecting their home; emigrating to Stockholm with her younger sister, hoping their parents could follow; living in several foster homes (her sister remained with one elderly woman); receiving letters from their parents prior to 1943; worki...

  19. Gerda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerda K., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1932, the younger of two sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; her father losing a leg in World War I; his position in the Reichsbank; his forced retirement in 1935 due to anti-Jewish laws; his strong German identity, resulting in his refusal to emigrate; her uncle's arrest on Kristallnacht; futile attempts to emigrate; attending a Jewish school for two years, then a hachsharah in Ahlem; having to move many times; deportation with her family to Theresienstadt in 1942; playing hide and seek among corpses; hospitali...

  20. Victor W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor W., a Catholic, who was born in Belgium in approximately 1925, one of three brothers. He recounts living near Namur; his family's focus on religion, family, and patriotism; attending a Catholic school; participating in a Catholic youth group; German invasion; helping to bury Belgian soldiers; joining the Resistance in 1941; printing and distributing leaflets; obtaining weapons; a friend who worked for the Gestapo warning him of his imminent arrest; a futile attempt to escape to England via France; arrest in Buxy; interrogation and torture in Chalon-sur-Saone; t...