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  1. Jonas G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jonas G., who was born into a religious family in Siret (Sereth), Bukovina, in 1914. He recalls his childhood education and medical school training; anti-Jewish legislation; being drafted into the army in 1935; his release, along with all other Jews, in 1936; his marriage to his cousin; the Russian occupation of Poland; and his flight to Czernowitz to be with his wife. He tells of commuting to a nearby town where he had obtained an appointment as physician; his family's flight with the retreating Russians to Borshchov; and his circuitous journey back to Czernowitz via...

  2. Alex R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1932. He recounts attending private school; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish legislation prohibiting Jews from attending school with non-Jews; the principal placing dividers to allow the Jewish students to remain; being rounded up with his parents to a theater (his sister hid); non-Jews sneaking children out; his father's employee being released due to his marriage to a non-Jewish woman and obtaining Alex R.'s release by claiming him as his son; his sister contacting the underground, which placed them separate...

  3. William M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William M., who was born in 1924, and served with the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. He recounts military draft; deployment to Britain in January 1943; being shot down over Germany in March 1944; crashing in the North Sea; capture by the Germans; transfer to Rotterdam; imprisonment in Amsterdam; transfer to Frankfurt, then a prison camp in Wetzlar; beatings and interrogations; transfer to an asylum near Frankfurt, then back to Wetzlar two weeks later; train transport to Krems; receiving Red Cross packages; being treated by a dentist for injuries stemmi...

  4. Martin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in New York in 1925 and enlisted in the Army in March 1943. He recalls training in the 42nd Infantry Division; traveling by ship to the United Kingdom; being flown to the Normandy coast in June 1944 after D-Day; assignment to the 90th Infantry Division; moving through France to Germany; entering Buchenwald; observing prisoners dying, extreme debilitation, and sickness; corpses all over; the crematoria; rooms filled with goods from murdered prisoners; local residents claiming not to have known what was there despite the pervasive stench; the tow...

  5. Manfred M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotaped testimony of Manfred M., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; working for the Warburg banking firm; an announcement in 1937 that the bank would become a German firm; Mr. Warburg leaving in tears; several of his own siblings leaving Germany; realizing he had to leave; asking Mr. Warburg for assistance; receiving papers to emigrate to the United States through Mr. Warburg's son; scheduling his emigration for November 11, 1938; Kristallnacht taking place on November 10; arrest shortly thereafter; inca...

  6. Edith P. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Edith P., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. She recalls being depressed and feeling sorry for herself for the first time in her life shortly after the first testimony was recorded, and returning to "normal" three days later. Mrs. P. notes her family is the core of her life; not wanting her children to experience the hunger and humiliation she did; her father's role in the Judenrat during Hungarian occupation; receiving help from the Greek Orthodox bishop; vivid recollections of hunger and humiliation, including the first time she was wh...

  7. Henry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry H., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland, in 1919. Mr. H. describes his youth in a family of eight children; German occupation of Zawiercie; implementation of antisemitic measures; ghettoization in 1941; deportation of some 2,000 Jews (including his mother and a brother) in 1942; hiding in the ghetto; and his deportation to Birkenau with other family members in August 1943. He recounts the selection resulting in the deaths of his sisters; transport with a brother to Fu?nfteichen; posing as an electrician; suffering from extreme hunger; receiving smuggled food from ...

  8. Vera S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera S., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1928. She recounts attending Russian school; German invasion; no prior knowledge of atrocities elsewhere; ghettoization; mass killings; smuggling herself out to trade possessions for food (she did not "look Jewish"); assistance from non-Jewish friends; being caught outside the ghetto during a round-up; finding her mother and brother had survived by hiding in a shed, but her other relatives were gone; arrival of Jews from Germany; escaping with her mother and brother in 1943; joining the partisans; her mother and brother stayi...

  9. Alfred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927. He recalls emigration with his mother and brother to Holland in 1933; his father joining them; attending school in Zaandam; German invasion; difficulty dealing with anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his family to Westerbork; separation from his mother; living with his father and brother in a barrack; working as a messenger, and learning news from recent arrivals; attempts not to be "on the lists" for deportation; deportation with his mother, father, and brother to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; advantages due to th...

  10. Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts attending Polish and Jewish schools, then yeshiva; working at a family store; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to Lublin; their unsuccessful attempt to enter the Soviet-occupied area; returning to Krako?w; moving to Rzeszo?w to avoid forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; a year later joining his parents in Kolbuszowa, then G?ogo?w Ma?opolski; arrest and a beating for smuggling food from Tarno?w; release by a Polish policeman in Rzeszo?w; volunteering for deporta...

  11. Jozef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jozef B., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1925, one of three children. He recounts his family moving to Antwerp in 1926; his parents' orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school, then one year of vocational school; participating in Maccabi; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Dunkerque; returning via De Panne; his father remaining in France to work; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his mother and sisters to Malines, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in September 1942; separation from his family upon arrival; slave labor in the swamps; ho...

  12. Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerda and Samuel A. Gerda A. was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school; antisemitic harassment; her father's decision that the family emigrate to Shanghai, against her mother's wishes; their arrival in October 1938; her father establishing a business; deterioration of conditions after Pearl Harbor; ghettoization in Hongkew; transfer to the Kadoorie school; positive contacts with Horace Kadoorie; rampant diseases resulting from lack of sanitation and hunger; the Jews establishing a theater, hospital, and athletic teams; difficult relations ...

  13. Trudy T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy T., who was born in Heilbronn, Germany in 1924. She recalls her family's assimilated life; attending public school; anti-Jewish regulations, including the expulsion of Jews from schools; attending a Jewish school; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; her own emigration on a HIAS children's transport to the United States in October 1938; living with a foster family in St. Louis; fear for her family in Germany when Kristallnacht occurred; learning of her brother's emigration to England on a children's transport; the importance of the emotional suppo...

  14. Otto P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto P, who was born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, the youngest of five children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; participating in Maccabi; German occupation and Slovak independence; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; deportation to a labor camp; escape; returning home; his father arranging for him to work nearby; deportation with his father and brothers to Sered in 1942; separation from one brother (he never saw him again); deportation with his father and brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau; kapos beating prisoners to death;...

  15. Leon S. edited testimony

    Leon S., a Jew from Poland, tells his story with painful deliberation. He describes the liquidation of the Jews of his town, during which he witnessed the murder of this grandmother, and his experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt. Mr. S. relates that he became religious in the camps and still uses the tefillin and prayer book he removed from the huge piles of religious objects which he found in Theresienstadt after he was liberated. He is grateful that he was able to retain his faith and humanity in spite of al...

  16. Lucie H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie H., who was born in Lublin, Poland. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; the shooting of children at the orphanage; deportation with her family to the Majdan Tatarski ghetto in April 1942; sharing food with Majdanek inmates; hiding with her boyfriend's family during the ghetto's liquidation in November 1942; escaping with her brother and boyfriend with assistance from her father; hiding in Lublin; traveling with her brother and boyfriend to the Warsaw ghetto; her marriage; learning her father was killed while attempting to escape; obtaining false p...

  17. Itamar O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itamar O., who was born Warsaw, Poland in 1936, an only child. He recounts summer vacations in Sródborów; his father's medical practice; his grandparents' affluence; their assimilated lifestyle; German invasion; his father's military draft; his capture by Germans as a prisoner of war; his mother's futile attempt to find him; living with his paternal grandparents; entrusting valuables to his mother's non-Jewish nanny; ghettoization; hiding while the adults worked; his grandparents' deportation; accompanying his mother to work; learning his father had returned and was...

  18. Anne M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne M., who was born in Lida, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1929, one of three children. She recounts her father's draft into the Polish army; Soviet occupation; her father's return; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; her father working in a brewery; the German director allowing the family to live on the brewery premises; hiding during a round-up with assistance from the director; learning most of the town's Jews were murdered in a mass shooting including many relatives; a surviving cousin joining them; hiding, then escaping another round-up a year later; joinin...

  19. Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham K., who was born in Goworowo, Poland in 1933. He recalls German invasion; fires and shooting; his father arranging for them (his sister, mother, aunt, uncle, two cousins and three grandparents) to flee to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; deportation to Siberia by the Soviets; his mother's death (his grandparents and one cousin also eventually died); placement in an orphanage with his sister; his uncle and father serving in the military; separation from his sister for two years; retrieval by his uncle after the war; being smuggled to Germany; and emigration to the Un...

  20. Etta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta S. who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1921. She recalls her father's work for the Jewish community; his scholarliness and extensive library; attending a private Jewish school; apprenticing at a fashion salon in Miskolc, then Budapest, and at the same time, attending a private city college and Jewish student organized classes (MIEFHOE); German invasion in March 1944; a death march to Innsbruck, then train transfer to Ravensbrück; the humiliation of having her head shaved; a veteran prisoner advising her; slave labor in a Siemens factory; losing her faith in God;...