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  1. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Koszyce, Poland in 1923. He describes moving to Paris in 1923; collecting money for Spanish children in 1936; joining the Communist Party; learning about Nazism from German and Austrian refugees in 1937 and 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; evacuation to Pau in June 1940; joining the Resistance after returning to Paris on July 14, 1940; his father's death on September 2, 1940; and participating in student demonstrations in 1940 and 1941. Mr. R. recalls his arrest in August 1941; release from Drancy in November; hiding with the aid...

  2. Rita L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932. She describes her wealthy, assimilated parents; German invasion; moving to the "small" ghetto; attending an illegal school; corpses in the streets becoming routine; family contacts with Janusz Korczak; escape to an uncle in Klimonto?w; and fleeing to L'viv with her mother in 1942, having learned all Jews were to be deported (she never saw her father again). Mrs. L. recounts living with her non-Jewish governess's sister; moving when threatened by blackmailers; her mother working as a servant for a German family, then in ...

  3. Margo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in approximately 1930, one of four children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; her brother's draft into a forced labor battalion; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; her father's deportation; round-up to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and sister; remaining with another sister; their separation; volunteering to move corpses to join her sister; their transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging a bomb so it would not deton...

  4. Kenneth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth R., who was born in Gorlice, Poland in 1926, the only child in an affluent family. He recounts his mother's death in 1931; antisemitic harassment; attending Catholic church with his nanny; wonderful extended family gatherings; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; German invasion; assistance from a German soldier who befriended his aunt; ghettoization; smuggling food; working for a Volksdeutch; receiving extra food from him; hiding after warnings from the soldier of round-ups; transfer alone to the work camp; a mass shooting and deportation in Au...

  5. Lydia C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia C., who was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the direct...

  6. Greta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta M., who was born in Bocholt, Germany in 1924. She describes her family's strong sense of German identification; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions after 1936; being forced to sell the family business; the trauma of witnessing the violent destruction of a Jewish-owned store during Kristallnacht; expulsion from school in 1938; support from some German friends; being sent to Frankfurt for six weeks in 1939; her brother's departure for England; and her leaving, with her younger sister, on a children's transport in July (they never s...

  7. Werner N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1911. He relates his father's service in World War I; a brief family history; attendance at gymnasium in Berlin; work for an international dental supply firm; his father's feeling of safety during Hitler's rise to power because he was a World War I veteran; his sister's emigration to Palestine in 1934; his attempts to emigrate to the United States; and being able to hide during Kristallnacht because he was forewarned. Mr. N. describes leaving for Shanghai in 1939; obtaining a job and living quarters; deteriorating conditio...

  8. Shimon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shimon H., who was born in Strasbourg, Germany (presently France) in 1907. He recounts the transfer of Strasbourg from Germany to France in 1918; meeting his wife through the Jewish scouting movement; becoming a scout leader of southern France at age twenty; working on his doctorate beginning in 1931; increasing antisemitism; military draft in 1938; assignment to develop defenses against poison gas (he was a chemist); defeat by Germany; moving with the lab to Montpellier; traveling to Clermont-Ferrand; meeting with scouting friends to plan children's training schools ...

  9. Anna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna B., who was born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the oldest of three children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; German invasion in 1944; her mother's non-Jewish friend offering to hide her (she would not leave her parents); their deportation to the Uz︠h︡horod ghetto., then to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her family; being used for so-called medical experiments; transfer to Stolp; horrific slave labor laying railroad track and digging bunkers; public hanging of nine boys for taking cigarettes; transfer to Rīga,...

  10. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division; dropping into France behind enemy lines; fighting from town to town in Germany; entering Dachau, having no conception of a concentration camp; observing prisoners who looked like walking cadavers, mostly Jews; providing whatever food and water they had; observing piles of corpses, human hair, and belongings; United Stares military authorities compelling local Germans to go through Dachau; their specious claim of having no knowledge of the camp; and leav...

  11. Rachel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel F., who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1924. She describes attending public and religious schools; orthodox observances in her close, extended family; German-Jewish refugees arriving in the early 1930s; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1941; volunteering to go to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp in June 1942; slave labor at the munitions factory; public executions; learning the ghetto was liquidated in October; a brief visit with her brother in 1943 (she never saw him again); transfer to Cze?stochowa in summer ...

  12. Moses M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, the oldest of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; leaving school at thirteen to work in his parents' bakery; working in his uncle's bakery in ?o?dz?; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; having to stay in the factory while the ghetto was liquidated (he never saw his family again); transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; digging anti-tank trenches in 1944; trans...

  13. Simon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's move to Paris; German invasion; arrest and incarceration in Drancy in October 1941; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Compiègne in March 1942; receiving refreshments en route from the Red Cross; slave labor constructing roads; transfer to a position supervising the kitchens, a privileged position; sharing extra food with friends; recovering from typhus with assistance from friends; transfer to a disciplinary Kommando; assistance from kapos in avoiding selection and bei...

  14. Laura S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laura S., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece in an affluent family. She recounts her marriage in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; her husband's military service in Albania in 1940; his return; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a deportation in 1943; realizing that they would be deported next; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto; obtaining false papers; illegally traveling to Athens; posing as non-Jews; German occupation; escaping to Aleppo, then Palestine; receiving assistance from the Joint and WIZO; their return after the war; her husba...

  15. Victor W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor W., who was born in New York and entered the United States Army in 1936. He recalls serving in Panama and Jamaica, then in Patton's army in Casablanca, Tunisia, and Sicily after Pearl Harbor; returning to the United States in summer 1944 for training under the Judge Advocate's office to assist with war crime trials; return to Europe in September; assignment to war crime investigations in Paris; transfer to Nuremberg; orders to accompany the unit liberating Flossenbu?rg; entering the camp when fighting had abated; shock at the prisoners' condition despite his tr...

  16. Tirca G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradac?ac; attending school in Gradac?ac, then Osijek; returning to Gradac?ac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustas?a; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradac?ac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; ...

  17. Josef R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef R., who was born in Krzeszowice, Poland in 1921 and grew up in Krako?w. He recalls a comfortable childhood, attending secular and religious schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; ending his education due to Jewish quotas; German invasion; fleeing to Tarnobrzeg with his parents; their return to Krako?w; forced resettlement in Borek Szlachecki, Borek Fa?e?cki, and Samborek; hospitalization with assistance from a non-Jewish physician; joining his parents in Prokocim; forced labor for a German railroad company; ghettoization in ...

  18. Molly B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly B., who was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1920. She recounts her father's service in World War I; her family's German patriotism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1933 when Hitler came to power; a mandatory "racial science" course; the pain of being snubbed by a former friend; her parents' loss of their citizenship because they were naturalized; attempts to emigrate; attending vocational school near Lake Constance, then learning dressmaking in Heidelberg and Berlin to prepare for emigration; loss of the family business due to...

  19. Peppi D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peppi D., who was born in Apeldoorn, Holland, in approximately 1935. She recounts attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws resulting in her transfer to a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father hiding with non-Jews during a round-up; his deportation; round-up with her mother and twin sister to a Catholic school; transfer to Arnhem; deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; reunion with her father; hospitalization; remaining in Westerbork due to her aunt's non-Jewish husband paying the Germans; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944;...

  20. He?le?ne W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of He?le?ne W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recalls emigration to Paris in 1933; visiting relatives in Poland; her father's internment in Beaune-la-Rolande in 1941; hiding him after his release; her mother's and brother's internment in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver; begging a German official to release them; their return home; her mother's arrest; their final moment together; receiving food from neighbors; her Resistance work; her arrest in February 1944 (her brother escaped); internment at Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; extreme hunger, cold, and hum...