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  1. Jacobo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacobo B., who was born in Ma?kow Mazowiecki, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Jewish and secular schools; stoning by Polish children; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; work in a forced labor camp, then with his father in the Mako?w ghetto; transfer to the M?awa ghetto; some relatives' deportation to Treblinka; deportation to Auschwitz with his mother, father, and sister; gender separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); digging canals in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Auschwitz; hospitalization; help from a Polish doctor; r...

  2. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916, one of five children. He recalls attending a Jewish school; his large extended family; working at his family's grocery business; one sister's emigration to Israel; German occupation; forced labor; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; his sister sending him food (she was a block commander); returning to Thessalonike? after liberation; learning only he and his sister had survived the camps; reopening his family's business; his sister's emigration to join their ...

  3. Avri F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avri F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1935, an only child. He recounts his family's move back to Bratislava when he was two weeks old; his father being a respected and beloved pediatrician; observing marches of Hlinka guards; attending school until anti-Jewish laws forbade it; having to move several times; studying with five other boys in private classes; his uncle being beaten to death and his wife committing suicide; frequent visits with his aunt, Gisi Fleischmann; his parents deciding he would not wear the yellow star; walking separately from them in public w...

  4. Hanni L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanni L., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her father's strong sense of German identity (he served in World War I); her expulsion from public school in 1934; attending Jewish school; Kristallnacht; outbreak of war in 1939; her father's death in January 1940 resulting from forced labor; her forced labor at a munitions factory beginning in July 1940; reluctance to leave her mother, who was ill; her mother's death in April 1942; her grandmother's deportation in September; escaping from a round-up in 1943; non-Jewish friends placing her with anothe...

  5. Mimi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mimi O., who was born in approximately 1926. Ms. O. recalls growing up in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia; her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth organization; destruction of Jewish stores during Kristallnacht; traveling with her parents to Prague the next day; living in Koli?n; German invasion; a non-Jew deceiving Germans who wanted to arrest Ms. O.'s father; traveling on a children's transport to England; living on a Zionist organization farm; receiving letters from her family through the Red Cross; the group moving to a castle in Wales; learni...

  6. Piotr R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923, one of six children. He recounts living in Mokraya Dubrova; attending school in Lahishyn and Pinsk; his family moving to Pinsk in 1938; German invasion; Soviet occupation; one brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; brief evacuation with two brothers; a mass shooting in which two brothers were murdered; ghettoization; his German supervisor's offer to help him; liquidation of the ghetto in October 1942 (his remaining family was killed); his supervisor giving him false pa...

  7. Frieda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda S., who was born in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 1936. She recounts her family's emigration to Holland in 1935; hospitalization in Leiden for a congenital problem; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures which resulted in the postponement of her surgery; her parents arranging to hide her in the hospital in 1942 (her younger sister was hidden in a convent); with assistance from her parents' non-Jewish friend, leaving the hospital due to a Nazi doctor; placement in a convent; transfer after challenging the Mother Superior's statement that the Jews crucified Jesus; hid...

  8. Menachem S. edited testimony

    Menachem S., a child survivor relates his vivid memories of Kraków, the German occupation, and moving to the ghetto and to Płaszów concentration camp. He tells of being smuggled out of the camp and surviving as a street child from ages four to seven, with the aid of several Polish women. He reflects upon his postwar reunion with his parents, the psychological effects of his experiences, and the possible effects on his own children and the next generation.

  9. Hersch A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hersch A., who was born in Brzez?h?any, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine) in 1931. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; his father's arrest and disappearance on Yom Kippur; fleeing with his sister during an Aktion the following Yom Kippur; their capture; his escape (he never saw his sister again); ghettoization; the murder of his two other sisters; hiding with his mother and relatives in a sub-basement; escaping from the ghetto; returning again since no one would help them; and his mother's capture during another escape. Mr. A. recounts hiding ...

  10. Karol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karol P., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1931, one of seven children. He recalls summers with his paternal grandparents in Wodzisław; antisemitic harassment in public school; German invasion in 1939; round-up with his family; escaping with his sister; her deportation (none of his family survived); imprisonment; escape with assistance from a Polish inmate; entering the ghetto in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; escaping the group selected for death; a privileged assignment as a messenger; receiving a tailored uniform; assignment to the privileged prisoners'...

  11. Lisa H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa H., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1919. She remembers the gradual deterioration of the Jewish situation in Germany, including restrictive legislation as well as overt displays of antisemitism; being sent to London by her parents two weeks before the outbreak of war; working as a cook in Devon; switching from one domestic job to another in London; her emigration to America in 1946; studying Yiddish at the Jewish Institute; learning of the death of her family in Europe; returning to Germany on a visit in the 1950s, where she was able to locate the director of h...

  12. Leib B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leib B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. He recalls attending public school; studying at the Bobowa Yeshiva from 1937 to 1939; returning home when war was imminent; German invasion; two brothers and one sister escaping through Hungary and Romania to Israel; ghettoization in 1941; deportation to Tarnów, then Brzesko; joining an aunt in a town near Bochnia; learning his parents had died from typhus; returning to the Kraków ghetto with his youngest brothers; moving to Bochnia; deportation with two brothers and a sister in 1943 to Trezbin...

  13. Mark A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's move to Krako?w; learning of Kristallnacht from Jews expelled from Germany; membership in a Zionist organization; his mother's death in 1938; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his father; his escape from Lublin to Krako?w with assistance from local farmers; returning to Lublin to look for his father and brother; their deportation to the Be?z?yce ghetto in April 1941; working in a quarry; hiding with his father and brother during round-ups; the role of the Judenrat; mass kill...

  14. Judith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith C., who was born in Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1938. She recounts a large extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; a non-Jew offering to hide them; escaping with several relatives with assistance from a forest ranger; hiding in the forests; receiving food from the ranger; leaving when the ranger's wife threatened exposure; hiding in a barn, then living in forests; escaping a German raid carried by her father (they were separated from her mother); encountering partisans; reunion with her mother; living in the forests with a partisa...

  15. Harold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold M., who was born in New York City in 1923. He recalls enlisting in the United States military in 1942; serving in the 32nd signal construction battalion of the 1st Army; being stationed in England; arriving in France on June 13, 1944; installing communications cable in Weimar in May 1945; his company commander insisting they enter Buchenwald; seeing dead bodies and emaciated prisoners; the stench of burnt corpses; hardened combat veterans' shock at encountering death on this scale; lampshades made of human skin; and contacts with locals who denied knowledge of ...

  16. Louis H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis H., a non-Jew, who was born in Louvain, Belgium in 1919, one of four children. He recounts attending school; working at the University of Louvain; enlisting in the military in 1939; German invasion; retreating to Brussels; capitulation; returning home; joining the Resistance (learning after the war it was directed by Sûreté de l'État); spying on German military construction in Beauvechain; delivering weapons and information to his contacts; denouncement; his family's arrest as hostages; surrendering in March 1941 to obtain their release; incarceration in St. ...

  17. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony, he recounts the importance of singing to his family; his bar mitzvah; briefly fleeing to Toulouse at the German invasion; participating in Gordonyah; singing for extra food in the camps; public hangings; being raped by a German kapo; and his mother and sisters returning from Turkey after the war with Red Cross assistance. Mr. S. discusses reciting poetry and mentally calculating equations as a coping mechanism in the camps; continuing behaviors r...

  18. Andre? U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? U., who was born in Besanc?on, France in 1914, the youngest of five children. He recalls his family's strong Jewish identity and French patriotism; antisemitic harassment; attending law school in Dijon in 1934, then finishing in Paris in 1937; enlisting in the military; postings to several locations; retreating when the Germans invaded; capture as a prisoner of war; escaping to Besanc?on; traveling to Paris; joining his family in the unoccupied zone in Lyon; joining the Francs-tireurs resistance; creating false papers for others; attending a reunion of his mili...

  19. Ladislav L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ladislav L., who was born in Lazy pod Makytou, Czechoslovakia in 1918. He recounts attending school in Prešov; traveling to emigrate to the United States in spring 1939; German soldiers stopping him in Horní Lideč; apprenticeship as a mechanic in Trenčín; paying to avoid military draft; working for a farmer in Kuzmice, using false papers; visiting a friend in Bojná; denunciation and arrest in Radošina; incarceration in Nitra; assistance from the Jewish community; transfer to Sered; a privileged position working for Kommandant Imrich Vasina, allowing him to leav...

  20. Sigmund S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund S., who was born in Torun?, Poland, the son of a non-Jewish military officer. He recalls moving to Nowy Targ when his father was decommissoned due to his opposition to the Pilsudski regime; Catholic antisemitism; moving to Katowice; attending gymnasium, then military school; mobilization when Germany invaded; arrest in place of his father as a Polish intelligentsia; imprisonment in Tarno?w; transfer on the first transport to Auschwitz (his number was eighty-eight); obtaining a privileged job as a carpenter; testing of the first gas chamber on Russian POWs; ass...