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  1. Eta N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eta N., who grew up in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia in an affluent family. She recalls medical studies in Zagreb; expulsion in 1941, with only two exams to complete, when the Ustas?a came to power; marriage; returning home; her daughter's birth; round-ups of Jews including her brother, father (they were killed), and mother; a Croat and a Jewish doctor organizing a physicians group to eliminate syphilis in Bosnia; she and her husband volunteering which protected their immediate families; obtaining her mother's release; a Muslim man bringing her to them in Tuzla; a brutal...

  2. Lore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. She recounts attending a Jewish school; babysitting for a Jewish family in Dortmund; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release one week later; attending school in Berlin in 1940; working in a factory; returning home in 1941; working in Essen; deportation with her parents to the Rīga ghetto in January 1942; encountering an uncle and cousins; construction work with her mother at the airport; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer to Spi...

  3. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending an ORT school; German invasion; his brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; the Judenrat organizing forced labor and deportation lists; hiding during round-ups; discovery; having to bury those killed in mass shootings; clearing former Jewish homes and sorting the goods; deportation with his sister and her husband to Budzyń in 1942; working as a locksmith; assistance from German civilian workers; transfer to Mielec, then to Wieliczka in 1944; separation from his sister; ...

  4. Marcel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1926. He recounts his family's restaurant business; participating in Akiba; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining papers as a non-Jew from a German restaurant customer; working for him; his parents and sisters leaving for his grandfather's town; providing work permits for friends; seeing a letter identifying him as a Jew; entering the ghetto, fearing denouncement; working outside the ghetto; smuggling goods into the ghetto; transfer to P?aszo?w; a mass shooting; transfer to Schindler's factory;...

  5. Anna and Joel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Hajdu?na?na?s, Hungary in 1930 and her husband Joel K., who was born in Megyaszo? in 1923. Ms. K. recounts her family's move to Debrecen; attending a Jewish day school; cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's orthodoxy and strong Hungarian identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; ghettoization; suicides and deaths from hunger; deportation with her family to Strasshof; slave labor for local farmers; local farmers bringing them food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; her bat mitzvah; once seeing a co...

  6. Kathi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathi K., who was born in Tu?bingen, Germany in 1932 to a Jewish mother and a Christian father. She recounts living in Hockenheim; her maternal grandparents' wealth; moving to Cologne; visiting her grandparents; her mother being hit while protecting her grandfather from the SS; her grandparents' deaths; emigration to Aerdenhout, Netherlands; German invasion; her mother's failing health; frequent fear; forced relocation to Amsterdam because her mother was Jewish; hiding during round-ups; receiving her first communion; her father using his German passport to prevent aut...

  7. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., a non-Jew, who was born in Cephalonia, Greece in 1929, the second of four children. She recounts the benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion in 1944; the murder of a large group of Italian soldiers by Germans; troops entering her village on April 23, 1944; separation of the men from the women and children, including her father and older brother; burning of the village; fleeing with her mother and younger siblings to her father's sister in Samos; her mother visiting her father and brother in jail; learning all the men had been executed on May 1; su...

  8. Helga K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1922. She recalls her family's comfortable, middle-class life in Godesberg; attending church; Nazi ascent to power; learning her father was half-Jewish and her mother Jewish; her family's baptism in 1933; antisemitic measures; expulsion from school; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; her father's arrest and release during Kristallnacht; her brother's emigration to the United States; her emigration to England in July 1939 to work as a domestic; the outbreak of war; internment as an enemy alien; learning of her father'...

  9. Sinia A. Holocaust testimony

  10. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1923. She recalls family life prior to Nazism; her father's death while preparing to emigrate; anti-Semitic incidents; expulsion from school; being sent to Holland in 1936; her mother joining her in Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; learning to be a furrier; escaping deportation in 1942 with assistance from Dutch women; working in a fur factory; four days in a collection center (a former theater); deportation to Vught; forced labor in a workshop making fur coats from used garments; learning about ...

  11. Moshe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe S., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in approximately 1924, one of six children. He recounts attending a Yiddish school; influence by the Bundist teachers; working with his father from the age of nine; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; organizing a clandestine radio; ghettoization; hiding during a round-up (one sister and his grandmother were taken); another sister's attempt to join her boyfriend (she was killed); volunteering to work in a weapons storehouse; smuggling out guns and ammunition for his ...

  12. Moshe F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe F., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1913, the youngest of eight children. He recalls the deaths of his father and mother; living with his grandmother in Wladyslawow (Russocice), with uncles in Be?dzin, then with uncles in ?o?dz?; working in a bakery; starting his own business; marriage; his son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; working in a public kitchen; deportation with his wife and son to Auschwitz; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Kaufering; reunion with a brother; working in the camp hospita...

  13. Bernice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice B., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland in 1925, the oldest of five children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; expulsion from their house; hiding during round-ups; ghettoization; forced factory labor; deportation to Neustadt in 1942 (she never saw her family again); transfer after three years to Flossenbu?rg, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning home seeking surviving family; leaving when she found no one; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage in 1946; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. M...

  14. Iurii G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iurii G., who was born in Smolensk, Soviet Union in 1930. He recounts moving to Kaluga in 1932; antisemitic insults in school; his father's arrest in 1939 and later learning he was in a Soviet labor camp; German invasion; his father's return and military draft; ghettoization; rationing and forced labor; starvation and mass killings; having to load corpses on trucks; assisting his grandparents; escaping during a Soviet offensive; being hidden with his mother by a former neighbor; liberation by Soviet troops; his grandparents' deaths from starvation; learning in 1944 hi...

  15. Alexandra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexandra L., who was born in Danzig Free State (presently Gdan?sk, Poland) in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; her maternal grandmother living with them; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1937; her father's arrest; looting of his store; his non-Jewish employees providing assistance; expulsion from school; not understanding sudden rejection by non-Jewish playmates; attending a Jewish school; a beating by Hitler Youth; destruction of their synagogue; her father contacting a cousin in the United States; her brother's birth in ...

  16. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1922. Mr. W. vividly describes the Jewish environment of his childhood in Krzywcza; attending gymnasium in Przemys?l; the antisemitic atmosphere; Polish anti-Jewish laws; his father's and his own involvement in Zionist activities; German invasion; mass killings; escaping with his family; Soviet occupation; returning to Przemys?l; and the German invasion in 1941. He relates fleeing with his friends; returning to be with his family; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor; appointment of the Judenrat; deportations; the impac...

  17. Clara C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara C., who was born in Stryi?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls non-Jewish friends; studying in Krako?w in 1936; becoming engaged; Soviet occupation; traveling with false papers to her fiance?'s parents' in Nowy Targ via Tarno?w; staying with her fiance?'s sister; narrowly avoiding arrest (her brother-in-law and a woman were killed by Germans); briefly staying in Wis?nicz and Krako?w; moving to the Bochnia ghetto in 1941; arrest while attempting to escape; bribery which resulted in her release; traveling to Krako?w as a non-Jew; smuggling herself int...

  18. Chana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917, one of eleven children. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; some of her brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; forced labor sorting possessions of deportees; smuggling herself to Brzeziny with her mother; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Bad Kudowa; slave labor in a munitions factory; recurring dreams of her father; a beating which resulted in permanent deafness in one ear; receiving extra food from ...

  19. Eric S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in S?umperk, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1916. He recalls attending public school; religious instruction by a rabbi; active participation in a Zionist group; his father's death in 1933; attending university in 1934; German occupation; forced expulsion from their town; imprisonment for six weeks in 1940; marriage; living in a village; deportation with his wife and mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942; a privileged position since he knew several leaders; working in the gardens; smuggling food; learning deportation meant death; deteriorating condit...

  20. Morris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, the oldest of three children. He recalls his father's successful business; his close extended family; their orthodoxy; German invasion; his father's military draft; learning he had been killed; slave labor building a tram line; his mother's arrest; traveling with his siblings to Warsaw to join family; learning his mother had been released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; supporting his mother and siblings; pervasive deaths; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944; separation from his family (he never saw them again...