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  1. Shoshana N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925, the younger of two sisters. She recalls a happy childhood until 1932; attending a Jewish school; harassment en route; fascination with Nazi parades and music; accompanying her father to his sewing factory; participating in sports through Bar Kochba and Maccabi; their nanny's grief when she had to leave due to the Nuremberg laws; confiscation of her father's factory; observing the destruction of Kristallnacht; her sister's emigration to Palestine; emigrating with a group of twenty-five children to Copenhagen in Apri...

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  3. Eva E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. She recalls moving to Mukacheve; close relations with a large, extended family; attending Jewish schools; Hungarian occupation in 1938; helping relatives fleeing from Poland; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with three cousins; learning about the gas chambers and realizing her mother had been killed; her cousins' help when she was ill; one cousin who "organized" extra food for them; their transfer to Lenzing in November; forced factory labor; being seriously injured;...

  4. Lisbeth B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisbeth B., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1911. She recounts living in a small village; moving to Berlin for safety during World War I; returning to Posen which became Poland; attending a German school; her father's death in 1928; working as a tutor and in a German publishing house; assisting Jews deported from Germany in 1938; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion in 1939; deportation in December to Ostro?w Lubelski; traveling to Warsaw; working as a tutor; her mother declining a non-Jew's offer to hide them; ghettoiz...

  5. Werner H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner H., who was born in Ku?strin, Germany in 1910. He details his brother-in-law's death in September 1938; difficulties in arranging his burial because they were Jewish; arrest with his family during Kristallnacht; forced labor and harsh conditions in Sachsenhausen; his release due to their promise to leave for Shanghai; selling all their possessions; and emigrating from Berlin to Shanghai. Mr. H. recalls the international settlement; going into business with a friend; joining a Jewish volunteer company to patrol the international settlement; Japanese occupation; ...

  6. Rabbi Nathan N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Nathan N., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1934, the oldest of three children. He recounts his parents' immigration from Germany in 1926; his mother's parents immigration from Germany in 1939; his father helping place German-Jewish children in Belgian homes; German invasion in 1940; his father's arrest and internment in France, where he earned payment for visas to the United States; and his mother's refusal to leave her parents behind. Rabbi N. recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing their yellow stars and not registering them as Jews; assist...

  7. Jakob Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob Z., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; the family move to Warsaw; ghettoization; their move to P?on?sk; his father being taken away; deportation with his family to Birkenau in December 1942; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); slave labor; contact with the camp underground; reassignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chamber to the crematoria; wanting to commit suicide the first night; a rabbi dissuading him; becoming accustomed to horrendous work; burning corpses in o...

  8. Al B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al B., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1918. He describes a pleasant life in Proszowice; working in a textile factory in ?o?dz?; visiting his parents in September 1939; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his father after the outbreak of war; later fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv); brief arrest by the Soviets in Przemys?l while smuggling themselves back; returning to Proszowice in 1941; forced labor in the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; his parents and brother joining him; hiding with his family on a nearby farm; returning to the ghetto; his family's deportation during the g...

  9. Peter A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter A., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1931. He recalls his father's prewar death; attending synagogue with his grandfather; expulsion from public school; attending the Philanthropin Jewish school; witnessing stormtrooper parades; his mother's reluctance to leave Germany because of the family business; being chased by Hitler Youth on Kristallnacht; and his mother selling the family business for one German mark after swastikas were painted on the windows. Mr. A. recounts difficulties obtaining visas for emigration; his brother joining relatives in England in A...

  10. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in 1929 in Ti?a?chiv Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), the oldest in a large Hasidic family. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1939; her father's conscription into a slave labor battalion; anti-Jewish restrictions; harassment by locals; her father's return in March 1944; German invasion; ghettoization; obtaining food from Hungarian friends; her father instructing her and her brother to escape; her unwillingness to leave her family; her brother's escape to Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remainin...

  11. Sonia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Sonia G., who was born in ?ocho?w, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to ?ocho?w; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds ...

  12. Sylvie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvie S., who was born in Westhoffen, France in 1924. She speaks of her family's strong sense of French identity; her father's concern when the Nazis came to power; fleeing with her family from Westhoffen in June 1940; spending a night in Decize; settling in Saint-Amand; her uncle's and older sister's involvement in Jewish organizations; and implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions. Mrs. S. remembers escorting Jewish children with false papers on a train; round-ups of Jews who were deported; avoiding deportation with assistance from local people; Saint-Amand's brie...

  13. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...

  14. Norbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in 1923. This testimony includes much of the information from an earlier interview (HVT-839). Additional topics discussed include his childhood and bar mitzvah in Gdynia; the family move to L'viv in 1935; liquidation of the ghetto resulting in his separation from his father; entering Janowska camp with assistance from a Russian guard; public executions; escape; hiding with a Ukrainian woman; obtaining false papers with assistance from a Russian guard; reunion with his sister in Kolomyi︠a︡; hiding in a stable with assistance from a non-Jewish w...

  15. Dasha R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dasha R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1929, one of six children. She recalls her father was a Gerer Hasid; antisemitic violence; close relations with her brothers' children; German invasion; being sent to relatives in a small town; the town burning; fleeing to her brothers' home in Wodzis?aw; returning home after a few weeks; learning her cousin perished when the Germans burned the synagogue; a public hanging; caring for her brothers' children; hiding the children during round-ups; her parents escaping from a round-up; being taken to Sosnowiec; crying constantl...

  16. Paulina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina B., who was born in Gorlice, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy), one of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her father's service in World War I; attending Beit Yakov, public school, then gymnasium; summer vacations at her aunt's house in Nowy Sącz; participating in Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni; arrest by Polish police for Zionist activity; attending university in Kraków; a trip to Italy with her boyfriend; vacationing in Zakopane; working for the Red Cross; German invasion; relocating to her father's village; fleeing east; German bombardment; trave...

  17. Norbert S. and Edward S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland, in 1922, and is accompanied by his friend Edward S. They describe meeting in mid-1942, when Norbert helped Edward get a job and lodging in the L?vov ghetto; forging work permits; round-ups and selections at Janowska; and a Soviet bombing raid on L?vov. Edward recounts escape from the ghetto dressed as a German soldier; jumping from a train because he feared recognition; and the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Norbert recalls his escape; finding refuge with a young Ukrainian woman; and his honor and joy in returning to L?vov...

  19. Martin E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin E., who was born in Weinheim, Germany in 1929. He recalls anti-Jewish harassment; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Karlsruhe; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his return from Dachau six weeks later; deportation with his parents and sister to Gurs in October 1940; obtaining extra food for his family because children could leave the camp; a French family offering to keep him; refusing to leave his family; removal of the children to an orphanage in Aspet a few months later (he never saw his parents or sist...

  20. Haim A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim A., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1923. He recalls his father's prominence in the community; his father's reluctance to escape after German invasion; being rounded-up with all Jewish men in Liberty Square; forced labor for two months; ghettoization; deportations; escaping to Athens via Larisa, with assistance from non-Jewish friends and strangers; living with his brother in the home of a non-Jewish friend; learning his parents had been deported; traveling to Aleppo via Izmir to join the Greek military; training in Gaza, Rhodesia, and Cape Town; returni...