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  1. Ze'ev G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of five children. He recounts his very close family, attending Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia, another to Vilnius); finding their home occupied upon return; moving to his grandfather's home (his grandfather had been killed); a non-Jewish neighbor bringing them food; ghettoization; his sister's return from Vilnius; his father's privileged position as a painter; working w...

  2. Harry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry L., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1934. He recalls attending Catholic school; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his family to France; anti-Jewish laws; his father arranging for him and his sister to hide separately with non-Jewish families in Brussels; becoming a "convinced" Catholic; learning from his mother that his father had been deported (he did not return); hiding with his mother for six months; liberation; reunion with his sister; meeting an uncle who was in the United States military; and their emigration to the United States. M...

  3. Roney H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roney H., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1928. She recalls attending public school; Soviet occupation in 1939; losing their house as capitalists; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing perpetrated by Ukrainians; hiding during subsequent round-ups and mass killings; ghettoization; hiding for three weeks with non-Jews outside the city; returning to the ghetto; a mass killing in which her brother (eight years old) and cousin (two years old) were killed in a local slaughterhouse; hiding with her mother with the same non-Jews (her father continued to wo...

  4. Clara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara K., who was born in Cehu Silvaniei, Romania in 1927. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of her father's business; attending a Jewish school in Cluj-Napoca; ghettoization in Szila?gysomlyo? (Simleul-Silvaniei) in May 1944; public hanging of her boyfriend; transport to Auschwitz in June; separation from her father and brother (she never saw them again); transfer with her mother five days later to Kaiserwald; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer by ship to Stutthof; transfer three days later t...

  5. Jacques B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques B., who was born in Poland in 1933. He recalls living in Warsaw; vacationing in Otwock when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Sarny with his parents; Soviet occupation; attending school until the German invasion in June 1941; fleeing with his parents to Siberia via Kobyzhcha; living with his mother in Turksib and Dzhambul from the end of 1941 until 1946 (his parents were divorced); observing people starving to death; repatriation to Wroc?aw with his mother; pervasive antisemitism in school; joining the youth section of the Bund; and emigration with his mother to...

  6. Auguste V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Auguste V., a Roman-Catholic, born in Mouscron, Belgium in 1920, one of eleven children. He recalls receiving his diploma as an auto mechanic in 1938; sheltering German Jewish refugees; twice daily prayers at home; working in Liège; German invasion; returning home; briefly fleeing to Bailleul, France; participating in the Resistance; his family hiding Jews; learning his arrest was imminent; fleeing to La Rochefoucauld in March 1943; arrest; incarceration in Angoulême and Poitiers; deportation from Compiègne to Buchenwald in June; remaining with one friend; slave la...

  7. Idessa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Idessa C., who was born in Staszów, Russia (presently Poland) in 1915, the youngest of five children. She recounts working at a a magazine; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in Kielce at HASAG Granat; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; slave labor in a clothing factory; liberation; transport to Łódź; contact with her brother's family in Argentina (her brother had died); and joining them in 1946. Ms. C. notes the difficultly of conveying what she experienced to those who were "not there."

  8. Henry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry W., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1923. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; attending a Jewish school; his family preparing for emigration to Palestine in 1936; not going on advice of an aunt who was there; his bar mitzvah in 1938; expulsion from Germany shortly thereafter; living in Krako?w; skiing in Zakopane; preparing to emigrate; German invasion; his father's six-month imprisonment; moving to Bochnia; ghettoization; building a hiding place; working in an ammunition factory; deportation of his mother and sister in August 1942 (he ...

  9. Rabbi David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi David K., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1915, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his father's death in 1927; being placed in a Jewish orphanage so his mother could work; rabbinical studies in Paris; military service from 1936 to 1938; re-mobilization in March 1939; posting to Strasbourg; warning his family and fiancee of evacuation plans; and receiving rabbinical ordination in Paris while on leave in April 1940. Rabbi K. recounts capture by German troops in May 1940; posing as a non-Jew during eight months imprisonment; escaping to Paris in Janua...

  10. Cesare F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cesare F., who was born in Naples, Italy to a Jewish, Hungarian mother and Catholic, Italian father. He recounts moving to Budapest with his mother in 1938 to protect his father's career as a musical composer; his mother working as a seamstress since Jews could not be in the ballet (she was a ballerina); being raised as a Catholic; attending mass every Sunday; German invasion in March 1944; orders to move to a yellow-star house; his mother trying to get him to Italy via Switzerland; the man his father paid to take him to Switzerland bringing him instead to a Catholic ...

  11. James H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of James H., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1928. He recounts his large extended family; attending cheder; moving to Carei; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto; deportation to Birkenau; selection with his father and brother for work; his mother visiting their barrack (only his father was allowed out to see her); transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; slave labor unloading cement; a friend who was sterilized in specious medical experiments; working with British POWs; Alli...

  12. Aggie H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aggie H., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She recalls hiding with her parents and brother during deportations of non-Hungarian citizens in 1941 (her father was not a citizen); their deportation; being returned to Budapest due to overcrowding at their destination; her father's service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return; German invasion; ghettoization; living in a safe house; their arrest; returning to the ghetto with her brother; their incarceration in Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Hungary; living in an orphanage and abusive foster ho...

  13. Bertha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha B., who was born in Berchem, Belgium in 1931, the youngest of six children. She recalls orthodox holiday observances; a large, close extended family; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to De Panne; returning to Antwerp; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's brief imprisonment; deportation of her father, three brothers, and a sister (they did not survive); an aunt contacting the underground to hide them; help from a physician and priest; hiding in Dave with other Jewish families; fleeing to the forest after a German search; staying with the doctor who placed her ...

  14. Helen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen B., who was born in in 1923 in Łódź, Poland, one of four sisters. She recalls her family's affluence and modernity; their enthusiasm for opera and dancing; German invasion; deportation with her family to Dębica; moving to Radom; living with an aunt; all of them contracting typhus; ghettoization; forced labor outside the ghetto; her mother's deportation; hiding when her work group was deported; smuggling herself back to the ghetto; marriage; deportation with her family to Majdanek in January 1944; transfer with two sisters to Płaszów in March; a prisoner doct...

  15. Ralph F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph F., who was born in Kabalnik, a small town 80 km. east of Vilna, Poland. Mr. F. tells of his Orthodox childhood and his education in both a cheder and a Polish primary school; the rapid increase of antisemitism; the egalitarianism of the Russian occupation; disappearances in the middle of the night; the German occupation; and the precautions which he took to avoid being rounded up and deported. He describes the acts of extreme barbarity and cruelty which he witnessed; antisemitic legislation; his narrow escape from the liquidation which took place on Yom Kippur,...

  16. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1944. She recounts her parents' marriage in 1943 in Kastoria; her birth in Thessalonike? on April 1, 1944; a non-Jewish nurse befriending her mother in the hospital; the nurse taking her to live with her family; being raised as their child (her mother was shot and her father deported); learning she was not their child and was Jewish when she was twelve; visiting her mother's home in Kastoria and meeting her mother's friends; attending university in Thessalonike?; marriage and divorce; moving to Athens; helpful therap...

  17. Toby K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toby K., who was born in Vis?eu de Sus, Romania in 1922. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-2856), Ms. K. recounts being hidden from police by non-Jewish friends in 1939; the wedding of the rabbi's son in the Oradea ghetto; never losing hope of survival in camps; praying silently every day in Auschwitz/Birkenau and other camps; assistance from the Swedish Red Cross after liberation; and challenges of living as othodox Jews in Stockholm and O?rebro. She discusses the importance of being with her sisters to their survival; contin...

  18. Serge B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serge B., who was born in France in 1921. He recalls his parents were Russian immigrants; their assimilated, secular life in Paris; not feeling Jewish until German invasion; his father's escape from the July 1942 round-up with help from a police friend; being sent with his siblings to live with their uncle in Cannes; joining the Resistance; becoming head of his group; arrest in 1943; violent interrogations; the Gestapo discovering he was Jewish; transfer to a prison in Nice, then Drancy; digging an escape tunnel with fourteen prisoners; discovery of the tunnel; confin...

  19. William N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William N., who was born in Ga?nsendorf, Austria in 1916. He recalls moving with his family, at the age two, to Czechoslovakia; antisemitic incidents; joining the socialist group "Red Falcon" in Steyr, and later a Zionist youth group in Vienna; being drafted into the Austrian army in 1937; one month's service in the German army after the Anschluss; persecution of Austrian Jews; Abraham Stern organizing illegal emigration from Austria; traveling from a port near Athens to Palestine via Belgrade and Thessalonike?; joining the Irgun, then the Stern Group; and organizing ...

  20. George C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George C., who was born ca. 1922 and served in the United States Infantry during World War II. He recalls encountering German soldiers eager to surrender; entering Wo?bbelin concentration camp a few hours after its liberation; seeing hundreds of corpses in sand dunes and railway cars; encounters with survivors, one of whom turned down an opportunity to kill a guard; and a German religious group that buried the dead in the camp. He discussed the destruction of prisoners' dignity; his abhorrence of war; and his fear of a recurrence.