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  1. Libby F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Libby F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934 to Polish parents. She recounts being born a triplet (the other two did not return from the hospital with her and their fates are unknown); her family's orthodoxy and poverty; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining papers for emigration from an uncle in the United States; Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Dachau; her mother forging papers to secure his release; her father's emigration; moving into an uncle's house with her mother and brother; and their emigration to the United States. M...

  2. Herbert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Lollar, Germany in 1935 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. In a testimony based on his father's memoir written in the 1970s, Mr. K. recounts the loss of the family business in Lollar in 1933; his father's arrest and incarceration the same year; the family's move to Berlin in 1935; protection extended to his father since his mother was Catholic and raising the children as Catholics; returning to Lollar with his mother; his paternal grandfather's brief incarceration in Buchenwald, then emigration to Brazil in 1939; his father's forced ...

  3. Ana V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ana V., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. She recounts her large, extended family; attending public school; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; killings of those who disobeyed; ghettoization; slave labor in a factory; starvation; her older brother smuggling sugar to make candy to sell; her father's refusal to serve in the Jewish police; Ḥayim Rumkowski's speech before a round-up of children and elderly, which included her younger brother (she never saw him again); a public hanging; release from a round-up by a German; deportation wit...

  4. Juliana F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juliana F., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia in 1936. She recalls expulsion from their home and confiscation of her father's business in 1941; conversion to Christianity with her parents and grandmother, trying to avoid deportation; the pastor understanding their motivation; hiding with non-Jewish friends for three weeks; her father's arrest; joining him on a deportation train to Žilina; her father's brother using his influence (he was the doctor there) to have them transferred two months later to Vyhne; living among many converted Jews; her parents working; a...

  5. Marie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie F., who was born in Pont-a?-Mousson, France in 1925 to a Catholic mother and Jewish father. She recalls attending Catholic school at age four; public school from age six to eleven; her father having her tutored by a priest in Catholic rituals; briefly fleeing south after German invasion; returning; attending school; round-ups of Jews (she and her father were not included); interrogations by Germans despite not wearing the star or having Jewish identity papers; her Jewish friend being beaten to death in the street; her own torture and beating during an interrogat...

  6. Abraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham W., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1906. Mr. W. describes the roles of Leon Reich and David Herzog in his admission to university in Graz; his association with Nobel laureate Victor Hess; transfer to Charles University in Prague in 1931 due to antisemitism; becoming a pharmacist in Rava-Ru?ska in December 1939; learning of his mother's murder by a Ukrainian; ghettoization; friendship with the Pole selected by the Germans to replace him; and sheltering a woman escapee from a deportation train to nearby Belzec. He recalls a Gestapo operativ...

  7. Leo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo S., who was born in Chicago in 1908. He recalls serving in the Air Force during World War II, stationed in the United States; volunteering to work for UNRRA in displaced persons camps in Europe after the war; being posted to Landsberg; working with staff from the Joint and with the survivors; helping Samuel Bak, a child prodigy, obtain painting supplies and workspace; learning his aunt, her husband, son, his wife, and their two children had survived in Siberia; traveling illegally to Legnica to bring his relatives to Landsberg; arranging for Samuel Bak to make scu...

  8. Peretz L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz L., who was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1903, the oldest of four children. He recalls completing gymnasium; a year of military service; apprenticing in a large factory for two years; disillusionment with the German political situation after the assassination of party leaders in 1919; forming a Zionist group in Fröndenberg in 1921; living on a hachsharah in Wartenberg in 1923, then in Zwickau to learn technical skills; moving to Frankfurt; meeting his future wife's parents in Munich; marriage in Nuremberg in 1926; traveling to Vienna; living in Berlin; organiz...

  9. Raymond I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond I., a non-Jew, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1922. He recalls his happy childhood; scouting activities; German invasion; traveling with the scouts to France; returning after three months; hiding Jewish families with both sets of grandparents; joining the Resistance in 1941; accompanying downed Allied pilots to Lille; arrest en route with two pilots in January 1944; interrogation in Lille; transfer to St. Gilles; his trial and death sentence; his parents' arrest and trial for hiding an airman; transfer with his father to prison in Bayreuth, then to Amber...

  10. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. Mr. M. recalls his family background and education; not being permitted to finish school because he was Jewish; pro-Hitler demonstrations; activities in an anti-fascist organization with his brother and friends; Austrian support for the Anschluss; anti-Jewish violence; and the forced dissolution of his father's business. He describes having to move; sadness at leaving his childhood home; working for the Jewish community, which gave him some protection; warning friends or family of impending deportations, thus saving th...

  11. Julia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia P., who was born in Kon?skowola, Poland in 1908. She recalls the impoverished shtetl; her mother's death; her father's remarriage; the family's move to Warsaw; factory work at age fourteen; and moving to Belgium in 1934 because she saw no future in Poland. She relates marriage to a Belgian; attending photography and journalism school; receiving a Leica camera with which she took all her pictures and still uses; German invasion; fleeing to France; work in an airplane factory in Marseille; being treated as a German spy several times because she was taking pictures...

  12. Edith T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith T., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1928. She recalls the death of her sister during an epidemic; German invasion; escaping to France; moving many places including Be?ziers, Montpellier, and Puisserguier; her father's brief stay in a labor camp; going into hiding with help from OSE; staying with other Jewish children at a convent in Villefranche-de-Rouergue; observing Jewish holidays; singing in the convent choir; liberation; reunion with her parents who had also been in hiding; returning to Antwerp; and emigrating to the United States in 1948. Mrs. T. discu...

  13. Nechama F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nechama F., who was born in Lipkany, Romania in 1930. She recalls attending public school with her sister; her grandfather providing their Jewish education; antisemitic harassment by Romanian children; Soviet occupation in 1940; German-Romanian invasion; a death march during which her grandfather was killed and she was shot in the hand; walking to several locations including Edinet?, toward the Dniester River; many deaths and killings en route; three weeks in Mohyliv-Podil?s?kyi?; transfer to Kalynivka; her mother dying while sleeping next to her; separation from her ...

  14. Dounia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dounia S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, one of three children of Russian émigrés. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; a happy childhood; attending public school and a music conservatory; becoming a Belgian citizen in 1936; attending theater school; working as a comedian; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Saint-Gaudens, France; living for several months in La Barthe; returning home via Paris; her father registering them as Jews, despite her misgivings; leaving home, thinking it too dangerous to stay; living as a non-Jew elsewher...

  15. Shraga D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shraga D., who was born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1930, the sixth of seven children. He recalls their comfortable life; attending public school and cheder; one brother's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his bar mitzvah; a brother and sister escaping to Budapest; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; separation with his father from his mother and sisters; transfer a few days later to the former Warsaw ghetto; slave labor cleaning used bricks; a forced...

  16. Boris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris B., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1918, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his father's death; joining his brother in Saverne in 1928; attending rabbinical school in Paris; working in his family's business; military draft in 1939; German invasion; capture as a prisoner of war in Brest; incarceration in Coëtquidan, Loudéac, Compiègne, then Saint-Just-en-Chaussée; escape; returning to Paris; joining his mother in Caluire-et-Cuire via Lyon; employment as a glass-cutter; a year later, working for Father Alexandre Glasberg, OSE, and Sixièmè (Jew...

  17. Nina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina F., who was born in Zolochev, Poland (presently Zolochiv, Ukraine), in approximately 1926, the only child in a middle class family. She recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; two month summer vacations with her mother; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family business; German invasion in June 1941; confiscation of their valuables; forced labor; ghettoization; her parents obtaining Christian false papers for her; living with a seamstress in L?viv; near exposure as a Jew; returning home wanting to be with her family; hiding in a bunker during rou...

  18. Ben N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben N., who was born in approximately 1925 in ?a?cko, Poland, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in 1939; fleeing east to Ustrzyki Dolne; returning home via Biecz and Gorlice; German establishment of a Judenrat; evacuation with his family to Nowy Sa?cz in late 1940; sneaking home to obtain food from non-Jewish friends; transfer to Roznow; slave labor; visiting his family; their deportation (he never saw them again); transfer to the Tarn?ow ghetto in 1942; training with a cabinet maker who postponed...

  19. Claudine K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claudine K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1944. She relates her parents' experience hiding with assistance from a non-Jew; her father's and grandparents' arrest; their deportation to Auschwitz; a German officer helping her pregnant mother; her father's postwar return from Auschwitz; and her mother's constant sadness. Mrs. K. describes the psychological impact of her father's stories and the effect of her parents' experiences on the family's complex relations. She attributes her decision to move to America to her need to find her own coping mechanism.

  20. Julius H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius H., who was born in Mosbach, Germany in 1905. He recalls the deaths of two younger siblings; his father's service in World War I and resulting death in 1919; attending school in Mosbach and Heidelberg; his mother's death in 1926; his older sister continuing the family business; leaving his studies that year; completing his Ph.D. in art history in 1930 after studies in Berlin, Vienna, and Freiberg; a research assistantship in Berlin; a two-year internship at the Berlin state museum; dismissal in 1933 due to antisemitism; learning art restoration; visiting the Un...