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  1. Bronia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1914, the second of five children. She recounts her family moving to the Netherlands, then Berlin due to World War I; moving to Katowice in 1928; participating in Zionist organizations; vacations in Zakopane; returning to Os?wie?cim; her older brother's emigration to France; German invasion; fleeing with her mother to L?viv; Soviet occupation; one brother joining them; returning to Os?wie?cim to rejoin her father, sister, and one brother; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; h...

  2. Isador J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isador J., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the older of two children. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; his family's orthodoxy; completing high school; German occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; a fight with a non-Jewish friend; leaving the next day without telling his family; traveling by train to Innsbruck; interdiction while trying to enter Switzerland; being kept at the railroad station and placed on a train to Vienna the next day; jumping from the train; walking toward the Alps; a shepherd sheltering him overnight, then escorting and directing hi...

  3. Aranka S. and Violet S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aranka S. and her sister Violet S., who relate their surviving sister Eta's story. They tell of Eta's attending school in Budapest before the war; losing contact with her when she was hiding with Christian friends; learning of this through Violet's boyfriend who came into their ghetto from Budapest; and the coincidence that helped them to find Eta after the war. They describe their trip to Israel for a reunion with Eta and visiting Violet's boyfriend as well. They discuss the different ways their memories work.

  4. Magda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda F., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, in 1918. Mrs. F. recalls her happy prewar life as the youngest of seven in a middle-class family; increasing antisemitic restrictions after 1939; her family's rejection of hiding, since it involved separation; marriage and her mother's death in 1941; her husband and brother being drafted for a Hungarian labor battalion soon after (she never saw either of them again); deportation with her family to Kos?ice in May 1941; and deportation to Auschwitz. She details camp routine; transport to P?aszo?w, where she did p...

  5. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929, one of four children. He describes his orthodox family; living in his grandfather's home in Konstantyno?w until age five; attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; his father's death in 1940; smuggling food from outside the ghetto with his younger brother; hiding his youngest brother during round-ups; giving him up when all children were collected; his mother's death in 1943; several jobs in ghetto factories; friendship with Jankele Herszkowicz, a popular ghetto singer, who raised spirits with his songs; his b...

  6. Monty T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monty T., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1928, one of six children. He recounts his family belonging to a Hasidic sect; their extreme poverty; attending cheder; speaking only Yiddish; antisemitic harassment; his older brother leaving home; German invasion; fleeing to an aunt's home in another town; returning home weeks later; Germans forcing his father to shave; reporting for forced labor in his father's place; ghettoization; transfer to De?blin camp with his sisters; his parents' deportation; slave labor on farms and at an airport; maintaining contact with his si...

  7. Felicia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia B., who was born in Warsaw. She speaks of her prewar life in Warsaw; her life in L?vov, where she and her son were taken by her husband (who was a medical officer in the Polish army) after the German occupation; her and her son's deportation to Siberia with a transport of wives and children of Polish officers (her husband was shot in a Russian internment camp) and their life in Siberia, where they remained for six years, until the end of the war. Mrs. B. also describes their return to Poland, where they witnessed postwar antisemitism; her feelings on returning...

  8. Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. Mr. S. describes his childhood and vague identification with Judaism; the German occupation and its immediate effect on the lives of Jews; his family's move to Skawa, an outlying village, to avoid living in the Krako?w ghetto; atrocities during the liquidation of the village, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed; separation from his parents and his selection for slave labor. He relates experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of P?aszo?w; Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, where he narrowly escaped worki...

  9. Frieda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Freida F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, the youngest of four children. She recalls Hungarian occupation; receiving money from American relatives; a forced march to Svali?a?va; train transfer to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from her parents and other relatives; remaining with her sisters; sorting clothing of the murdered Jews; smuggling food and valuables to her barrack; separation from one sister; being compelled to give blood; learning of a planned revolt from a cousin who worked in the crematoria; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, Venusberg, t...

  10. Thou Shalt Tell They Sons' Sons

  11. Anna L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. Ms. L. recalls a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; visiting relatives in Skryhiczyn; attending school in Dubienka; a disproportionate failure rate for Jews taking exams in 1932; completing university in Warsaw in 1937; participating in a banned left-wing organization; working in a CENTOS institute for mentally handicapped children in Otwock, while living in Warsaw; German invasion; traveling to Skryhiczyn, then fleeing east to Kovel?; Soviet occupation; working in an orphanage; moving to L?viv; German invasion in...

  12. Michel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel G., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Belgium in 1912. He recalls his father's death; living with his grandparents; completing medical school in 1929; military service; observing many Nazi emblems when visiting Munich in 1932; doing research at the university in Liège; military recall during German invasion; being taken prisoner; caring for the wounded; release; involvement with the Resistance; assisting English soldiers to escape; arrest in September 1941; incarceration in St. Gilles; transfer to prison in Germany in July; forced labor; transfer a year later...

  13. Yafa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yafa R., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's business in Niedrzwica Duża; spending summers there; participating in Gordonyah; living with relatives in Lublin to attend high school; briefly living with a family in Zaklików; German invasion in September 1939; confiscation of the family business; her father obtaining false papers for her; arranging for a job in Kraków as a non-Jew; deciding not to go in order to remain with her family; hiding jewelry in their cellar and placing possess...

  14. David A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David A., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1928 and moved to Chorzo?w in 1930. He describes his happy, traditional but not orthodox, home. He discusses the German occupation; the rounding up of Jews; removal to the Krosno and Rzeszo?w ghettos in 1940; his experiences as a slave laborer before deportation to P?aszo?w in 1940; slave labor, living conditions and mass killings at P?aszo?w; a move to Sachsenhausen in 1943; and work in a munitions factory until its bombing and liberation by the United States in 1945. He describes his postwar experiences in Berlin; his retu...

  15. Lisa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland (presently Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1930, one of four children. She recounts her family's affluence; attending private school and summer camp; Soviet occupation; German invasion in July 1941; a mass killing of fifty Jews; a round-up for a mass shooting that included her sister in December 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; her mother receiving bread from their former maid; a mass shooting in May 1943 that included her mother; a group, including her brother, digging an escape tunnel; her brother leading the group out of the t...

  16. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Rzeszo?w, Poland in 1913. He recounts his parents moving to the Hague, Netherlands when he was six months old; moving to Antwerp when he was about thirteen; returning to the Hague with his mother and siblings; working as a furrier; military induction in 1937; being changed to reserve status; German invasion in May 1940; his son's birth in August; forming a resistance unit; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups; a non-Jewish colleague offering a hiding place in his home; several police interrogations; clandestinely moving to his friend's attic; st...

  17. William R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William R., who was born in Arizona in 1918. He recounts liberating Mauthausen as a member of the United States Army 11th Armored Division; his shock at seeing thousands of starved and sick prisoners; the pervasive stench; prisoners dying after liberation because they could not digest food; buildings that appeared to be shower rooms but were gas chambers; and hundreds of corpses. He describes an American general who had himself sprayed with DDT so prisoners would allow themselves to be treated for lice to stem the typhus epidemic and the policy of the United States Ar...

  18. Priska S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Priska S., who was born in Šahy, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922. She recounts her parents' divorce; her mother moving to Budapest; remaining with her father; his death in 1937; becoming part of his sister's family; attending school; one cousin's emigration to England in 1937; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her other cousin's draft into a slave labor battalion; going to Budapest for professional training; frequently coming home to Šahy; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; being beaten by those seeking valuables; deportation in May to Auschwitz/Birkena...

  19. Liuboʹv A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liuboʹv A., who was born in Slonim, Poland (presently Belarus) in approximately 1921. She recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; marriage; her son's birth; Soviet occupation; German invasion; her husband's murder in a mass killing in July 1941; moving to her aunt's home with her son and parents; her son's death from illness; moving in with a friend; viewing a second mass killing from hiding in November; learning her parents and other relatives had been killed; losing her will to live; wandering the streets in a daze; being taken in by he...

  20. Edward H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls expulsion from school in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's nine-day incarceration in Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht; leaving by ship for Cuba in April 1939; returning upon hearing of the St. Louis; departure for Shanghai on August 20; the ship returning to Bremerhaven due to the war; his father and brother smuggling themselves to Antwerp; remaining in Cologne with his mother; their illegal journey to Antwerp; his father's and brother's incarceration as enemy aliens; his mother's death; his brot...