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  1. Monique B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monique B., who was born in Bogoria, Poland in 1935. She recalls living in Mielec where her father was a kosher slaughterer; German invasion; hiding her father during a round-up of men; fleeing with her family to Bogoria; hiding in a forest with many Jews; escaping a mass killing (her father and siblings were shot); finding her mother; assistance from Polish peasants; hiding with her mother with a Polish family; her mother's murder; being baptized; learning the catechism; being taken to a Jewish orphanage in ?o?dz? by a distant cousin in 1945; relocation of the orphan...

  2. Heda K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heda K., who was born in Prague. In this vivid and insightful testimony, Mrs. K., a writer, tells of the absence of antisemitism among the Czechs; the consequent inability of many Jews, including her father, to understand the mortal danger they faced; and her deportation, by train, to the ?o?dz? ghetto. She describes various aspects of life in the ghetto, including the selections, random violence, hunger, and spiritual resistance; the children in the ghetto; and H?ayim Rumkowski. Her deportation, with her parents, to Auschwitz; her parting gift to them of poison; and ...

  3. Stanley M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley M., who was born in 1926 and enlisted in the United States military at age eighteen. He recalls having no awareness of what a concentration camp was or the systematic killing of Jews prior to entering Mauthausen with the 65th Infantry Division; having two sets of dog tags so he could not be identified as a Jew in case of capture; keeping the former prisoners in Mauthausen so they would not leave and overeat; their disbelief that he was a Jewish solider; obtaining contact information from the prisoners to inform relatives in the United States that they were ali...

  4. Walter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He describes his affluent and large, extended family; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Kielce with his family; ghettoization; a mass killing in 1941, including his sister; deportation to Pionki with his father; slave labor at an ammunition factory; public hangings; help from a Polish worker; transfer with his father to Auschwitz in September 1943; sorting clothes in Birkenau; transfer to Sosnowiec; assignment to the kitchen; sharing extra food with his father; evacuation to Mauthausen in Novembe...

  5. Gregory F. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Gregory F., a non-Jew, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941. He relates experiences as a "displaced person" in his own country when he and his family were relocated by the Germans from Vienna to a small Austrian town.

  6. Rella C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rella C., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1927. She recalls antisemitic harassment at school; her religious, close family; Hungarian occupation; a brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization with her uncle's family, her sister, and sister's fiancé; deportation to Auschwitz; staying with her sister and aunt's niece; slave labor; living in complete fear; cursing God; separation from her sister; having blood drawn; transfer with her aunt's niece to Bergen-Belsen; finding her sister; hospitalization; visits from her aunt's niece; her disappear...

  7. Luba S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luba S., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1921, one of three children. She recounts her father's death when she was a young child, their poverty; attending a Jewish school until grade seven; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; her brother serving in the Polish military when war began in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoziation; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; deportation with her mother and sister to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with her sister; slave labor; a former teacher sharing extra foo...

  8. Konrad S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Konrad S., who was born in Poland in 1940. He describes orphanage records which document that he was found abandoned in the Warsaw ghetto; being taken to an orphanage by a Polish policeman; and transfer to a convent orphanage outside of Warsaw. Mr. S. recalls staying in thirteen orphanages until he was eighteen; ostracizism and abuse by peers and staff, including some Catholic clergy; frequent hunger; inability to form emotional bonds; unsuccessfully seeking help; attending special education classes; working for a year, then being fired due to not having official docu...

  9. Lawrence L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lawrence L., a professor and prominent scholar of Holocaust literature and testimony, who was born in Bronx, New York in 1929. He recalls no knowledge of the Holocaust or the Nuremberg trials when they occurred; traveling to Europe in 1955 after completing his oral examinations at Harvard, focusing on American literature; visiting Dachau, including a gas chamber; having no context with which to understand the site, outside of minimal signage; reading Night and The Last of the Just to prepare a lecture for Yom Hashoah in the early 1960s, his first encounters with Holoc...

  10. Gladys H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gladys H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in September 1939; immediate anti-Jewish violence; expulsion from their home; ghettoization; forced labor in a shoe factory; deportation with her parents and younger sister to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); selection with her mother and sister for transfer to Bremen; slave labor clearing Allied bombing debris; her sister's serious illness; escaping briefly to obtain medication for her; assistance from a local pharmacist; transfer to Bergen-Be...

  11. Yoseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoseph M., who was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his father's mobilization two days before German invasion in April 1941; Ustaša severely beating him and his brother; German soldiers billeting in their house; a German protecting them from Ustaša; his father's arrest; futile attempts to secure his release; arrest with his brother by Ustaša; their transfer to a prison in Zagreb, then to Jadovno and Gospić; slave labor harvesting wheat; transfer to Jasenovac; slave labor felling trees; Ustaša bruta...

  12. Irving D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving D., who was born in Russia in 1912. He recounts the family's move to Vilna in 1913; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic incidents in 1929; moving to ?o?dz? to learn the textile industry; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; returning to ?o?dz? with his brother; their escape to Soviet occupied areas, Ma?kinia, then Baranavichy; registering to join his parents in Vilna which resulted in arrest as an anti-communist; incarceration in a forced labor camp through 1940; moving to Tashkent; volunteering for the Soviet military in 1941; his discharge after being ...

  13. Sally H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally H., who was born in Zwolen?, Poland in 1928. She describes the ghettoization of her city; ghetto life, including forced labor and the humiliation of the Jews in the ghetto; her detention, together with her two sisters, in slave labor camps in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna and Cze?stochowa, where they worked in ammunition factories; and postwar antisemitism in her home town. She also reflects on the reasons for her survival and the lasting effects and ever-present memories of her Holocaust experiences.

  14. Lotte B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lotte B., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1915. She recalls her family's affluence; attending a Jewish school, then secretarial school; her father's death in 1931; her brother's emigration to the Netherlands (they were Dutch citizens); caring for her mother; her mother's death in 1936; assistance from non-Jews; being harassed on Kristallnacht; moving to Amsterdam; marriage in June 1941; confiscation of her husband's business; incarceration in a former barracks, then in Westerbork in 1943; bribing officials to avoid transports; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in Se...

  15. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in ?uko?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1907, the oldest of thirteen children. He recounts his successful hardware business; marriage in 1927; the births of five children; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s, including boycotts; German invasion; fleeing with his family to avoid bombings; returning alone two weeks later; hiding with his father and sister from a round-up; brief Soviet occupation; bringing his family back to ?uko?w; German reoccupation in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; random killings; arrest and incarceration in Lublin; release...

  16. Sarah L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah L., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls working as a bookkeeper; participation in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; German invasion; ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish friends; being selected with her parents to work when the ghetto was converted to a camp in 1942 (over 20,000 were deported to Treblinka); deportation with her mother to Ravensbru?ck in November 1944; sharing extra food with her; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; her mother's death; learning her fathe...

  17. Maurice N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice N., who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1924. He recalls enlisting in the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor; posting in Europe in June 1943; landing in North Africa; moving through Sicily, Italy, and France; recovering from a wound; high casualties in his regiment; capturing Munich; visiting Dachau shortly after its liberation; seeing piles of corpses of prisoners and camp personnel recently killed; his anger at the extent of German atrocities; cordial relations with the German population; assisting former inmates of Dachau at the Funk Kaserne displaced persons camp;...

  18. Paul M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending school in Piotrko?w and Warsaw; antisemitic harassment and beating by fellow students; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; burning of the synagogue; ghettoization; forced labor; arrest and beating by the Jewish police; his workshop director securing his release; his brother's deportation; working in another factory; being denounced as a saboteur; arrest; transfer to Katowice; a beating; hospitalization; recruitment by Armia Ludowa; release with his factory director's assistance; smuggling h...

  19. Ignatez R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ignatez R., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1923, one of five children. He recounts his family's affluence and orthodoxy; attending school and yeshiva in Frankfurt; returning home in 1935; Hungarian occupation; draft into a slave labor battalion; postings in Minsk, Ivano-Frankivs?k (where he saw a grave from a Jewish mass killing), then Stalingrad; returning home via Budapest in February 1944; German invasion; deportation from Sighet to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his parents and siblings (none survived); slave la...

  20. Dov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov E., who was born in 1925 in Vasil'kovtsy, Poland (presently Ukraine). He recounts living in Husi︠a︡tyn; his mother's death; his father's remarriage; the birth of a half-brother; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; participating in Gordonyah; spending holidays with his grandmother; Soviet occupation; fleeing to cousins in Kopychynt︠s︡i; returning home; attending a Soviet school; German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village; living with his grandfather in Vasil'kovtsy; returning home; slave labor clearing roads and in a warehouse; working in Probezhna; round-up and...