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  1. Alvin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alvin G., who was born in Kroměříž, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1919, one of four children. He recalls a pleasant childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; joining Makabi ha-tsaʻir at age ten and spending summers at their camps; becoming the leader in his town; completing gymnasium; studying carpentry; training and certification in Prague in industrial housing; studying architecture starting in 1938; spending the summer of 1939 at a hachsharah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school; confiscation of his father's business; having...

  2. Amelia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amelia B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recounts her happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions in 1940; attending a Jewish school; ghettoizaton following German occupation in 1944; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival; the importance of remaining with her sister; the value of friendship and helping each other; frequent selections, starvation, lice, and constant death; moving from one barrack to another to find a safer place; transfer to a work camp in Breslau; receiving bread from a Yugoslav civil...

  3. Ida F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida F., who was born in Vilma?ny, Hungary in 1925. She describes her non-observant family; education in a Catholic primary school; leaving gymnasium to help her father in the family farm and store; a close Catholic friend who became anti-Semitic and terminated their friendship; her family's 1944 deportation to Kos?ice; the arduous conditions; their transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; her selection for forced labor; and discovering her parents had been killed. She tells of her transport to Peterswaldau; the camp regimen; hiding food for a fellow prisoner; making hand gren...

  4. Rosette L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosette L., who was born in approximately 1923. She recalls her family's relative affluence; living on a farm near Moson; moving to Gyo?r in 1938; her brother's emigration to the United States in 1940; apprenticing as a dressmaker in Budapest in 1943; returning home; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization enforced by Arrow Cross and Germans; transfer to an army barrack; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; the trauma of separation from her parents ("the lowest point" in her life); transfer to Lippstadt six weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; i...

  5. Rolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1916. He recounts his father was a German industrialist and his mother the daughter of a Jew who had converted in 1908 (she was baptized and raised as a Christian); half siblings from his father's previous two marriages, the first to a non-Jew, the second to his mother's sister (both wives had died); not knowing he was legally Jewish until his expulsion from school in 1933; attending technical school in Mittweida because he was barred from university; draft into a forced labor battalion; returning to school after his release...

  6. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. Mr. S. recounts his father's early prominence as a Russian Bolshevik; losing favor; his emigration to Germany; his mother's death during his birth; his family's emigration to Juan-les-Pins in 1933; a secular childhood (he was not circumcised); moving to Paris; completing high school; arrest in 1943; transfer to Drancy; forming close friendships; an intense social life in Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz two weeks later, then to Monowitz; the head kapo favoring him due to his fluent German (he saved his life six times);...

  7. Fanny W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny W., who was born in Paris, France to Polish immigrants in 1925, one of five children. She recalls membership in a communist youth organization; resigning due to antisemitism; joining the Bund; her father's military draft in 1939; his demobilization; German invasion; one brother's arrest in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding with her parents in Orly; her arrest in Paris; prostitutes in jail with her warning her parents to hide; transfer to Drancy in March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau three months later; slave labor breaking stones; hospitalization;...

  8. Salamon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salamon K., who was born in Nizhna Apsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Dubrava, Ukraine) circa 1915, one of nine children. He recalls Hungarian occupation in 1940; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; postings in Budapest, Munkacs, and the Soviet Union; digging trenches; transfer to an indoor position after demonstrating his carving skills; watching soldiers burn a building filled with sick, elderly Jews; transfer to Kiev, then L'viv; being assigned to cover mass graves filled with murdered Jews near a Polish town; returning to Nizhna Apsha; his family not ...

  9. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1928. He recalls the integration of Jews in his hometown, Niederrad; his father's position as a university professor of medicine; his family's ties to Jewish culture, even though they were not religious; his first anti-Jewish experience when he was not allowed to play with a non-Jew in 1933; his father's dismissal from his position due to anti-Jewish laws; and the family joining his maternal grandparents in Zurich. Mr. S. recounts his father's efforts for the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars; thei...

  10. Fred R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred R., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1931; experiencing antisemitism beginning in 1933; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; transferring to a Jewish school in 1935, then to a school in Milan in 1936; and emigration to the United States in 1938. Mr. R. recounts his mother joining him in 1939; his draft into the United States military in 1943; serving in the Office of Strategic Services in London and Paris; broadcasting from London to Germany; interrogating a German general in Paris; spying in Aachen; participating in Dacha...

  11. Chaim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim G., who was born in Lithuania in 1926, one of two sons. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school from age three; speaking Yiddish at home; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1936; antisemitic violence in 1938; his bar mitzvah at his grandmother's house; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; confiscation of their home; visiting Kaunas; German invasion (his mother was in Panevėžys); mass killings of Jews by Lithuanians; arrest with his father; their release (the others were all shot); ghettoization; falsifyin...

  12. Siegried K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried K., who was born in Danzig in 1930. He notes Danzig's unique place in Jewish history and speaks of his luxurious prewar life. He tells of the rise of Nazism and recalls shaking Hitler's hand during a visit to Berlin as a small child. The disturbances and attacks by the Brownshirts and his experiences with antisemitism, which continued in the United States, are also related. He describes his family's flight to England in 1938; the difficulty of leaving home and relatives, and, for him, leaving behind his beloved dog; the help given them by German non-Jews; hi...

  13. Margaret M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret M., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1941. She notes that she has no recollection of her parents; being told her father was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, and her mother arrested six months before liberation; being placed with a Flemish farm family with her sister; memories of Catholic school and complete love from her foster mother; their transfer to a Jewish orphanage in 1945; four unhappy years there; and their adoption by an orthodox Jewish family from the United States in 1950. Ms. M. discusses her uncle's decision to place them for adoption; her ide...

  14. Genia T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia T., who is from Chrzanów, Poland. She speaks of her life under German occupation, working as a forced laborer making buttons. She recounts the round-up, while she was away at work, of her husband, father, and siblings for deportation from the Chrzanów ghetto. Only her husband survived. Mrs. T. describes her transfer to a slave labor camp in Bernsdorf, Czechoslovakia, and details conditions there, where she remained as a worker in a mattress factory until her liberation by the Russians. She also mentions her return home after the war; her reunion with her husba...

  15. Evgenia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Evgenia L., who was born in Bar, Ukraine in 1921. She recalls moving often when her father was transferred (he was a teacher); many deaths during famine years; returning to Bar in 1935; attending teachers' college in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; teaching in Kopaygorod; marriage; returning to Bar when Germany invaded (she never saw her husband again); ghettoization; forced labor; selection with other younger people, including her sister, during a round-up; hearing shots all night long; learning her father had survived; escaping from another mass killing with help from her father's f...

  16. Ruth B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth B., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1934, the first of two children. She recounts not knowing she was Jewish; attending Maccabi events; German invasion; her first sense of being Jewish based on anti-Jewish restrictions; her grandparents' deportation to Theresienstadt, then hers with her family in July 1942 (her grandfather died before their arrival); her father's assignments outside the camp; her mother and aunt working with the elderly, many of whom died; performing in the children's theater; sham improvements prior to a Red Cross visit; liberation by ...

  17. Moritz G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moritz G., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family belonging to the Ger Hasidic movement; attending Jewish schools; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father's escape to the Soviet Union; his mother's three-month imprisonment; a round-up including his two-year-old brother; ghettoization; forced labor as a tailor; his clandestine bar mitzvah; transfer with his family to the ?o?dz? ghetto; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation with his brother from his family...

  18. Chaskel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaskel S., who was born in Wielopole, Poland in 1910. He recounts his parents' deaths when he was a child; moving to Tarno?w at age thirteen; a successful business with his brother; German invasion; expropriation of Jewish property; ghettoization; using influence with a Judenrat member to avoid deportation; hiding with his brother and future wife during round-ups and mass killings; deportation to P?aszo?w; working in Schindler's factory; transfer to Gross-Rosen, then Brne?nec, with his brother; reunion with his future wife who had been in Auschwitz; liberation by Sov...

  19. Malka S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka S., who was born in Halmeu, Romania in 1922, the second of eight children. She recalls speaking Yiddish at home; celebrating Shavuot; Hungarian occupation in 1940; being sent to Budapest; marriage; returning home due to her pregnancy; German occupation in March 1944; her husband joining her; ghettoization in Nagyszollos (presently Vynohradiv); her daughter's birth; deportation to Auschwitz; a prisoner telling them to give the baby to her mother; selection with two sisters (she never saw her parents, daughter, or husband again); forced labor; starvation; a French...

  20. Ema P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ema P., who was born in Holíč, Slovakia in 1924. She recalls her father's death; her mother's remarriage to a non-Jewish, Russian physician; leaving school as a result of anti-Jewish laws; her adoptive father arranging for her to avoid deportations beginning in 1942 with assistance from other non-Jews; his work with the partisans; fleeing to Slatina nad Bebravou using false papers; her father leaving them when he fought in the uprising; traveling with her mother to Bratislava during the chaos of German attacks; her father joining them; exposure by a German from Holi...