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  1. Carolyn G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carolyn G., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1926. She recalls attending public school for six years; anti-Semitic vandalism before the war; deportation with her sister and brother in 1942; her sister's selection for gassing; her brother's death from typhus; her severe depression resulting in her selection from which she was saved through the intervention of a co-worker; temporarily improved conditions for a Red Cross inspection; frequent beatings; transport to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, then to Tu?rkheim; the death march to Dachau; Hitler Jugend members shooting inm...

  2. Al H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al H., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. He recounts serving in the 104th Infantry Division; landing on Utah beach; fighting as they progressed through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands into Germany; liberating Nordhausen in 1945; the pervasive stench and corpses strewn about; his uncontrollable sobbing; observing General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction; taking photographs; ordering local Germans to bury the dead; their denial of any knowledge of the camp; assisting Jewish women prisoners who had been hiding nearby; leaving after two or three days; ...

  3. Itzchak Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak Y., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1926, the younger by sixteen years of two children. He recalls attending a Taḥkemoni school; his family's orthodoxy; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending summer camp in Płatkownica in 1938; antisemitic harassment by children; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; witnessing the main synagogue set on fire with hundreds of Jews inside; ghettoization; working at several jobs; his sister, who was blond, trading possessions outside the ghetto for food; hiding with his family during ...

  4. Cesia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cesia K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland to a middle-class family of four children. She recalls a sheltered childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; starvation, beatings, and forced labor; her impressions of H?ayim Rumkowski; her mother's escape with her nine-month-old sibling during a children's deportation; trying to help others through the sick committee; her father's deportation in August 1944 (she never saw him again); separation from her mother, brothers, and grandmother upon arrival at Auschwitz; transfer with her sister to Stutthof in N...

  5. Vladka and Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladka M. and her husband Benjamin M. Mrs. M. tells of her wartime life as an underground courier between the Warsaw ghetto and non-Jewish Warsaw and contrasts ghetto life with life on the Aryan side. Pointing out the incorrect way in which Poles today equate the ghetto uprising with the (non-Jewish) Polish resistance, she describes spiritual resistance in the ghetto, meetings of the ghetto underground, and the Warsaw ghetto revolt from her perspective outside the ghetto. She stresses the importance of documentation and talks about the underground archive of the Warsa...

  6. Sally P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally P., who was born in approximately 1920 and raised in P?on?sk, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing to Warsaw; selling their goods to support her brothers; her mother's return; ghettoization; public hangings; emotional devastation from observing her family's suffering, particularly hunger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to Budy, then back to Auschwitz/Birkenau; finding her friends; slave labor clearing bombing rubble and in a...

  7. Judith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1929, the first of two sisters. She recounts her childhood in Nové Zámky; attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1938; attending a Catholic high school due to the Jewish quota in public schools; learning their relatives in Nitra were being deported; her father bringing his mother and cousins from Nitra to their home; his draft for one month of forced labor in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; abuse from Arrow Cross members; hiding their val...

  8. Tzvi I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzvi I., who was born in Lenin, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923, one of seven children. He recounts his father's murder when he was two; their poverty and constant hunger; attending a Tarbut, then Polish school; leaving school to help support his family; one sister's emigration to Israel in 1931; one brother's draft into the Polish military; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his brother's return from a POW camp; slave labor constructing utility poles; sabotaging the work; public executions; the threat of mass killings if anyone escaped; deportation with his broth...

  9. Ziuta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziuta G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1927, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; her father's architectural business; attending a Polish school; speaking and reading German at home; vacationing in Zakopane; an Austrian cousin living with them after the Anschluss; increasing tension in 1939; her parents sending her brother to England; vacationing in Muszyna in the summer of 1939; returning home in late August when her father was drafted; his rejection and return; German invasion on September 1; her father fleeing with his three broth...

  10. Sidney L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidney L., who was born in Kozienice, Poland in 1927. Mr. L. describes his childhood in detail; life in his town which was home to a famous Maggid; and reactions to the German invasion of Poland. He recalls the bombing of his home; the resulting deaths of his mother and five of his eight siblings; and the formation of and life in the ghetto. He recounts seeing his father murdered by a German; rumors of transports to Treblinka; and joining a slave labor project with his brother to avoid transport. He tells of work conditions in Wolano?w; a selection; the arrest of his ...

  11. Ruth J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth J., who was born in Frankenberg, Germany, in 1932. Ms. J. recalls a family move to Du?sseldorf; Kristallnacht; her parents' decision to flee to Holland; living on the estate of an anti-Nazi baron in Utrecht; being joined by her grandmother; German invasion; imposition of anti-Semitic measures; the disappearances of school classmates; deportation of her grandmother to Terezi?n; and in 1942 being hidden by a non-Jewish friend who told others the family had committed suicide. She describes being helped by the Dutch resistance; separation from her parents; placement ...

  12. Allen W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allen W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1931. He recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his father and brother fleeing toward the Soviet zone while he and his mother went to I?z?a; all of them returning to Radom; anti-Jewish restrictions; his brother-in-law's killing; escaping from a deportation train; returning home with assistance from non-Jews; taking the identity of a person who had died; the transition of Radom from ghetto to camp; public executions; a forced march to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; deportation with his family to Aus...

  13. Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham K., who was born in Biecz, Poland in 1908. He recounts his youth; entry into the family businesses; marriage in 1939; and his son's birth in 1940. He describes German persecution of Jews in Biecz; conscript labor; the death of his father-in-law from typhus; ghettoization of Biecz; the killing of 169 Jews, including his father, sister, brother and nephew; and his wife's and son's escape. Mr. K. relates deportation to P?aszo?w in 1942; building railroads; camp conditions; reunion with his wife and brother-in-law in the Krako?w ghetto; and the killing of his son....

  14. Regina N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina N., who was born in Myszyniec, Poland in 1920. She recounts her father's death when she was a baby; antisemitic violence; participating in Zionist youth groups; child care work in Warsaw, then P?ock; German invasion; her mother's death from cancer; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; deportation to Dzia?dowo; escaping upon arrival; traveling to Starachowice; ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Starachowice camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; pregnancy and childbirth (the child was taken after three days); a failed escape attempt by the camp resistanc...

  15. Josef S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930, the third of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; cessation of schooling; smuggling goods with his sister and mother to support the family; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto; his youngest sister's death from illness; his illness due to starvation; an aunt assisting his recovery; hospitalization for typhus; learning of his parents' deaths upon release; his youngest brother's death; he and his sisters co...

  16. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania), in 1916. He recounts his friendship with Abraham Sutzkever; studying art; German invasion; fleeing east with his wife; German troops overtaking them; traveling back to Vilnius for nine months via Lyubashevo, Svirʹ and other villages; witnessing round-ups of local Jews; entering the Vilna ghetto; helping to smuggle food into the ghetto; joining an uncle in Švenčionys; ghettoization; working as a shoemaker, and a translator for the Judenrat; transfer back to the Vilna ghetto when the Švenčio...

  17. Hubert D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hubert D., a non-Jew, who was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1922. He recounts his parents' divorce shortly after his birth; placement in a foster home for twelve years, then with his father and paternal grandmother, both of whom were abusive; running away to his foster mother; placement with his biological mother; apprenticing as a butcher; working from age fifteen; German invasion; becoming unemployed; volunteering for work in Germany in early 1941; placement in Flensburg; returning to Belgium a few months later; returning to work in Germany in 1942; assignment to a meat...

  18. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their strong German identity; antisemitic harassment in school; transferring to the Philanthropin, a Jewish school; his family applying to emigrate to the United States in summer 1938; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Buchenwald; his release five weeks later providing he left the country; his emigration to England; Henry S.'s emigration with his mother and sister to the United States in February 1940 (his father preceded them); assistance ...

  19. Sylvia F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia F., who was born, an only child, in Krako?w, Poland, in 1909. During the last quarter of the testimony she is joined by her husband, Jacob, who details the circumstances under which they met and notes the camps in which he was interned: Lemberg (Lv?ov,) Borislav, Krako?w (P?aszo?w,) Vielichka, Mauthausen, and Linz. [His wartime experiences are more fully recounted in Holocaust videotape testimony T-120.] Mrs. F. describes her marriage at the age of nineteen; the arrest and murder of her first husband; her life in the ghetto and her work in the commissary in Kra...

  20. Fernand V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fernand V., a Catholic, who was born in Ndjoko-Punda, Congo in 1909, one of three children of a Belgian man and a Congolese woman. He recounts his father's death in approximately 1911; his father's family bringing him to Belgium without his mother's permission (he never saw her or his siblings again); living with his father's sister in Uccle; German invasion in World War I; attending school; racist harassment; enlisting as a reserve cavalry officer; studying art; working in a bank and as a newspaper illustrator; marriage in 1937; his daughter's birth; military mobiliz...