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  1. Edward S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edward S., who was born in Krzeszowice, Poland in 1920. He recalls working in his father's sheet metal and roofing business; German invasion; fleeing to Krako?w with his family; returning to Krzeszowice; difficult conditions in a forced labor camp; efforts to help a younger brother; transfer with his father and older brother to P?aszo?w; his father's death in 1943; and transfer to Auschwitz and Sosnowiec, where his metal working skills helped him survive. Mr. S. recounts a death march to Austria in late 1944; the deaths of two friends in escape attempts; transport to ...

  2. Boris Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris Z., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1926 and raised in Kaunas. He recalls the rich Jewish culture in Kaunas; anti-Semitic incidents; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his family after the German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; slave labor building an airport; a selection on October 26th, followed by mass killings in the Ninth Fort on October 28th; briefly working as a courier; digging trenches in Marijampole?; returning to Kaunas in 1944; volunteering to enter a camp upon the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with his family to Kaufering; and his mothe...

  3. Henri M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri M., who was born in I?zmir, Turkey in 1924. He recounts his family's move to Clichy, France in 1926; relatives emigrating to Saint-Brieuc; participating in Boy Scouts; German invasion; fleeing with his parents and brother to Saint-Brieuc; returning home after two months; anti-Jewish restrictions; smuggling himself to Moissac, in the unoccupied zone, with assistance from a non-Jew; living in a home organized by Jewish scouts (EIF); forming lifelong friendships, including his future wife; his brother's arrival; his parents living nearby; receiving false papers fro...

  4. Grete M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grete M., who was born in Aurich, Germany in 1922. She recalls her orthodox, close-knit family; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1938; attending nursing school at the Jewish hospital in Berlin; two siblings emigrating to England; her parents' deportation (they perished); hiding with a German family in 1942, then with their relatives in Upper Silesia; fearing exposure, returning to Berlin via Gross Strehlitz (Strzelec) to Beuthen (Bytom); arrest; transfer to Auschwitz; useless forced labor; assistance from a guard because she spoke German; seeing a cousin (s...

  5. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in 1927 in Poland. She recalls emigration to Paris; her orthodox home in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's expulsion from France in 1934 (he was working illegally); his legal return a year later; a brief evacuation to Yonne with her mother and five siblings when the war began in 1939; German invasion of Paris in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; visiting friends in Pithiviers; her mother's death in 1941; placing her younger siblings in OSE orphanages; and eluding the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver round-up of July 16, 1942. Mrs. G. recounts living with a French Jew...

  6. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Paks, Hungary in 1929. He recalls his comfortable, assimilated family; his parents' divorce; his mother's remarriage in 1938; anti-Jewish violence in school; German occupation in March 1944; deportation with his mother and grandmother in July to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his family; transfer two weeks later to Mühldorf; slave labor building railroads; transfer a few months later to Kaufering; observing cannibalism by Russian POWs; train transfer to Dachau in late April; being injured en route during an Allied bombing; liberati...

  7. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recalls many injured veterans from World War I; active participation in a Zionist youth group, despite her parents' disapproval; completing studies at a private gymnasium, then medical school; her older brother and sister emigrating to join relatives in the United States; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; the transformation of most Austrians into Nazis; the non-Jewish superintendent of their building protecting them during a round-up; emigration to the United States; training a...

  8. George K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, one of four children. He recounts his family's affluence; living in Pa?pa; increasing antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion for three months in 1943, despite his and his father's exemption due to the latter's World War I military service; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; transfer to a brick factory; forced labor; transfer with his father to Sa?rva?r with his father; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor digging trenches and building barracks; frequent be...

  9. Dora S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora S., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1921, the only daughter of eight children. She recounts her father's World War I service; his first wife's death (they had three sons); his remarriage to her mother; their orthodoxy; high school graduation in June 1940; Hungarian occupation in September; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother escaping to the Soviet Union; another's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her younger brother remaining home (the others left); German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; her brother's return from slave labor; deportation ...

  10. Marcel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel B., who was born in Dorohoi, Romania in 1924. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's law practice; treatment for illness in Botoșani and Iași; a beloved grandmother; his bar mitzvah; learning an uncle in Vienna was deported to Sachsenhausen (he did not survive); housing a Romanian officer; the officer warning them to hide prior to a pogrom in June 1940; moving with his sister to Bucharest so they could attend school; assistance from a wealthy uncle; hiding during an Iron Guard pogrom in January 1941; returning to Dorohoi; his father's deportation as...

  11. Margaret H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret H., who was born in Vel?ka? Ida, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school in Kos?ice; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a slave labor battalion; ghettoization in 1944; non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food and blankets; transfer to the Kos?ice ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); forced labor; always remaining with her sister; a death march in January; train transfer to Bergen-Belsen; she and her sister contracting typhus; liberation by B...

  12. Alexander G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander G., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1933. He recalls German invasion prior to entering first grade; his father's draft; an unsuccessful attempt to evacuate east with his mother, sister, and grandmother; ghettoization in a tractor factory; mass killings in Drobitsky Yar; escaping with his mother, sister, and grandmother, with assistance from a German guard; hiding with assistance from their non-Jewish neighbors; fleeing to Bilhorod with his mother and sister, with assistance from his cousin; his mother acquiring false papers; arrest with his mother in Bor...

  13. Ondrej G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ondrej G., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Ruskinovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, one of ten children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Romani; attending school from age ten to fifteen; working with his father as a blacksmith; persecution of Romas by Hlinka guards after the formation of the Slovak state; vandalism against Romanies; moving with his mother to his sister's home in ľubietová; returning home; finding their house burned down; living with his brother; fear of deportation; enlisting in the military; fighting in the Soviet Union; t...

  14. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Po?aniec, Poland in 1917. He recalls escaping with two friends from a forced evacuation of the town in October 1942; being hidden in a cave by farmers (they had been his father's customers), who also hid a Jewish girl in their home; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; working for the Soviets; fleeing to ?o?dz? after Jews were killed by soldiers of the Polish underground; marriage to a concentration camp survivor; and emigration to Cuba in 1947, then to the United States in 1961. Mr. K. sings a song from the Warsaw ghetto.

  15. Marko M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marko M., who was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (presently Macedonia) in 1920, one of two children. He recalls visiting relatives in Istanbul; his mother's sister and her father emigrating from Istanbul to live with them; attending synagogue daily with his grandfather; his mother's death when he was eight; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending university in Belgrade in 1938; German invasion in 1941; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a Jew, whose entire family had been killed, volunteering for a suicide task to save the group; escaping to his family in Skopje; ...

  16. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Beclean, Romania, to a family of six children. He recalls his large and close extended family; the small Jewish community and family life; attending a yeshiva in Sighet for eighteen months; antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; implementation of anti-Jewish measures; his two older brothers' draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; German invasion; deportation with his family to Dej; three weeks of forced labor in an open field; deportation to Auschwitz; and separation from his parents and younger brother upon arrival (he never saw them a...

  17. Rudolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1923. He recalls several generations of his family in Holland; German invasion; gradual implementation of anti-Jewish laws, including his expulsion from medical school; working in the Jewish hospital; the role of the Jewish council; forced relocation of Jews to south Amsterdam; frequent round-ups; incarceration with other Jews at Gestapo headquarters; his father's arrest and deportation (he perished); his sister hiding with her fiance with help from the underground; hiding elsewhere with his mother; deportation of t...

  18. Shlomo L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1930, the older of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; participation in Betar; Soviet occupation; his father's workers testifying to protect their his from deportation as bourgeoisie; attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hearing mass shootings from the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; his father's round-up in a mass killing of intelligentsia; public hangings; trading valuables for necessities; raising chickens and rabbits; playing soccer; attending concerts and sho...

  19. Bartolmej D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bartolmej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Šaštín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924. He recalls his parents encouraging education; attending the local school; cordial relations with other ethnic groups; his father's government employment; his mother and sisters working for Jews; a Jewish physician who did not charge for treating them; restrictions of Romani rights under the Hlinka guard beginning in 1939; his brothers' deportation for forced labor; trying to comfort the local Jews when they were rounded-up and deported; cruel treatment by Hlinka gu...

  20. Jolan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jolan K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls Hungarian occupation; her father's and three brothers' conscription into a forced labor battalion; traveling from Solotvyno to Munka?cs (Mukacheve) to arrange her father's release; traveling to Kos?ice and Uz?h?horod to arrange one brother's release; learning her other two brothers had been killed; ghettoization; help from the town's mayor obtaining food for the ghetto; deportation with her parents and two brothers to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her mother again); transfer t...