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  1. Roger B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger B., who was born in Nancy, France in 1910. He recalls working as a court lawyer; moving to Paris; mobilization in August 1939; service on the Maginot line; being taken prisoner by Germans in June 1940; internment as a French prisoner of war in several places, including Sarrebourg, Sarralbe, and Trier, which are described in his friend Francis Ambrie?re's book; assisting groups to stay together; receiving extra food from a guard; transfer to Amboise, then Saumur; his parents visiting once; transfer to Sankt Johann im Pongau; organizing plays and giving lectures; ...

  2. Sylvia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia M., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in approximately 1926, one of three sisters. She recounts attending a Jewish school; increasing antisemitism in the late 1930s; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending free public high school; brief Lithuanian independence; an antisemitic riot; Soviet reoccupation in 1940; German invasion in 1941; her father's forced labor; learning her uncle had been killed with many others; ghettoization in September 1941; her older sister smuggling food; transfer to Keilis due to her older sister's privileged posi...

  3. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Floss, Germany in 1910. He relates being orphaned at a young age; his first five years in a happy household of relatives; attending a school for the deaf in Munich (he was not born deaf) from ages five to thirteen; schools in Jena for two years; his older siblings' emigration to Israel and the United States in 1935; training as a porcelain decorator; work as a designer in Floss; loss of his job due to Nazi restrictions; returning to Munich in 1938; Crystal Night; and internment in Dachau. Mr. B. describes camp life; release four weeks later; ...

  4. Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt...

  5. Aleksandr O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandr O., who was born in Kopaygorod, Ukraine in 1933. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; a family chuppah; celebrating holidays at home; German invasion in 1941; his father being beaten and forced to work; administration by Romanians; ghettoization; Ukrainian women trading food for their possessions at the fence; arrival of Romanian Jews from other cities; frequent deportations; hiding his grandmother in their basement (she died there in 1942); starvation; a typhus epidemic; becoming more hopeful after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad; liberation by Soviet troops...

  6. Sigi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigi Z., who was born in Kassel, Germany, in 1928. Mr. Z. tells of his Polish family's isolation from German life; resentment of local German Jews toward Poles; expulsion from Germany in 1939; Poland's refusal of entry; his father's departure for London (they could not obtain visas for the family); and transport with his mother, brother and 1,000 others to Ri?ga in December 1941. He recalls conditions in the Ri?ga ghetto; massacres of Latvian Jews; forced labor in a fish processing plant; smuggling food; witnessing executions; transfer to Kaiserwald in April 1942; rej...

  7. Simon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon R., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1916 to an orthodox family of six children. He recalls his family moving between Ozorko?w and ?owicz; working from age ten; disbelief that anything bad would occur; opening a store near Ozorko?w in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Ozorko?w; learning the Gestapo was looking for him; hiding in a village; returning to Ozorko?w; and three months in jail in ?e?czyca. Mr. R. tells of his return to Ozorko?w; his brother's arrest; ghettoization; forced labor; the community saving a boy from public hanging for not wearing the yell...

  8. Leon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon K., who was born in a small town in Bosnia in 1907 to a family of nine children. He recalls his father's death; attending business college; a government job; marriage in Travnik on the day of the German invasion in 1941; working in Tuzla; moving to Travnik; hiding for three months to avoid deportation; reaching Italian-occupied Mostar with help from a Muslim; his wife joining him in January 1942; and fleeing to the mountains. He recounts living with partisans; moving to Kotor; transfer to Vieste, then Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States in 1943; living i...

  9. Samuel and Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel and Wolf Z., twins, who were born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. They recall cruelty they encountered as children; German invasion; forced labor with their older brother until 1942; their transfer to Koszyce, then the HASAG plant in Kielce; Wolf Z.'s transfer to P?aszo?w where Amon Goeth killed people daily; Samuel Z. witnessing a mass killing of Poles in Kielce; their three year separation; and reunion in Italy. Samuel discusses German people being forced to view Buchenwald after liberation; his sense that Americans viewed Buchenwald as if it were a tourist att...

  10. Bruce T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bruce T., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1914. He speaks of prewar family and community life; the Russian occupation in 1939, followed by the German occupation; and the formation of the L?vov ghetto in the fall of 1942. He recalls Polish antisemitism and aid to the Nazis in hunting Jews; his activities with a resistance group based in Skole, on the Hungarian-Polish border; his capture and incarceration in Munkacs; and his transfer to Budapest as an alleged spy. Mr. T. relates his escape from Budapest, joining the Hungarian underground as a tactician; his attempts to...

  11. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1925, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts his father's death in 1933; attending public school and weekly Yiddish lessons; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism by right-wing extremists; housing German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; registering as Jews when required to do so; recruitment by his brother-in-law to the Resistance at age fifteen; obtaining false papers; assignments delivering underground newspapers and smuggling people to northern France via Kortrijk (C...

  12. Leopold Z. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold Z., who was born in Bautzen, Germany, in 1922 and moved to Breslau as a child. Mr. Z. describes his childhood and religious education; the beginning of the war and his family's fatally passive reaction; forced labor in a factory near Breslau; and the deportation of his entire family, except himself and one of his four brothers, to a town near Lublin. He tells of being taken in by an orphanage, where he and his brother were given false French papers; their betrayal and subsequent arrest; and their year-long imprisonment while awaiting trial for treason. Mr. Z. ...

  13. Gerhard C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhard C., who was born in Fraustadt, Germany (presently Wschowa, Poland) in 1920, an only child. He recalls attending gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitic restrictions; antisemitic violence; his father's imprisonment and transfer to Berlin; moving there with his mother; his father's release; attending school; working for a sign company; his father's reluctance to emigrate thinking his status as a decorated war veteran offered protection; deportation with his parents to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1941; transfer three days later to Poznan (he never saw his parents again)...

  14. Christy A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Christy A., who was drafted into the United States army in December 1942. He describes training as a radio mechanic; service in France and Germany; briefly entering Buchenwald after it was liberated; emaciated prisoners in overcrowded bunks; his shock at the conditions; hundreds of corpses near the crematoria; the anger of a Jewish-American soldier who was in their group; difficulty communicating with the prisoners; and his wish to leave quickly.

  15. Henri I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri I., a non-Jew, who was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1926. He recounts his father's death when he was four; his mother's remarriage; being raised by his grandparents in Oostakker until he was thirteen, then living with his mother and stepfather in Brussels; fleeing with them to Dunkerque as Germany invaded; returning to Brussels; distributing leaflets for the Resistance; briefly hiding a downed American pilot in their home in spring 1944; arrest with his parents on May 2, 1944; confessing, hoping it would be easier for his parents; imprisonment in St. Gilles; deport...

  16. Lubov R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lubov R., an only child, who was born in approximately 1929 in Ukraine. She recalls living in Kam'i︠a︡nka Buzʹka; German invasion; her parents bringing her to non-Jews; being asked to leave after two nights; seeing blood covered walls when she returned home; learning her parents were shot in a mass killing; incarceration in a work camp; escaping; wandering from village to village; entering Nemyriv after people began recognizing her, preferring to die with her own people; escaping; wandering from village to village; working as a "dry nurse" for a year; fighting between...

  17. Edith W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1916, the youngest of eight children. Mrs. W. recalls Jewish holidays; antisemitic harassment; friendships with non-Jews; German invasion; men escaping to the Soviet Union, including her husband (she never saw him again); remaining with her son and mother; ghettoization; her mother's murder; working at Oskar Schindler's factory; her child's selection for death; transfer to P?aszo?w; living at Schindler's factory camp; asking Schindler to move her boyfriend to the factory; deportation of the women to Auschwitz, then Bru?nnli...

  18. Jules G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jules G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, one of six brothers. He recounts attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; daily forced labor; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to work in a non-Jew's dairy outside the ghetto; escaping after being arrested; transfer to a camp outside Radom in 1942; observing the execution of two Jewish children; transfer to Kruszynia, then Pionki; slave labor in a munitions factory; a beating by Ukrainian guards; his cousin's capture and execution after escaping; transfer in 1944 to Birkenau, then Sosnowiec; a death march...

  19. De?sire? H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of De?sire? H. He recounts studying medicine in Tours, France due to restrictions against Jews in Romania; vacationing in Romania when the war began; returning to Tours; continuing medical school; joining the Front national; demonstrating and minor Resistance activities; arrest on July 15, 1942; deportation from Angers to Auschwitz; brief slave labor; volunteering as a physician; a privileged assignment to an administrative block from August 1942 until October 26, 1944; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); a prisoner uprising which destroyed one crematorium; i...

  20. Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1911. He recounts hardships during World War I; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; draft into the Soviet military in 1941 (he never saw his family again); German invasion; fleeing toward Russia with other soldiers; incarceration in labor camps in the Urals; learning in 1945 that his entire family had been killed; being allowed to return to Wroc?aw, Poland in 1946; traveling illegally to Vienna to escape antisemitism; living in a displaced persons camp, then Linz; emigrating to the United Sta...