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  1. Olga S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. She recalls her family's comfortable and observant life; occasional antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic laws resulting in eviction from their home and termination of her father's employment; his death; joining her mother who had moved to Budapest to work (two sisters and a brother were in Budapest orphanages); German occupation; Swedish government designation of their building as a "safe house"; visiting her siblings disguised as a non-Jew; escaping arrest (her mother was arrested but escaped w...

  2. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls a comfortable, happy life until Hitler came to power; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; her father's emigration to Johannesburg in 1936; she and her mother joining him in 1937; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in 1939; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien; moving to Montargis; returning to Paris; her father's release upon enlistment in the Foreign Legion in 1940; German invasion; fleeing to Bordeaux, then Toulouse; reunion with her father; transport...

  3. Norbert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert L., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1922. He recalls his parents' orthodoxy; the rich Jewish life in Danzig; anti-Jewish restrictions following the ascent of the Nazis to power; expulsion from school; attending an ORT school in Berlin; hiding during Kristallnacht; returning to Danzig; fleeing with his family to Belgium and London in 1939; emigrating to the United States; being drafted into the army in 1943; participating in the liberation of Paris; and his postwar life. Mr. L. notes many family members perished in the Holocaust; visiting Danzig with his wif...

  4. Reva F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reva F., who was born in Iwye, Poland (presently Iu?e, Belarus) in 1937. She vaguely recalls German occupation; seeing dead bodies; Germans beating people; escaping with her mother; being hidden alone with a man in a nearby village; her mother coming for her; hiding with her mother in the attic of a non-Jewish woman who shared her food with them; hiding in a forest with her aunt and cousin; the war's end; returning to Iwye; her mother's remarriage; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Ladispoli, Italy; her sister's birth; and emigrating to the United States to joi...

  5. Jean C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean C., who was born in France in 1908. He recalls his family had been in France for many generations; his prewar position as director of the Minister of the Interior's cabinet; military service when Germany invaded; demobilization; living in Carcassonne; marriage to a Catholic in 1940; their daughter's birth; arrest and imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; joining a group building an escape tunnel; their denunciation in November 1943; being shot at to scare him into revealing information; train deportation; jumping from the train; assistance from local villagers and ra...

  6. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Zalishchyky, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of three children. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending business school in another town; German invasion; returning home; hiding with her family during a mass killing; deportation to the Tolstoye ghetto in September 1942; forced labor in the fields; meeting her future husband, Paul S.; escaping a mass shooting with Paul S., in which her parents and nine-year-old sister were killed; hiding with Paul S., his brother, and others; Ukrainian ...

  7. Rene?e V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. She recalls her secular childhood; her avowed atheism despite her Jewish ancestry; participating in anti-fascist activities; marriage; German invasion; briefly fleeing to France; returning to Brussels; arranging hiding places for her parents and husband's parents; continuing to teach; quitting to devote full time to the Resistance; arrest with her husband in July 1943; incarceration in St. Gilles; torture during interrogations; transfer to Vught via Cologne; slave labor for Philips; sabotaging the work; deportation...

  8. Rose O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose O., the youngest of nine children, who was born in 1908 in Sierpc, Poland. She describes overt antisemitism; leaving school to help at home; one brother's emigration to the United States and another's to Paris in 1926; moving to Paris in 1930; and her sense of freedom and absence of antisemitism there. Mrs. O. recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; once removing her star to attend the theater; deportation of Jewish men to Drancy; her brother and family fleeing to Grenoble; hiding from July 16, 1942, first alone, then with a woman and her child; their ...

  9. Naftali F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali F., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1924, the youngest of nine children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish-Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; membership in Gordonyah; siblings emigrating to Palestine, Bolivia, and Netherlands; German invasion in 1939; one brother's flight to Soviet-occupied territory; deportation in 1942 to Sakrau, Ottmuth, then Gogolin; slave labor building a highway; factory work with British POWs; transfer to Marksta?dt in 1943; slave labor in a Krupp facility; learning his parents had been deported (he never saw them ...

  10. Irene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Warsaw. She describes Polish antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; the German occupation; the arrest and disappearance of her father; and the establishment of and life in the Warsaw ghetto. She relates being smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto into L?vov; her move to Brody, and her departure from there upon its ghettoization; living as a non-Jew with her mother, first in Przemys?l, then in a nearby town; and her sustaining hope that her small cousin would survive. Mrs. G. also tells of her liberation by the Russians; her postwar return home...

  11. Vladimir M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir M., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1933, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his father's participation in the Bolshevik movement; his family's move to Moscow in 1935; his brother spending the summer with grandparents in Minsk in 1937; his father's arrest, then his mother's arrest; placement in orphanages; his uncle bringing him to Minsk in December 1939; being coddled within his large, extended family, especially by his grandmother; attending summer camp in 1941; German invasion; a teacher returning him to Minsk; learning of mass shootings, including...

  12. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913. He recalls training as a violinist; completing engineering studies in Marseille, Paris, and Bordeaux; military service; discharge; working as a government engineer; Italian invasion in fall 1940; six months of front-line service with his brother; German occupation of Thessalonikē; military colleagues offering to hide him; refusing in order to return to his family; marriage; deportation to Birkenau with his and his wife's families in May 1943 (his wife was eight months pregnant); remaining with his brother (he...

  13. Michael I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael I., who was born in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls his family's business in Warsaw and Falencia; attending yeshiva until age fourteen; participating in Akiba; becoming head of the Otwock branch; antisemitic violence; living on training farms (hachsharah) in Be?chato?w and Siemiatycze; German invasion; fleeing to Ostro?e?ka, then ?omz?a; returning to his family in Otwock; fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; traveling to Vilnius via Bia?ystok and Hrodna; working at a hachsharah in Garliava; living in Kaunas; German invasion; fleeing to Ukmerge?; posin...

  14. Alexander V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander V., who was born in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands in 1938. He notes he has only vague memories and describes his family's orthodoxy; his father's position as caretaker of the Amsterdam Sephardic cemetery in Ouderkerk; German invasion in May 1940; his sister's birth in July 1941; his family's exemption from forced relocation because of his father's position; his brother's birth in November 1943; being taken by a member of an underground movement to Amsterdam, then Arnhem; living openly with a Catholic family, posing as their nephew; hiding during the B...

  15. Helen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen L., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the youngest of seven children. She recalls anti-Semitic incidents; German occupation; working in a labor camp in Radom; transfer with her brother to Bliz?yn; working as a seamstress; her brother's deportation to Mauthausen; her transfer to Birkenau; selections, beatings, and appells; working in an ammunition factory in Kratzau; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Radom; joining a kibbutz when she didn't find any surviving family members; reunion with her brother in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; attending ...

  16. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. He describes his parents' moving from central Europe to Paris, in transit to the United States, and remaining due to currency devaluation; during childhood, his general unawareness of being Jewish; his family's flight to Poitiers (German invasion); returning to Paris; his father's internment in Beaune-la-Rolande; several visits to him until he was deported; escaping the large round-up in 1942; he and his mother smuggling themselves to join his uncle in Saint-Fortunat (the uncle was arrested and deported); being hidden...

  17. Sophi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophi Z., who was born in Volochisk, Ukraine in 1923. She recounts her family's affluence; her brother's birth in 1927; entering university in Kiev in 1940; their move to a village for her father's job managing a sugar factory; traveling to Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ for a tonsillectomy; returning home on June 20, 1941; German invasion; confiscation of their home; the murder of five prominent Jewish leaders; her father continuing to manage the factory; her mother informing people she was not Jewish (she did not "look Jewish"); ghettoization; receiving letters in spring 1942 from s...

  18. Charles M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Hebrew and public schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in a Bundist children's group; German invasion; ghettoization in October 1939; working in a forced labor camp in 1940, then in a factory near the ghetto; mass shootings, which included his mother and brother; and his father's deportation. Mr. M. recounts deportation in 1942 to Ostrowiec; transport to Birkenau, then Auschwitz, in 1944; the death march to Melk in early 1945; slave labor digging underground bunkers; tran...

  19. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1930. He describes his family's non-participation in the Jewish community; attending Jewish school twice a week; German invasion; his father's refusal to register them as Jews; being placed into hiding by the underground with his two sisters; transfer to Haarlem (learning later this was when his parents were caught); separation of the three siblings; living openly as a relative of Christian farmers in Friesland; hospitalization in Groningen; living with a doctor's family in Groningen, then with a farm family elsewhere f...

  20. William L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William L., who was born in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1911. He recalls his father's death during World War I; his mother's orthodoxy; a sister's emigration to England; attending schools in Pies?t?any and Topol?c?any; apprenticeships in Dunajska? Streda and Filakovo; marriage in 1939; his son's birth; service in the Czech army; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); returning to Filakovo; anti-Jewish laws; losing his job; deportation to a labor camp in 1943 (he never saw his family again); forced labor on a farm, a munitions factory in P...