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  1. Elsie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsie B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Chernivt?s?i, Ukraine) in 1912. She recalls her father's death in World War I; two sisters' emigration to the United States; a brother's death in 1927; marriage in 1936; Soviet occupation; her daughter's birth in 1941; German invasion; living with a cousin to avoid deportation; traveling to Mogilev, then Luchenits; living with a Jewish woman for a year; her husband leaving for forced labor; hospitalization; insisting her daughter remain with her; liberation about eight months later; reunion wit...

  2. Abram C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram C., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1922, the oldest of four children. He recounts moving to Będzin when he was eleven; his father's privileges and high status due to heroic service in the Polish military; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; slave labor assignments; deportation to Klein Mangersdorf in fall 1940; slave labor building roads; transfer nine months later to Gross Sarne; privileged work in the kitchen; transfer to Blechhammer; privileged work ...

  3. Berta C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berta C., who was born in approximately 1924 and raised in Mšeno, Czechoslovakia by her ethnic German mother and grandfather. She recalls her grandfather's death when she was seven; her mother's death in approximately 1938; renting most of her house to a German family; working for institutions which cared for German women, children, and wounded soldiers; imprisonment of her aunt's son while in the German military because he criticized Hitler; after the war, as a German who remained in Czechoslovakia, being required to watch films of concentration camps, of which she...

  4. Boris W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris W., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland. He recounts living in Zalozhtsy; friendly relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation in 1939; housing a Soviet official; German invasion in June 1941; hiding during round-ups of Jewish men; briefly working for the German Army; hiding with his wife in a bunker located in the nearby forest; discovery by two Ukrainian boys; hiding with local acquaintances; discovery; transfer to a concentration camp from which he soon escaped; hiding with his father and wife; being joined by two brothers; liberation by Soviet troops; his brothers'...

  5. Ilse K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse K., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1925. She tells of her parents' divorce; living in a foster home, then with her mother from age five to ten, followed by a Jewish children's home in Munich; her mother's emigration to the United States in 1939; working in Jewish children's homes in Frankfurt; a non-Jewish friend offering to hide her; refusing since it would place him in danger; and deportation to Estonia in September 1942. Mrs. K. recounts meeting a cousin; living in Tallinn prison where her cousin protected her; transfer to Kivio?li; working for ...

  6. Mark F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1919. He recalls many older siblings who were married; his family's orthodoxy; attending yeshiva; learning typesetting; joining his brother-in-law's business; military forced labor in Podolinec; buying his way out; confiscation of the business; forced relocation; coworkers hiding him, his brother, and two friends; arranging train transportation to Switzerland; betrayal; moving to another town with his friends; exposure as Jews; deportation to Sered; exemption from transports due to his brother-in-law...

  7. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...

  8. Ursula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula K. who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Budapest shortly after her birth; happy times as part of the German community; a decline in her family's economic circumstances leading to their return to Germany in 1933; Jewish holiday observances; antisemitism in school; her mother's wish to emigrate and her father's refusal; and her sister's emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. K. recounts their arrest on Kristallnacht; release with the other women and children; her father's detainment (she never saw him again); ...

  10. Ben G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1925. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; the 1939 influx of German Jewish refugees; German invasion in September; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; attending a clandestine school; forced labor; deportations; exemption from deportation due to his job; his father's deportation; separation from his mother and siblings when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Cze?stochowa, then Buchenwald; transfer to Dora in January 1...

  11. Maximillian K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maximillian K., who was born in Vienna in 1925. He describes his childhood and how it suddenly changed after the Anschluss, the more drastic changes which took place in the wake of Kristallnacht, and his family's life in occupied Vienna, which included slave labor, until the city was made free of Jews in the spring of 1941. He speaks of their deportation to Poland, where they lived with Polish Jews in the town of Opole, near Lublin; their flight to Kunow, a small town east of Opole, where his grandparents were living; and slave labor in Boz?echo?w as a surveyor's assi...

  12. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  13. Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

    A continuation of the videotape testimony of Rachel A., who recalls meeting her father in Zemun; traveling to Belgrade in June 1941; staying with Rafael A.'s parents (her future husband); traveling to Niš, then Pirot; living with her grandparents; Rafael A.'s parents joining them; living a year under Bulgarian occupation; Rafael's arrival; his draft for forced labor; visiting relatives in Sofia; attempting as a group to join partisans in Yugoslavia in September 1942; arrest and interrogation; her father bringing her food; a trial three months later; her release; escaping with her sister an...

  14. Varda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Varda H., who was born in Czernowitz in 1915. At the time of the German occupation Mrs. H. and her husband were in the Ukrainian town of Kamenet?s?-Podol?skii?. She describes the massacre of the Jews in Kamenet?s?-Podol?skii?; the difficulties she and her husband encountered in making their way back to Czernowitz; the ghettoization of Czernowitz, where Mrs. H. remained for the next three years, witnessing frequent deportations; and her postwar life in Israel. As Mrs. H. had difficulty expressing herself in English, the interview was ended after twenty-six minutes.

  15. Irene H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene H., who was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary circa 1922. She recalls her close family; antisemitic laws; her brother's draft into a forced labor battalion; moving to Budapest in 1944; German invasion on March 19; returning home; incarceration with her family in the synagogue in April; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family upon arrival on May 2; assistance from the Slovak head of the block (she saved many prisoners); assignment to the Union Kommando; receiving extra food; sharing it with other prisoners; extermination of the Zigeunerlager (Gyp...

  16. Ernest H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in 1925 in Neumarkt, Germany. He recalls moving to Fu?rth in 1938 so he and his siblings could attend a Jewish school (they were expelled in Neumarkt); his brother's emigration to the United States in 1941; deportation with his parents and sister to Jungfernhof, Latvia in December 1941; forced labor as a car mechanic, which he believes saved him from extermination; transfer to the Ri?ga ghetto in July 1942 (he notes the sadism of the Gestapo commander), then to Kaiserwald and Stutthof in 1943; and liberation from Rybno (Rieben) by Soviet troops...

  17. Misa D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Misa D., who recalls cordial relations between ethnic groups before 1933; attending gymnasium in Sarajevo, university in Belgrade, and reserve officers' school in S?abac; creation of independent Croatia; returning to Sarajevo; arrest; transfer to Belgrade, then Kosovska Mitrovica; round-ups of Jews by the Ustas?a; returning to Sarajevo; hiding briefly; deportation to Kruscica (he never saw his family again); forced labor in Krapje; transfer to Jasenovac; forced labor, starvation, deportations, torture, and mass killings; preparation for a Red Cross visit including liq...

  18. Eva B. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Eva B., whose two testimonies were recorded in 1979. Mrs. B. notes she now wants to deal with the emotional aspects of her experience rather than the factual portions, as she did in her other testimonies. She discusses not sharing her story with her children in order to protect them; her sense of aloneness (she is a widow); returning to Prague with her children; her ease at speaking Czech compared to English; feeling she has no home to which she can return or place where she really belongs; vivid images of incidents in Theresienstadt and Auschwit...

  19. David R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Krako?w Poland in 1925, one of seven children. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; joining Akiba, a Zionist group; a brother and sister emigrating to the United States; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Szyd?owiec with his father and brothers in April 1941; obtaining false papers; posing as a non-Jew to smuggle food to his family in the Krako?w ghetto; assistance from Marek Bieberstein, the Judenrat chairman; his parents' and siblings' deportations (he never saw them again); smuggling himself into the...

  20. Rivka P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rivka P., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recounts her father's role in the community as a rabbi; her mother managing their large business; graduating from a Jewish-Lithuanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of the family business; participating in Betar; marriage in 1941; German invasion; round-up of her husband and his father (she never saw them again); returning to her parents' home; round-up of her father (he did not return); one brother's arrest; his release due to the influence of a cousin who was on th...