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  1. Armand H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Armand H., who was born in Paris, France in 1927. He recalls his older brother's bar mitzvah; his younger brother's ritual circumcision in 1934; attending public school; temporary evacuation with other children during the "Phony War"; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions and propaganda; rumors of a round-up in summer 1942; his father making a hiding place in their apartment; hiding with his father and older brother the night of July 15 (they thought women and children would not be taken); arrest with his mother and younger brother in August; his relea...

  2. Werner K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. Mr. K. recalls attending school; expulsion after passage of the Nuremberg laws; futile attempts to emigrate with his brother, legally and illegally; the destruction of Jewish businesses on Kristallnacht eliminating work opportunities; doing manual labor; his parents' deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto in October 1941; joining them weeks later; volunteering with his brother to leave the ghetto; transfer to Rawitsch; slave labor; public hangings; his brother's death from a beating; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1943;...

  3. Morris R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. He recalls ghettoization; forced labor; hunger; selections and deportations; his mother's death in 1941; transfer to Cze?stochowa; prisoners sharing food and assisting each other to meet production quotas; and transfer to Buchenwald. Mr. R. describes forced labor for HASAG; Allied bombings; carrying corpses; assistance from priests who were prisoners; a death march; his "safe" job pulling the officers' wagon; a local man preventing the guards from killing the prisoners; and liberation by American troops. He recounts r...

  4. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Kolomyi?a?; his father's Zionist activities; studying engineering in Lv?iv; futile efforts to return to Kolomyi?a? after the German invasion; round-ups of Jews; and escaping to the Soviet Union. Mr. F. recounts farm and office work; conscription into a workers' battalion; digging trenches near Stalingrad; working in a steel factory in Baku; returning to Lv?iv after liberation; traveling to Krako?w in 1945; learning his entire family had perished; leaving Poland; receiving help from Jew...

  5. Asja T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Asja T., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1917, one of six children. She recalls attending Russian school; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; her son's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; her father being caught in a round-up in August 1941 (he was killed); her mother being killed in March 1942; obtaining false papers a year later from a non-Jewish neighbor; escaping with her son; briefly staying with her brother's non-Jewish girlfriend; leaving because she did not want to endanger her rescuers; wandering from place to plac...

  6. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's assimilated life; arrest of her grandmother and parents after the Anschluss; their release weeks later; traveling to Aachen, then Brussels; living in a basement due to lack of resources; assistance from the Jewish community; her father's escape to England; German invasion; fleeing to Lille, then Dunkerque, futilely hoping to escape; return to Brussels; receiving a deportation notice; informing her mother they would hide; difficulty placing her four-year-old sister; she and her sister living w...

  7. Chaim H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim H., who was born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, in 1924, one of three brothers. He recounts attending public and Hebrew school; participating in Zionist youth groups; antisemitic harassment; his mother's death; being sent to live with an uncle in Chernivt︠s︡i; moving to a Zionist agricultural training community; their expulsion and move to Bucharest; Iron Guard violence against Jews; arrest, beatings, then release; moving to Goleț; returning home; deportation with his family in October 1941 to Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ via Ataki; transfer to Sledy; slave labor on farms; ...

  8. Herbert J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert J., a non-Jew, who was born in Maine in 1921 and served in the United States Army 11th Armored Infantry in World War II. He recalls enlisting in June 1944; entering Germany during the Battle of the Bulge; his capture; and transport through several holding camps to Gusen, then Mauthausen. He describes the prisoner hierarchy; many dying of starvation; brutal punishments and atrocities; taking clothes from the dead, avoiding those marked with a "J" because Jews were treated more harshly; inadequate sanitation; forced labor in a quarry; cannibalism among Soviet pr...

  9. Ludwig F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig F., who was born in Poland in 1908. Mr. F. speaks of his education; his successful business in Cze?stochowa; his marriage in 1933; and the birth of his daughter in 1937. He describes the German occupation and the anti-Jewish measures which followed; the ghettoization of Cze?stochowa; and conditions and slave labor in the ghetto. He relates the liquidation of the ghetto, during which he smuggled himself out on a cart of corpses, then joined the group of laborers charged with burying the bodies; his work as a clerk for a German captain; and how, with the assistan...

  10. Marianne D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. She recalls living among a large extended family; German invasion in 1940; antisemitic measures, including wearing the yellow star; her father's arrest; arrest with her sister and mother; placement in a children's home; escaping to her grandmother's house; being taken with other children to Limburg; being hidden with eight different families over two and a half years; divulging she was Jewish to friends which necessitated frequent moves; one brief placement with her sister; liberation; living with her uncle ...

  11. Larry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z?H?uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgon?, and Oshmi?a?ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi?a?ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an e...

  12. Denise B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Denise B., who was born in Paris, France in 1934. She remembers a home filled with love and happiness; her father's arrest in 1941 (she never saw him again); she and her sister being sent to hide with a French family in Seiches-sur-le-Loir (her mother remained behind with their baby brother); their conversion to Catholicism; comfort provided by church ritual; liberation by United States troops; returning with an uncle to Paris; learning their mother was taken from Drancy to Majdanek where she perished (her brother survived); living in a Jewish orphanage in Andre?sy; e...

  13. Miriam Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam Z., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1922, the youngest of six children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; leaving school after eighth grade to help her mother at home; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her father's disbelief when a Polish refugee warned them to flee; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; remaining with her four sisters; seeing their father once when he delivered food; transfer with her sisters to Stutthof, then ano...

  14. Celia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia R., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her family's affluence; moving to Ti?a?chiv; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; moving to work in her sister's store; moving the store to Ti?a?chiv; traveling to Budapest on business; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hospitalization; transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a factory; treatment by a Russian doctor; Allied bombings; a death march to Porta Westfalica; transfer four weeks later to Salzwedel; libe...

  15. Rabbi Baruch G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Baruch G., who was born in M?awa, Poland, in 1923. He speaks of the rich, traditional life he enjoyed with his extended family, of which he is the sole survivor; prewar antisemitism in Poland, including anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Poles between 1933 and 1939; and the German occupation of M?awa and the anti-Jewish legislation which followed. He also describes the ghettoization of M?awa; daily life in the M?awa ghetto; his family's transfer to Lubarto?w, where they were separated for the first time; and his eventual success in smuggling himself, and lat...

  16. Gerald F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerald F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, one of three children. He recounts his father being wounded in World War I; attending school; increasing antisemitism; attending a Jewish school; expropriation of his father's business; emigration to England via the Netherlands in 1938; working on a farm and attending evening classes at Cambridge University; his family joining him; imprisonment as an enemy alien; transfer to the Isle of Man five months later; reunion with his brother and father after his release; attending university in London; working as a chemist w...

  17. Roman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman B., who was born in L?viv, Poland in 1929. He recalls living in Katowice; his father's successful practice as an eye surgeon; attending Polish public school; his family's strong Polish identity; visiting his wealthy grandparents in Pidhai?t?s?i; assisting German Jewish refugees in 1938; visiting his grandparents in summer 1939 with his mother; his father's recall into the Polish military (he ended up in England); Soviet occupation; his grandparents' and relatives' deportation east as capitalists (it saved their lives); attending Soviet schools; moving to L?viv i...

  18. Martha E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha E., who was born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland in 1937. She recounts her family's affluence; German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet Union; living in Siberia; her aunt joining them; privileged status because her mother was a pharmacist; moving to Bukhoro; attending school; her father's two-year imprisonment; returning to Warsaw after the war; reunion with a cousin; moving to Munich; antisemitic harassment; moving to the Bremen displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS; attending school; and marriage to a survivor.

  19. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924. He describes emigrating with his mother and brother to Belgium in 1933; the family moving to Zaandam; adjusting to school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; obtaining Palestine visas; a brief arrest in 1940; anti-German riots in Amsterdam in 1941; internment with his parents and brother in Westerbork; building barracks; reluctance to leave his parents and brother when he had the opportunity to escape; avoiding deportation due to their Palestine visas; deportation in 1944 with his family to Bergen-Belsen to a special ...

  20. Abe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe K., who was born in Kraśnik, Poland in 1923, the third of three children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; attending cheder from age three; his mother's death when he was nine; completing seven years of public school; graduating as an accountant from business school in Lublin; working in the family store; German invasion; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; his father being taken in his place; paying someone to replace his father; his brother's escape to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; his father's deportation to Budzyń in October 1942; deportation of his...