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  1. Tuvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tuvia B., who was born in Filakovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), one of four children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending public school; an antisemitic neighbor; his bar mitzvah; attending high school for four years in Bratislava; joining a Zionist group; returning home; working in Haniska; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; being allowed to return home six months later; recall; slave labor in a factory in Romania; transfer to the front lines near and in Poland; building roads; transfer of h...

  2. Helena C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena C., who was born in Piaseczno, Poland in 1926. She recalls attending public school; German invasion; forced transfer to the Warsaw ghetto; living with relatives due to a housing shortage; her father's difficulty finding work resulting in his volunteering for "settlement in the East;" her brother's transport soon after; and living in an orphanage with her younger sister. Mrs. C. comments on the "normality" of the dead and dying on the streets, typhus and starvation since, as a child, she knew nothing else. She describes hiding during round-ups; social and educat...

  3. Rose W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls her father's death in 1937; German invasion; ghettoization; her brother volunteering for labor in another city in 1941; forced labor in a uniform factory; she and her sisters saving bread for their mother; her mother's and sisters' deportation to Auschwitz in March 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944, then Christianstadt three days later; slave labor in a factory; transfer to Kratzau; slave labor doing construction; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Poland with other...

  4. Louis B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis B., who was an American soldier in the 45th Infantry Division during World War II. Mr. B. describes being raised in New Haven, Connecticut; military training; being stationed in North Africa; the invasion of Sicily on D-Day; moving north through Italy and France; and the liberation of Dachau in Germany. He discusses the lack of knowledge regarding the camps and the "Final Solution;" coming upon thirty-nine boxcars filled with bodies on a railroad siding outside of Dachau; the horrendous condition of the prisoners; the American soldiers' efforts to assist them; a...

  5. Valerie F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valerie F., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts her comfortable, happy childhood; her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in January 1944; German invasion; ghettoization; her father buying them false papers; one sister and brother escaping; her escape being cancelled when her companion refused to go; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May; remaining with her mother and other relatives; keeping their spirits up discussing their pasts, fut...

  6. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1915. Mr. B. recounts attending a Jewish school; working in a shoe factory; increasing antisemitism; studying English; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1933; emigration to the United States in 1936 (he never saw his parents again); military draft in 1941; officer training school; assignment to military intelligence in 1943; deployment to London in May 1944; German rocket attacks; landing in Normandy; participating in the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge; entering Frankfurt; searching fo...

  7. Oscar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar A., who was born in Bulgaria in 1911. He recalls his family's French identity; attending school in Sofia; studying in Paris; marriage to a Jewish convert in 1938; mobilization in 1939; his parents' and sister's emigration to Paris; capture in a battle in 1940; escaping to Paris with help from a German rail official; moving to Nice; his daughter's birth; arrest with five family members in 1943; his wife's release as a non-Jew (their daughter was not arrested); deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy; selection for forced labor in Buna/Monowitz (I.G. Farben) with his ...

  8. Agatha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agatha B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. She recalls her close, extended family; attending English school; German occupation in March 1944; her family moving into a building designated for Jews; her parents' deportations (she was left alone with her younger sister); assistance from Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors; postcards from her father; refusing to convert or to leave their home with an aunt (she wanted her parents to be able to find them); a mass killing including her aunt; her parents' return in September after their escape from deportation trains; ...

  9. Gerda H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerda H., who was born in Ansbach, Germany in 1922. She recounts her father was a kosher butcher; attending lyceum after documenting her father's World War I service; expulsion due to additional anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school in Berlin; moving with her family to Munich after Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to England; being unable to join him once war began; her sister being sent to nursing school in Frankfurt and she in Berlin; learning her mother had been deported (she never saw her again); occasionally seeing her sister (she was working in a Ber...

  10. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Galicia in 1913. He recounts his family fleeing to Vienna during World War I; his determination to learn Austrian German and assimilate into the culture, thinking his future was there; working in a textile factory; attending law school; attending a Nazi convention in Munich in 1936 with fellow students; German occupation in 1938; marriage; arrest on Kristallnacht; beatings and shootings; an Austrian officer releasing him; emigration to Geneva via Italy; obtaining emigration papers to Cuba with assistance from a non-Jewish banker in Zurich; e...

  11. Moses K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and ...

  12. Clara L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara L., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary in 1925. She recalls Sabbath observance at home; her older sister's emigration to England; her older brother's conscription into a labor battalion (she never saw him again); accompanying her father to Budapest for several months while he was hospitalized; German occupation in 1944; return to Kisva?rda with her parents; ghettoization; deportation; a family's suicide on the train; her mother's advice to do anything to survive; and separation from her parents upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again). She describes ...

  13. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls increasing antisemitism; anti-Jewish restrictions prohibiting her father's law practice; placement in an orphanage with her sister due to financial difficulties; her mother's arrest in 1935 and two-year incarceration resulting from her father's smuggling (he remained in Luxembourg); joining her father (her sister remained behind); their move to Brussels; her mother and sister joining them in 1937; German invasion in 1940; her father's arrest in 1942; working for a lawyer; arrest with her mother and sister; d...

  14. Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in De?bica, Poland in 1916. Mrs. G. recounts her childhood; marriage in 1938 in Rzeszo?w; wartime transfer eastward of her father and husband; arrival of the German army; and occupation conditions. She tells of smuggling herself to her husband in the Russian area; returning to the German area; the clandestine return of her husband in 1942; ghetto life; her husband's forced labor for Organisation Todt; their transport with two of her sisters to Huta Komorowska, a camp in the Polish forest; and her separation from her husband when the camp was li...

  15. Rozalia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rozalia W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1919, the oldest of eight children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; draft of her brother and future husband into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation to a brick yard in Mukacheve; her family's deportation to Auschwitz after a few weeks; her deportation a day later; meeting cousins; learning her sister was in another barrack; transfer with her cousins two months later to Stutthof, then Praust; slave l...

  16. Lazarz S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lazarz S., who was born in Boryslaw, Poland in 1912. He recalls leaving school at age fourteen to help support his family; working as a barber in many cities and sending money home; returning to Boryslaw in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland; living there during the Soviet occupation; fleeing toward the Soviet Union when Germany invaded in 1941; joining partisan units in the forests; fighting the Germans for years; and hearing of deportation of Jews from his town, many to Auschwitz. He describes Ukrainian units sympathetic to the Nazis killing many Jews; seeing thousand...

  17. Jakub G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. He describes his assimilated family; German invasion in 1939; his father fleeing east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; crowding and starvation; working as an errand boy for the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and brother in an attic overlooking the Umschlagplatz during round-ups; moving when they were seen; hiding in a bunker during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdenek after they were discovered; separation from his mother and brother during selection (he never saw them again); hiding to avoid useless ...

  18. Marietta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marietta M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls moving to Amsterdam in 1935; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from school; hiding; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors and the Dutch underground; her parents' arrest in 1942 when she was visiting neighbors; their arranging for her to join them in Westerbork; deferment from deportations due to their privileged positions; joining a Zionist youth group; assisting prisoners to the transports, not knowing their destination; acquiring forged Paraguayan passports with assista...

  19. Ellen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. She recalls her parents' divorce; visiting her father; attending a Catholic school; a kind nun (she hid her mother at one time); expulsion from school; she and her brother attending a Jewish school; her mother keeping them inside on Kristallnacht; a non-Jewish patient of her uncle's placing them on a Kindertransport organized by a Quaker woman in England; living with a private school teacher in London (her brother was placed at a boarding school); transfer to Dorset after the onset of war; transfer to her brother's sc...

  20. Maurice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1919 and raised in Szyd?owiec. He recounts his father's kosher butcher shop; German invasion; the Judenrat supplying forced laborers; escaping with friends from a labor camp in 1940; escaping from the Radom ghetto in 1941 using Polish papers; separation from his parents during the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; forced labor with his brothers sorting ghetto rubble and digging graves; hiding in the woods with his brothers with assistance from a Polish farmer; smuggling themselves into Wolano?w with assistance from a Polish acq...