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  1. Eric L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric L., who was born in O?hringen, Germany in 1916. He relates his family's history in Germany since the 17th century; moving in 1926 to Go?ppingen, where his father was rabbi, religious school teacher and cantor; friendly relationships with classmates; the shock of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor; people at school soon wearing swastika buttons; continued support from two Catholic classmates; students wearing brown uniforms and singing Nazi songs; and withdrawing from school due to antisemitism. He recounts the next four years at an orthodox teacher-training schoo...

  2. Helga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga G., a Lutheran, who was born deaf in Hamburg, Germany in 1923, the oldest of five children. She recalls attending a school for the deaf; Hitler's assumption of power; her parents' and other relatives' anti-Nazi beliefs; being forced by a teacher to join a Nazi group (N.S.D.A.P.); observing Jews wearing the yellow star; the disappearance of Jews; a deaf teacher informing the class he was to be involuntarily sterilized; his suicide when his arrest was imminent as an anti-Nazi; her involuntary sterilization; meeting her future husband in Leipzig (he was deaf and al...

  3. Jacques L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques L., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1931, the older of two sons. He recounts attending public schools in Anderlect; fighting back against occasional antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from school in 1942; his parents receiving assistance from a Nazi sympathizer to find hiding places for him and his brother, first in Antwerp, then in Charleroi; their illness due to malnutrition; his mother seeking assistance from a Catholic priest; with his help, he and his brother living as Catholics in separate hous...

  4. Karin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karin L., who was born in the Wilmersdorf section of Berlin, Germany in 1929. She recounts her paternal grandfather had converted from Judaism and her mother was Protestant; visiting her paternal grandparents in Szczecin; her father losing his appointment as a judge in 1933 due to his Jewish ancestry; moving due to the loss of his income; living in the Wendenschloss area; her brother's birth; moving to central Berlin; problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; her father forging documents for friends; his arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from their non-Jewish rela...

  5. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He recalls his family's financial instability; completing law school in 1931; supporting his mother after his father's death; arrest following the Anschluss in 1938; incarceration and receiving a severe beating; transfer to Dachau; his release after obtaining an English visa with assistance from his boss and the Quakers; traveling to England in March 1939; working for a committee helping Czech refugees; arranging for his mother and fiancee to join him; their emigration to the United States; marriage to his fiancee...

  6. Jacques R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques R., who was born in 1922. He recounts his family's move to La Louvie?re, Belgium, then Brussels and Anderlecht; beatings at school because he was Jewish; violin lessons; participation in leftist organizations; German invasion; fleeing to France; returning to Belgium; involvement in the Resistance; the Bund placing him in hiding with non-Jews in Villers-la-Ville, using false papers; running away from his hiding place; joining his mother in Uccle; arrest with his uncle and cousin; interrogations; transfer to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; quarantine...

  7. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1922 to a Jewish father and Dutch Reformed mother. He recalls religion played no part in their lives; his brother's birth in 1937; German occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; receiving a notice to report to a central location; his father bringing him to a friend who was in the underground (his father had some protection from his mixed marriage); traveling with her friend to Rotterdam; obtaining false papers; hiding in twenty-two places during the war including Rotterdam, Leiden, Delft, and Amsterdam; learni...

  8. Josef W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. He describes his prewar life; German occupation of Prague; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Terezi?n in November 1941, followed by his parents; forced labor; daily life and organization of the camp; meeting his future wife; transport with his family to Auschwitz; transfer after three months from the family camp to Schwarzheide in 1944; arduous conditions; starvation; and forced labor in a gas factory. Mr. W. tells of extreme hunger during the death march to Varnsdorf in 1945; evacuation, as Soviet troo...

  9. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., a Protestant, who was born in Piétrebais, Belgium in 1918. He recounts that his parents were very religious; working in their market; military draft in 1939; German invasion; demobilization; continuing to work for his father; moving to Brussels to avoid forced labor; sending packages to Belgian POWs in Germany; arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Charleroi prison; deportation to Buchenwald in August; transfer several weeks later to Blankenburg; slave labor in construction; frequent deaths and starvation; a death march to Magdeburg; a mass killing of prisone...

  10. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., who was born in Rajka, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Catholic school (there was no Jewish school); being taken to a ghetto in March 1944; transfer a month later to the Gyo?r ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz two months later; remaining with her sister (she never saw her parents again); being told by a prisoner to say she was sixteen; separation from her sister; forced labor; seeing her sister once; transfer to Gebhardsdorf; receiving extra food from a camp official; a forced march to Georgenthal in February; forced factory la...

  11. Rose Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose Z., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1922. She recalls her mother telling her to escape in 1942; being caught by Nazis; a tearful departure from her parents (she never saw them again); deportation to Bolkenhain; slave labor in vegetable fields which provided her with extra food; transfer to another labor camp; a kind German female guard who brought her extra food; transfer to Gra?ben; encountering her sister there; singing at night in her barrack; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; no food, filth, corpses all over, and rampant disease; remain...

  12. Benjamin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918. He describes his family's move to Belgium; his father's successful business in Brussels; attending school in Anderlecht; German invasion; his family's arrest attempting to enter Switzerland; arrest with his wife in the Pyrenees fleeing to Spain; internment in Gurs; his release through Abbe? Alexandre Glasberg; obtaining false papers; joining FTPF (the French communist underground movement); his second arrest; torture during interrogations in Limoges; transfer to Compie?gne, then Buchenwald; and slave labor in Gustlo...

  13. Michel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel L., who was born in Skierniewice, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's emigration to Metz in 1923; their return to Poland in 1936; moving back to France; attending a Jewish school; living among his extended family; his father's death; leaving school for a tailor's apprenticeship; German invasion; forced relocation with his extended family to Angoule?me; denunciation and arrest in 1942; incarceration near Poitiers; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August; slave labor digging canals and moving corpses; volunteerin...

  14. Doris S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris S., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1925, the younger of two sisters. She recalls expulsion from public school in 1933; attending Jewish school; their maid leaving due to anti-Jewish laws; her father's sense of safety due to his status as a decorated World War I veteran; being rounded-up with her family on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; his release due to his veteran's status; his efforts to secure the release from Dachau of family and friends; visiting her grandparents in Berlin; placement on a Kindertransport with her cousins to London via Rotterdam; ...

  15. Bianca B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bianca B., who was born in Roz?kovany, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Zionist activities in Lipany; her father believing they were safe due to their essential farm; anti-Jewish laws when Slovakia became independent; expulsion from school; a non-Jewish schoolmate saving her from a round-up; a Catholic women hiding her when she received a deportation notice; one sister's deportation with other relatives in 1942; a policeman warning them they would be taken in 1943; an aborted escape attempt; imprisonment in Sabinov; her father's b...

  16. Sandra M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sandra M., who was born in Romania in approximately 1924. She recalls her family's orthodoxy (her father was a rabbi); living in Baraolt; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding family possessions; a round-up in May 1944 to a school; transfer three days later to the Oradea ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau three weeks later; separation from her mother, brother and sisters; briefly seeing her brother; a child's birth in he...

  17. Jack T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack T., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1930. He recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; his brother's transfer for forced labor; his mother selling their house to "buy back" his brother; being caught in a round-up in October 1942; escaping; finding his brother's body; he and his sisters burying him; deciding not to tell their mother; incarceration in the newly established Bełżyce concentration camp; one sister's deportation; hiding during a mass killing (his mother and other sister were killed); transfer to Budzyń; slave labor for Heinkel; transfer to W...

  18. Joseph P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph P., a Catholic, who was born in Bonheiden, Belgium in 1924. He recalls his father's death in 1935 from World War I injuries; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to France; returning to Belgium via Poperinge; seeing Hitler and other high German officers there; visiting his grandmother in Arlon to obtain food; hiding a Jewish family in 1942; having them leave when exposure was imminent; joining the Resistance; broadcasting to the British from a clandestine radio in their home; arrest on January 3, 1944 with his brother, sister, and mother; separation from his br...

  19. Louis G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Ve?subie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly;...

  20. Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1931, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending school; visiting relatives in Vilnius; Soviet occupation; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; returning weeks later; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; becoming religious; his bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; digging a bunker with his brother; round-up in July 1944 (his brother was killed in the bunker); deportation with his parents to Stutthof; transfer with his father to Landsberg; transfer with a group of children to ...