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  1. Hans D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935, an only child in an assimilated household. He recalls warm relations with his extended family; his parents' businesses; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; visiting Rotterdam after it was destroyed by German bombing; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father transferring businesses to non-Jews; his father obtaining a permit exempting them from deportation; his father and uncle disappearing when out on business (they never saw them again); deportation with his mother to Westerbork in fall 1942; vainly hoping h...

  2. Jacob B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. He describes his family's affluence; moving to his grandfather's house in Czernowitz before the Anschluss in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Transnistria; his grandfather's murder en route; remaining with his father (his mother was nearby); slave labor in a quarry; limited contact with his father; random executions; adults in the barracks teaching him a variety of subjects; constant fear; being smuggled out briefly by an uncle's friend in 1943; returning three months lat...

  3. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1926. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending German school; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; former friends ignoring her; anti-Jewish restrictions; her violin teacher discontinuing her lessons; a woman in their building, whose son was a Nazi official, offering her lessons despite the prohibition; Kristallnacht; her father's and grandfather's deportation to Buchenwald; their release several weeks later; her father's ruined health; expulsion from school; obtaining vis...

  4. Toman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toman B., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. A distinguished Czech historian, Mr. B. speaks of his childhood in a well-to-do, assimilated family; his strong Czech patriotism; collecting money in school for national defense; his father's death on the eve of the Munich agreement; previously hidden antisemitism; humiliation at having to wear a star; and help from a Christian ex-servant when the family home was commandeered by Germans. He relates deportation with his mother and brother to Theresienstadt in July 1942; organization and sociocultural life in th...

  5. Chava L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chava L., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's relative affluence; attending a German, then a Slovak school, until the expulsion of Jews; her father's dismissal from his bank job; participating in a Zionist youth group beginning in 1938, despite her parents' disapproval; her mother's brothers converting to Christianity in 1939; her refusal to do so; living on a Zionist training farm; being sent home because she was under sixteen; helping produce false papers and ration coupons with...

  6. Friedrich L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedrich L., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1915, one of eight children. He recalls their traveling musical show; expulsion from the national musicians organization and no longer being allowed to travel due to anti-Romani laws; escaping with his sister to Yugoslavia (they were the only survivors); posing as a German musician; Ustas?as burning a barn filled with people; living in Austria; returning to Munich after the war; meeting his wife; and performing with his son because all his colleagues had been killed. Mr. L. discusses not speaking o...

  7. Michael V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He relates his family's long history in Hungary; his father's successful career as a textile businessman; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; his father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion and subsequent disappearance (he never saw his father again); German occupation in 1944; moving into a building designated for Jews; good relations with non-Jews; learning of deportations; obtaining false papers of protection from the Swiss consulate; living in a Vatican protected house; escaping a round-up of reside...

  8. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland, in 1923. He was one of nine children, three of whom survived the Holocaust. Mr. G. tells of a pogrom which took place in Cze?stochowa in 1933; the rise of antisemitism there beginning in 1938; and the German occupation and the increased anti-Jewish activities which followed. He describes his life in the Cze?stochowa ghetto, where he worked as a forced laborer at the railroad station; his escape from the ghetto on New Year's Eve, 1941; and his eventual return home because there was no help forthcoming from the Poles. He re...

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  10. Lieselott E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lieselott E., who was born in Parchim, Germany in 1920. She recalls holiday observances in the local synagogue; deteriorating conditions beginning in 1933; the arrest and brief imprisonment of all Jews in Parchim in 1935; her father's belief that conditions would improve; laws banning her from school; visiting relatives in other cities so she could be anonymous; her father's stroke in 1936; destruction of their house and business on Kristallnacht and her father's second stroke; and fleeing to Berlin, where he died. She recounts returning home with her mother; selling ...

  11. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slav...

  12. Elise S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elise S., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1906. She recalls German invasion; fleeing with her non-Jewish husband and daughter from C?esky?n Krumlov to Bechyne? where her parents lived; fleeing with her family to C?eske? Bude?jovice; her parents' and brothers' deportations to Terezi?n in 1942; sending packages to them in Zamos?c?; learning from her brother's letter that her parents disappeared (she never saw them again); her husband's draft in August 1944; sending her daughter to an orphanage when she was arrested; deportation from a prison in Prague to Terez...

  13. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. He recalls religious family life; singing in the Norzyk Synagogue choir under several famous cantors; playing soccer for Jewish sports groups; working as a furrier from the age of thirteen on; conscription into the Polish army when Germany invaded; returning to Warsaw after defeat; ghettoization; the last synagogue service at which Cantor Gershon Sirota sang; selling fur clothing to feed his family; sleeping in a bunker to avoid deportation; and the disappearance of his parents and others until only he and his brother r...

  14. John C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John C., who was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in approximately 1922. He recalls attending Yale in fall 1940; attempting to enlist in the naval air corps after Pearl Harbor; failing to pass the eye test; enlisting in the army; beginning active duty in early 1943; assignment to a mobile engineering corps; landing in Le Havre; moving into Germany; entering Wöbbelin shortly after its liberation; horror at the conditions; local Germans being forced to dig mass graves; and not believing local Germans and POWs denying knowledge of the camp and demonstrating no remorse. Mr. C...

  15. Esther M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther M., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930. She recalls anti-Jewish regulations after the war began, including expulsion from school and wearing the star; hearing of concentration camps; her parents hiding with a non-Jewish business colleague and hiding her and her sister with a non-Jewish neighbor; visits from her mother (she had false papers so could go out); joining their parents; placement in a convent; being moved to another convent when other children became suspicious; writing letters to their parents through an intermediary; retrieval by their mother...

  16. Nathan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan L., who was born in Łańcut, Poland in 1934, the younger of two brothers. He recounts living in bunkers in the woods with his family, including grandparents, aunts, and uncles; often running and hiding in cemeteries; his uncle carrying him when he could not run through high snow; assistance from some non-Jews; his grandparents giving up; his mother not returning when she went for food (he never saw her again); liberation six month later; returning to Łańcut; living with his aunt, then in an orphanage for a few months; living in Rzeszów with his brother, fathe...

  17. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.

  18. Berthold and Gertrude H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berthold and Gertrude H. Mr. H. was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904. He recalls his apprenticeship at age fourteen; earning a good living as a salesman; antisemitic attacks; many Jews committing suicide; confiscation of their apartment; arrest on Kristallnacht; abusive treatment until his release; emigration to the United States in February 1939; and psychiatric treatment to deal with his traumatic memories. Mrs. H. was born in Vienna in 1909. She recalls her father's death as a soldier in World War I; marriage in 1937; changes after Hitler took over Austria; being sh...

  19. Vivette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vivette S., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. She recalls her family life with its secular, socialist and French emphases; participating in the Front Populaire, including traveling to Spain; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to Orle?ans, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and Vichy; attending university in Toulouse; joining her family in Cannes in 1941; learning about OSE in Montpellier; working for OSE in Rivesaltes rescuing children; a Hanukkah celebration there; leaving in June 1942, having rescued more than 400 children; marriage to the OSE director in Marseille in Octobe...

  20. Barbara Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barbara Z., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her father was not Jewish; her parents were both dentists; their divorce when she was twelve; her maternal grandfather living with them; her mother's Danish friend urging her mother to send her to Denmark due to Hitler's ascent to power; arrival in Copenhagen in 1936; attending a Catholic school; her mother's arrival a year later (her grandfather had died); their sham marriages so they could remain; German invasion; non-Jews arranging their transport in a small fishing boat to Sweden (the ...