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  1. Jerrit A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerrit A., who was born in Amsterdam in 1909. He describes aspects of prewar life in the Jewish section of Amsterdam; the beginnings of anti-Jewish legislation and forced labor; being rounded up, with his wife and three children, by the SA and taken to Westerbork; his separation from his wife and children, when he was forcibly removed from the deportation train (which continued to Auschwitz, where his family was killed); and being taken as a slave laborer to Cosel, in Silesia. He speaks of his transfer to Niederkirch, where most of the prisoners were also Dutch; to Se...

  2. Ervin E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin E., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922. He describes his father's status as a World War I hero, which provided exemption from anti-Jewish laws; being barred from university due to those laws; working as a lathe operator; compulsory service in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1943 in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and an area near Novi Sad; witnessing Ustas?i, Croatians, and SS burning Serbian villages and killing civilians; being recruited by Chetniks; German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; escaping to Budapest with false papers in November; deporta...

  3. Morris S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris S., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland, in 1921. He recalls growing up in a middle-class family of seven children; his father's bakery business; German invasion; killings of Jews; creation of the Judenrat; ghettoization; leaving the ghetto for forced labor; a friend's death in a mass killing; liquidation of the ghetto; forced labor with two sisters and one brother in Racho?w; transfer to Buchenwald, then a camp near Dresden; a death march; escaping with his brother; separating from him to avoid being caught (he never saw him again); posing as a non-Jew to joi...

  4. Elizabeth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth S., who was born in Paris, France in approximately 1938. She recounts traveling with her mother to Toulouse after German invasion; reunion with her father; his leaving them (he was recognizable as a Jew because he was a well-known violinist); living in a non-Jewish friend's chateau as non-Jews; Germans being billeted with them; wearing a cross (she did not know she was Jewish); placement in a convent; visits from her mother; learning catechism and being confirmed; transfer to an orphanage; being told the war was over; returning to Paris with her mother; livi...

  5. Malvinia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malvinia S., who was born in Sighet, Romania. She describes her family's Hasidism; her mother's death when she was eleven; one brother's emigration to Cuba; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a forced labor battalion; obtaining documents in Velyikyy Bychkiv to confirm her father's citizenship; his death; ghettoization in spring 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; a friend who obtained extra food and shared it with her; transfer to a camp in Upper Silesia; slave labor digging trenches; a death march; digging graves after mass killings; declining to ...

  6. Boris A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris A., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1915, one of seven children in a religious family. He recalls his parents' deaths in 1936 and 1938; continuing the family business with his brothers; Soviet occupation when he was in Kovno; opening a brush store in S?iauliai; German invasion; ghettoization; manufacturing brushes for the Germans; his sister's escape, with her three children, from the Kovno ghetto to S?iauliai; deportations of two of her children; and transfer with his brother, sister, and her child to a nearby camp. Mr. A. recounts a German supervisor...

  7. Sue K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sue K., who was born in Roz?h?ishche, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1931, one of six children. She recalls her father and brother emigrating to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; her mother's rape by a Ukrainian neighbor; ghettoization; learning the Catholic catechism to pose as a non-Jew; escaping with her sister and brother; separation from them; hiding on a farm; and learning of her brother's murder. She recounts hiding in the woods; working on another farm as a non-Jew; liberation by Soviet troops; living in an orphanage in Kiev; retur...

  8. Edith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith K., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts moving with her family to Munka?cs in 1933; attending Czech school; graduation in 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws resulting in her father losing his business; assistance from his former employee; German occupation; ghettoization; her brother being drafted into a forced labor battalion; her father refusing an offer to hide their family in order to remain with his siblings; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival (she never saw them again); six weeks in Birkenau...

  9. Krystyna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Krystyna B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1921. Mrs. B. describes her parents, who were both educators, and details the charitable works of her mother; education as an assimilated Jew; her older brother being drafted into the Polish Army and never seeing him again; ghettoization of Warsaw and conditions there; going often to the Polish side posing as a non-Jew; and being caught in a ghetto round-up. She relates transport to Majdanek with her mother; their arrival and separation during the selection process; six weeks in Majdanek during May and June 1943; transfer...

  10. Selene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selene B., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland. She recalls German occupation; mass killings; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her brother's work as a photographer's assistant (he brought home pictures of the ghetto); her brother arranging for her and her mother to work at a furniture factory; hiding with her mother after the ghetto's liquidation; their arrest and deportation to Stutthof, then Birkenau; working with her mother in a bomb factory; attempting to sabotage the bomb fuses; a public hanging; transfer to Auschwitz; f...

  11. Pincus and Sylvia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pincus S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1906, and his wife Sylvia S., who was born in Pultusk, Poland in 1922 and moved to ?o?dz? in 1937. Mr. S. tells of his prewar marriage to his first wife and his work as a furrier. Both Mr. and Mrs. S. speak of the German occupation of ?o?dz?; the torture and humiliation which followed; the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; ghetto life; their impressions of Rumkowski, elder of the Jewish Council of ?o?dz?; and round-ups and deportations from the ghetto. Mrs. S. describes the death of her father in the ghetto; her transport to Auschwi...

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  13. Matala B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matala B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland, one of three daughters. She recalls their affluence; being spoiled as the youngest; joyous family holidays; giving to charity; cessation of school when war began; having tutors at home; her father being part of the Judenrat which helped them survive; hiding during round-ups; being held and then released when an official was bribed by a local Jew, Dr. Orenstein; her whole family being taken; incarceration in Budzyń and Majdanek; separation from her sister; a death march to Auschwitz/Birkenau when her mother was shot in f...

  14. Rose J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose J., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1925. She recalls her family of nine children (she is the sole survivor); Vilna's cultural and religious life; her father's optimism resulting in unwillingness to flee to the Soviet Union; forced labor, hunger, smuggling, cultural events, and round-ups in the ghetto; and one sister's refusal to abandon her son to save herself. Mrs. J. tells of deportation to Latvia; forced labor and sabotaging products in Strazdenhof; smuggling food to children; prisoners killing an informant; transfer to Stutthof, then Dresden; work in an amm...

  15. Wiera G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wiera G., who was born in approximately 1921. She recalls a happy childhood in Vilna, Poland; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; learning dressmaking; Soviet occupation in 1939; Lithuanian independence; Soviet reoccupation; German invasion; her father's murder in Ponary; ghettoization in September 1941; murder of her grandparents at Ponary; slave labor in a uniform factory; hiding during round-ups; injuring her leg; hospitalization; deportation with her sister to Kaiserwald in 1943; slave labor in a silk factory in Strazdenhof; assistance from a Lithuanian doctor; sab...

  16. Regine B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regine B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1920. She recounts moving to Antwerp when she was eleven months; living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; no one knowing her family was Jewish; German invasion; registering as a Jew (no one else in her family did); an official offering to help her; being baptized as a result; working informally for the resistance; her position as a governess in Brasschaat; deportation to Malines in 1943; her mother and sister visiting; transfer to Auschwitz in May 1944; slave labor digging trenches and other jobs; observing a woman give...

  17. Selma E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma E., who was born in Groningen, Holland, in 1922 and grew up in Zuidwolde, Holland, where her family operated a kosher hotel. She recounts her prewar family life; the influx of German Jews in 1938; anti-Jewish legislation following the German occupation of Holland; going into hiding; her capture and internment in the Dutch camps of Vught and Westerbork; and her deportation to Sobibo?r. She describes her arrival at Sobibo?r; her gradual realization that she was in an extermination camp; her work sorting the clothing of the victims of gassing; and the circumstances...

  18. Rosalie W. and Jolly Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalie W. and her daughter Jolly Z., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926. They describe their happy, privileged prewar life; the emigration of Mrs. W.'s son to Palestine; the Hungarian occupation; the deterioration of conditions following the German occupation; their transfer to a brick factory in the ghetto (Mrs. Z. came out of hiding to join her parents there); and their evacuation and journey by cattle car to Auschwitz. They speak of their separation from Mrs. W.'s husband, whom they later realized was gassed upon arrival; their ...

  19. Marvin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marvin L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He remembers his mother's death in 1934; living with his grandparents; his father's emphasis on education; studying with private tutors when Jews could not attend school; moving to Dzia?oszyce when the ?o?dz? ghetto was being formed in 1939; deportation of the women and children to Treblinka and the men to a Krako?w forced labor camp in 1942; transfer back to Dzia?oszyce; another deportation; and execution of his brother. Mr. L. relates his work as a mechanic and locksmith in the Krako?w ghetto; witnessing atrocities ...

  20. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Leon F., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1919. He remembers the vibrant Jewish community; Polish antisemitism; brief German occupation, then Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; Germans burning Jews alive in the synagogue and Jewish quarter; his family's rescue by a Pole; ghettoization; forced labor; escaping from a round-up in which his father was killed; the Judenrat organizing a transfer to the Pruzh?a?ny ghetto for him, his mother, and one sister; obtaining food from non-Jewish farmers; liquidation of the ghetto in January 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; se...