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  1. Werner R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls his father losing his job in 1933; moving to Zagreb; attending public school; their Zionist, rather than Jewish, identity; his father's death in 1940; German invasion in 1941; being baptized with his sister; living separately from his mother and sister because it seemed safer; his sister's escape to Italy; working with the partisans; and arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. Mr. R. tells of jails in Graz and Vienna; transport to Terezi?n; cabarets and opera; German efforts to preserve Jewish books; and transport t...

  2. Magdalena N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdalena N., who was born in Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, one of two sisters. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her strong Slovak identity; teaching Jewish students in L̕ubochňa; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the humiliation of having to wear the star; moving to Bratislava with her family; her father hiding them, then arranging for her and her sister to be smuggled to Hungary; interdiction in Senec; return to Bratislava; two strangers paying for their release; her sister's marriage to a man legally exempted from deportat...

  3. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David K., who was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1905. He recalls the family's move to ?o?dz? in 1913; German occupation in World War I; his mother's death in 1920; choosing not to emigrate to the United States in 1923; serving in the Polish army from 1926 to 1928; working as an accountant; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw and returning immediately; his father's death in 1940; ghettoization; working for the Judenrat; contact with H?ayim Rumkowski; arrival of Czech, German, and Austrian Jews in 1942; deportation of the sick, elderly, and children; liquidation of the g...

  4. Yehuda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda S., who was born in S?iauliai, Lithuania in 1912, one of three children. He recounts his family's forced relocation by Russia to Vitsebsk during World War I; returning in 1920; vacations in Palanga; his siblings' emigration to South Africa; working in his father's leather business; his death in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing east with his mother; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his mother's deportation with other relatives (he never saw them again); he and his future wife hiding with Lithuanian non-Jews for four month...

  5. Judith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Szeged, Hungary, in 1929, and raised in nearby Kiskundorozsma. Mrs. S. recalls tacit and overt antisemitism in pre-occupation Hungary; her family's deportation to Szeged in June 1944; a Christian family that offered to hide her; priests who offered conversion to detainees; transport with her family to Strasshof; camp living conditions; and forced labor at several sites, including a farm near Pravice, a sugar mill in Hrus?ovany, and digging tank traps. She tells of the family's escape from a death march during a Soviet attack; hiding; liberat...

  6. Marlis M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marlis M., who was born in Hannover in 1932 to a Jewish father and German mother. She recounts her younger brother's birth in 1936; arrest in 1938 (her oldest brother was not with them); their release; her father leaving for Antwerp; viewing damage done during Kristallnacht; joining her father in summer 1939; returning shortly thereafter (her father remained); harassment in school because her father was Jewish; her younger brother's death from illness; learning her father was doing forced labor in the Harz Mountains; moving to a nearby village in winter 1943/44; a vil...

  7. Jack A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack A., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927. He recalls a secure family life; changes after the Nuremberg laws, including violent harassment; deportation of Polish Jews in October 1938, including many relatives; one brother's emigration to Palestine in November 1938; burning of synagogues and destruction of his father's store on Kristallnacht; his parents putting him and a brother on a train to the Netherlands; being stopped at the border in Emmerich; assistance from local nuns; traveling to the Netherlands; living in a children's home in Arnhem; arrival of his ...

  8. William F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William F., who was born deaf in a small town near Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary, in 1910. Mr. F. describes his childhood in a large family (two brothers were also deaf); learning from his father to read Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; being self-taught because he lacked a formal education; becoming a leatherworker; his pride at living independently in Budapest at age eighteen; growing antisemitism; fleeing to Czechoslovakia in late 1937; courtship and marriage; and establishing a business in Pies?t?any. He recalls a Christian maid who helped him and his wife avoid deportati...

  9. Elbridge H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elbridge H., who was born in 1924 and served with the United States Army 20th Armored Division in World War II. He recounts entering Dachau immediately after it was liberated; being overwhelmed with grief; the pervasive stench; piles of corpses; emaciated, dazed inmates; and leaving shortly thereafter. Mr. H. discusses his inability to believe the "inhumanity" of the camp; visiting Dachau with his family in 1964; and recently speaking publicly about his experience at Dachau.

  10. Celina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She recalls the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to Lv?iv; Soviet occupation; returning to Krako?w in December 1939; fleeing to Wieliczka to escape ghettoization; her father's deportation and subsequent death; forced relocation with her mother and brother to the Krako?w ghetto in 1943, then to P?aszo?w in March; her brother's deportation with the children's transport (she never saw him again); working with her mother in an upholstery shop; hiding during Goeth's visit; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz;...

  11. Milan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milan S., a Romani, who was born in Jelšava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia). He recalls providing information about Hlinka guard movements to partisans; arrest with others; deportation to Komárno; transfer ten weeks later to Dachau; being marked as a partisan; slave labor in an airplane factory; a guard killing a Jewish prisoner for not working; meeting Romanies from throughout Europe; transfer two weeks later to Hamburg; shootings of Romani friends; placement in barracks with Jews; little communication among ethnic and national groups; one German giving him ex...

  12. Dori K. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Dori K., whose first testimony was recorded in 1979. Ms. K. notes that she does not remember what she said in her testimony, but it was the first time she had spoken at length of her experiences and it was very painful. She recounts that the 1979 testimony freed her to explore her past by visiting the home where she was hidden and an archive in Brussels which contained records of her, her father, and family photographs. She also discusses clarifying some of her own memories; encountering a neighbor who said everyone knew she was Jewish and kept q...

  14. Achille D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Achille D., a non-Jew, who was born in Harelbeke, Belgium in 1924, one of two children. He recounts being orphaned when he was eight; living with loving grandparents; attending school to become a textile engineer in Kortrijk (Courtrai); distributing Resistance publications and doing reconnaisance for the Front de l'indépendance; arrest in April 1942; incarceration in Courtrai prison; a public trial; a five-month prison sentence; incarceration in St. Gilles and Merxplas; receiving Red Cross packages; visits from his aunt; attending classes; release in August; continu...

  15. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of David K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls moving to Gdan?sk in 1928; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; pervasive antisemitic harassment; their return to ?o?dz?; moving to Radogoszcz; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; the siege; returning to Radogoszcz; traveling to Warsaw with a neighbor; returning to ?o?dz?; public hangings; joining his mother in the Krako?w ghetto; moving to Rzeszo?w; posing as a non-Jew and selling merchandise outside the city; illegally entering the Soviet-occupied area from ?an?cut with help from a non-Jew...

  16. Seeing

    Survivors and witnesses describe their experiences during the Holocaust period. This edited program includes a Jesuit priest who was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia; a Jewish woman who was a young girl in Locise, Poland; another who was deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek; a Jewish male survivor of Skarżysko-Kamienna; and a woman survivor of Auschwitz.

  17. Bertha H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha H., who was born in Szatma?rcseke, Hungary in 1920 to a family of ten children. She recalls a happy family life; working as a dressmaker; marriage in 1942; her husband's deportation to a work camp six weeks later; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; separation from her older sister and mother upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer with her two younger sisters to P?aszo?w; concealing her younger sister's deafness; working with her sister in a tailor shop; transfer...

  18. Thomas B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1927. He recalls deteriorationg conditions after German invasion; Jewish refugees in 1941 who spoke of gassings at Che?mno and the inability to believe this; Izbica's use as a collection point for Jews starting in 1942; the first round-up and transport, ostensibly to L'vov; learning it had gone to Belzec, where there was a big fire and terrible smell; round-ups thereafter; obtaining Polish papers; and attempting to escape to Hungary in January 1943. Mr. B. relates capture and imprisonment; returning to Izbica; transport to ...

  19. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, the elder of two sons. He recounts his family moving to Prague when he was four years old; their relative affluence; summer vacations with grandparents in Bratislava and other locations; his and his brother's b'nai mitzvah; Passover celebrations in their home with extended family; attending a German gymnasium; German invasion on March 15, 1939; his father leaving for Hungary, due to his Hungarian citizenship, intending to send for them; having to vacate their apartment; deportation to...

  20. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls Hitler's warm reception during the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her parents sending her younger sister to relatives in Czechoslovakia; Nazis vandalizing their apartment during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Dachau; she and her mother moving in with relatives; emigration to Palestine with a Youth Aliyah group; a painful parting from her mother; living on a kibbutz; contacts with Henrietta Szold; visiting her parents and sister in the United States in 1947; serving in the Magen DavĚŁid ado...