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  1. Marcel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his father selling their stores in 1936 to emigrate to Palestine; one brother emigrating there; increasing influence of Hungarian fascists; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; his return after two months; he and his brothers being drafted in 1941; his brothers being sent to the Russian front (they did not return); a Hungarian Nazi, who was his father's friend, helping them avoid deportation; visiting his family in 1944 in the Bu...

  2. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in 1938; a priest who converted her family to ensure their safety; incarceration with her sister in the local jail for two nights for not wearing the star; hiding with a Christian family; her family's incarceration in Nova?ky; hiding with non-Jews; obtaining false papers; moving to Pres?ov, then Bratislava; joining her parents in Novaky; traveling with her sister to Trenc?in; her sister's return to Novaky; living in Bratislava under an ass...

  3. Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigrid Jean S., who was born in Dinkelsbu?hl, Germany in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school in 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her father's internment in Buchenwald; her oldest brother's emigration to Australia; her other brother's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; making a gift for her parents on Rosh ha-Shanah in 1943; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; digging tank traps in Kurzbach; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation in May...

  4. Yehoshua R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua R., who was born in 1923, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a yeshiva; German invasion of Jaworzno; forced labor; moving to Chrzano?w to support his sister and her eight children; being sent from a round-up to Bunzlau; slave labor there and in several other camps ending at Klettendorf; escaping with a friend; being caught on a train; incarceration in Myslowitz, then Birkenau; assignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chambers to open pyres; public hangings; losing his faith (he later returned to orthodoxy du...

  5. Irma M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma M., who was born in Forchheim, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Catholic school; her sense of isolation, despite kindness from nuns; wanting to be part of the pervasive Nazi youth culture; living with an aunt in Bamberg; attending a Jewish boarding school in Horburg; being forced to break the school windows and march through town to have rocks thrown at them during Kristallnacht; returning home; finding her home vandalized and her father gone (he was in Dachau); their non-Jewish maid and doctor assisting them; her fath...

  6. Gisela M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela M., who was born in Schivelbein, Germany (presently S?widwin, Poland) in 1925 one of two daughters of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. She describes harassment at school; witnessing her father being beaten; expulsion from school following Kristallnacht; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; non-Jewish friends supplying their food; moving to Berlin; working as a factory apprentice; losing her job because she was the daughter of a Jew; her father's arrest; her mother demonstrating daily with other wives of Jewish men; her father's release; forced relocat...

  7. Agnes S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes S., who was born in Budapest in 1925. She speaks of the German occupation of Budapest; of her work as a slave laborer in a mill in Budapest; deportations from the brick factory in which she and her mother were interned, but from which they were spared through the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg; their internment in the ghetto of Budapest in December, 1944 and liberation there in January 1945; the illegal departure of herself, her husband, and her son from communist Hungary in 1949 and their emigration to the United States in 1956. The physical and psychological...

  8. Ervin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin S., a non-Jew, who was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his family's poverty; his father's communist activities; their anti-Nazi activities; his father's enlistment in the Czech military; his father's arrest by the Gestapo; having to join the Hitler Youth, then the Wehrmacht; capture in Italy by United States troops in February 1945; incarceration as a POW in Livorno and Naples; release in 1947; prohibition from returning to Czechoslovakia because he had served in the Wehrmacht; illegally crossing the border; reunion with his family; and recei...

  9. Ruth A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth A., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family moving to Warsaw; German occupation in 1939; ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; escaping to Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski with her mother and sister; working for a farmer who hid her Jewish identity; learning her sister and aunt were deported to Treblinka and her mother shot on the way; working on another farm for two months; being identified as a Jew; returning to the Mie?dzyrzec ghetto; following her German friend's advice to volunteer as a Polish slave laborer in order to get to German...

  10. Dov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1913, one of six children in an orthodox family. He recounts attending cheder, yeshivas in Khust and Galanta, then a Jewish gymnasium in Brno; night work in a factory to support himself; attending an agricultural school in Tábor to prepare for emigration to Palestine; participating in Hechalutz; graduation in 1932; military draft; continuing contact with Hechalutz; discharge in 1936; returning home briefly; working in Prague; training at a kibbutz in Plzeň; military recall in 1938; his posting in Košice; his ...

  11. Jack H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1929, one of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence and orthodoxy; his father and four siblings emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's return with his youngest brother in 1938; attending public school and a cheder; Hungarian occupation; German invasion; ghettoization in Vis?eu de Sus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his parents' selection for gassing; remaining with three brothers; interactions with Jews from many countries; their transfer to Do?rnhau, then a slave labor camp in Silesia; beatings and st...

  12. Pauline B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline B., who was born in Li︠u︡bomlʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the fifth of six daughters. She recounts attending Yiddish, then public school; antisemitic harassment; her mother's death when she was six; moving to her grandparents with an older sister; one aunt, who was like a mother to her, emigrating to Argentina; Soviet occupation; placement with her sister in an orphanage; evacuation by Soviet troops when the Germans invaded; being wounded en route; staying in Volgograd (Stalingrad) for a week; transfer to Siberia; living in an orphanage; moving with ...

  13. Nathan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland, in 1930 and moved to Krako?w at the age of three. He tells of the deaths of his mother and grandmother in 1938; the outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation; and his dismissal from public school. He relates the establishment of the P?aszo?w camp on the site of the Jewish cemetery; his and his father's transport in March 1940 to Kras?nik, near Lublin, where they joined his older brother; their internment in the Be?z?yce ghetto; and ghetto life, which was characterized by round-ups, deportations and random violence. He de...

  14. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  15. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Lazdijai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending cheder; his family's expulsion during World War I; their return; attending Hebrew high school in Marijampolė; participating in Maccabi; leading the Lithuanian team in the 1932 Tel Aviv Makabiyah; attending the University of Pittsburgh; his father's death; returning home; completing law school in Kaunas; antisemitic harassment by university officials; marriage in 1935; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva; Soviet occupation in June 1940; worki...

  16. Helena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena B., a non-Jew, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. She recalls her family's history of socialist activism; cordial relations with assimilated Jews; friendship with a girl from a Hasidic family; her father's open opposition to antisemitism resulting in his job termination; German invasion; humiliating treatment of Jews by German soldiers; visiting friends in the ghetto; observing starving children, corpses on the street, and lack of sanitation; providing shelter for Jews, some of whom were later arrested and killed; her parents, fearing informants, sending h...

  17. Leon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon W., who was born in Stoyano?v, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to L?vov in 1934; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; arrest with his father and one brother; release three days later; learning most of those arrested had been shot; forced labor; and incarceration in Janowska in 1942. Mr. W. tells of working as a glazier; catching typhus which resulted in his selection; watching those in front being shot in a mass grave; being called out to remove corpses to the mass grave; and escaping by running into a large group of prisoners. He describes esc...

  18. Stanley S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley S., who was born in Nelipino, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodox observances; attending school in Mukacheve; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; lack of knowledge of Jewish persecution elsewhere; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; working in an airplane factory on Csepel Island; punishment for smuggling; escape in October 1944; obtaining a Swedish passport from Raoul Wallenberg; hiding in a Swedish safe house in Budapest; arrest by the Arrow Cross (Nyilaskeresztes Pa?rt); deportation to...

  19. Coenraad R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Coenraad R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1917, one of six children. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony, Mr. R. recounts forced labor building a canal in Staphorst; his wife smuggling him food; working as a nurse in Westerbork; his wife sending him food; slave labor in many camps; sharing extra food he received for tailoring; and Czechs throwing them food when they were transferred in open train cars. He shows photographs and documents.

  20. Ilona T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilona T., who was born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. She notes her town had twenty-five Jewish families; cordial relations with non-Jews; her mother's death when she was nine; her father's loving care; Hungarian occupation in 1939; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in spring 1944; deportation to Irshava, then a week later to the Munkács ghetto; her father giving his food to her and her siblings; deportation to Auschwitz three weeks later; separation from her father and brothers upon arrival (she never saw them again); remainin...