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  1. Catina P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Catina P., who was born in Chios, Greece in 1922, one of four sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was four; moving to Athens; speaking Ladino at home; attending a Jewish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; defying an order for Jews to assemble at the synagogue in 1943; her family hiding separately with non-Jewish friends; visiting her mother and sisters; moving a few times, fearing exposure; observing Jewish deportations from afar; marriage in 1954; and emigration to Brussels. Ms. P. discusses the families...

  2. Beatrice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice R., who was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls moving to Staneshti De-Sus so her grandparents could help them (her father was severely injured in World War I); celebrating Jewish holidays; attending school in Chernivt?s?i; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; walking home with a cousin to Staneshti De-Sus; being saved from a round-up by the local population by her father's colleague; joining her father when he was arrested; being saved by the Romanian police chief who knew their family; fleeing to Chernivt?s?i; obtaining f...

  3. Julianna L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julianna L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. In this exceptionally detailed testimony, she recalls a comfortable lifestyle; special privileges due to her father's distinguished service as an officer in World War I; Austrian Jews' disdain for Polish Jews; her family's inability to emigrate to Czechoslovakia after the Anschluss (her mother's family was Czech) due to German occupation of the Sudetenland; watching torchlight Nazi parades; and compulsory "Heil Hitler"'s in school. Mrs. L. remembers her father obtaining United States telephone books and writing let...

  4. Mark K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark K., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1911, one of four children. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; marriage; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a mass killing of Jews by local Ukrainians; working in the oil refineries; the murders of his parents, brother, and one sister; ghettoization; asking his boss to hide his wife; building a bunker at the house of a non-Jewish woman who agreed to hide his wife and sisters (they stayed there for two years); continuing to work in the oil refinery; escaping from a mass killing; joining ...

  5. Herman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in approximately 1925, the only child of a wealthy family. He recounts attending private school; antisemitic harassment; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; his mother's efforts to hide their assets (gold, diamonds, etc.) in clothing and on their bodies; ghettoization; attending school until it closed; working in offices; his mother's selection for deportation (she bribed her way out); her death; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Gleiwitz several days later; slave labor digging ditches; briefly escaping fr...

  6. Rene?e H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e H., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1933. She recalls her childhood in German-occupied Bratislava, where, as the "ears" of her deaf parents and younger sister, she gathered information and alerted them to immediate dangers. She speaks of her and her sister's flight from Bratislava and hiding with a farm family; the ordeal of finding shelter after being evicted from the farm following their parents' deportation; and their voluntary surrender to the police in hopes of locating their parents. She relates her disappointment when she and her sister we...

  7. Hugh J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugh J., who was born in Leicester, England in 1916. He relates being a pacifist; assignment to agricultural work as a conscientious objector; volunteering for relief work with the Friends Service Committee; assignment to a team of twelve in continental Europe; driving a truck; being sent to Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation; shock at seeing corpses everywhere and the debilitated state of some prisoners; first bringing the children to a nearby hospital camp, then the other prisoners, the healthiest first since they had the best chance of surviving; driving hi...

  8. Morris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Humenne?, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recalls attending yeshivas in Snina and Satu Mare; returning home; the establishment of the Slovak state; antisemitic laws; the outbreak of war; confiscation of the family business; round-ups; bribing a policeman to avoid arrest and deportation; saving torahs from a local synagogue; forced evacuation with his family to Hlohovec; arranging a hiding place; their discovery by the Hlinka Guard (his father was deported and he never saw him again); moving to Banska? Bystrica with his uncle to join the Slovak up...

  9. Pola H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pola H., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1913 to a family of ten children. She recalls membership in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; bombing raids; marriage in 1940; ghettoization in 1942; privileges obtained from working as a seamstress; the humiliation of being naked in front of Nazi men; deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944 (she never saw her husband again); transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Malchow; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Sweden via Denmark by the Swedish Red Cross with assistance from Folke Bernadotte; recovery and working; clande...

  10. Alegre T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alegre T., who was born in Drama, Greece in 1922 to a family of seven children. She recalls prewar life; German invasion in 1941; moving with her family, using false papers, to Thessalonike?; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; conditions of deprivation; deportation to Birkenau in cattle cars; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brothers upon their arrival; forced labor; and transfer to Auschwitz, then back to Birkenau, in 1944. Mrs. T. remembers one of her sisters being taken away; difficulties because she was Greek and spoke neither Germa...

  11. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in 1917 and served in the military police of the British army during World War II. He recounts the Normandy landing, moving through Belgium and Holland, and entering Germany; volunteering to enter Bergen-Belsen; observing thousands of bodies and prisoners wandering aimlessly; assisting to organize burial of the dead, whose decomposing bodies could be smelled over a mile away; compelling local Germans to assist; convincing survivors he was Jewish by speaking Yiddish with them; moving everyone to a nearby tank training facility; burning the conc...

  12. Survivors among us

    This edited program contains excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Hartford, Connecticut area, organized around the themes of "Early Memories," "The Camps," and "Resistance."

  13. Eugen V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugen V., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in approximately 1923. He recalls his orthodox home; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; graduation from business school; working in Novi Sad; Hungarian occupation; a sadistic and bloody mass killing of Jews and Serbs in January 1942, including his girlfriend and her family; fleeing with his brother to Budapest; being hidden once by non-Jews; his brother's deportation; forced service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion at the end of 1943; serving in Transylvania; beatings; having an operation on his hand in a hospital in ...

  14. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in 1914 in Ulm, Germany. She recalls an affluent childhood; being forced to leave Germany when Hitler came to power because her father was a Czech citizen; emigration to Vienna, then Czechoslovakia; work in her uncle's summer resort for five years; deportation to a Polish work camp in 1939; and escape with a Polish and a Czech prisoner. Mrs. S. relates finding her parents in Prague; obtaining false papers; learning her brothers had emigrated to Palestine; meeting a former neighbor who exposed her; incarceration in Terezi?n; caring for a German o...

  15. Phil T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Phil T., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. He recalls playing soccer for Sportklub Hakoah; traveling internationally with the team, including to Palestine in 1937; expulsion with other Polish Jews (his parents were born in Poland) to Zba?szyn?; an invitation to play soccer in Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; traveling to Krako?w, then to Gorlice, his father's hometown; deportation to Dachau, then Mielec; forced labor in an airplane factory for two and a half years; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; a death march through Germany; liberation by United States troops includ...

  16. Tzipora H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzipora H., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1933, the youngest of three children. She recounts starting school two weeks prior to the German invasion; brief Soviet occupation, then German return; a mass round-up, including her older brother; her father bribing a German to secure his release; having him smuggled into the Soviet zone; her parents' arrests; she and her brother being evicted from their home; living with an uncle; her parents' return; ghettoization; building a bunker with other families; hiding with her family and others during round-ups; discovery ...

  17. Gilberte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilberte W., who was born in Paris, France in 1913. She recounts that her mother was a French Catholic and her father a German Jew; visiting her paternal grandparents in Germany when World War I started; her father's draft into the German military; living in several places including Rastatt, Mannheim, then Magdeburg; attending a convent school; living with her paternal grandfather after her grandmother died; attending Friday night services with him and church on Sunday with her mother; moving to Leipzig, then Vienna; marriage to a Jew in 1935; the Anschluss; obtaining...

  18. Herbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert S., who was born in Hagen, Germany in 1923. He recalls his childhood; the lack of conspicuous antisemitism until 1933; and encounters with antisemitism in gymnasium. He recalls wartime forced labor in a factory; anti-Jewish restrictions; and being exempted from deportation twice before he and his parents went voluntarily to Terezi?n in 1942. He recounts friction between Jews of various nationalities in the camp; his transport to Auschwitz in 1944; and his observations there. He tells of his transfer to Buchenwald later in 1944; his work in a munitions factory ...

  19. Štefan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Žlkovce, Slovakia in 1939, one of twelve children. He recounts living in Hrkovce; witnessing a plane being shot down at the beginning of the war; his father, a musician, playing at weddings; his father's exemption from deportation due to his profession; having to leave the village due to discriminatory laws against Romanies; cruelty by the Hlinka guard; food shortages; his father bringing home food from weddings when he played; his family being forced to make bricks; liberation by Soviet troops; kind treatment of the Roma...

  20. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1933. He recounts cordial relations with Catholic neighbors; his father liquidating their assets and buying diamonds; ghettoization; protection due to his father's supervisory role in the Madritsch factory; occasionally working in the factory; being smuggled out, with assistance from Jewish police, when the ghetto was liquidated; hiding alone in the factory for eight days; a non-Jewish woman bringing him food; being sent to hide as a non-Jew with a Polish family in the countryside; praying and attending church with them; ...