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  1. Alexander R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander R., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. Mr. R. recalls his youth in a prominent, assimilated family; loss of the family shoe store during the 1919 Communist regime; suppression of the Communists; return of the family business; antisemitism in school and university admissions; law studies; and receiving his doctorate in 1930. He recounts his law apprenticeship with a Jewish politician; military service starting in 1931; attending officer candidate school; antisemitic incidents; discharge in 1932; return to law practice; the political shift to the right...

  2. Dietrich G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dietrich G., who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in 1914. Mr. G. speaks of his family's move to Potsdam in 1924; his Christian mother and Jewish father (he had converted to Christianity); his father losing his government job; an unsuccessful police search of the house for his father on Kristallnacht; his father's departure to Britain in 1939 (he later perished in an air raid); and the outbreak of war preventing his mother and him from emigrating. He recalls wartime Berlin;, efforts to be inconspicuous; joining a Confessional Church group which rescued Jews;...

  3. Henry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry M., born in approximately 1915, one of nine children. He recalls living on a farm in Ti?a?chiv, Czechoslovakia; his family's orthodoxy and Zionism; apprenticing as a tailor; cordial relations with non-Jews; draft into the Czech military in 1937; German annexation in 1938; returning home; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Kyjov and Dormitz; returning home in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his father, brothers, and uncle; slave labor cutting hay; seeing his sisters in an...

  5. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1933. She recalls a large, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to De Panne, Dunkerque, and Boulogne with her parents; their return to Brussels; anti-Jewish regulations; her parents' decision not to register as Jews; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors during round-ups in 1942 and 1943; being sent to camp in Seny for two weeks; living with her cousin in Waterloo; her mother arranging for her to live with two women who hid Jewish children; attending a Catholic boarding school from ...

  6. Herman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recounts that his parents were divorced; living with his mother; attending public school until 1935; transferring to a Jewish school due to anti-Jewish laws; destruction of his mother's furniture store on Kristallnacht; being sent with his younger brother to an uncle in Brussels; living with relatives in Antwerp, Brunoy, then being returned to Antwerp; learning his mother had emigrated to England and his father to Palestine; German invasion in 1940; he and his brother living on their own; being caught in a round-u...

  7. Cecille B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cecille B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austria in 1898. Mrs. B. describes her family; her brother, who left for the United States in 1907; moving to Mannheim, where her father worked for prominent relatives; meeting her husband, a Polish citizen; the birth of her son and daughter; citizenship problems due to the transfer of the city of Czernowitz from Austria to Romania; meeting Nahum Goldman in 1924, and asking his assistance in obtaining citizenship papers. She relates changes resulting from Hitler's rise to power; she and her husband losing their business in 1938;...

  8. Nathan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan P., who was born in Germany in 1917 and raised in Izbica Lubelska, Poland, one of eight children. He recalls one brother's emigration to Argentina; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; a brother's deportation to Sobibor; escaping from Izbica with a brother, sister, her husband, and their two children; joining an Armia Krajowa (AK) partisan group in the forests; assignments killing German sympathizers and mining railroad tracks; hearing the AK intended to kill the Jews and Russians in their group; leaving with assistance from a Polish professor after the Russia...

  9. Borys K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Borys K., who was born in Ozarintsy, Ukraine in 1923. He describes his family's devotion to a Jewish school his father founded; his mother's responsibility for their surviving the 1930s famine; joining Komsomol; German invasion; enlisting in the Soviet army on July 20, 1941; retreating; brief incarceration as a POW; escaping home via Mohyliv and Karpovka; hiding with non-Jews; establishing an underground unit; joining his family in the ghetto; recovering from typhus with help from a non-Jewish doctor; transfer to Pechora concentration camp; escaping with assistance fr...

  10. Egon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon S., who was born in Rheydt, Germany in 1924. He recalls attending Jewish elementary school, then a secular gymnasium; antisemitism; expulsion from school; commuting to a Jewish school in Du?sseldorf; his father's arrest during Kristallnacht; his release upon promising to leave Germany; his father's emigration to Cuba; traveling with his mother and sister to Cuba aboard the Saint Louis in May 1939; the Cuban government's refusal to allow any passengers to debark; returning to Europe; living in Brussels; receiving support from HIAS; joining his father in the United...

  11. Cadik-Braca D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cadik-Braca D., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recounts moving to Belgrade in 1934; German invasion in 1941; living with an uncle in Tuzla with his parents and sister; the Ustas?a anti-Jewish laws; arrest with his father in February 1942 along with approximately 100 other men from Tuzla; transfer to Jasenovac; sadistic beatings and killings by the Ustas?a camp administration, particularly Tomislav Filipovic; his father's kitchen job providing them with extra food; witnessing a soldier killing an infant by smashing its head on the ground; volunteering...

  12. Melvin F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Melvin F., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1923. He vividly describes the vibrant Jewish community; joyful holiday and Sabbath observances; antisemitic harassment in public school; German invasion; fleeing to Ryki; his parents' and sisters' deaths in a bombing; returning with his grandfather and brother to De?blin; reunion with his other brother; ghettoization; being accused of belonging to the underground; a brutal interrogation; three months imprisonment in De?blin and Lublin; returning home; mass deportations in May 1942; transfer with his brothers to De?blin co...

  13. Rudy R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy R., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1930. Mr. R. describes not knowing he was Jewish until 1935; his parents' marital problems, many due to gambling; moving to Namur, then Brussels; his parents placing him and his sister in a Protestant orphanage, where they were later converted; German invasion in May 1940; returning home when his father's black marketeering could support them; anti-Jewish laws; harassment by other children; his mother's friendship with an SS officer; plastic surgery to minimize his "Jewish" ears; being hidden with his sister by friends in...

  14. Fred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1904. He recalls attending Gymnasium; his father's losses during the hyperinflation of the early 1920s; studying banking; moving to Mannheim in 1924 to work in a cigar factory; his mother's death; friendships with Jews and non-Jews; exclusion from his company's soccer team in 1933 because he was Jewish; marriage in 1936; futile efforts to emigrate to the United States; losing his job; returning to Schweinfurt to work for his uncle; arrest and imprisonment in Schweinfurt in November 1938; transfer to Dachau; release afte...

  15. Hannalore F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannalore F., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1931. She recalls leaving school due to antisemitic harassment; her father's work as a cantor and teacher; his arrest on November 9, 1938; a neighbor warning them to leave their home; hiding in her aunt's home during Kristallnacht; a Nazi neighbor protecting their home (all other Jewish homes were vandalized); learning her father was in Dachau; her mother planning their emigration; receiving documents from her uncle in Norway (he was a rabbi there); her father's release; living with her uncle in Oslo; German inva...

  16. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1924. He recalls German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish measures; expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school; his father's arrest in October 1941 (he never saw him again); his older brother hiding with a Dutch physician to avoid deportation; he and his mother joining his brother in hiding in September 1942; having to move to the attic of the doctor's housekeeper's home; constant fear of discovery; and liberation by Canadian troops in April 1945. Mr. L. describes learning of his father's death in Mauthau...

  17. Charles V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. He recalls feeling Belgian rather than Jewish; military service beginning in 1937; German invasion; capture; one year imprisonment as a Belgian POW; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; forced closing of the family business; hiding with his parents and sister; denunciation as a Jew in June 1944; imprisonment; transfer to Malines, then Auschwitz (his family remained hidden); slave labor; fierce struggles for food; his sense of complete isolation; willing himself to forget his past and f...

  18. Dov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov D., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending Hebrew school; summer vacations in Kulautuva; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his family's property; summering with an uncle in Jieznas; German invasion; ghettoization; working as a carpenter; his family surviving the large Aktion of October 1941; his sister smuggling food for them; his mother's deportation; witnessing Germans and Lithuanians killing infants during another Aktion; his brother serving in the Jewish police; hiding wi...

  19. Erna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in 1923 in Simleul, near Timisoara, Romania and presently lives in Australia. She recalls her childhood, which was relatively trouble-free until 1937. She describes lining up with the rest of the town's Jews in 1944; their march to the ghetto; her transport to Auschwitz in 1944, where she was separated from her family, "adopted" by an older Jewish woman, and worked in the kitchen; her transfer, six weeks later, to Bergen-Belsen; and her experiences there. She relates her forced labor in Beendorf and Braunschweig; liberation; her post-war journey ...

  20. Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls celebrating Easter and Christmas; moving to Kiel in 1926; antisemitic abuse in school; moving to Frankfurt in 1931; Nazi demonstrations; leaving school in March 1933; her parents changing her name to the more "Aryan"-sounding "Dora"; traveling to Switzerland in April 1933; moving to Manchester; assistance from the Jewish community, her first contact with other Jews; attending nursing school in London in 1938; the school's evacuation to Wales in September 1940; and emigration to the United States in 1940. ...