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  1. Zvi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bu...

  2. Francis P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francis P., a Roman-Catholic, who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. He recalls enlisting in the army nine months before Pearl Harbor, hoping to serve only one year; realizing, after the war began, that he would serve for the duration; attending officer candidate school as a medical administrator; shipment to England in 1943; establishing a large hospital in Rennes, France after D-Day; being taken to Buchenwald after the war ended to provide advice about medical care for the former prisoners; fright and astonishment at the horrendous conditions of the prisoners a...

  3. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Trebišov, Slovakia in 1924. She recounts her family's move to Bratislava; joining a Zionist group; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish measures; an antisemitic attack; moving to Michalovce in winter 1941/1942; hiding during round-ups; her family's decision to enter Hungary illegally; obtaining money from an aunt in Humenné to pay a smuggler; traveling to Uz︠h︡horod, then Budapest; visiting a cousin in Sevljus (Vynohradiv) in 1943; joining the underground; obtaining false papers with her boyfriend; German occupation in March 1944; arrest in Oct...

  4. Magdolna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdolna B., who was born in 1924 in U?jpest, Hungary, a Budapest suburb. She remembers close relations with her large, extended family; her father's position as a veterinarian for the health department in Budapest; believing events in Poland and Germany "would not happen to us too"; German occupation in March 1944; leaving her parents in Budapest to join her fiance in the country; his arrest; and her return home. Mrs. B. recalls anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; escape from the factory to her home with the aid of her uncle's Christian friend; acquiring false papers...

  5. Maximilian K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maximilian K., who was born in Prievidza, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1915. He recalls military service from 1937 to 1939; forced labor in Nováky and other locations from 1942 to 1944; marriage in 1944; paying non-Jews to hide him, his wife, and parents; arrest by the Hlinka guard; deportation to Sered; evacuation by train; escaping during an Allied bombing (his wife and parents remained behind); hiding in a friend's attic and in the mountains; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; reunion with his wife and parents; not being able to recl...

  6. Ralph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 1939 to German refugees. He recounts his father bringing his own and his wife's parents and other relatives from Germany; his father arranging for them to hide with a Christian friend; barely escaping when they were betrayed seven months later; the underground placing him and his sister with a family for a few months; his mother's visits; living above an ice cream store with their parents for a few weeks; hiding in several other places; living in a chicken coop near Arnhem for three years with twelve people, all fri...

  7. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending public school; marriage in 1939; her husband's draft into the Polish military; his return in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding with her son, husband, and aunt in a bunker with a hundred others; their discovery; the Germans taking her son (she never saw him again); her aunt committing suicide; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her husband; beatings from guards from which she still bea...

  8. Emmanuel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmanuel D., who was born in Rzeszo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls moving to Tarno?w in 1926; attending school; beginning to work at age thirteen; his father's death in 1932; his leadership in the Bund; German invasion; escaping east; assistance from Jews in Berestechko; traveling to L'viv via Tauteny; significant earnings in the black market; returning to Tarno?w in 1940 to assist his mother; deportation to Pustkow in September; slave labor building the camp; a privileged position as a tailor; occasional visits to his mother; SS assumption of the camp in 1943; harsher...

  9. Arne L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arne Brun L., a non-Jew, who was born in Oslo, Norway in 1925. He describes his family; the political climate in the 1930s; German invasion in 1940; joining the resistance at age eighteen; his arrest; interrogations and beatings in Akershus castle; learning his file was lost, which saved him from execution; and being allowed to speak with his sister, which gave him courage. Mr. L. recounts transfer to Grini, then to Natzweiler-Struthof in 1944 where Josef Kramer was Kommandant; learning they were "Nacht und Nebel" prisoners - meant to disappear forever; arduous labor ...

  10. Paul B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul B., who was born in Tótkomlós, Hungary in 1931. He recounts his brother's birth in 1937; attending public school; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visiting him; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization with his family; his father's election as head of the Judenrat; their transfer to the Debrecen ghetto; deportation to Vienna, then Strasshof; forced agricultural labor with his mother in another camp; stealing food for his brother; transfer back to Strasshof, then to Bergen-Belsen, via Luxembourg; his father's arrival; his grandmother's de...

  11. Bartolomej D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bartolomej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Brekov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928. He recounts his father working in a lime factory owned by Jews; Jews providing them with food in winter when there was no work; attending school until age fourteen; observing deportation of the Jews; locals removing all their possessions; his married sister hiding a Jewish family; a Hlinka guard taking over the lime factory; continuing to work there but not receiving their wages; evacuation by Soviet troops to Humenné; returning home two nights later to find all the...

  12. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  13. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., a prominent Dutch author, who was born in Netherlands in 1927. He recalls his father was a German non-Jew and his mother a Dutch Jew; their divorce in 1936; living in Haarlem with his father; weekly visits to his mother in Amsterdam; neither of his parents practicing any religion, although his mother celebrated holidays with her Jewish friends; German invasion in 1940; his father's position at the bank that spearheaded the confiscation of Jewish assets and property; his mother's arrest in May 1943; his father arranging her release; deportation of his grandmo...

  14. Dan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dan Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's move to Poprad in 1920; attending public school, then a German high school in Kežmarok; the family move to Žilina; matriculation from a Slovak high school in 1936; returning to Poprad; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working at a Zionist summer camp, then living on a Zionist training farm; military conscription in 1941; his commander, a former classmate, arranging his transfer to Bratislava; living in Zionist movement communities; returning to Poprad in 1942; marria...

  15. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1913. He recalls becoming a tailor; marriage; the births of two sons; German invasion; ghettoization; organizing tailor shops; measuring Himmler; making him a leather coat; measuring Hans Frank and Adolf Eichmann for leather coats; witnessing a mass killing of children from the orphanage; transfer to Majdan Tatarski ghetto; preparing a hiding place for his wife and sons; transfer with them to Majdanek, then alone to Lublin (Lipowa 7); being shot while visiting his wife (he shows the scar); retrieving his wife and one son fro...

  16. Lily B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily B., who was born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia (presently Trutnov) in 1923. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; German annexation of Sudentenland; fleeing to Hradec Kra?love? in September 1938; moving to Prague; German occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's emigration to Palestine; not believing rumors of atrocities in Poland; deportation with her parents and grandmother to Theresienstadt in August 1942; her grandmother's death shortly thereafter; constant lines for food, washrooms, and toilets; overcrowd...

  17. Rachel and Rafael A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel and Rafael A. Mr. A. was born in Pirot, Serbia in 1920. He recounts his family moving to Belgrade, Niš, Jagodina, and other places; attending high school in Belgrade; speaking Ladino at home; participating in Tchelet Lavan and Hashomer Hatzair, including a training camp for emigration to Israel; and cordial relations with non-Jews. He discusses his family's Sephardic history and traditions and shows photographs. Rachel A., was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1926. She recounts her family's move to Slavonski Brod; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and another Zion...

  18. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in Holland in 1940. He describes his mother and father and some of his childhood memories; his father's strategy for the family's survival; his life with a foster family and the incidents where it was suspected that he was Jewish; and his disbelief when his real parents came to claim him after the war. He speaks of his postwar memories of the people who came through his home in the Hague, which served as an informal gathering place for returning Jews; the subtle ways in which his postwar experiences affected him; and the rage he feels is pent u...

  19. Chaim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim K., who was born in Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls extreme poverty in an orthodox home; attending yeshiva; pervasive antisemitism; two brothers serving in Hungarian forced labor battalions; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in April; separation from his parents upon arrival (he never saw them again); transfer to Mauthausen four days later; slave labor constructing underground factories in Gusen; assistance from a German guard; being carried by a friend on the death march to Ma...

  20. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S. who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1914. He recalls anti-Semitic incidents in public school; becoming a tailor at age thirteen; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother and neighbors to Sandomierz; hiding in the synagogue; transfer to Opato?w after they were discovered; the murder of many Jews; and returning to Krako?w. Mr. S. recounts bodies on the streets; forced labor in coal mines; ghettoization; burying women and babies murdered in the hospital; transfer to P?aszo?w; finding his mother, sisters, and their children there; mass killings; deportation...