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  1. Tamar S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tamar S., who was born in Berlin, Germany. She recounts her family's Dutch citizenship; spending summers in Amsterdam, where she met Anne Frank; being sent to boarding school in Holland while her parents moved to Paris in 1933; joining the Scouts; assisting Belgian refugees through the Scouts, after German invasion; moving to Moulins with her family; attending school in Lyon; her parents and younger siblings being forced to move to Grenoble; joining the Jewish scouts which rescued Jewish children; the family's arrest; leaving her three-year-old sister in hiding with a...

  2. Israel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Slonim, Poland (today Belarus), in 1937. Mr. M. tells of being sent by his family (whom he never saw again) to visit his uncle in 1941; fleeing east from the German attack with his uncle and family; traveling through Minsk to Kiev, where they entrained for Soviet Central Asia; German air attacks en route; and arrival in Samarqand, Uzbekistan in late 1941. He recounts the lack of food and poor sanitation; the deaths of his relatives from disease; placement in a Russian orphanage in 1942; returning to liberated Poland in 1945; anti-Semitic tau...

  3. Claire S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire S., who was born in Germany, the oldest of four children of Polish émigrés. She recounts her family's move to Brussels; attending school; working at fourteen to help support her family; joining the Bund; her father's arrest for debt resulting in his deportation to Germany; obtaining money to secure his return; German invasion; one brother hiding in a monastery; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in 1942; obtaining false papers; her sister's deportation; bribing officials to free an underground member from the Gestapo; her father's round-up and deportation; ar...

  4. Erica K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erica K., who was born in Mad, Hungary in 1925 and grew up in Miskolc. She recalls a carefree childhood; German occupation; her father being "taken early"; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother and siblings; transfer to Birkenau with her sister and cousin; constant thirst and hunger; the oppressive odor; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Ravensbru?ck in August 1944, then Reinickendorf; a German foreman providing extra food which she shared with her sister; and transfer to Oranienburg. Mrs. K. describes liberation by Soviet troops; living i...

  5. Rabbi Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Rabbi Alexander A., who was born in Hungary in 1906. Rabbi A. recounts moving to Salzburg, Austria, then Trier, Germany where his father served as rabbi. He relates studying at Yeshivas in Cologne, Bratislava and Berlin; receiving his Ph.D. and rabbinical ordination in Berlin; serving as a rabbi at orthodox synagogues in Berlin; his marriage in 1932; and the difficulties he and his congregants experienced as Hitler rose to power. Rabbi A. describes Jewish community life; the attempts of almost all Jews to leave Germany; the cultural responses of the Jewish community which...

  6. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R. (originally Heinz), who was born in Go?ttingen, Germany, in 1921. In this highly detailed testimony, Mr. R. relates his family's move to Hamburg due to Nazi threats; his brother's incarceration and emigration after Kristallnacht; six months in Buxtehude labor camp in 1939; deportation with his family to Minsk in 1941; ghetto conditions; mobile gas vans used for mass executions; physical and psychological brutalization; and marriage in 1942. He recalls help from a German family friend; liquidation of the ghetto, including his wife and family; deportation to Tr...

  7. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1923. He recalls attending private school; summer vacations in the mountains; German invasion; the family's flight to Mielec; returning to Kraków; anti-Jewish measures; their move to Kalwaria; volunteering for a labor camp in his brother's place; escaping in 1940; riding to Kalwaria with a Polish driver; fleeing to the Kraków ghetto in order not to endanger his family; transfer to Płaszów; witnessing brutal killings by Amon Goeth; public executions; a futile attempt to be placed on Oskar Schindler's list; transport to Au...

  8. Mania K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania K., who was born in Poland in 1919 and brought up in Starachowice. She describes antisemitic incidents in school; German invasion; her younger brother fleeing to the Soviet zone; fleeing to a nearby village for two weeks; working in a munitions factory in Starachowice camp with her sister (her father and brother were also there); assistance from a Jewish doctor when her sister had typhus; her brother being shot with others who had typhus; a public execution; the prisoner uprising; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944 with her sister; transfer to Bergen-Belsen wher...

  9. Goldie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Goldie M., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recalls her observant home; a small Jewish community; living with her aunt in Abau?jva?r; attending school; her mother's death; meeting her future husband; Hungarian occupation; confiscation of Jewish property; conscription of men for forced labor battalions; ghettoization near Mukacheve in 1944; forced labor; cruel guards; deportation with relatives to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a child's sadistic murder upon leaving the trains; separation from her relatives, except one cousin; appels, starvation, and forced labor; bury...

  10. Charlotte K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charlotte K., who was born in Osnabru?ck, Germany in 1909. She recalls the family move to Dortmund in 1911; food shortages after World War I; attending a boy's school in order to matriculate at university; membership in a nationalistic youth group; obtaining a Ph.D. at the University of Berlin; dissertation research in England; working one year in the United States; studying French in Paris in 1932; her close friendship with Hannah Arendt; observing the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott; her father's anti-Nazi sentiments; marriage to a Jew in Paris; her son's birth in November...

  11. Sonja M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja M., who was born in Krevo, Poland in 1922. She recalls her four brothers; attending public and Jewish schools; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; transfer to the Oshmyany ghetto; slave labor with two cousins in Kena in 1943; transfer with her younger brother to Kais?iadorys; a partisan attack; transfer to Kovno, then Stutthof; a beating for trying to smuggle food to her friends; a death march in January 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperation in a Soviet military hospital in Ciechocinek; meeting her future husband; traveling to Byshkov, ...

  12. Thomas R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas R., who was born in 1920 and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts military draft after Pearl Harbor; serving in the 3rd army, 79th infantry division; deployment to Belfast, then England; crossing the channel; fighting in France, Austria and Germany; encountering several slave labor camps; entering Dachau; "skeleton-like" prisoners; freight cars filled with corpses; being stationed in Salzburg; observing evacuations of displaced persons; and military discharge.

  13. Joseph N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph N., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland (today Peremyshli?a?ny, Ukraine), in 1918. Mr. N. recounts his upbringing in an orthodox family; imposition of the Soviet regimen after 1939; being drafted into the Red Army and posted to the Romanian border in early 1941; losing all contact with his family after the German invasion; retreating with his unit; building roads and airfields near Baku, Azerbaijan; and traveling at war's end to Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland, where he located his sister-in-law and learned of the deaths of all in his family. He tells of his marriage; e...

  14. Rose K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose K., who lived in Be?chato?w, Poland, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was very young; working for her sister as a dressmaker; German invasion; fleeing to ?o?dz?; returning to find their home had been robbed; her non-Jewish landlord assisting her after a severe beating by a German soldier; forced labor; a public hanging; transfer to ?o?dz? ghetto with her mother, sisters, and her sister's children; slave labor in a textile factory; assistance from cousins with whom she is still close; after two years, deportation to Auschwitz with a s...

  15. Roman L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman L., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1930. He recounts moving to Kaunas with his family when he was four; Soviet occupation in 1941; German invasion in June; a mass killing during which his family was saved by a non-Jew; ghettoization; incarceration with his parents and brother in Kauen-Schanzen; forced labor; receiving extra food from some German guards; transfer with his father and brother to Dachau in 1944; assistance from one kapo; a death march into the Tyrol area; desertion by the guards; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization at Sankt Ottilie...

  16. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, the sixth of sixteen children from her father's third marriage and her mother's first. She recalls their relative affluence; believing she was protected by God from age eight; attending public school; being tutored in Hebrew; living with an uncle in the next village when she was sixteen; her brothers' drafts into Hungarian slave labor battalions; deportation with her parents and some siblings to Auschwitz in August 1945; separation from her parents, brother, sister and her children; encountering another sis...

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  18. Mariia A. and Elizaveta Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mariia A., who was born in Belarus in 1912, one of six children, and her daughter Elizaveta Y., who was born in Besedสน, Belarus in 1935. Mrs. A. recalls her father's death; being sent to live with relatives in another town; her arranged marriage in Besedสน; moving to Lahoysk (Logoysk); German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; escape with her children from a mass killing; fleeing to Gayna; hiding in a forest; walking to Pleshchany, then to her mother's village; leaving her younger daughter with her mother; living with a convert from Judaism and her husband; her hosts be...

  19. Frieda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda Z., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1920. She recalls her happy childhood; attending public school; the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938; German invasion; her family's unsuccessful attempt to flee east; her brother's deportation in November 1941; warnings from a friend on the Judenrat to hide with her sister during round-ups; forced labor with her sister in a munitions factory; deportation to Birkenau in August 1943; separation from her parents upon arrival; her sister's selection; bringing her bread and water in the "dead barrack"; obtaining ...

  20. Egon and Mina H. and Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon and Mina H. Egon H. was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He recounts his family's proud German identity; destruction of their business on Kristallnacht; his father's decision to emigrate to Shanghai, the only place open to them; his father opening a grocery store; working in a metal factory; Japanese occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including ghettoization; assistance from the Joint and HIAS; food shortages and lack of sanitation; Allied bombings in July 1945; learning of the Holocaust after the war; and emigration to join uncles in the United States. Mina H...