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  1. Terry D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Terry D., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1925. She recounts her father's death; her mother's remarriage; moving to Brzostek; antisemitic violence and discrimination; German invasion; help from Germans, who mistook her family for non-Jews; anti-Jewish measures, including forced labor; her step-father's suicide after his arrest; disbelief when Austrian soldiers warned them all Jews would be killed; declining to be hidden by an Austrian soldier; escaping to a forest during a round-up in August 1941; being smuggled with her mother into the De?bica ghetto by a non-Je...

  2. Myra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myra L., who was born in 1919 in ?o?dz?, Poland. Mrs. L. describes anti-Jewish legislation and extreme antisemitism; German occupation; forced labor; ghettoization; her work in a hospital as a student nurse; deportations; thousands of deaths caused by starvation, including her older brother, younger brother, and mother; the conflict between wanting to help others and the instinct for survival; liquidation of the ghetto; evacuation of the hospital; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer, with a friend, to Freiberg; slave labor; and liberation by United States t...

  3. Laure K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laure K., who was born in Philippsburg, Germany in 1925. She recalls increased anti-Jewish restrictions from 1933 onward; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; attending a Jewish school; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht and release from Dachau in December; deportation with her family in October 1940 to Gurs; primitive conditions; her grandmother's death; the family's transfer to Rivesaltes; attending ORT classes; leaving Rivesaltes to work in a children's home; placement of her younger brother in a French home; her sister living in a home run by the scouting movement,...

  4. Jenny Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny Z., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland. She recalls living in Da?browa Go?rnicza; hostility toward Jewish businesses; German invasion; hiding in Czeladz?; arrest; incarceration in Sosnowiec; transfer to Oberaltstadt where she met her two sisters; slave labor in a textile factory; frequent selections; enduring prolonged appels; her younger sister's transfer (she did not survive); a Red Cross visit; severe punishment when her diary was discovered; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; a hostile response from the local Poles; meeting her future husband who ...

  5. Henni S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henni S., who was born in Dobromil?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Ukraine), in 1906. Mrs. S. tells of her family's move to Holland in 1921; her marriage during a visit to Przemys?l, Poland; the birth of her son in 1929; separation from her husband and son (both of whom she never saw again) when the war began while she was visiting her family in 1939; leaving Brussels on the last train to Paris in May 1940; fleeing to Marseille; living in Italian-occupied Barcelonnette for a year; and paying a guide to take her and others into Switzerland. She relates capture and inc...

  6. Eva J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva J., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1931. She recalls living in Rava-Rus?ka; her father moving to France due to antisemitism; she and her mother joining him in Paris in 1935; her father's enlistment when the war began; fleeing to with her mother to Lisieux; returning to Paris; German invasion in June 1940; her father moving to the unoccupied zone; being smuggled with her mother to join him in Valence; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; being hidden in a remote village for three months, pretending to be Catholic; returning to her mother; her sister's birt...

  7. Sol E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in a Polish village and raised in Gorlice. He recalls a large and close extended family; working for a wholesale food business; learning English, anticipating emigration to join relatives in the United States; German invasion; forced labor; ghettoization; starvation; non-Jewish farmers bringing them food; selection with his brother for deportation to P?aszo?w; slave labor for Siemens; hospitalization for typhus; working as a nurse; sharing extra food with others; working for Krupp; separation from his brother (he never saw him again); transfer to ...

  8. Malvina H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malvina H., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913 and raised in Subotica. She recounts membership in Hashomer Hatzair; moving to Zagreb with them; leaving the Zionist group to join Marxist groups; moving to Belgrade; marriage to a Croatian non-Jew; German invasion in 1941; not registering as a Jew (her documents listed her as a Catholic Croat); her husband's death escaping from a camp; living with her mother-in-law; helping her Jewish friend Blanka acquire false papers as a non-Jew; registering Blanka's daughter as her own; living together; hosting communist meeti...

  9. Mordechai Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordechai Z., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1921, the second of five children. He recounts participating in Halutz; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a round-up that included his older brother (they never saw him again); fleeing with his family to Milkuskos, then Svir; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor for Organisation Todt in Palemonas; escaping; entering the Vilna ghetto with assistance from non-Jews; living in an orphanage; arrival of his father, mother, and sisters; hiding with FPO partisans during the ghetto's liquidati...

  10. Eva T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born in 1925 in Zgierz, Poland. She recalls German invasion in 1939; her father's arrest and release after a severe beating; expulsion from their home; living with her paternal grandfather in ?o?dz?; moving to Warsaw after being warned by her father's German friend; her father's return to Zgierz with Mrs. T's brother and sister; working in a brush factory to earn food for her family; her mother's death from starvation; her siblings' disappearance (she never saw any of them again); attempts to avoid deportation; and transport to Majdanek. Mrs. T. descri...

  11. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in 1922 in ?uko?w, Poland, one of ten children. He recalls antisemitic attacks; helping in his mother's store from age ten; briefly fleeing German invasion; being caught in a round-up; deportation to Ostro?w Mazowiecka; release; returning home; traveling to Soviet occupied Brest; returning home three months later; deportation to a forced labor camp in summer 1940; his brother obtaining his release after sixteen days; hiding during round-ups in April and October 1942; living with one brother in De?blin for ten weeks; returning home; ghettoizati...

  12. Rena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena B., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1935. She recalls the family's move to Zagreb; Sephardic Jewish life, particularly Passover; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; her father hiding to avoid arrest; fleeing with her mother to Italian-occupied Split, with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend; her father's arrival after several months; living in a displaced persons camp in Trieste; living in Asti for eighteen months; friendship with a local girl; briefly attending school in Turin; a fascist round-up and internment in Ferramonti; Zionist activities in the c...

  13. Alfred C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred C., a non-Jew, who was born in Ciply, Belgium in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending school in Mons; working as a butcher to support his family; German invasion; fleeing to Marseille; returning home; working at a slaughterhouse in La Louvière; his father's death in December 1940; hiding with friends in Frameries to avoid compulsory labor; arrest; imprisonment in Mons; transfer to Watten; slave labor for Organization Todt; escape; returning home; hiding in Brussels; joining the underground; obtaining false papers; living in Braine-le-Comt...

  14. Maurice F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece, the younger of two sons. He recalls speaking French, Greek, and Ladino at home; university studies; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; joining EAM, the leftist resistance movement; ghettoization in 1943; escaping three days later with a partisan guide; joining EAM forces; collaborating with the British to blow up trains; being wounded in an action with Austrian troops; evacuation by comrades; treatment by EAM physicians (he suffers from the injury to the present time); being moved from village to village to avoi...

  15. Vladimir H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir H., who was born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia in 1930. He recalls his father's watch-making/jewelry business; attending public school; his older brother attending school in France; being warned to leave in 1939; his father not believing they were in danger; German invasion in April 1940; his father's deportation to Jasenovac (he never saw him again); remaining in their home for a year; a round-up of all Jews from which children were allowed to go to relatives elsewhere (he never saw his mother again); with his sister, living with cousins in Osijek, then Djakovo; t...

  16. Iaakov W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iaakov W., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; being caught in random round-ups for forced labor; his family's move to his grandfather's farm in Proszowice; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his grandfather giving the farm to one of his Polish employees; working in a sugar refinery; his father paying a non-Jew to hide his youngest brother; his brother's arrival before their deportation to Prokocim; escaping with his father; entering the Krako...

  17. Chaim W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1932 and raised in Topol?c?any, Czechoslovakia. He recalls anti-Semitic incidents from childhood; an influx of Jewish refugees from Austria; Slovakia's increasing stringent anti-Jewish regulations and violent actions by the Hlinka Guards; hiding with non-Jewish friends; discovery and deportation to Novaky in June 1942; different jobs held by his family; efforts to observe the Sabbath; the Czech Kommandant allowing prisoners to escape in August 1944 prior to the camp's transfer to Germans; fleeing with his family to Banska? ...

  18. Morris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1933. He recalls German invasion; his father being forced to register as a Jew; his parents' deportations; he and his younger sister being taken by their maternal aunts and uncle; a non-Jewish client of his father's hiding them; going to the suburbs; moving frequently; believing his mother would not return because she was frail, but that his father would; learning after the war that his father had perished but his mother had survived; her return; hearing of her brother's participation in the uprising in the crematoria in Bi...

  19. Tzipora A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzipora A., who was born in Przemyśl, Poland in 1939. She recounts being given to non-Jews when she was about two years old; knowing she was Jewish but being told to hide that information; attending a Polish school, church, and being baptized; occasionally being hidden in a closet or under the bed; enjoying Christmas and Polish music and dance; a visit from Youth Aliyah representatives in about 1948; being taken by them to join other orphans going to Israel by ship; living in a religious institute with other orphans; the empathic manager who was from Poland helping h...

  20. Robert C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert C., who served in the United States 1st Army, 104th (Timberwolf) Division during World War II. He recalls the division's rapid progress toward the Elbe River; arrival at Nordhausen concentration camp shortly after liberation, where he remained for about a half hour; seeing emaciated, numb inmates wandering out through the gates; deciding not to enter the camp alone; and continuing with his division east. He discusses the importance of preventing a recurrence by keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive and notes his division will soon complete its history, incl...