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  1. Gregory K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gregory K., who was born in Pleshchenit︠s︡y, Belarus in 1912. He describes becoming a blacksmith; antisemitic violence; moving to Minsk; enlistment in the Soviet Army; discharge three years later; working in Leningrad; returning to Minsk; marriage in 1938; his daughter's birth in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; being beaten by a German officer; forced labor; becoming temporarily deaf from a beating; an order for all men to gather; separation of the Jews; their imprisonment and release; ghettoization; deportation to Lublin, then Budzyń; beatings by guards and kapo...

  2. Sophie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922 to a family of five children. She recalls her older sister emigrating to Paris in 1936; German invasion; another sister fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1940; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her younger brother's arrest; her father's disappearance in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding with her mother and brother in a bunker; arrest with her mother in May 1943; deportation with her mother to Majdanek; separation from her mother upon arrival (she never saw her again); her deep sense of loss and ...

  3. Gad R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gad R., who was born in 1919 in Ignatovka, Poland (presently Ukraine), the second of seven brothers. He recounts his father's orthodoxy and leadership of the Jewish community; attending cheder, public school, then a yeshiva in Lut︠s︡ʹk in 1932; returning home after his older brother emigrated to Palestine in 1935; participating in Betar; Soviet occupation; completing high school in Lʹviv; working as a clerk in Ignatovka; his father's death; German invasion; looting by local Ukrainians; a non-Jewish acquaintance warning him of worse to come; taking his younger brother'...

  4. Gertrúda W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrúda W., who was born in Český Těšín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1913. She recalls her family's move to Vsetín; working in Kroměříž beginning in 1921; moving to Trenčin after three years; meeting her future husband; moving to Piešt̕any; Slovak autonomy in 1939; implementation of anti-Jewish laws; marriage in 1940; her husband's exemption from deportation which included her; her daughter's birth in 1943; her husband's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 (he did not survive); hiding in Trnava with her sister who was ...

  5. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in C?ierna nad Tisou, Czechoslovakia in 1922, to a Hasidic family of twelve children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his father's fatal beating by Hungarian gendarmes; his mother's death six months later; escaping from a round-up with his nephew; separating from him in Trebis?ov; traveling home, then to Kos?ice; receiving false papers from a military man from his hometown; working in a stable; being recognized by another man from his village; deportation to Auschwitz; his assignment collecting...

  6. Rose K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose K., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in approximately 1930, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; an anti-Jewish boycott, including her father's store; German invasion; her family's attempt to flee; returning when overtaken by Germans; Germans murdering her brother, uncle, and cousin; her sisters' deportation; receiving their postcards from Oberaltstadt; a public hanging; forced factory labor; she, her parents, and one sister escaping from a round-up; ghettoization; the Judenrat organizing plots for...

  7. Hertha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hertha B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recounts her parents' strong German identity; her father's service in World War I; studying with Regina Jonas, a female rabbi; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish seminary to train as a kindergarten teacher; employment in a children's camp near Schmiedeberg (presently Kowary, Poland) and Hirschberg (presently Jelenia Góra); locals breaking all the windows on Kristallnacht; returning with the children to Berlin; preparing for emigration to Palestine with a group in Havelberg;...

  8. Judith B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith B., who was born in Matei, Romania in 1927, the youngest of five children. She recounts attending Romanian school; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding valuables with non-Jewish friends; her brother's return: his deportation to Auschwitz; round-up; transfer with her parents and sisters to the Szamosújvár ghetto, then the Cluj (Kolozsvar) ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with her sisters and her sister-in-law and her sister from her parents (she n...

  9. Huguette F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Huguette F., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. She recalls her family's strong sense of French identity; her brother's French military service; German invasion; her father's death; not hearing from her brother; escaping with her family and governess to the unoccupied zone; living in Nice and Marseille; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; her mother's and grandmother's arrests; remaining with her governess and brother; his escape to join the Maquis; arrest in May 1944; deportation to Drancy, then Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor; a close bond with a family ...

  10. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Offenburg, Germany in 1931, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; holidays in Bad Du?rrheim; anti-Jewish restrictions with the rise of Nazism; boarding with a family to attend a Jewish school in Freiburg; her oldest sister contracting polio; her father's deportation to Dachau in November 1938; his release based on his leaving the country; his emigration to England; moving to Munich; placement of her sick sister in a children's home (they never saw her again); returning to Offenburg; deportation with her mo...

  11. Felix W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. He describes antisemitic incidents; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; Kristallnacht; his father's incarceration in Dachau; confiscation of their apartment; his mother's decision that he was to leave while she waited for his father's release; attempting to enter France in December 1938 from Saarbru?cken, then crossing from Karlsruhe to Lauterbourg; being returned by French authorities; crossing from Freiburg to Basel; assistance from the Committee for Jewish Refugees; and joining relatives in Paris in July 1939. Mr...

  12. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Drahovo, Ukraine (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy when he was born, later Czechoslovakia), one of eight children. He recalls his father's service in World War I; his death; leaving school to support his family; serving in the Czech army; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion in Kos?ice, Debrecen, and Serbia; returning home in 1944; transfer with his family to Sokirnitsa; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family (he never saw his mother again); transfer to Buchenwald, Dora, and Nor...

  13. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was born in Troyanovka, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1915. He recounts his family's evacuation during World War I; returning to live in Povorsk after the war; inability to support himself; living in ?o?dz? from 1932 to 1937; returning to Povorsk; working as a store manager for the Soviets until being drafted in June 1941; retreating with Soviet forces; learning of the mass killing of Jews in his town (two brothers escaped to the partisans); serving as a machine gun operator in Kiev shortly before the Germans arrived; hiding in a field when overtaken by ...

  14. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1907, one of three children. He recounts his father's profession as a master diamond cutter; the family moving to Amsterdam in 1907; their assimilated lifestyle; returning to Antwerp in 1928; training with his father as a diamond cutter; joining Maccabi and a non-sectarian sport club; marriage; the birth of a son; his wife's death from illness in 1939; living with his parents so his mother could care for his son; German invasion in 1940; obtaining papers as non-Jews; his parents going into hiding; moving to Brussels wher...

  15. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Radoszyce, Poland in 1921. She recounts extreme poverty and antisemitism in Warta; illegal immigration to Brussels when she was nine; attending secretarial school; German invasion; fleeing to France; working for the police; warning Jews of round-ups; returning to Belgium after six months; joining the Rote Kapelle resistance group; using false papers; uncovering collaborators; escaping arrest three times; the arrest of her sister and brother-in-law after her transmitter was found in their apartment; deportation of her parents and other sibling...

  16. Raymond H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond H., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1919. He recounts the death of his older sister when he was one; the birth of another sister in 1922; his father's shoe business; attending religious and public schools; his bar mitzvah; apprenticing as a shoemaker in 1936; joining his father's business in 1937; orders to evacuate Strasbourg in 1938; moving to their summer home in Gérardmer with his parents, grandparents, and sister; his grandmother's death; he and his father selling shoes to local shops; German invasion on May 10, 1940 when he and his father were in ...

  17. Sol U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol U., who was born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; their moving to Romania in 1928, then to Borek Fa?e?ck in 1933; attending cheder in Podgo?rze; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced factory labor; ghettoization in Krako?w; working in Oskar Schindler's factory in 1942; Schindler protecting his Jewish workers when the ghetto was liquidated in March 1943; deportation of Mr. U.'s family (he never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w; public hangings; living in...

  18. Harold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold K., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1920. He recalls his impoverished home; their orthodoxy; leaving school to begin working at age twelve; Polish antisemitism; German invasion; a public hanging of Jews; forced labor as a bricklayer in Katowice; transfer to a labor camp; arrest while visiting home; release and transfer to Annaberg, which he helped build; Allied bombardments; Yom Kippur services; his privileged status as a bricklayer; visiting his family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944, then to Birkenau and Gleiwitz; a death marc...

  19. Vera F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera F., who was born in 1916 in Cluj, Romania. She recalls her orthodox family; a Passover Seder; attending Jewish and Romanian schools; German invasion; working in a sweater factory; transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; transfer to Birkenau after several days and Kaiserwald after one day; forced labor; and transfer in August to Stutthof. She tells of beatings; transfer in October to Poland; digging trenches; a forced march and train trip west in December; the guards deserting them; staying at an abandoned house with thirty-four others; walking to another village; a R...

  20. Helen N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her father was a jeweler; attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced labor; being saved from deportation by a cousin who was a policeman; hiding her brother due to his frailty; their deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her sister to Hamburg three days later (she never saw the rest of her family again); forced labor clearing bombing rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troop...