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  1. Genia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia G., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926, one of three daughters. She recounts attending Polish school; summer vacations in Pinsk and Luninets; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor with her younger sister assigned, by the Judenrat headed by Dov Lopatin; her father and older sister hiding; ghettoization; her father hiding valuables with non-Jews; non-Jews offering to help her family escape (her father refused, knowing others would be killed); separation from her family and bei...

  2. Margot H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margot H., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1918. She recalls growing up in Gau-Algesheim where she was the only Jewish child her age; pleasant relations with townspeople until 1933; encounters with Nazi teachers and youth groups; her father conducting business at night to avoid the Gestapo; working near Frankfurt; returning home to escape violent antisemitism; entering a Catholic sewing school; and moving with her family to Wiesbaden where they were not known. Mrs. H. recounts working in a dress shop; her brother-in-law's suicide and her sister's death; her brother'...

  3. Ziggy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziggy S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce; living with his paternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; his father escaping east immediately prior to the German occupation; ghettoization in spring 1940; working in a metal factory; constant hunger; attempts to obtain extra food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; transfer a few weeks later to Stutthof; volunteering with friends in December when sixteen-year-olds were sought; transfer to Stolp; slave labor on a railway; his group of twenty Polish boys having d...

  4. Rudolph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolph H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. H. recounts attending a Jewish and a German public school, then medical school; passing his state exams, but being unable to obtain his degree due to antisemitic regulations; obtaining his medical degree in Bern, Switzerland; encountering a friend there who later assassinated a Swiss Nazi leader; working in a German hospital; one sister's emigration to Paris; following her in 1937; emigration to the United States in July 1938; trying to obtain emigration documents for his parents and sister who remained in Fr...

  5. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927, the only child of a wealthy family. She recounts her family's strong German identity; her father's service in World War I; Kristallnacht; confiscation of her father's business in 1941; her mother's suicide after a day of forced factory labor; her grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942, followed by Mrs. F. and her father; living in the Czech children's barrack; her grandmother's weakened condition; sharing food with her father; public hangings; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); her deport...

  6. Chanan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan B., who was born in Ústí nad Labem (formerly Aussig), Czechoslovakia in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts living in Bochum until his father's death in 1930; living with aunts in Aussig, then Teplice; moving to Prague with his mother in 1939; participating in Tehelet Lavan, a Zionist youth group; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; visiting his father's family in Slavkov u Brna; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from school; apprenticeship as an electrician; assistance from an aunt who was married to a non-Jew; deporta...

  7. Bronislava T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronislava T., who was born in 1924 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; their relative affluence; attending Catholic school, to which she attributes her ability to pose as a Catholic; German invasion; expulsion from their home in 1940; fleeing to Bochnia to avoid ghettoization; her aunt's and grandmother's deaths and her brother's deportation in 1941; she and two friends receiving false papers from her father's friend in Krako?w, who accompanied her to Warsaw; and their family's deaths in an "aktion". Mrs. T. recounts working at various jobs; h...

  8. Monty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monty G., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926, one of three brothers. He recalls his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school and cheder; German invasion in September 1939; his bar mitzvah the next week; forced labor clearing snow; deportation of his mother and younger brother; ghettoization; escaping to a forest; capture by Poles; deportation to Blechhammer; slave labor; a severe beating; isolating himself due to his mistrust of others; a French prisoner obtaining a better job for him; hearing prayers of others on Rosh ha-Shannah and Yom Kippur; receiving a ...

  9. Yakov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yakov S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's Hasidism; attending yeshivot in Tomaszo?w and ?o?dz?; harassment by non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; German invasion in September 1939; deportation to Cze?stochowa a few days later; slave labor constructing a concentration camp; his anguish at being forced to work on Yom Kippur; transfer to Go?rlitz, then Rawitsch; praying for help; transfer to Buchenwald; sleeping next to a rabbi; a non-Jew smuggling medicine to him; sharing it with others; suffering after the rabbi died; observing Hanu...

  10. Renata M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls not understanding why she could no longer attend public school; her non-Jewish nursemaid's role in their escape to Italy in 1936; settling in Alassio; her father's and uncle's imprisonments during which she visited them; imprisonment with her mother in Perugia; transfer to Cascia under police supervision; receiving food from the villagers; transfer to Citta? di Castella, where her brother was born in 1941; and her realization that something was wrong. Mrs. M. describes moving to Bevagna; receiving orders ...

  11. Luna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luna K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1926. Mrs. K. vividly portrays her childhood; her father's pro-German sympathies after serving in World War I in the Austrian army on the Russian front; prewar Polish antisemitism; conditions following the German invasion; being forced out of Krako?w to a small village; and a Polish butcher who gave her family extra meat. She recounts being sent with her mother to the Krako?w ghetto; working in a brush factory; losing contact with her father and sister (who were in a logging camp); liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to ...

  12. Ernest S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Czechoslovakia in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; his sister's marriage and move to Plzen? in 1933; German annexation in 1938; immediately moving to his sister's (Plzen? was not annexed); German invasion; his parents sending him on an illegal Youth Aliyah transport to Palestine in 1940; his sister's emigration to England in 1941; enlisting in the Jewish Brigade of the British army; transferring to the Czech army in exile; transport to England; training there and in Scotland; moving through Germany to Czechos...

  13. Kochevit P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kochevit P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1931. She tells of her family's move to her grandmother's farm outside Krako?w after the first Aktion in 1942; the murder of her mother and brother in 1942, which she witnessed from a neighbor's cellar; hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw from 1942 until the end of 1944; and her adoption by a group of nuns, who, thinking she was Catholic, placed her in a convent where she remained until the end of the war. She discusses her awareness of being Jewish and of the need to hide that fact; her postwar reunion with an aunt; a...

  14. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Vranov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1910, one of four siblings. She recounts her mother's death in childbirth; her father's extraordinary devotion to his children; his death at age thirty-eight; her marriage in Kos?ice; Hungarian occupation; disbelief upon hearing of the fate of Jews elsewhere; concentration of Jews from the surrounding area in Kos?ice; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); selection; regret that she was chosen to live; witnessing atrocities; transfer after three...

  15. Solly I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solly I., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1930 to a Hasidic family. He recalls his four sisters; isolation from the outside community; speaking only Yiddish; pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Z?elecho?w; returning home; his father arranging his and one sister's escape to hide with a non-Jewish farmer; having to leave the farm; living with a cousin in De?blin; their escape during the liquidation; a farmer catching his sister (he never saw her again); wandering the forest for six months; entering the camp in De?blin; living with his aunt; publi...

  16. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Bad Friedrichshall, Germany in 1911. Her recalls a pleasant childhood; his father's service in World War I and his strong German identity; boycott of his father's business in 1933; arrest with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; destruction of their home and business; his incarceration in Buchenwald; beatings, starvation, and illnesses; release after five weeks; a contact arranging for a Jewish family to sponsor his emigration to Scotland; reporting to the Nazi party in Darmstadt and Bad Friedrichshall until his ...

  17. Ann H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in seve...

  18. Peter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Žlkovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. He recalls living in Hrkovce; staying in underground shelters during bombings; harassment by the Hlinka guard; his grandmother's abduction by them; deportation of a Jewish family and of his uncle; vandalism of houses by the Hlinka guard; liberation by Soviet troops; playing music for them; receiving a horse from a Soviet soldier, which was taken by a Hlinka guard; the Soviets providing them with food; moving to Prague; military enlistment; returning home after two years...

  19. Odette H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1927, one of three children. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Toulouse; attending school; her brother fleeing to Spain, and ultimately to Israel; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; going into hiding with her family in November 1942; obtaining false papers; arrest in 1944; incarceration in Avenue Louise; transfer to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother and sister; hospitalization; avoiding selection...

  20. Shalom K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom K., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, one of four children. He recounts his father's death; his mother running his father's factory; attending school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; Germans killing his mother when she tried to keep them from taking his older brothers, then killing his brothers (he and his sister were hiding under a bed); transfer to an orphanage; slave labor in a shoe factory; his sister's transfer to a hospital; her murder there; living at a former Hechalutz hachsharah; deportation to Birkenau in 1943; transfer...