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  1. Otto L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto L., who was born in Djakovo, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915, the youngest of five children. He recalls his family's affluence; working in Osijeck; arrest by Ustaša in July 1941; imprisonment; train transport to Gospić, another town, then to Jasenovac; slave labor constructing the camp; frequent shootings by Ustaša; transfer to Krapje to work as a lumberjack; return to Jasenovac after about six months; volunteering for the shoe workshop; transfer to Stara Gradiska; improved conditions during a Red Cross visit; his brother-in-law assisting him when he had typ...

  2. Helena M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911, the fifth of six children. Ms. M. recalls her large extended and assimilated family's affluence; her father and one brother dying; one sister's emigration to the United States; studying psychology; working in a children's clinic with Adolf Berman; German invasion; ghettoization; working for CENTOS, an agency for orphans, which received funding from the Joint; contacts with Adam Czerniako?w; working with Janusz Korczak, Stefania Wilczyn?ska, and other staff at Korczak's orphanage; deportations beginning in June 1942; o...

  3. Philip K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip K., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary, in 1924. In this vivid and reflective testimony, Mr. K. describes prewar orthodox Jewish life; participation in a Zionist organization; lifelong conflict, starting in childhood, with his father over Jewish beliefs and practices; and official and extralegal antisemitism. He tells of volunteering as an interpreter in Auschwitz; trying to save inmates by mistranslating their statements; transport to an underground aircraft factory being built by the Organisation Todt at Hussigny, France; sabotage; transport to Hochdorf, then...

  4. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1930. She recalls her parents' non-Kosher butcher business; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; working on a farm with her parents and siblings; her parents arranging for her to stay on the farm; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; her father and brother escaping to the farm; her sister's deportation; her mother remaining in the ghetto, sorting clothes and possessions of deported Jews; her mother arranging for her to hide with a Polish woman; persuading the woman also to hide her brother; liberat...

  5. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1925. She recalls attending secular, Jewish, and Catholic schools; her father's emigration to the United States, one of his brothers to Mexico, and the other to Paris; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school in Oradea; returning to Satu Mare; working as a tutor; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; avoiding selections in order to stay with her mother; their separation in October (she never saw her again); transfer to Hai...

  6. Olga H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga H. (called Esther by her family), who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1918, the youngest of nine children. She recalls her orthodox family life in Seredne; attending Catholic school; transfer with some of her family to Uz?h?horod in April 1944; transport to Auschwitz; a selection after which she never saw her family again; being told her family was "burning;" not recognizing herself after being shaved; a sustaining relationship with a friend from her town; aid from a friend when she could not stand at appell; and transfer to Gelsenkirchen. She recounts volunteering...

  7. Ada G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family's relative affluence; a large extended family; attending Polish school; cordial relations with many non-Jewish friends; an anti-Jewish boycott of businesses; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; fleeing to Skaryzew with her family; returning; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish neighbor giving them food; ghettoization; round-up with her brother and sister for forced labor in a munitions factory; living in barracks at the factory (she never saw her parents or ...

  8. Hana V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana V., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1928, one of three children. She recounts German occupation; her father's escape to Italian-occupied Mostar; eviction from their home by Ustaša; truck transport elsewhere, then return to a prison in Sarajevo; deportation to Djakovo; the Osijeck Jewish community arranging her release to a Jewish family in Podravska Slatina; her father sending her false papers; joining him and her siblings in Mostar; transfer to Rab Island during Italian withdrawal; Italian capitulation; partisans placing them in a village; escaping to a...

  9. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Berlin in 1922. She describes her childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, including particularly vivid memories of the day Hitler came to power, Kristallnacht, and her brother's bar mitzvah, which took place in the chapel of a Jewish old age home because all the synagogues had been destroyed. She also discusses her journey to England with a children's transport in 1939 and her life in England, where she remained for several years. She speaks of her sense of Jewishness, which she acquired in school rather than in her non-observant home, and of the ...

  10. Irvin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irvin D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (Chervonoarmeisk since 1940) in 1937. He tells of the German bombardment on September 1, 1939; ghettoization in April 1942; seeing the elderly shot and some buried alive; escaping with his family; being hidden by a Ukrainian couple with eighteen other Jewish couples; leaving in May 1943 after suspicions were aroused due to the large amount of food purchased; being hidden by a woman beneath a stable in Lv?ov for a year; and coming out of hiding a month after liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts being wounded by a gre...

  11. Henry Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry Y., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. He recalls studying in ?o?dz?; German invasion; cessation of his studies; his mother sending him to ?e?czyca for food; deportation in 1940 to Danzig; slave labor on railroads; local women throwing them food; a severe beating from which he still suffers after effects; assistance from fellow prisoners and a German supervisor; transfer to Palemonas, then Kaiserwald; slave labor in an airplane factory; transfer to Stutthof; recognizing a cousin; bringing him food; transfer to Bochum Verein; f...

  12. Leonid N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonid N., who was born in Z?H?ytomyr, Soviet Union (presently Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls a famine beginning in 1933 and his mother's resulting death in 1934; his father's remarriage; his father's imprisonment in 1940 for illegally selling shoes; German invasion in June 1941; orders to evacuate for the military draft; participating in military operations in many locations until the end of the war; antisemitism in the Soviet military; reunion with his father in 1946 (he survived in Siberia); military discharge in 1947; returning to Z?H?ytomyr; learning from the woman...

  13. Paul D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul D., who was born in Hlohovec, Hungary (today Czechoslovakia), in 1913. Mr. D. tells of attending high school and university in Vienna; his father's death when he was nine; returning to the family farm to care for his siblings after his mother's death in 1931; Hungarian occupation in 1939; being arrested by Hungarians, along with seventy others, in Dunajska? Streda in 1943; internment in Kistarcsa and later Garany; and release months later. He recalls visiting his sister in Budapest on the day of the German occupation; detention again in Kistarcsa; deportation to ...

  14. Leon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon L., who was born in Paris, France to Russian émigrés in 1911, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1914; restrictions as enemy aliens during World War I; her sister's birth in 1915; his bar mitzvah; his father's communist activities; brief apprenticeship as an upholsterer; attending classes to become a clerk; joining a communist youth group in 1927; working as a salesman; his father's arrest and exile to Paris as a communist in 1931; German invasion in 1940; briefly fleeing with his mother to France; contact with the resistance; o...

  15. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Novaya Mysh?, Russia in 1913, one of six children. She recounts her father's service in World War I; his imprisonment as a POW in Germany for five years; attending school in Baranavichy, then Catholic nursing school in Warsaw; working in Warsaw after graduation; marriage in 1938; a visit home in 1939 (she never saw her family again); raising her husband's stepson; German invasion; ghettoization; becoming pregnant; her son's premature birth in June 1942; being released from a round-up by an SS man; hiding during round-ups; a former teacher from ...

  16. Klara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary in 1924. She describes growing up in an assimilated family; cordial relations with non-Jews; moving to Budapest in 1932; her father's death in 1936; her mother housing illegal Czech refugees; anti-Jewish laws resulting in having to change schools; learning the fur trade; German occupation in 1944; assignment working for the SS; forced relocation; living in German military quarters with her mother; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her brother; her cousin's death from typhoid; moving to Vienna in 1946; living in a German...

  17. Wili G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wili G., who was born in Olomuoc, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1914, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; attending the local German gymnasium; completing engineering studies in Belgium; draft into the Czech military; German occupation; military discharge at the end of 1938; one brother's emigration to Palestine; moving to Prague with his grandmother; participating in Maccabi; teaching at a Zionist school; joining a hachsharah; marriage to a woman he met there in October 1941; joining his parents in Olomouc; a no...

  18. Lore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-728), Mrs. P. recounts putting children to work at AEG to save them; a public hanging of attempted escapees; a cousin being shot after going mad from starvation; and participating in a war crimes trial in Du?sseldorf. She shows documents.

  19. Fred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1932. He describes his parents' knitting business; the Anschluss; frequent arrests of his father; fleeing with his parents to Cologne in 1938; failed attempts to enter Belgium; traveling with his mother to Antwerp in January 1939, posing as Belgians; his father's arrival later; German invasion; their flight to De Panne, then Ostende; returning to Antwerp; their eight-month detention in Opoeteren; his father's arrest in 1941; returning to Antwerp with his mother; their move to Brussels; his mother arranging his placement in a...

  20. Sara O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara O., who was born in Włodawa, Poland in 1924, one of three sisters. She recounts German invasion; round-up of her father and grandfather with others as hostages; German withdrawal weeks later; brief Soviet occupation; German return; formation of a Judenrat; forced agricultural labor; observing the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941; arrival of Jews from other towns; her father's arrest; paying for his release; witnessing the shooting of a rabbi; round-ups and deportations; her family hiding in a bunker while she and her sister reported to work; being...