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  1. Lidia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lidia G., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1928. She recalls a happy childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in June 1941; her father's draft; German occupation in October; assistance from a German doctor and soldier; ghettoization with her mother in a tractor factory in December; killing of hostages, including her cousin; meeting her future father-in-law who was married to a non-Jew and who gave them his address; his escape; escaping with her mother in January 1942; hearing screaming from the mass murder site; obtaining false papers; hiding wit...

  2. Nathan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan G., who was born in Paris, France in 1925, one of three children. He recalls a happy childhood; leaving school at thirteen to work with his father as a cobbler; German invasion; his father's arrest in 1941; seeing him in a window at Drancy; leaving his family for the unoccupied zone in 1942; living in Limoges, Toulouse, and Lyon; learning his mother and younger sister were deported (he never saw them again); arrest while returning to Paris in November; imprisonment in Autun and another location; kindness from a priest; transfer to Drancy in December; deportatio...

  3. Tibor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He describes participating in Zionist organizations; the influx of Austrian refugees in 1938; German invasion; obtaining false papers in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; compulsory service in a Slovak forced labor battalion in Sva?ty? Jur in 1941; learning his parents were deported in June 1942; returning to Bratislava in March 1943; escaping to join the Slovak uprising in Banska? Bystrica in August 1944; being wounded; fighting in Donovaly in September; surrendering in October; escaping with his friend to Banska? B...

  4. Milton L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton L., who was born in Ulanów, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls working in the family bakery business; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; two brothers emigrating to the United States in 1939; German invasion followed by Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviet forces; traveling to Młodów; two brothers and his sister returning home; deportation by the Soviets to Siberia in fall 1940; working with his brothers cutting trees; moving with his mother and brothers to Samarqand two years later; separation from his family whe...

  5. Memoirs d'en France

  6. Bella R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella R., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926. In this detailed testimony, Mrs. R. recalls antisemitic incidents; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Wolbrom; returning to Sosnowiec; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; conflicts between the Judenrat and the underground; avoiding deportation due to the family business; transfer to the Srodula ghetto; hiding in a bunker in August 1943; discovery (one brother was killed and her parents taken); remaining in the bunker with her sister and brother for seven days; leaving after her siblings had gone; capture by a Pole...

  7. Jean K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean K., who was born in 1918 in Vilnius, Poland (presently Lithuania). She recounts her sister's birth; attending Zionist meetings; studying business; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; the shooting of her mother, sister and grandparents; her father's illness and death; a round-up in September 1943; separation from her husband and child (she never saw them again); deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor in an AEG factory; assistance from fellow prisoners after a severe whipping; transfer to Stuffhof in 1944, t...

  8. Daniel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1921. He recalls graduating from private school in 1937; Soviet occupation; working for a textile company; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; daily forced labor; a beating by German soldiers from which he still bears a scar; transfer with his father at the end of 1943 to Stutthof, then two weeks later to a labor camp; slave labor digging ditches; his deteriorating physical condition; losing his will to live; his father saving him several times; transfer in April 1945 to Dachau, then Allach; liberation ...

  9. Roger V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger V., a Catholic, who was born in Bredene, Belgium in 1920. He recounts moving to Nieuwpoort in 1926; attending a Catholic, then a public school; working in his mother's store; military draft in 1940; service in Ghent for three months; transfer to Montpellier, France; the Nieuwpoort mayor bringing them home; working for the resistance recording truck and car traffic in Ostend to convey to the Allies; obtaining false papers indicating a younger age so he could travel freely; arrest in 1942 for black market activity; release six months later; arrest in April 1944 fo...

  10. Leo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, the oldest of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; his bar mitzvah in 1934; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father to Sachsenhausen in September 1939; arduous slave labor; assisting his father; transfer to Braunschweig in 1941; slave labor for Volkswagen-Vorwerk; return to Sachsenhausen; transfer with his father to Auschwitz in 1942, then to Buna/Monowitz; his father's selection for death in 1943; his friends from Berlin helping each other; public hangings; starvation and sadistic beatings; h...

  11. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Da?browa Go?rnicza, Poland, circa 1928. He speaks of life in the community before the war; the effects of the German occupation; the dispersal and deaths of members of his family, while he and his brother tried to hide together; and his eventual arrest and torture in Katowice. He relates his deportation to Birkenau and vividly recalls conditions there, where he saw subjects of medical experiments, was hospitalized after contracting typhus, and, after his recovery, worked in the "Canada" Kommando. He remembers the camp orchestra as well as t...

  12. Fran L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland wit...

  13. Oscar F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1921, one of eight children. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; help from a former schoolmate who was in the SS; round-ups by Jewish police appointed by the Judenrat; escaping from a labor camp with assistance from a non-Jew; moving with his family into the Podhajce ghetto; hiding with his brother during "aktions"; his mother lighting Sabbath candles despite the constant fear; escaping to the woods with friends; learning the ghetto was liquidated; seeking and finding many other escapees in the w...

  14. Sofia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sofia L., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1939 to a Jewish mother and Orthodox Serbian father. She recounts her father's involvement with progressive causes; her mother meeting him when he was imprisoned with her brothers (they were leftists as well); their marriage in 1938; his execution as a communist in 1941; her maternal grandmother moving in with them after her father's death; her grandmother's deportation, then her mother's (she never saw them again); the soldiers leaving her behind with her mother's assistant because she was so ill they thought she woul...

  15. Vlček B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vlček B., who was born in Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of six children. He recalls a large and close extended family; their orthodoxy; attending yeshiva in Uz︠h︡horod for two years; cordial relations with non-Jews prior to Hungarian occupation; moving with a brother to Budapest in 1942; returning home in 1944; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; factory work in Szentgotthárd; burying Jews who had been killed; assistance from French and Italian prisoners of war; transfer to Feldbach; assistance from Russian workers and...

  16. Marie O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie O., an only child, who was born in Przemyśl, Poland in 1930. She recounts her family's affluence; her large extended family; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; bombings; Soviet occupation; her uncle financially supporting the family; German invasion in 1941; seeing soldiers beat her father; ghettoization; her father assisting the Judenrat; deportation of many of her extended family; her father arranging for her and her mother's escape, and then hiding with their non-Jewish dressmaker in 1942; obtaining false papers; moving to Lʹviv; a non-Jew blackmail...

  17. Max H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1936; working in the family's beauty salon; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in March 1941; working as a hospital barber; hiding his mother during round-ups; separation from her in October 1942 (he never saw her again); marriage in 1942; barbering for Germans; transfer with his wife to P?aszo?w in 1943; working as a messenger; seeing Kommandant Amon Goeth randomly killing prisoners; public hangings; arranging his wife's exemption from dep...

  18. Fanka G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanka G., who was born in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I. She recalls fleeing the war to Vienna in 1914; marriage in 1923; moving to Zolochiv for her husband's medical practice; her son's birth; fleeing with her husband, mother, and son to Zalishchyky when the Soviets invaded; Soviet occupation; returning home; going alone to a spa in Morshin; German invasion; retrieving her son from Stryi? via Kalush; traveling with him to L?viv; eventually returning home; being hidden by her husband's non-Jewish assistant during round-ups; receiving fo...

  19. Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919, one of seven children. He recounts his mother's death; his father's remarriage; antisemitic violence; learning the wholesale shoe business starting at age fourteen; German invasion; moving with his family to an older sister's home in Tarno?w; arrest for traveling on a train; incarceration in Pustko?w; escaping; moving with his family to Proszowice, then into the Krako?w ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his father and brother; his father's selection for death; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; a boy...

  20. Maria W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria W., who was born in Belz, Russia in approximately 1908. She recalls the burning of Belz during World War I; she and her family walking for two months to Vienna; extreme poverty; one brother's emigration to the United States; attending gymnasium; her father's death in 1928; working in a knitting factory; marriage in 1933; working in her husband's knitting factory; their relative affluence; her son's birth; her husband's arrest; a non-Jewish maid who found money her husband had hidden and gave it to her; his release upon promising to leave Austria the next month; ...