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  1. Eric K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric K., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish father and a mother who had converted to Judaism in 1929. He recalls attending an orthodox synagogue and celebrating holidays; expulsion from public school in 1935 due to the Nuremberg laws; growing isolation from non-Jews; his father's incarceration in Dachau in November 1938; assistance from his non-Jewish grandparents; deportations; receiving mail from friends in Terezi?n; and transport with his father, brother, and aunt to Terezi?n in February 1945. Mr. K. recounts hunger, overcrowding, and poor sanit...

  2. Grace D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace D., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls being the youngest of ten siblings in an orthodox home; German invasion; ghettoization a few weeks later; separation from her family in the October 1942 deportation; her sister-in-law's refusal to give up her child to save herself; and her pain at not having said goodbye to her family. She describes work making dresses for German women from October 1942 until February 1943; deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; work in Camp B making artillery shells; Polish civilian workers who brought her food...

  3. Andreja P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreja P., who was born in Pécs, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recounts his family's move to Zagreb; mobilization when Germany attacked in April 1941; traveling to Sinj and Split; troops deserting when Croatian independence was declared; Split's occupation by Italy; working as a musician; obtaining false papers to bring his parents and sister there; a non-Jewish friend bringing his sister; his parents' arrest by Ustaša en route; using influence to obtain their release; their return to Zagreb; his father's and uncle's deportation to Jasenovac (they were kill...

  4. Esther and Charles G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Soko?y, Poland, in 1924, and her husband Charles, who was born in Lublin in 1916. Mrs. G. describes prewar antisemitism and pogroms in Poland; the German takeover in 1939; Soviet occupation and German reoccupation; the destruction of Soko?y, upon which she escaped to the forest and hid for several days; her transfer to the Bia?ystok ghetto, where she worked making military clothes; and her deportation to Auschwitz. She recalls in detail her arrival at Birkenau; her work in an ammunition factory; atrocities she witnessed in Auschwitz; her tra...

  5. Rina E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rina E., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1936. She recounts German invasion in April 1941; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); escaping to Split in the Italian zone with her mother and grandparents; one year in an Italian camp; transfer to Rab Island; relatively benign conditions; singing Italian songs for extra bread; Italian guards leaving after German invasion in 1943; hiring a boat to return to Yugoslavia; hiding in forests; leaving her grandparents in a village; joining partisans; her mother working as their cook and translator; being smuggled to...

  6. Clara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara M., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland (then Russia) in 1915, one of four children. She recalls her father's work as a Hebrew educator and his strong Zionist commitment; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; her leadership role in Hashomer Hatzair; attending university in Warsaw; interning at Janusz Korczak's orphanage; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; directing a Zionist summer camp in Zakopane in 1939; German invasion; walking to Rzeszów via Kraków; futile attempts to escape to the Soviet zone; forced labor with her sister; escapi...

  7. Reuven F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuven F., who was born in Lille, France in 1925. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; difficulties communicating with his parents (they spoke only Yiddish and he mostly French); his father's draft into the military in 1930; their false sense of security due to their confidence in France and strong French identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; humiliation at wearing the yellow star; the mayor's wife (who was Jewish) gluing pages of the lists of Jews together to prevent deportations; arrest and imprisonment in Cherbourg in November 1943; crue...

  8. Marguerite M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., a Christian rescuer, who was born in Groningen, Netherlands in 1921. She recalls German occupation in 1940; moving to Haren with her parents and brothers; hiding a Jewish convert to Catholicism, who had escaped from Amsterdam; the family's experiences hiding fifteen other Jews; a train trip with a hidden child who inadvertently revealed she was Jewish and the other passengers promising not to report them; working as a courier for the Dutch underground; one brother being shot by Germans for breaking curfew; and the death of her youngest brother, who was ...

  9. Chanan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan A., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1927, the youngest of four children in a wealthy, religious family. He recounts his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending a Romanian school; his sister's marriage; Hungarian occupation in 1940; attending a Jewish high school in Budapest, then in Uz︠h︡horod; German occupation in March 1944; immediately returning home; hiding family valuables in their cellar and with non-Jewish friends; refusing their non-Jewish maid's offer to hide the children, wanting to stay together; ghettoization; assistance from ...

  10. Edith L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith L., who was born in U?sti? nad Labem (Aussig), Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; studying in Prague; her sister's emigration to the United States in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's death; deportation with her husband to Terezi?n in 1941; the fraudulent staging of "good conditions" for a Red Cross delegation; deportation to Birkenau in May 1944; her husband's transfer to a work camp (she never saw him again); transfer to Christianstadt six mont...

  11. Maria G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, one of five children. She recalls living in a Jewish area; her parents realizing Kristallnacht was the end of German Jewry; German invasion; one sister fleeing east; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; starvation; smuggling food; escaping; assistance from her father's former business colleague; posing as a non-Jew; obtaining papers as a non-Jew when she traded her pocketbook (the owner did not realize her papers were in the traded pocketbook); volunteering for forced labor in Germany as a Pole; working in a garden-nursery...

  12. Antonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Antonia R., who was born in Lipany, Czechoslovakia. She recalls attending school in Pres?ov; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportion with her sister from Poprad to Auschwitz in March 1942; an SS officer taking special notice of her hair; slave labor in a mine, then in Canada Kommando; learning her brother had arrived; a futile attempt to see him; their transfer to Birkenau; the same SS asking about her hair; obtaining a privileged job because of him; the officer beating her sister, then transferring her to a better job upon learning who she was; losing their will to live;...

  13. Pepo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pepo S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916, one of six children. He recalls attending French and Jewish schools; participation in Maccabi; his father's death in 1931; leaving school to work in the family business; German invasion; his brother's military service and resulting combat injury; working for the Jewish council; helping Jews escape; distributing food from the Red Cross in the Baron Hirsch quarter; observing abuses by the Jewish police, including Vital Hasson and Edgar Chounio; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor with one brother; witnessing his m...

  14. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (presently Gusev, Russia) in 1922, the second of four children. He recounts living in Šiauliai; his father's executive position at a large leather factory; participating in Maccabi; summer vacations in Palanga; attending a Jewish elementary school, Hebrew high school, then a Lithuanian gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in spring 1941; briefly fleeing east; he and his brother being forced by Lithuanians to bury corpses of Soviet soldiers; arrest by one former classmate and relea...

  15. Edita Š. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita Š., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recalls growing up in Košice; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in spring 1944; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); remaining with her sister and two friends; transfer three days later to Kasierwald, then to Rīga, Dundangen, and Stutthof; slave labor; walking to other camps; being injured in January; her sister and friends assisting her; hiding from the Germans; being shot while escaping (her sist...

  16. Karl W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl W., a Romani, who was born in 1931, one of ten children. He recalls his father's death; deportation with his family from Kiel to Majdanek in 1940; separation from his older brothers (they went to the men's camp); remaining with his mother and sisters; public hangings; slave labor; good relations with Polish and Jewish children; returning to Germany after liberation in 1945 (five siblings had perished); marriage to another survivor; and continuing hostility to Romanies. He discusses the importance of marrying a survivor; observing that the Jews received the worst ...

  17. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public and Jewish schools; participating in Akiva; apprenticing as a painter; Soviet occupation in 1939; his stepbrother's deportation to Siberia (he survived); his older brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in June 1941; a pogrom by Ukrainians; antisemitic restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor as a painter; deportation of his mother, father and youngest brother; receiving a letter from his fat...

  18. Joshua B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua B., who was born in 1930 in Lechint?a, Romania where his grandfather was the rabbi. He recalls moving to a village; anti-Semitic incidents; Hungarian occupation; moving with his grandparents and older brother to another town in 1941; being forced to move to the Bistrit?a ghetto around Passover in 1944; and deportation to Auschwitz about a month later. Mr. B. describes separation from his grandfather, whom he never saw again; transfer to Birkenau; finding his father, who brought extra food to him and his brother; his father's transfer (he did not survive); shari...

  19. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  20. Robert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929. He recounts his parents were orthodox, but had secular educations; speaking German at home; cordial relations with non-Jews; antisemitic laws beginning in 1940, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; eviction from their house; protection from deportations due to his father's position; Hlinka guard rounding-up relatives for deportation, including his grandmother; arrival of Germans during the Slovak uprising in 1944; deportation with his parents to Sered; volunteer...