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  1. Hilda P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda P., who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I, then in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia (Karolovy Vary). She recalls moving to Prague; working as a tutor; German occupation; marriage in 1940; her husband's internment; deportation to Theresienstadt in February 1943; slave labor in a uniform factory; transfer to a prison in Prague in February 1944, then to Vittel; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation; traveling to Paris, then to Prague; reunion with her husband; living in Munich, then in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United Stat...

  2. Sarra K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarra K., who was born in Lipenสน, Russia in 1915, one of eight children. She recalls her family's poverty; one brother's emigration to Palestine; leaving school at fifteen to help support her family; her father's death; marriage to a non-Jew at age eighteen; the births of a son and daughter; German invasion in 1941; many Jews fleeing, including some of her siblings; mass killings, one including her mother; her exemption because she was married to a non-Jew; staying inside at all times; learning they were scheduled to be killed; hiding in a forest with her husband and...

  3. Rebeka P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebeka P., who was born in Bender, Romania (presently Moldava) in approximately 1918. She recalls growing up in Kishinev (presently Chis?ina?u); increasing antisemitism beginning in 1933; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of her father's business; working in the agriculture department; Romania allying itself with Germany; fleeing east with her parents and younger brother by train; strafing by German planes; leaving the train with her father when he was injured; joining her mother and brother in Alma-Ata; moving to Zhambyl; marriage to a Russian Jew; her brother'...

  4. Margaret S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret S., who was born in Velikiy Rakovets in Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of four children. She recounts her family's move to Khust when she was an infant; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943 (he did not survive); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a Telefunken factory for eight months; a death march to another camp, then Salzwedel; liberation by United States troops; returning to ...

  5. Luna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luna H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the only child of Turkish parents. She recounts speaking French at home; her father annually renewing their Turkish citizenship; visiting relatives in Antwerp and France; German invasion; her father hiding a non-Turkish Jew; her father's belief they were protected by their Turkish citizenship; being rounded-up to the theater in Amsterdam; deportation to Westerbork; attending school and a cabaret; deportation a year later (September 15, 1944) to Bergen-Belsen; assignment to the Star camp, then the neutrals camp; hunger; ...

  6. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Koszyce, Poland in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-2670), Mr. H. recalls living in Łódź with his fellow escapee after its liberation; returning to Paris on the last transport of deportees in July 1945; reunion with his siblings; marriage to a fellow Resistant/survivor in 1946; his daughter's birth in 1949; various careers; continuing commitment to leftist causes; and he and his wife speaking at schools about their experiences. He discusses his nightmares resulting from the war years; reluct...

  7. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whi...

  8. Hence H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hence H., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts military draft in 1944; deployment to Europe; landing in Le Havre; entering Buchenwald; a prisoner showing him the crematoria; corpses stacked like wood; lampshades made of human skin; burying corpses; the pervasive stench, which he remembers to this day; Eisenhower visiting the camp; marching local Germans through the camp; returning to the United States; and military discharge.

  9. Ennio O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ennio O., a non-Jew, who was born in Italy in 1924. He recounts that his father fled to the United States immediately prior to his birth due to his anti-fascist activities; his return in 1928; living in Genoa; meetings of anti-fascists in their home; fascists burning his father's store; working in a factory to support his family; arrest for not reporting for weekly pre-military service; military draft; training in Genoa; German invasion; joining the Resistance; moving to Alessandria, then a mountain village; fighting Germans with the Resistance; being wounded and capt...

  10. Paul P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul P., a twin, who was born in Mikulov, Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recounts attending German and Czech schools; antisemitic harassment; involvement in Zionist youth groups; moving to Brno after German occupation; his mother "forcing" his father's illegal emigration to Palestine in 1939; his departure for England and his mother and sister leaving for Yugoslavia on August 31, 1939; their return to Prague due to the outbreak of war; forced labor in coal mines; hospitalization; refusing a nun's offer to hide him; returning to Brno; deportation with his mother and sister...

  11. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Ganichi, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1923. He recalls attending school in Sighet; cordial relations with non-Jews; belonging to Betar; his sister's and brother's emigration to Palestine; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Mukacheve, Kisvr?da, and Korice; returning home; learning his other sister and her children had been shot; he and his parents hiding during a round-up with help from their maid's husband; the same man surrendering them; ghettoization in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his p...

  12. Avraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Tykocin, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts attending cheder, then yeshiva; increasing antisemitism; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; visiting Białystok; German invasion; round-up with his family; his father sending him home; hiding with a friend; hearing the mass shooting of all the Jews while escaping to the forest; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; traveling to his grandparents' in Knyszyn; a round-up nine months later; escaping with his aunt a...

  13. Rosa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa K., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1921. She describes prewar life; German bombardment in 1939; fleeing east with her family; returning home three months later; anti-Jewish laws; Himmler's visit to Os?wie?cim; construction of Auschwitz concentration camp at a Polish army garrison; the Judenrat supplying Jews for forced labor; learning of extermination of prisoners in Auschwitz; and the 1940 transfer of all Jews not in the concentration camp, including her family, to Sosnowiec. Mrs. K. recalls telling others of the exterminations in Auschwitz and their refu...

  14. Maurice E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's 1929 move to Antwerp, then Brussels, to escape from the orthodox community; their assimilated life style; attending school until age fourteen; participating in socialist groups; his family housing a German-Jewish refugee; German invasion in May 1940; he and his brother fleeing to Paris to join the military; his rejection though his brother was accepted; living in a facility for Belgians in Montpellier; working at a vineyard; incarceration at Agde; escaping with...

  15. Josef H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef H., a Romani, who was born in a small village in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1911. He recalls his large family; he and his brothers training with their father to be blacksmiths; playing music with his siblings at weddings to earn extra money; meeting his future wife in Prešov; marriage; the births of his children; living in Kapušany; hostility from the local population toward Romanies; internment by Hlinka guard and Germans in a labor camp; hunger, lack of sanitation, and frequent beatings; transfer to another location where condition...

  16. Vladislav H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladislav H., who was born in Senta, Yugoslavia in 1920 to an assimilated family. He recalls his father's family's long history in Senta; attending high school in Senta and Subotica; working for a lawyer; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; losing his job; his parents going to Szeged to live with his paternal grandmother; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; good treatment by his commanders; being turned over to the Germans in Szeged (the last time he saw his parents); slave labor in the Bor mines; harsh conditions; assistance from Serb workers in escapin...

  17. Rosalyn R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalyn R., who was born in Tarn?ow, Poland in 1932. She recalls starting school; German invasion; she and her older brother being tutored; her mother's United States citizenship (she was born there); her mother's refusal to leave her children when she could have gone; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; non-Jewish friends hiding her father and brother; hiding with relatives during round-ups; ghettoization; learning that U.S. citizens and their families would be exchanged for German prisoners; surrendering for exchange; transfer to Montelupich prison...

  18. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-301), Mrs. S. recounts her father's struggle to support the family after anti-Jewish restrictions resulted in confiscation of his business; a public hanging in the Kos?ice ghetto; slave labor in Markkleeberg with her sister; her sister sharing extra food received from a civilian worker; escaping from a death march with her sister and two others; liberation by Soviet troops; staying near Dresden; identifying a former Hungarian soldier who had beaten her; revoking her accusation after ...

  19. Ilse M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse M. who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her father's incarceration in Dachau for a year starting in 1938; his departure for Italy immediately upon release; leaving a few weeks later on a 1939 children's transport to England; her unhappy life with a childless couple in Prescot; avoiding the husband's sexual advances; cessation of correspondence from her mother in 1941; several live-in jobs; and continuing school while working in Manchester, then London. She describes a visit from her mother's brother after the ...

  20. Aaron B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recalls German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; digging ditches near the Soviet border in November 1939; escaping to Warsaw two weeks later; unloading trains; obtaining a privileged position with assistance from a German officer; ghettoization; his parents and sister escaping to Bia?obrzegi in 1942; the German officer helping him to escape to Bia?obrzegi; forced labor at a munitions factory in Radom; public executions; learning his family was deported; escaping execution with assistance...