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  1. Rella E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rella E., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. Mrs. E. tells of the death of her father during her infancy and her mother's remarriage; her family's move to Khust; staying with her religiously observant grandmother in Uz?h?horod when her family moved to Yugoslavia (she was thirteen); Hungarian occupation; joining her family in Yugoslavia in 1940; her father's removal to a labor camp; and the family's deportation, after being confined at home for eight days, to the ghetto in Szeged, Hungary, where they lived in a former pigsty. She speaks of disregarding soldiers' w...

  2. Dorothy P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy P., who enlisted in the United States Army Nurse Corps on February 15, 1943. In a very detailed testimony, she recalls treating traumatic wounds in Belfast, Ireland in January 1944; wading ashore on Utah Beach in July 1944 with Patton's 3rd Army; treating wounded soldiers in field hospitals; working day and night during the Battle of the Bulge; moving through France and into Germany with the front line troops; and finding a mass grave where 200 Americans had been buried alive. Mrs. P. recalls first hearing about the killing of Jews from a German-Jewish colleag...

  3. Zalman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalman H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, the youngest of six brothers. He recounts being the sole Jew in his public school class; antisemitic harassment; his oldest brother's draft in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death; two brothers escaping and working as non-Jews; smuggling food into the ghetto with Peretz, his next oldest brother; arrest by Polish police; escape; his father's non-Jewish friend once providing food; his mother's death; escaping with Peretz; moving from place to place; entering the ghetto often...

  4. Julia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia S., who was born in Amsterdam, in 1937. Mrs. S. describes her German Christian mother's marriage to a Dutch Jew (her "legal father"); their move to Amsterdam in 1933; their estrangement and her mother's relationship with another Dutch Jew (Julia's "biological father"); and her mother's liaison with a third Dutch Jew (her "stepfather") after the occupation of Holland. She recalls her stepfather's acquiring false papers from the Resistance; the family's relocation to Blaricum to avoid the Germans; and discovering, at age four, a hiding place for Jews in their hous...

  5. Rachel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel G., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. She recounts attending Montessori, then a Tarbut school; her older brother's death; anti-Jewish harassment; participating in a Zionist youth group; assisting Jews expelled from Germany in Zbąszyń in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; slave labor in a forest; transfer back to the ghetto; producing homemade bombs for the underground; her father volunteering for transfer to a labor camp (they never saw him again); an unsuccessful ...

  6. Nathan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recounts his nanny in Warsaw; visits with his grandfather to a country home; his family's move to join relatives in Antwerp in 1930; attending school in Berchem; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in May 1940; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; deportation with his father to Malines in 1942; transfers to Ottmuth, Kleinmangersdorf, Babitz, and Trzebinia; slave labor; receiving help from friends; a privileged position due to his fluency in several languages; Jews from the Chrzano?w ghetto giving t...

  7. Eta N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eta N., who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, one of three children. She recounts her mother's death when she was twelve; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1942; an inside work assignment due to a cousin's influence; learning her brother and father had arrived (they were killed); working in the laundry with her sister; sorting deportees' belongings in Canada Kommando (she found her brother's suit); frequent selections; smuggling medicine from Canada to a sick friend; smuggling money she found to the camp undergro...

  8. Edith G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 and adopted. She recalls living in Copenhagen; returning to Germany; her close family; marriage in 1928; and the births of her children. She describes her husband's arrest in 1935; his twenty-month incarceration; their move to Holland; German bombing of Rotterdam; moving to Zeist; not having to wear the yellow star, though her husband and children had to, because a Dutch policeman did not classify her as a Jew due to lack of information about her biological parents; arranging several hiding places for her children thr...

  9. Ludovit B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludovit B., who was born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), one of eight children. He recalls his family's poverty; moving to Petržalka due to debt; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; working odd jobs; draft into a forced labor battalion; postings in many places including Čemerné, Humenné, Liptovský Svätý Peter; Svätý Jur, and Zvolen; road construction and quarrying; illegally visiting his family until their deportation in 1942; escaping in 1943; a non-Jew hiding him for four days; traveling to Bratislava; obtaining the birth certificate...

  10. Marlo S. and Sella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marlo S., who was born in 1930, and her mother Sella K., who was born in 1910. Mrs. K. recalls growing up in Angerkrug, Germany (now We?gorzewo, Poland); marriage; and moving with her family and parents to Kovno in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Mrs. S. recalls Soviet occupation; confiscation of the family business; German invasion; ghettoization; her grandparents' execution; a German guard who helped her escape an "aktion"; transfer with her family to a forced labor camp; her aunt's efforts to make her appear older; separation from her father and brother a year later (she...

  11. William K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1912. He recalls participation in Zionist organizations as a youth; his parents' divorce; joining his mother and sister in Berlin; employment at a department store; declining a promotion for fear of provoking antisemitism; the public hitting of the store's owner on April 1, 1933; loss of own his job; attempts to leave for Palestine; meeting his future wife and their engagement; and embarkation for Shanghai in October 1938. He recounts assistance from the Japanese upon their arrival; organization of the Jewish community i...

  12. Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in Gyo?nk, Hungary in 1915. The information in this testimony is included in Cornelia S., HVT-1949. She also discusses sharing her experiences with her children. Mrs. S. shows photographs which she was able to save throughout her camp experience.

  13. Israel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel P., who was born in Przysucha, Poland in 1917, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his parents' deaths when he was a child; attending a yeshiva in Lublin; moving to Warsaw; membership in the Bund; joining his brothers in Paris in 1936; socialist activities; enlisting in the military in 1939; serving in a Polish unit; demobilization in July 1940; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish measures; losing his job; arrest in May 1941; incarceration in Pithiviers; organized Sabbath observance and cultural activities; transfer to Beaune-la-Rolande; deportation with three...

  14. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Petrova in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1906. He recounts his father's death when he was three; Petrova becoming part of Romania after World War I; attending Romanian school, yeshiva, and technical college; marriage in 1930; establishing a textile production company; the births of four children; Hungarian occupation; traveling to Budapest for raw materials in 1942; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; posting to Russia; returning home in 1944; deportation to Austria; slave labor in a flour mill; learning from his landlord that h...

  15. Aliza B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1928. She recalls a happy childhood among her large, extended family; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; her brother's escape; ghettoization; her brother's return; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brother; the smell of "burning meat"; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; selection for specious medical experiments and surgery performed by Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann, Wladyslaw Dering, and Carl Clauberg; recoveri...

  16. Joseph L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph L., who was born in Warsaw in 1924. He describes his life in the Warsaw ghetto, and briefly discusses his incarceration in Treblinka, Auschwitz, and the slave labor camp Jawischowitz/Monowitz, where he performed construction work. The only surviving member of his family, Mr. L. has been unable to locate anyone with his surname.

  17. Genia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. She recalls her observant, affluent home; a close, extended family; German invasion; being shunned by German friends; Polish neighbors looting their home; confiscation of her father's business; moving to the ghetto; her brother traveling to Warsaw (she never saw him again); forced labor producing clothing for the Wehrmacht; her family's exemption from deportation due to the privileged position of her sister's boyfriend; her mother's illness and death in 1944; her father being tortured by police seeking valuables; depor...

  18. Abe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's poverty; their inability to feed him; working in a meatpacking house beginning at age twelve; German invasion; forced labor in several villages from August 1940 to September 1941; transfer to a weaving factory; sharing extra food with an older man; meeting his future wife (his second cousin); transfer to another camp in 1942; slave labor cutting down trees; a death march to Buchenwald in 1944; veteran prisoners asking him and others to kill two "green triangles" (criminals); receiving extra food ...

  19. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in approximately 1923, one of six children of Turkish e?migre?s. He recounts he and one brother were Belgian citizens, but his parents and other siblings, Turkish; speaking Ladino at home; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; briefly going to southern France; completing high school; participation in a Zionist group; studying agronomy at the University of Gembloux; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Zionist horticultural school in Brabant and the clandestine University of Brussels; denunciation i...

  20. Jacqueline L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline L., who was born in Paris in 1932. She recounts her family was not religious, although she knew she was Jewish; awareness of "bad feelings" beginning in 1940; not answering the door when French police came for them on September 24, 1942; a non-Jewish neighbor telling them to go away (she knew they were home); being placed in hiding with the non-Jewish wife of a relative; knowing her parents and older sister were hiding in southern France; her "aunt" tutoring her (she could not attend school) and trying to convert her to Christianity; having a ration card (s...