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  1. Vera T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera T., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), an only child. She recounts her family moving to Prague the following year; her family's perfume and cosmetics business; their relative affluence; a sheltered childhood; attending a Czech school; transferring to a French school due to antisemitic harassment; German occupation in spring 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; studying English; her father obtaining Hungarian passports for them based on his service in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I; deportations in...

  2. Nunzio V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nunzio V., a Catholic, who was born in Serradifico, Italy in 1924, one of eight brothers. He recounts learning fascist doctrine in school; military draft in 1943; postings and training in Cervignano del Friuli, then Pula; Italian capitulation; German occupation; declining to collaborate with the German military, resulting in prisoner of war status; transfer by ship to Venice, then by train to a camp which he thinks was in Austria; digging pits to bury the dead; transfer to Graz with other Italian POWs; assignments to various jobs in the area; good relations with local...

  3. Helga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga G., who was born in Berlin in 1929 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who had converted. She recalls futile efforts in the 1930s to emigrate due to anti-Jewish laws; her father fleeing to Italy; moving with her mother to Krosno Odrzańskie; attending school; joining her father; illegally entering France in 1938 following the introduction of Italian antisemitic laws; living in Nice; attending school and learning French; the outbreak of war; her father's French military conscription; incarceration with her mother in Gurs; Spanish POWs giving the Jewish child...

  4. Odette A. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in Paris, France in 1914. She describes childhood in an assimilated family; antisemitic incidents which caused her to define herself as Jewish; completing medical school; volunteering in Perpignan for the international sanitation committee at the end of the Spanish Civil War; working as a government physician in Montargis, where she met her future husband; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; returning to Paris; working in Jewish dispensaries; arrest of her mother and sister when they smuggled themselves to the unoccupied zo...

  5. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Romania, the youngest of six children. She recalls that her father was a successful merchant; Hungarian occupation; all of her brothers and brothers-in-law being drafted into slave labor battalions; her father's death in 1943; having to support her siblings and their twelve children; ghettoization when she was twenty-one; smuggling food in from her village; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau after six weeks; horrendous conditions on the transport; separation from her family upon arrival; being compelled to give blood for wounded German soldiers...

  6. Pavel E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pavel E., who was born in Opava, then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in 1911. He recounts his affluent, assimilated parents; registering to study law in Prague in 1930; theater study in Vienna; working in theaters and studying law; compulsory military service; working as a lawyer in Prague in 1937; German occupation; being fired due to anti-Jewish laws; marriage in March 1939; planning to emigrate, but staying due to family pressure; deportation with his wife to the Łódź ghetto in October 1941 (he never saw his parents again); a privileged position as a streetcar dr...

  7. Miriam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933, the youngest of three daughters. She recounts her family moving to Amsterdam in 1934; her father compiling a library/archive of Nazi documents; she and her sisters attending a Montessori school; her father bringing his library to London in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; her father arranging Paraguayan passports for them; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Westerbork in June 1943; weekly transports to Auschwitz; her mother managing to keep them off the list for Auschwitz; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January...

  8. Gerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerry S., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1935. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his family's emigration to Oslo in March 1939 with assistance from an uncle who was a rabbi there; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in April 1940; his uncle's arrest and deportation in 1942 (he did not survive); his father hiding in a hospital pretending to need surgery; a Norwegian policeman informing his mother of an impending round-up; the underground arranging to hide him, his mother, and sister with non-Jews, then smu...

  9. Marius-Cornelius D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice-Cornelius D., an evangelical Christian, who was born in Poperinge, Belgium in 1930. He recalls attending officer training school in Antwerp beginning in 1939; capture by the Germans; incarceration in Kortrijk; deportation as a POW to Germany; returning to Kortrijk; joining the resistance in Merkem; arrest in May 1942; solitary confinement in Kortrijk for four months; reading the Bible; transfer to St. Gilles for two weeks, four days to Essen, then to Bochum; slave labor cutting patterns for shoes; Allied bombings in May 1943; transfer to Esterwegen; receiving ...

  10. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Bronx, New York in 1922 and served in the United States military as a radio repair man in Europe during World War II. He recounts passing outside of Buchenwald immediately prior to its liberation and observing thousands of skeletal prisoners in striped uniforms as well as the pervasive stench of dead bodies. Although his unit left the next day, having no exposure to the prisoners except briefly observing them twice, Mr. S. notes it was one of his most traumatic experiences.

  11. Ralph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph M., who is a retired United States Army colonel. He recounts encountering Dachau during his unit's advance through Germany; the fatal wounding of a lieutenant in the fight for Dachau in April 1945; killing a number of Germans while entering Dachau; their complete lack of knowledge regarding concentration camps; encountering freight cars packed with corpses and a few living prisoners outside the camp; seeing crematoria with four ovens, basements full of stacked corpses, and the room where human medical experiments were conducted; arranging medical assistance for ...

  12. Esther A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther A., who was born in Radautz, Bukovina (today Radauti, Romania), in 1908. In this vivid testimony, Mrs. A. tells of her family's ardent Zionism; fleeing with her mother and siblings to join her father in Berlin in 1914; Jewish life in inter-war Berlin; participation in the "Bar Kochba" sports club; work for a Jewish newspaper; courtship and marriage; her husband's emigration to America in 1941 with his parents; her attempts to emigrate; and forced labor. She relates her mother's and a brother's deportations (she never saw them again); preparing herself for depor...

  13. David W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David W., who was born in 1922 in Krako?w, Poland, one of three children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; beatings because he was Jewish; German invasion; fleeing east for several weeks with his brother; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; ghettoization in 1941; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); incarceration in P?aszo?w; public hangings and shootings; transfer to Auschwitz for less than a day, then to Mauthausen; meaningless slave labor carrying rocks; transfer to St. Valentin; slave labor in a tank factory; a non-Jewish acquain...

  14. Erika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother attending medical school; the Anschluss; her brother's expulsion from school; former friends turning on them; her parents leaving for Czechoslovakia; remaining with her brother; smuggling themselves to join their parents in Trenc?iansky; marriage in 1939; a futile attempt to emigrate with her husband from Bratislava to Palestine in June 1940; her husband's complying with a deportation notice (she never saw him again); rejoining her family; entering Nova?ky; meeting her f...

  15. André W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre W., a Catholic, who was born in Uccle, Belgium, one of four children. He recounts attending Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to Montpellier; returning home; attending university in Namur; going into hiding after refusing to report for forced labor; joining the Resistance; leading sabotage operations and armed resistance (several Jews were in his unit); arrest; daily interrogations and beatings in Avenue Louise, his worst memory; transfer a week later to St. Gilles; identifying a Jewish prisoner as a Resistant, thus saving him from depor...

  16. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Sinsheim, Germany in 1933. She recalls Kristallnacht; her father's imprisonment in Dachau; her imprisonment, with her family, in Ladenburg in October 1940; her grandfather's emigration to the United States; deportation via Mannheim to Gurs with her parents and sister; being smuggled out with her sister by OSE (they never saw their parents again); living in an OSE orphanage, then with a non-Jewish family in Faverges-de-la-Tour as Christians using false names; their return to the OSE orphanage when neighbors grew suspicious; living as Jews again...

  17. Joseph A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph A., who was born in Lithuania in 1919. He recalls attending yeshiva in Kelme?; attending gymnasium; draft into the Lithuanian military in 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to the Soviet military; leaving the military; German occupation; ghettoization; being selected with other men for forced labor in Germany; a rabbi encouraging them to help each other; frequent beatings; receiving extra food from friends; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer with other non-Polish-speaking prisoners to clean up the remains of the Warsaw ghetto; observing shootings of Jews who had hi...

  18. Sam A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam A., who was born in 1921 and served with the United States Army 21st Armored Infantry Battalion in World War II. He recounts approaching Mauthausen concentration camp on May 5, 1941, after German troops had left; the pervasive odor; gas chambers; pits filled with naked bodies; ovens with rollers to deliver bodies in an assembly line; and emaciated, dazed inmates. Mr. A. recalls three months of rotating guard duty at the camp while billeted in Linz; gradual improvement in the inmates' condition after treatment by military medical units; and realizing later that the...

  19. Irwin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irwin W., who was born in Sladkow Maly, Poland in 1920. He recalls a difficult, but socially rich, life; ghettoization; escaping from a mass killing with his brother; hiding with farmers; joining the Polish underground as a non-Jew; leaving when exposure was imminent; entering Kielce concentration camp; forced labor for HASAG; sabotaging production; transfer to Cze?stochowa; evacuation to Buchenwald, then Stassfurt; working in coal mines; being abandoned by the guards on a death march in Czechoslovakia; attempting to enlist in the Soviet army; rejection due to ill hea...

  20. Judith G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith G., who was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1933, an only child. Ms. G. recounts her mother was a United States citizen; their intention to move there; Hungarian occupation; her mother choosing not to go the U.S. rather than leave Ms. G. behind; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1941; German invasion in March 1944; relocation to a facility for foreign citizens in Budapest (a Swiss safe house); her aunt hiding with them; transfer to a prison in Koma?rom in December; a death march on which her mother wa...