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  1. Amanda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amanda S., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1923. She recalls living in Brussels; attending school in Paris; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her father to Limoges; her father hiding after refusing to cooperate with Germans; hiding Jewish friends; being recruited to hide Allied pilots; living under false papers; arrest in February 1944; observing her mother's arrest (two pilots and two Jews were found in her home); incarceration in Fresnes; torture; three months' solitary confinement; prisoners communicating through the plumbing; brief t...

  2. Květa M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Květa M., who was born in Dvořiště, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts her father's death in 1922; moving from their farm to Prague; her mother's marriage to a non-Jewish communist; joining the Communist Party in 1937; illegal political activities; German occupation; marriage to a non-Jew in 1939; arrest in August 1940; release in February due to her pregnancy; her mother's arrest as a hostage (she was released); her son's birth in March; arrest with her husband in February 1942; conviction for treason in April; transfer to Waldheim in May; transfer of the Jews ...

  3. Aleksandar D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksander D., an only child, who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recalls his mother's death; his large, extended family; his father's positions as vice-president of the Belgrade Sephardic community and member of the city council (he was an attorney); German invasion in April 1941; he and his father traveling to Kotor, then Cetinje, thinking it safer under Italian occupation; assistance from his father's colleagues; his father's arrest on June 22; his release with assistance from a retired Yugoslav army officer; traveling to Budva; joining the Montenegro ...

  4. Khanoekh G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Khanoekh G., who was born in Vilnius, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1915, the oldest of eight children. He recounts living in Švenčionys; his father serving as a cantor; attending a Jewish school; graduation from Polish gymnasium in 1934; attending medical school in Vilnius on the "Jewish quota"; studying his last year in Lʹviv due to border changes resulting from the war; working in Švenčionys; German invasion in June 1941 while attending a medical conference in Kaunas; returning home; anti-Jewish laws; a mass killing which included one brother; ghettoization; ...

  5. Giorgina V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Giorgina V., who was born in Turin, Italy in 1926. Mrs. V. describes her family life; moving to Milan, where her grandparents lived, in 1936; attending Hebrew school; the beginning of persecution in 1938; attending public school which had a Catholic emphasis; being barred from that school; her return to Hebrew school; and her happy memories of that time. She recalls Italy's entry into the war in 1940; moving back to Turin; schools closing; being sent to Rome, where she lived with a converted uncle and aunt, to finish high school; German occupation of Turin; and moving...

  6. Rabbi Henri O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri O., who was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany in 1913. He recalls that his family moved to Germany in 1913 from Poland; his father's arrest during World War I because he was a Polish citizen; growing up in Aschaffenburg; teaching Judaism in Fulda and Tann after he graduated from a yeshiva in Frankfurt in 1933; his father's deportation to Poland from France, where he had fled after Kristallnacht; seeing his father for the last time when his father traveled through Frankfurt to Poland; his brother's and mother's brief arrest due to their Polish citizenship and th...

  7. Bronia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops i...

  8. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1930. He recalls Sabbath and holiday meals at his maternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; summers with a priest's family; German occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah on July 10, 1943; going into hiding with his family on October 1, 1943 (as did most Danish Jews), waiting for boats to Sweden; being caught; one week imprisonment; transfer to Gedser; transport by boat to Warnemunde, Germany, then cattle trains to Theresienstadt; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival, t...

  9. Mancy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mancy K., who was born in Satu Mare, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917, one of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; remaining with her sister; receiving extra food when her sister sewed for the block leader; working in the hospital; transfer to Hochweiler; slave labor; working in the hospital; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; transfer to Sweden; kindness from the Swedes; learning two brothers had survived i...

  10. Alter W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alter W., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's affluence; his mother's death when he was four; his father's remarriage; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east with his stepmother, older brother, and younger half-brother; returning home three months later (his father had disappeared in their absence); finding his father's corpse when it was exhumed from a mass grave; his older brother's deportation in 1941; his deportation to Blechhammer; meeting his brother there; slave labor; transfer to Brande; separation from his brother...

  11. Pauline M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline M., who was born in a small eastern European village in 1903. Mrs. M. describes prewar life in the peaceful village of her childhood; its disruption by instances of German and Polish antisemitism during the first World War and her life in Kielce, where her parents moved after World War I, and in ?o?dz?, where she moved after she married in 1930. She speaks of the German occupation of ?o?dz? and tells how she, her husband, and their two young daughters escaped to Kielce on the day before they were to be deported from ?o?dz?. Life in occupied Kielce, both before...

  12. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in ?o?dz? , Poland in 1924. He describes family Shabbat observance; his father's shoemaking shop; attending public and Hebrew schools; active participation in the Bund; learning the weaving trade; German-Jewish refugees asking for charity; German invasion; ghettoization; participating in the clandestine distribution of news by the Bund; pervasive hunger; poor sanitary conditions; frequent round-ups and deportations; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from his family upon arrival; transfer to Dachau in September; forced labor; fr...

  13. Norman M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman M., a prize-winning author, who was born in Burdujeni, Romania, a section of Suceava, in 1936, an only child. He recounts moving to Ițcani; few memories prior to deportation with his parents and other relatives to Transnistria in October 1941; starvation and extreme cold; their Romanian foster child bringing them food; his maternal grandparents' deaths the first winter; attending school for about eighteen months; their return to Fălticeni, Rădăuți, then Suceava in 1945; resuming his education; expressing his desire to emigrate in 1947; his father's refusal...

  14. Alain M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alain M., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's poverty; their focus on religion and learning; one sisters's death from tuberculosis; attending Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment and violence; futile efforts to emigrate; working as a furrier; German invasion; forced labor; food shortages; his mother's death; ghettoization; deportation to Annaberg; slave labor building roads; observing Soviet POWs in very poor condition; transfer to Sakrau, Faulbru?ck, Go?rlitz, then Gross-Rosen; slave labor building factories as w...

  15. Judith I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith I., who was born in Kaposva?r, Hungary in 1925, the only child of an assimilated family with strong Hungarian identity. She recalls her first experience with antisemitism in 1938; her father's and uncle's compulsory service in slave labor battalions; ghettoization in June 1944; her grandfather's death; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother and aunt; transfer to Lichtenau three weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; being chosen to clean the commandant's house, a privileged position which provided extra food which she shared with her moth...

  16. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  17. Iohan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iohan B. who was born in Ilva Mare, Romania in 1923, one of seven children in a poor family. He recalls attending a Jewish school until the seventh grade, then high school; quitting school to work at age fourteen and a half; becoming a licensed mechanic; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; firing of all Jews from his factory ; refusing to emigrate because he did not want to leave his parents; ghettoization with his family in Bistrit?a ghetto for three weeks; and deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. B. describes the pain of seeing his family suffer; separation fro...

  18. Ralph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Fu?rstenwalde, Germany in 1931. He recounts his parents' divorce in 1936; living briefly in an orphanage in Berlin; his mother's remarriage; emigration to Prague in 1938; living in Teplice, Prague, and Bratislava; an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to Cuba; traveling to Nove? Za?mky; Hungarian occupation; round-up; deportation to a farm; his stepfather bribing guards to obtain their release; relocating to Budapest; living briefly in a children's home; flying to Venice; living in Milan; assistance from the Jewish community; attending public s...

  19. Walter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending Czech and Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; playing soccer with Maccabi in Dubnica; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in the banning of Jews from soccer in 1939; working in Bratislava; a beating by German soldiers; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade in October 1941; postings in Sabinov and Humenné; forced labor in Svätý Jur; sneaking away to Vajnory (Dvorník) and Bratislava on weekends; playing soccer for the Brigade, then for the Hlinka team; transfer in 1943 to Kostolná...

  20. Julia E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia E., who was born in Transylvania in 1928. She recalls her childhood in an affluent family; her family's involvement in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1940; German invasion on March 19, 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; help from a Hungarian classmate, who remains a close friend; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from her parents and brother upon arrival (she never saw her mother again); receiving three messages from her father advising them to try to leave Auschwitz; witnessing the killing of newborns to save the mothers' l...