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  1. Mirjam A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mirjam A., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the only child in a wealthy, assimilated family. She recalls a happy childhood; attending an evangelical school; frequent visits to grandparents in Trenčín; participating in a leftist Zionist youth movement when she was twelve; antisemitic harassment and expulsion from school; working as an assistant in a Jewish kindergarten for eighteen months; moving to Trenčín in 1941 due to antisemitic laws; her mother's hospitalization in Bratislava; returning to Bratislava with her father to ...

  2. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, an only child. She recalls her maternal grandparents living with them; an assimilated lifestyle; attending a secular school, then a Jewish one; her paternal grandparents and other relatives emigrating to England in 1938; her father's emigration in 1939; antisemitic restrictions; being caught in a round-up at a park forbidden to Jews; her mother securing her release; being forced to move twice; her maternal grandparents' deaths; deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in September 1942; placement in a children's b...

  3. Ladislav Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ladislav Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three children. He recounts living in Trnava; moving to Bratislava in 1926; his parents' assimilated lifestyle; he and his sister attending high school; active participation in a small communist group; attending medical school in 1937; Hlinka guard expelling Jewish students in 1938; working in forestry, then as a journalist for an illegal communist magazine; enrolling in law school; expulsion in 1941; draft into a forced labor group; postings in Čemerné, Liptovský Hrádok, then Svätý Jur; obtaining fa...

  4. Chiel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chiel M., who was born in Albigowa, Poland in 1910, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; working in his brother's quarry; his parents' deaths; living in ?a?cut; German invasion; fleeing to Sieniawa; returning home; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Przemy?l; moving to Berez?h?any; German invasion; working with a tinsmith; returning home with a brother and sister; deportation of one sister and her family; fleeing to Przemy?l, then Sieniawa with assistance from a Polish non-Jew; smuggling himself into the ghetto to join his brother; ...

  5. Sarika N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarika N., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1926. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Greek public school; German invasion; her father's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); ghettoization in 1943; marriage to her boyfriend, hoping to escape with him; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother, husband, and younger sister; separation with her sister from her husband and mother (she never saw them again); slave labor; assistance from a non-Jewish political prisoner; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); a privi...

  6. Olga R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga R., a non-Jew who grew up in Kiev. She recalls extreme poverty; close friendship with Jewish neighbors; joining Komsomol; German occupation; German orders for all Jews to assemble on Melnikov Square on September 29, 1941; seeing off her two Jewish girlfriends; walking part way to Babi Yar with them; a knock on her window at night; finding her girlfriends; learning from them of the mass killings in Babi Yar; obtaining false papers and maps for them with assistance from a neighbor; learning they survived after the war; assisting them in finding their fathers; and s...

  7. Sol M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol M., who was born in Radzano?w, Poland in 1920, one of eight children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in M?awa; public hangings; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz with a brother and two sisters in November 1942; slave labor with his brother; his brother's murder; praying on Yom Kippur; hearing rumors in July 1944 that Hitler was dead; contact with his sister; learning from her that their younger sister was dead; a death march; transport to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald,...

  8. Elizabeth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary, one of five children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; working in her father's pastry shop; marriage in 1942; her husband's and three brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; expropriation of her father's shop in 1943; incarceration with her parents, brother, his wife, and their two children; receiving Red Cross notification that her husband was probably dead; hiding when her brother and his family were deported; deportation with a friend; finding her father in the cattle car to Auschwitz; intense thirst ...

  9. Martin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin P., who was born in Amsterdam in approximately 1928, one of three sons. He recounts attending gymnasium; weekly Hebrew lessons at home; antisemitic harassment by Dutch children; his father traveling to the United States in spring 1940 and remaining there; German invasion in May; eviction from their apartment; expropriation of his father's business; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; hiding their housekeeper (a Czech Jew) from the Germans; deportation with his mother and brothers to Westerbork; forced labor as a bricklayer; transfer to Bergen-Bels...

  10. Rudolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf F., who was born in Krojanke, Germany in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Berlin in 1933; purchasing false papers; their emigration to Antwerp in 1937; attending a Jewish boarding school; German invasion; learning his family was in France; traveling to Perpignan; finding them in Monte?limar; incarceration in a labor camp; escaping to join his family; his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); his brother being hidden in a convent; joining the Resistance in Lyon; living in Grenoble; obtaining a false identity from the mayor; arrest in Nice; incarcer...

  11. Gabriel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabriel F., who was born in Arad, Romania in 1925. He relates childhood memories of his family and what it was like to grow up as a member of the only affluent Jewish family in a predominantly Hungarian and German town. He discusses the initial phase of anti-Jewish legislation which barred him from regular high school and university; German occupation in the summer of 1944; his father's transfer as a state doctor to a small village; and the family's deportation to a ghetto in Transylvania, then to Auschwitz where he stayed for eight days. He describes his transport to...

  12. Pinchas Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pinchas Z., who was born in Baranów, Poland in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recalls his father's successful tailoring business; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment by teachers and school mates; two of his mother's sisters living with them; German occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer of all Jews to the poorest area in 1941; his father continuing to sew for Poles in exchange for food; a Polish friend warning his father of an expulsion in May 1942; hiding with his father's Polish friend, then in a forest near Pogonów; joi...

  13. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland. She recounts German invasion in 1939 when she was five; briefly fleeing with her family to Krako?w; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in a bunker during round-ups; fleeing to Sosnowiec; ghettoization in the Srodula section; her father arranging a hiding place for her with a Polish woman and placing her baby sister with another family; hiding in the bunker when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1943; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); escaping with her aunt; their arrest; escaping with asistance fr...

  14. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his older brother's death from illness; the Anschluss; expropriation of his father's business; antisemitic harassment; his father obtaining visas for Panama through his brother in Holland; traveling to Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; working at a rubber plant; a general strike in 1941; hiding during a raid (several friends were captured and deported); traveling illegally to Belgium with a group of friends; his parents joining him; being smuggled with a group to Pa...

  15. Eva T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born near Bereg, Hungary in 1932, an only child. She recounts moving to Mukacheve in 1938 when her father lost his position due to anti-Jewish laws; attending the Hebrew gymnasium; her father's employer offering to hide them in Budapest; her parents declining, in order not to abandon her father's stepfather; ghettoization; refusing the same employer's offer to hide her; deportation to Auschwitz; a Polish prisoner advising her to say she was sixteen and not sit; separation from her father; an SS woman advising the haircutters not to shave her blond hair...

  16. Jacob W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1914, the youngest of eight children. He recalls life in a vibrant Jewish community; working in his father's fur business; anti-Semitic actions by local Poles; German invasion in September 1939; SS atrocities and killings; and deportation to Buchenwald in October with 3,200 Poles, less than 100 of which were Jewish. Mr. W. details in depth conditions in Buchenwald: camp organization; formation of the underground; relations among prisoners from many countries, including Russian POWs; camp songs; abusive forced labor and beatin...

  17. Dorothy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy H., who was born in W?oszczowa (Poland) in 1925, and raised in Cze?stochowa. She recounts ghettoization; slave labor at HASAG-Pelzery with her father and brothers (her mother was killed); transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Leipzig; a German who provided extra food; liberation; returning to Cze?stochowa; reunion with her father and brothers; marriage; moving to Germany; her son's birth in Landsberg; and emigration to the United States. Ms. H. notes she did not share her story with her son because she did not want to bring back painful memories.

  18. Denise L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Denise L., who was born in France in 1916. She recounts her family's history; marriage in August 1938; moving to St. Honore? with her parents; her son's birth in June 1939; her husband being taken as a prisoner of war; assistance from French neighbors; her mother's death in 1943; hiding during round-ups with the non-Jewish wife of another POW; arrest with her father and son; internment in Nevers and Drancy in February 1944; her father's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw him again); deportation with her son to Bergen-Belsen as a POW's wife; her son's illnesses; c...

  19. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919, one of three children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending cheder and a German school; participating in Zionist groups, including Betar; a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; his father purchasing land in Israel; managing a Zionist youth camp in Sękowa in summer 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and sister to Będzin; his mother and brother joining them; moving to Sosnowiec; organizing a Zionist group with Yiśraʼel Ḳoz'ukh and others; warning fellow Jews not to report for deportation; forced labo...

  20. Ted G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ted G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls growing up in Be?dzin; moving to Warsaw; German invasion; forced labor; a ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; being saved from deportation by a policeman (a non-Jewish friend); factory work outside the ghetto; smuggling food to relatives; his parents' and relatives deportations (he never saw them again); escaping from the ghetto with help from an aunt and a non-Jewish Pole; living with a family with underground connections; obtaining false papers; working as a German translator; meeting his future wife, al...