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  1. Eva R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva R., who was born in approximately 1919, the youngest of ten children. She recalls living in a small village; her father's death; German invasion; forced labor; escaping with her brother, sister, and niece from a transport in October 1942; hiding in the woods, with a non-Jewish farmer, and in her niece's husband's town; entering Kielce concentration camp with her niece since hiding was too dangerous; slave labor in a HASAG factory for two and a half years; transfer to Cze?stochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, and Landsberg; Allied bombings; a death march to Allach; libe...

  2. Margaret L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret L., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1922, an only child. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; living across the street from Adolf Hitler and looking into his apartment with binoculars after his rise to power; anti-Jewish laws restricting her activities; attending high school despite the laws, since her father was a wounded World War I veteran; her parents' unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; learning her father was in Dachau; his return four weeks later; expulsion from their apartment; ...

  3. Harold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold S., who was born in Missouri in 1920, and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts joining the Air Force in 1942; deployment to England; serving with a radar unit in France, Luxembourg, and Germany; visiting Buchenwald three days after liberation; sick and emaciated prisoners; wheelbarrows filled with corpses; a lampshade made of human skin; feeling numbness, disbelief, then anger; taking photographs (his wife, horrified, threw them away); and visiting divided Berlin as an officer many years later.

  4. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assis...

  5. Henry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls pervasive antisemitic violence; his father's futile attempt for the family to emigrate to Palestine in 1936; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his cousin; ghettoization; organizing clubs; working in his father's stead in food delivery; public hangings; being married by H?ayim Rumkowski in May 1943; his child's birth, and death a few days later in 1944; deportation with his remaining family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; deportation a few weeks later to Dachau, then Landsberg; slave labor in an airplane fact...

  6. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. In an unusually detailed testimony, he recounts his musical education; emigration to Amersfoort, Holland; his musical career; activities in the Dutch underground; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwitz; and witnessing atrocities. Mr. L. recalls transfer to Monowitz; work for I.G. Farben; teaching accordion to a German officer resulting in extra food and privileges; giving food to a boy whom he took home with him after the war; the influx of Hungarian Jews and acceleration of killing; work in the musicians unit; and ...

  7. Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S.. Anita B. was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1929. She recalls German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of their home; moving to a Jewish old age home; forced relocation to Amsterdam; attending a Jewish school; round-ups; her parents' decision in 1943 that they would go into hiding; her parents' and sister's departures; being taken by Anna S., her camp counselor, to hide with a non-Jewish family in the south; kind treatment by her foster parents; and liberation by British and United States troops in September 1...

  8. Roza S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roza S., who was born in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Ukraine in 1924. She recalls her father's military draft; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding in the cellar during a round-up in September 1941; being caught after leaving to check if the round-up was over; placement on a line for shooting in a mass killing; being asked if she was Ukrainian; being released when she answered affirmatively (she had blond hair); returning home; trading her family's valuables for food; hiding with her mother at a neighbor's during another mass shooting; living with an aunt until April ...

  9. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Ladmir, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ, Ukraine) in 1927, the third of four children. He recalls his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; his father's membership in a Hasidic synagogue; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; improved economic conditions; German invasion in June 1941; reporting for forced labor in place of his brother; round-up; his mother offering to take his place to be killed (they were both released); ghettoization; obtaining extra food for his family when working at German headquarters and fr...

  10. Elka F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elka F., who was born in Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. She recalls meeting her future husband in 1932; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish harassment; forced labor; surviving a selection in October with her future husband and their families (almost all other Jews were killed); ghettoization with approximately 600 survivors; Magalif (head of the Judenrat) giving them permission to wed; marriage in February; Magalif discouraging people from escaping so the elderly ...

  11. Anna O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna O., who was born in Hungary in 1927. She recounts pervasive antisemitism; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; German invasion in March 1944; staying with her boyfriend's family; returning home despite regulations against Jews traveling; the town's Jews being forced into one house; deportation by cattle car to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father and grandmother (she never saw them again); remaining with her mother and a cousin; transfer to P?aszo?w; assisting her mother with slave labor; return to Auschwitz; relief at being tattooed, thinking they would su...

  12. Lenke Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lenke Z., who was born in Sevlus?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1914. She recounts being raised by an aunt after her parents' death; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Mukacheve; marriage in 1937; moving to Nitra; her son's birth; antisemitic laws after the establishment of independent Slovakia; "Aryanization" of their business; an aborted attempt to smuggle themselves from Humenne? to Hungary in 1943; returning to Nitra; arranging to hide with non-Jewish friends during a round-up in October 1944; her husband's nervous breakdown; hiding wi...

  13. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L. who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1914. Mr. L recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; serving in the Polish military; marriage; German invasion; escaping to Prilesnoye (Manevichi); his son's birth in 1942; ghettoization; escaping into the woods from a mass killing in September; contact with partisans; acquiring a rifle; training units due to his military experience; assistance from some pacifist farmers; digging a bunker; mining rail and communication lines; battles with Germans and Ukrainians; antisemitism among the partisans; ...

  14. Ib J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ib J., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1924. Mr. J. speaks of his education and family life; the German occupation; becoming involved with the underground; sabotaging Nazi cars and trucks; and his feelings when a comrade was killed in an underground action. He describes the gradual reaction of the Danish population to the occupation and provides a general overview of the growth and activities of the Danish underground movement. Mr. J. also expresses his disappointment with the way in which certain people behaved immediately following the war; his embarrassment ...

  15. Harry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Narvik, Norway, to a British father and Danish mother. He recalls a stepbrother from his father's first marriage; German bombardment; incarceration in Grini for about nine months; his mother's parents bribing a high Nazi official to free them; their "escape" to Copenhagen, with assistance from the underground in both countries (he never saw his father again); being warned of German deportations in fall 1943; departing from Kastrup to Landskrona, Sweden on boats, an underground operation; living in Göteborg until the end of the war; returning...

  16. Annelies H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annelies H., who was born in Ko?nigsberg, Germany in 1922. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT 276), Ms. H. recalls German enthusiasm for Nazism; obtaining false papers In Berlin with help from her sister's employer; moving frequently; being blackmailed for sexual favors, a resulting pregnancy, and abortion; working for a Nazi official; their return to Berlin; and exacting revenge after liberation by having a Nazi arrested. Mrs. H. reflects upon the refusal of the German people to help Jews and their lack of remorse after the wa...

  17. Haim B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim B., who was born in approximately 1923, one of five children. Mr. B. recounts his family's affluence; living in Vilnius; visiting his grandfather in Valozhyn; participating in Hashomer Hadati; Soviet invasion; brief Lithuanian independence, followed by Soviet reoccupation; attending university; his father's arrest for "illegal trading"; helping secure his release; managing his father's factory in Kaunas; German invasion; one sister's death in a bombing; anti-Jewish restrictions; thousands of Jews disappearing; learning they were killed at Paneriai; reporting for ...

  18. Maurice A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice A., who was born in 1912, and lived in Thessalonike?, Greece. He recounts his father's death when he was fifteen; serving briefly in the Greek military in Peloponnesus; returning to Thessalonike? after German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; refusing to escape due to his reluctance to leave his family; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; horrendous conditions during the six day trip; separation from his family upon arrival; meeting his brother who arrived with the next transport; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; obtaining a privileged position a...

  19. Herman L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman L., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1926. He recounts his family's long history in Salonika; Jewish life; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing with his friends to Drama; their arrest attempting to cross the Turkish border; frequent torture during six months in a Gestapo jail in Belgrade; transfer by train to a Greek jail in Thessalonike? in March 1943; assistance from a Greek friend; deportation to Birkenau in August 1943; his assigned job carrying corpses; transfer to Warsaw after the ghetto revolt in August 1943; mass killings d...

  20. Frantiska V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frantiska V., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovkia) in 1936, the second of two children. She recounts her father's successful medical practice; their affluent and assimilated lifestyle (her parents were atheists and she did not know she was Jewish); shipping their furniture to England, anticipating emigration; not "making it" across the border; forced closing of her father's practice in 1939; having to leave home with her parents and brother; living with a German family until 1940, then in a country cabin; returning to Bratislava when it becam...