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  1. Moses D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1933, the oldest of four children. He remembers their affluence; a maid caring for the younger children; separation from their parents when they were placed on a train in July 1939; adults from the kindertransport accompanying them to London; being met by an uncle and aunt; his younger siblings being sent to foster homes; briefly staying in a hostel; living with his uncle and aunt; close calls during the blitzkrieg; visiting his siblings; antisemitic and anti-German harassment; learning his parents had left Germany; his un...

  2. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an i...

  3. Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. who were born in Kozienice, Poland, in 1917, 1919, and 1923, respectively, to a family of five children. They recall their family's orthodoxy; participating in Betar; antisemitism in school; German invasion; briefly fleeing to a nearby village; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; ghettoization; Chai?m's and their father's transfer to work in Pionki; their father's return; Chai?m's marriage to Pola D.; Albert's and Henri's deportation to Pionki concentration camp (they never saw their parents and younger sister again); ...

  4. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Koněšín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1906, one of five brothers. He recounts moving to Kunowitz; learning songs from soldiers during World War I; attending school in Uherské Hradiště; participating in Zionist youth groups, including Tehelet Lavan, Makkabi Hatsair, and Maccabi; cordial realtions with non-Jews; studying law in Brno; military training in Litoměrǐce and Terezín; practicing law; German invasion; his father's death; moving to Prague in 1939; working with Jacob Edelstein in the Jewish Agency fo...

  5. Elizabeth K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth K., who was born in Nagyrozva?gy, Hungary, one of seven children. She recalls a close extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; her family's orthodoxy; not attending high school due to new anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization with her family in Sa?toraljau?jhely; her grandfather's death; assistance from a Romani who had worked for them; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with two sisters from their family; humiliation at having to strip for selections; remaining with her sisters, but not...

  6. Ludwig B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig B., who was born in Pfungstadt, Germany in 1911. He recalls his observant childhood within the small Jewish community; antisemitic harassment in the local school; his mother's death; his father's remarriage; attending school in Darmstadt; the absence of antisemitism; attending medical school in Frankfurt; moving to Geneva in 1933 to continue his studies (his departure was the day before enactment of a law requiring visas for Jews); emigration to the United States to join an uncle; passing his medical exams; and marriage, divorce, remarriage, and divorce. Mr. B....

  7. Hannelore R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannelore R., who was born in Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he lost a leg); expulsion from school; her father's confidence his veteran's status would protect them; hiding in a non-Jewish neighbor's apartment during Kristallnacht; the destruction of their business; deportation with her parents, grandfather, and brother to Gurs in 1940; minimal rations; her mother giving her her bread; her grandfather's death; transfer to Rivesaltes six months later; two months later receiving notice to go to a French orp...

  8. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Zago?ro?w, Poland in 1917. He recalls antisemitic harassment, particularly at Easter; the deaths of his parents; living with a sibling in Siedlce; one brother's emigration to the United States; rabbinic training in Warsaw; serving in the Polish military starting in April 1938; retreating to Deblin and Kovel?; disbanding of his unit; returning to Siedlce; anti-Jewish regulations; smuggling himself to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; living in S?iauliai; obtaining a visa for Japan; traveling to Vladivostok, then Ko?be-shi; involuntary transfer to ...

  9. Irene T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene T., who was born in Poland in 1912. She recalls her schooling in Drohobych; moving to Krako?w in 1930; marriage; her son's birth in 1938; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; moving to Krzeszowiec, her husband's hometown; searching for her husband in Krako?w after he was taken for forced labor; a German officer who allowed him to leave the labor camp in 1943; hiding until they were reported a few days later; his return to camp in an effort to protect Mrs. T. and their son; obtaining false papers; working as a seamstress; finding hiding places for her ...

  10. Marion O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malme?dy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Mi...

  11. Herman P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman P., a psychiatrist who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany, in 1892. He describes his childhood; his medical education; conscription into the army and service during World War I; his marriages; and his medical practice in Berlin, where he was Chief of Neurology at the Jewish Hospital. He tells of the encroachment of Nazi influence and anti-Jewish legislation; his attempt in late 1941 to inform the United States Embassy of the plight of the Jews in Poland; and going underground with his wife in 1943 after enabling his sons to flee the country. He recalls the help h...

  12. Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminen...

  13. Mania L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania L., who was born in Ukraine in 1910. She recalls leaving for Palestine with her family in 1919, staying in Kiev and Sevastopol?, and arrival in 1920; attending Arabic school in Tel Aviv; moving to Paris in 1933 to attend university; her parents' anger at her marriage to a non-Jew; her daughter's birth; her husband's mobilization, capture, and release; arrest in 1943; imprisonment in Fresnes; internment in Paris and Drancy; working as a tailor; sharing food packages with prisoners; observing the deportation of children; liberation by United States troops; reunion...

  14. Gitta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitte L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiance?. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United State...

  15. Clara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara G., who was born in Rhodes in 1923, the youngest of six children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in a multi-cultural environment; attending Catholic school; emigration of three older siblings; implementation of anti-Jewish laws by the Italian fascists in 1938; expulsion from school; German invasion in 1943; deportation with her siblings, parents, and grandmother to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Athens in July 1944; remaining with one sister (she never saw the others again); difficulties because they did not understand German; assistance from prisoners from...

  16. Luci P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luci P., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1925. She recounts German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; assistance from Serbian friends; her sister's compulsory forced labor; an uncle fleeing to Pris?tina; acquiring false papers; joining him with her family in November via Skopje; being placed on the train back to Yugoslavia; escaping with assistance from a stranger; hiding in a village with a poor, Jewish family; joining her uncle in Prizren; continuing assistance from local Serbs; arrest in 1942; an Italian officer protecting them; transfer to Kavaje?; a...

  17. Sara F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914, one of eight children. She recounts the emigration of two sisters to the United States when she was a child; working at her own business starting at age fifteen; marriage in 1938; her son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); her mother's death; her son being taken in the children's deportation when he was two years old; deportation with her sister and niece to Auschwitz in 1944; their transfer to Stutthof; her niece's selection; her sister's refus...

  18. Bela E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela E., one of three children. She recalls attending schools in Vilnius; her father's and brother's prewar deaths; German invasion; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; her deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor digging trenches, then in a factory; escaping with a fellow prisoner; a Pole hiding, then denouncing, them; escaping and hiding with another man; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Austria in 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. E. discusses learning her sister was killed in Auschwitz; nightmares; and her husband's murde...

  19. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. In addition to information included in a previously cataloged testimony (HVT-1368), Ms. M. recalls living in Hilversum after German invasion of the Netherlands; a non-Jewish friend arranging her hiding place in Haarlem; and staying there from August 1942 to January 1943. She notes improved communications today enable people to help during genocides such as in Cambodia.

  20. Georges D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges D., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, one of three children. He recounts participating in a socialist group and demonstrations; contact with Jewish refugees from Germany; military enlistment in 1938; discharge; recall shortly before the May 10, 1940 German invasion; assignments to anti-aircraft units in several locations, ending at Dunkerque; incarceration in two prisoner of war camps; escaping; return to Brussels; joining the Resistance; sympathy for Jews when they were forced to wear the yellow a star; distributing illegal newspapers; an...