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  1. Sally S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who wa...

  2. Mania M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania M., who was born in 1919 and lived in Podgo?rze (Krako?w), Poland, one of six children. She recounts her affluent, orthodox family; working as a bookkeeper; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east to Mielec; returning home when overtaken by Germans; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor; marriage; deportations, including her parents and one sister; transfer to P?aszo?w in 1943; slave labor in the Madritsche factory; visits with her husband; becoming inured to constant killings; transfer to Auschwitz, then Aschersleben in January 194...

  3. Otto W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto W., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of two brothers. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending public school; expulsion due to antisemitic laws after Slovak independence; he and his brother hiding with an uncle; his parents' deportation to Žilina in 1941; obtaining papers as a non-Jew from a non-Jewish friend; one visit to his parents (he never saw them again); denunciation by an acquaintance; deportation with his brother to Nováky; slave labor; joining the partisans during the Slovak uprising; fighting in Banska...

  4. Telford T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Telford T., who was born in New York in 1908. He recounts his education; working in military intelligence during the war; joining Judge Robert Jackson's staff for the first Nuremberg trial in 1945; searching for documentation of German war crimes; establishing the legal basis for the trials in the International Military Tribunal charter; working on the indictment in London; using Nuremberg for the trial because of its facilities; details of the trial; and his appointment as chief prosecutor for subsequent trials. Mr. T. describes trials of Nazi doctors who performed e...

  5. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his secular family's relative affluence; his father's one-year trip to visit relatives in Argentina in 1937; he and his brother writing to him about increasing antisemitism; his return despite their letters; participating in Hashomer Hatzair with his brother and Israel Gutman; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; ghettoization; learning carpentry; many deaths from starvation; volunteering for forced labor; his father's disappearance; escaping; joining his brother in the Tarnów ...

  6. Francis O. and Ilia O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francis O., who was born in Novi Sad, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1913, and his wife Ilia O., who was born in Kisač, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1915. Mr. O. recounts his mother's death in 1915; his father's draft into the Austrian military in World War I; living in a Serbian village with his grandparents, the only Jews there; singing in the church choir; returning to Novi Sad in 1918; living with his aunt; learning that he was Jewish; attending a Jewish school; his father's two remarriages; the births of two half-sisters; part...

  7. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Arm...

  8. Albert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1930, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment on the streets; moving with his family to Budapest in 1939; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; four of his siblings emigrating; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; his father being caught in a round-up (they never saw him again); learning to forge false papers; forging papers for his mother and himself as non-Jews; selling false papers to support themselves; hi...

  9. Helga H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga H., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the elder of two sisters. She recalls her father's strong German identity (he was a World War I veteran); their assimilated lifestyle; attending a public school; participating in Catholic prayers and Christmas shows; friends snubbing her with the rise of Nazism; harassment in middle school (she was the only Jew); increasingly restrictive anti-Jewish laws including reduced rations for Jews; observing vandalism, theft (including at her family's store), and burning synagogues on November 9, 1938; learning her uncle had ...

  10. Regina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children. She recalls attending public and religious schools; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; managing to stay with her older sister; a severe beating for taking extra food offered by other prisoners; transfer to Stutthof in September; forced farm labor with her sister and cousins; receiving extra food from one farmer; a death march beginning in February 1945; contracting typh...

  11. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David K., a researcher who specialized in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. He discusses the emigration of many Jews to Shanghai, their relationships with the already existing Jewish communities, the Chinese, and the Japanese. His book Japanese, Nazis & Jews : the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945, is an authoritative study of this subject.

  12. Gerd E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerd E., who was born in Berlin in 1922. He describes his wealthy and prominent family; attending public school, then the elite French gymnasium; hardships resulting from the Nuremberg laws. including his expulsion from school in 1938; attending a Jewish school; synagogue burnings and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release six weeks later, a weak and broken man; completing his qualifying exam (arbitur) in 1940; an apprenticeship leading to a factory job; hiding money and valuables with non-Jewish friends; his father's death; four weeks of forced labor in Wu...

  13. Milton S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton S., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1918, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty and orthodoxy; antisemitic violence in public school; leaving school to work as a painter; one sister's emigration to France in 1934; leaving home to work in Warsaw; sending money home; visiting on Jewish holidays; compulsory registration for military service; German invasion; digging fortifications for the Polish army; arrest by the Polish military; escaping when German troops arrived; walking to Ryki; locating his family; bombings; capture by Germans; slave la...

  14. John S. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Reverend John S., whose first testimony was recorded in 1983. Reverend S. relates satisfaction from his first testimony, particularly in countering Holocaust deniers; detailed visual and aural recall of events he experienced during the Holocaust, despite hazy memories of others; his walking away from the train without protesting as symbolic of an entire generation; despite taking great risks to hide Czech resistants, his continuing sense of personal tragedy in not having helped Jews; speaking at length about this on the rare opportunities when he...

  15. Herman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman W., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; his older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three-week ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and uncle; transfer to Wolfsberg a few days later; slave labor on the railway; a foot injury resulting from wearing clogs; hospitalization; the prisoner doctor hiding him during selections; sharing extra food wi...

  16. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning t...

  17. Philip P. and Sofia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip P., who was born in Kamʹia︠n︡e Pole (Kamenka), Ukraine in 1925. He recalls observing Jewish holidays and attending synagogue; a large, extended family; joining Komsomol; his father's draft in August 1941; German occupation; hiding with his mother, with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors, when most Jews were slaughtered; fleeing to a nearby village; returning with his mother and sister to Kamenka; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a forest; assistance from a German officer; transfer to forced labor outside Kamenka; escaping with his mother and sister w...

  18. Zalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalie G., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of three children. She recalls a happy childhood; observing the Sabbath and kashruth; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest in 1941; her mother bribing officials for his release; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her sister joining the Resistance in Alenc?on; receiving papers to join relatives in the United States; her father refusing to leave; his arrest in the July 1942 Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up (she never saw him again); her mother hiding during round-ups; her brother being sent to jo...

  19. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  20. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...