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  1. Loni K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Loni K., who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1913. Mrs. K. recalls illegally emigrating to Holland in mid-1933; working as a servant and a legal secretary in Amsterdam; German occupation; her mother and sisters' emigration (her father was deported in 1942 and died in Theresienstadt); imposition of antisemitic restrictions; protection from deportation because she worked for the Joodse Raad; transport to Westerbork in mid-1943; transport to Theresienstadt in February 1944; working in a coffin factory; and details of her arrival at Auschwitz in May 1944. She tells of tran...

  2. Hans L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans L., who was born in Colmar, Alsace (then Germany, now France) in 1906. He discusses the death of his father shortly after his birth; his childhood in Kassel, Germany and then, from the age of five, in Berlin; and his feelings of Jewish identity within an assimilated family. He recalls the atmosphere in Berlin during World War I; the post-war political instability; and the Nazi rise to power. He speaks of his education as a philosophy student under Martin Heidegger; his pursuit of a medical degree; the anti-Jewish order resulting in his dismissal from his internsh...

  3. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1929. He recalls his large, extended family; German invasion of Poland in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending school; the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941; being sent, with his older sister, on a train to Kiev in the care of a Jewish family (he never saw his parents again); Soviet soldiers removing men and boys from the train; being left with only the boys when all the men of draft age were taken by the Soviet army; receiving food from local people; finding his sister in Kiev; fleeing to Dnipropetrovsk? two weeks...

  4. Edith T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith T., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1928. She recalls the death of her sister during an epidemic; German invasion; escaping to France; moving many places including Be?ziers, Montpellier, and Puisserguier; her father's brief stay in a labor camp; going into hiding with help from OSE; staying with other Jewish children at a convent in Villefranche-de-Rouergue; observing Jewish holidays; singing in the convent choir; liberation; reunion with her parents who had also been in hiding; returning to Antwerp; and emigrating to the United States in 1948. Mrs. T. discu...

  5. Inge W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inge W., one of seven children, who was born in Gautzsch, Germany in 1920. She recalls her father's local importance as a physician; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, including her father's practice; the Nuremberg laws resulting in increasing hardships; participation in Jewish youth, sports and cultural activities; attending the 1936 Olympics; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a teacher training course in Stuttgart for one year; teaching at the Leipzig Jewish school until October 1938; Kristallnacht, which caused her family to attempt emigrat...

  6. Tony M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tony M., who was born in Freiburg im Bresigau, Germany in 1918, one of three daughters of a prosperous manufacturer. She recalls her father's military service in World War I; her family's strong German identity; increasing antisemitism with Hitler's rise to power; the family's decision to emigrate as conditions deteriorated; the coordinated destruction of businesses and synagogues on Kristallnacht; her father's and uncle's incarceration in Dachau; her father's release due to their bank's intervention; departure with her sisters for England in April 1939; working in Li...

  7. Walter N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; the Austrian people's jubilation at the Anschluss; Hitler youth beating an elderly Jew; ransacking of their apartment, his father's deportation to Dachau, and the synagogue being burned on Kristallnacht; receiving postcards from his father; emigration with his sister to England via Holland on a kindertransport; living in Edinburgh with a Jewish physician's family; one week placement with a Christian family in Dysart; remaining, having bonded with ...

  8. Rosa M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She describes her parents' Polish background; her father's Austrian military service in World War I; childhood visits to relatives in Poland; hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss; incarceration with her parents, then separation from them; learning her parents were in the same jail; kindness from Austrian prisoners; release after three months; finding their apartment ransacked; returning to the apartment after her parents' release; obtaining a United States visa because she was an Austrian citizen; joining a Z...

  9. Arnold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. He remembers learning of his mother's death when he was four; membership in Maccabi; many relatives emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's remarriage in 1936; his bar mitzvah in 1937, including a gift of visiting cousins in Berlin; attending gymnasium; the Anschluss; antisemitic restrictions and laws; a non-Jewish friend keeping his bicycle for him; his father's deportation to Dachau; emigration with his older brother to Palestine in 1938 (his friend returned his bicycle which he took with him); learning his f...

  10. Karla S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karla S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. She recalls rejection by a art teacher because she was Jewish; attending art school; working as a knitwear designer; emigration to Paris; marriage in 1937; weddings in both Paris and during a visit to Vienna (the last time she saw her family); her husband's detention as an enemy alien in September 1939; fleeing south with friends during the German invasion; staying in Branto?me; reunion with her husband in Angoule?me following his release; living and working in several towns including Branto?me, Pe?rigueux, Auriac, Ch...

  11. Arnold V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold V., who was born in Kalkar, Germany in 1911, one of five children. He recounts the family's move to Hamborn in 1913; attending school; working in a department store; anti-Jewish restrictions; his brother's emigration to Palestine, one sister's to the Netherlands (she did not survive), and one sister's to England in the early 1930s; marriage in 1938; Kristallnacht, which marked a turning point in understanding they must leave; losing his job; obtaining visas with assistance from relatives in the United States; emigration with his wife via Paris and Lisbon; enlis...

  12. Steffi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steffi W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; being impressed by Rabbi Joseph Carlebach when attending synagogue; attending public school; transfer to a Jewish school when Mein Kampf was read in class; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; her father and brother emigrating to Uruguay in October 1938; observing evidence of Kristallnacht the next day; emigrating with her mother to Montevideo in December 1939; socializing with the German immigrants; learning the fates of relatives after th...

  13. John S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's assimilated life and strong German identity; his father's service in World War I; experiencing bombardments during the First World War; playing field hockey in London, Paris, and Berlin; rejection from Germany's Olympic field hockey team in 1936 and law school due to antisemitism; emigrating to the United States in 1936 after bribing an official for a visa; sponsoring his sister's and brother's emigration; his parents' arrival; volunteering for military service in 1942; marriage in 1943; serv...

  14. Chaim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in ?omz?a, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a sp...

  15. Suzanne N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her comfortable, assimilated family; her father's law practice; the outbreak of war; an influx of Jewish refugees; a non-Jewish doctor helping her father avoid service in a forced labor battalion; deportations of Jewish, non-Hungarian citizens; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; her father obtaining false papers for them; hiding in a client's apartment; Allied bombings; moving to the basement; her father's murder on January 3, 1945 when he was searching for a safer place; moving with her ...

  16. Bronia and Nathan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia L. and her son Nathan L. who was born in Danzig in 1936. Mrs. L. speaks of the deterioration of the Jewish situation in 1936; the birth of her son in the same year; the miscarriage she suffered as a result of a beating by Nazis in 1939; and her subsequent hospitalization, during which she was sterilized without her knowledge or consent. She describes leaving Danzig in 1940 and the three-month-long journey by ship to Palestine, where she suffered an emotional breakdown and a typhus epidemic claimed the life of her sister. Mrs. L. also relates their arrival in Pa...

  17. William F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William F., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915 the only child of a Jewish mother and Catholic father. He recalls attending public school, gymnasium, and university; working as a librarian at Vienna University; the Anschluss in March 1938; his mother's chocolate business being closed due to anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for not wearing a swastika; incarceration in Dachau; his father's death (he never learned how he died); slave labor digging fortifications; becoming the body carrier for his barrack; keeping some hope despite his belief he would never be releas...

  18. Julius M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius M., who was born in Frauenkirchen, Hungary in 1910, and raised in Szombathely. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; he and his sister becoming Austrian citizens when Frauenkirchen became part of Austria in 1918 (this subsequently enabled them to leave Europe); studying engineering in Vienna in 1938; efforts to emigrate to the United States after the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; being arrested several times; his sister being sent to an uncle in England; his emigration to the United States in 1939; joining the United States Army in 1942; oversea...

  19. Jacob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Russia (presently Poland) in 1912, one of fourteen children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and a Polish school; a brother's emigration to France (he survived); working as a carpenter from age twelve; employment by a German who protected him after German invasion; escaping to Warsaw; a non-Jew conveying messages to and from his family; traveling to Czyz?ewo, then Bia?ystok in the Soviet-occupied zone; paying a non-Jew to bring his wife and daughter to him; moving to Cheli?a?binsk; continuing to work ...

  20. Joseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Poland in 1922. He recalls German invasion; the bombing of his home on his birthday, September 25, 1939; anti-Jewish regulations; his family's decision that he should escape to the Soviet zone; seeing his mother for the last time on October 19th; being hidden and guided to the Soviet border by a peasant woman; working in Borisov; learning of his father's and brother's escape to the Soviet zone; and losing contact with his mother and sister after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Mr. M. recounts fleeing by train to Smolensk, th...