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  1. Louis H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis H., who was born in Flehingen, Germany in 1918. He recalls his family's all-embracing Jewish life prior to Hitler; expulsion from school in 1933 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's death in 1936; emigrating to Antwerp in 1936, then to the United States in March 1937 to join his sister; bringing his brother and mother to the States; enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1942; serving in France, Holland, and Belgium; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; concerns about being mistaken for a German due to his accent; combat in Germany; entering Nordhausen; shock at t...

  2. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911. He recalls vague memories of World War I; his father's successful lumber business; his father's death in 1929; attending Cambridge University from 1930 to 1934; visiting Palestine in 1932; his mother's emigration to France in 1934; establishing a lumber business with his brother in 1936; marriage; his brother's emigration to London in 1938; awareness of the danger for Jews due to business trips to Germany; German invasion in September 1939; escaping to Lublin with his wife and her family; assistance from Polish officers...

  3. Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's bir...

  4. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Prague in 1907. Mrs. S. describes her early family life; her family's move to the Sudeten in 1909; and her family's reaction to her marrying a non-Jewish child survivor of the Armenian genocide. She recounts the plight of the Jews in the wake of Kristallnacht and her husband's help in assisting her and her parents to flee to Czechoslovakia. She recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; her designation, along with her oldest "Jewish" daughter, for transport to a labor camp (a younger daughter was not designated as Jewish); and her husband's conscript...

  5. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  6. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. He recalls his family's affluence; their immersion in cultural activities; increasing Nazi influence leading to his expulsion from Boy Scouts; joining a Zionist youth group which provided positive experiences; the Anschluss; he and his mother visiting every embassy, hoping to emigrate; his sister moving to England in fall 1938; being stripped of all rights by the Nuremberg laws; hiding in his maternal grandmother's villa during Kristallnacht; his arrest in a round-up; his father obtaining his release through the Nazi...

  7. Maurice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915. He recalls joining a Zionist organization in spite of his family's Hasidic roots; antisemitic harassment; attending a private Hebrew school; emigration with his family to Antwerp, Belgium in 1929; joining his father's business; fleeing toward France during the German invasion; returning; moving to Brussels in late 1941 or early 1942 after receiving German orders to report for work; obtaining false papers; placing his parents in hiding with an Italian woman; removing them after Germans came and the woman protected the...

  8. Joseph D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph D., who was born in Bangha?zi?, Libya in 1921. He recalls his father's death at age five; cordial relations with non-Jewish Italians; Zionist activities; increasing anti-Jewish legislation with the rise of fascism; expulsion from a secular school; attending a Jewish school; compulsory work on Saturdays; the arrival of Austrian Jewish refugees; outbreak of war; anti-Jewish violence by Arabs in April 1941; working as a secretary for the local Zionist organization; receiving protection from his non-Jewish employer; refusing to take false papers and live among non-...

  9. Rachel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel W., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1938. She recalls her father being taken away when she and her mother were out; her mother taking her to non-Jews to live, then, shortly afterwards, to a convent in Brussels; abusive treatment because she did not eat well and wet her bed; occasional visits from her mother; asking to leave and not being told why she had to stay; her mother taking her out in order to illegally enter Switzerland; being caught by Germans at the border; a stranger paying the Germans to release them; living in a Jewish pension in Switzerland; r...

  10. Blanca B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Blanca B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's affluence; moving to Katowice; attending public school; her fierce Polish patriotism; antisemitism starting in 1936; attending the Sorbonne in 1938; returning home for vacation in 1939; German invasion; moving with her family to Warsaw; escaping with her parents, brother, and his fiance?e to L?viv; Soviet occupation; deportation to central Russia; working in a forest; German invasion; traveling to Tashkent, then Samarqand; pervasive illness and hunger; two brief jailings in her father's place;...

  11. Ruth M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth M., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1931. She recounts her close, extended family; their orthodoxy; being hidden on Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Buchenwald the next day; expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; joining a children's transport to Amsterdam in 1939 (her sister went earlier); reunion with her sister; separation when placed with different families; joining eighty children on a transport to England in May 1940; living in an orphanage in Wigan, then with a non-Jewish family; and moving to Manchester to live with a Jewish f...

  12. Betty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. She recalls a comfortable life; frequently hearing antisemitic remarks; attending a Jewish school; marriage; German invasion; her husband's mobilization; anti-Jewish laws; receiving messages from her husband; escaping with her sister to join him in Soviet-occupied Baranavichy in February 1940; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); arrest with her husband in June; a six-week journey to Siberia; forced labor in a remote camp; freezing conditions and hunger; being freed when Germany attacked the Soviet Uni...

  13. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Albigowa, Poland and moved to Cologne, Germany in 1919, after her father's death. She recalls her grandfather's textile factory; attending a commercial high school; employment with agencies which helped Polish Jews emigrating west through Germany; working for Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland in 1936, providing assistance for German Jews; and the difficulties emigrating from Germany at that time. She recounts receiving notification of expulsion to Poland in October 1938; receiving permission to remain in Germany; Kristallnacht; being allo...

  14. Lori S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lori S., who was born in Linnich, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. S. speaks of her family's longstanding local prominence; the Nazi boycott of her father's department store; the family's move to Sittard, Holland, in 1934; German invasion in 1940; anti-Semitic measures; ignoring friends' advice to hide; and her family's internment in Westerbork in November 1942. She details camp regimen; her father's anguish at working for the camp Jewish police; naivete? about the destination of departing transports; transfer to Terezi?n in September 1944; separation from her parents and broth...

  15. Kurt and Trude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt S., who was born in 1904 in Oelde, Westphalia, and his wife Trude S., who was born in Wiesbaden. Mr. S. recalls that his family was the only Jewish one in the neighborhood; antisemitism during high school; passing his law exams in 1928-1929; the boycott of Jewish businesses; losing his job as a result of the Nuremberg laws; and taking a new job in Wiesbaden where he then met Mrs. S. Mrs. S. speaks of her childhood memories and religious observance; nationalist protest in 1930; and anti-Jewish actions in 1934. Mr S. describes his arrest during Kristallnacht and th...

  16. Rosel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosel B., who was born in 1916 in Warsaw, Poland. Mrs. B. describes her family's move to Berlin; visits to her grandparents in Poland; attending a Jewish school; their highly cultured lifestyle; warnings about Hitler from 1928 onward; attending secretarial school; forced sale of the family business; her engagement in 1936; marriage in Berlin; emigration to Amsterdam; and the birth of her daughter. She recounts German invasion; betrayal by their housekeeper; receiving a notice for deportation; fleeing with her husband and daughter, via Brussels and Bordeaux, to Nice; b...

  17. Hlavnoslúžnovský úrad v Šali II.

    • Főszolgabíroi hivatal Vágsellye

    The fonds contains files of the Chief Constable´s Office in Šaľa (Vágsellye). The majority of files pertaining to the Jewish community consists of files pertaining to businesses, licenses and license-owners lists. The fonds also contains files pertaining to the revision of licenses of Jews, limitations of Jewish entrepreneurs, or files concerning the internment of Jews and the police surveillance. Some files reflect Jewish refugees from Slovakia. Another files concern the Jewish ghetto established in the town of Šaľa as files pertaining to the movable property of Jews that remained in this ...

  18. Jüdisches Zentralarchiv des Burgenlandes (Jewish Central Archive of the Burgenland)

    Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations and officials, and other documentation.

  19. Polish Committee for Assistance to War Victims in Bern (Switzerland) Polski Komitet Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny w Bernie (Szwajcaria) (Sygn. 138)

    Files related to the assistance of Polish citizens in Switzerland, Romania and Italy, provided by the Swiss Legation in Bern, Swiss Legation in Bucharest, and the Swiss Legation in Florence, Milano,Trieste, Turin, Venice, and Rome. Includes correspondence, list of benefits payments, reports, notes, and other documents.

  20. Pratiche relative alla campagna razzista, Questura Pesaro e Urbino Practices relating to the racist campaign, Pesaro and Urbino Police Headquarters

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the precincts of Pesaro and Urbino. Include records relating to: race investigations, revocation of citizenship of people of Jewish race Anti-Jewish racial policy; land registry; Montenegrins and Dalmatians Jews to be interned, registration of Jews in the province of Pesaro-Urbino", dated 10/12/1938, prohibition of licensing of businesses and any economic activities of Jews; registration of national and foreign Jews to be arrested, 1943; and collection of any information related to movement of Jews...