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  1. Chaim L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim L., who was born in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his middle-class family in Wieluń, Poland; arrest in 1937 for fighting with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing to Łódź; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation in August 1941 (he never saw his family again); slave labor building roads in Loebau, Żabikowo, Kreising, and another camp; receiving letters and packages from home; transfer to Kreuzsee in spring 1941, then Eberswalde; working in a munitions factory with POWs; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau eighteen months later; r...

  2. Bernard E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard E., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father's World War I service; his family's prosperous business; attending public school; restrictions in the 1930s which eased in 1936 during the Olympics; his father's deportation to Zba?szyn?; Crystal Night; his bar mitzvah in December 1938 and his father's letter to him then; his father's return in July 1939; and the family's move to Sambor in August. Mr. E. relates the outbreak of war; Russian occupation; German invasion on June 22, 1941; and mass murders of Jews immediately following. He describ...

  3. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1926. She recalls ubiquitous antisemitism; Soviet occupation; destruction of their home during the German invasion; executions of prominent Jews; Polish collaboration; ghettoization in November 1941; her father's round-up for forced labor; non-Jewish acquaintances who gave him food to smuggle into the ghetto; her brother being severely beaten; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942 during which she was separated from her family (she never saw them again); and transport to Auschwitz. Mrs. K. rec...

  4. Daniel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel A., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1931, the youngest of five children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; his family being scheduled for deportation to Siberia; German invasion in June 1941; his sister Batya and her children living with them; his sister Dina working as a nurse in the Jewish hospital; ghettoization in September; Batya hiding gold in their basement; breaking valuables they could not bring with them so others could not have them; Dina obtaining a position for Batya at...

  5. Esther A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther A., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1928, one of seven children. She recounts attending school; Hungarian occupation; a brother fleeing to the Soviet Union and two sisters to Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school in 1942; round-up with her remaining family in spring 1944; deportation to the Ungvár (Uz︠h︡horod) ghetto, then six weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; her uncle being shot in the head en route; separation with her sisters from her parents and youngest sister; seeing her father fr...

  6. Kazimiera B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kazimiera B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1918, an only child. Ms. B. notes her assimilated household; involvement in communism from age fourteen leading to school expulsions and brief imprisonment in 1936; university studies in Warsaw starting in 1937; antisemitism; returning to Łódź with her mother on August 31, 1939; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with her parents; their return to Łódź; illegally entering Soviet-occupied territory with her parents; attending school in Lʹviv while her parents taught in Białystok; German invasion in June 1941; working...

  7. Lilly W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly W., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls a happy childhood as one of seven children; Hungarian occupation; prohibition of Jewish business licenses, including her father's; ghettoization; transfer to a brick factory for a few weeks; deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; selection with her two sisters (she never saw her parents again); seeing two brothers for one last time; a brief stay in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); helping her younger sister eat; their transfer to Torgau in the fall; slave labor in an ammuniti...

  8. Ernest H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1921. He describes his assimilated and wealthy family background; antisemitic incidents at school; his father's belief that Hitler's rise to power would not last long enough to impact them; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933; completing his education in Switzerland; visiting his parents for the last time during the summer of 1938; internment in a Swiss camp after the German invasion of France in 1940; being chosen by a Joint representative for emigration to the Dominican Republic; and traveling via Fran...

  9. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Ortelsburg, Germany (presently Szczynto, Poland) in 1922, the elder of two children. He recounts attending school; moving to Ko?nigsberg (presently Kaliningrad, Russia); antisemitic harassment; participating in Makabi ha-tsa?ir; his bar mitzvah in 1935; having to leave school; attending a Zionist agricultural school in Ahrensdorf; hospitalization in Berlin; apprenticing with a dentist; emigrating with his family to the United States via Hamburg in June 1938, with assistance from relatives there; marriage; and the births of four daughters. Mr...

  10. Dina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dina B., who was born in Tylicz, Poland in 1922. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; the small, impoverished Jewish community's cordial relations with non-Jews; one sister's emigration to the United States; German invasion in 1939; antisemitic violence; her parent's arranging for her illegal emigration, with her sister, to Slovakia in January 1941; living in Bratislava and Humenne?; deportations; declining to be hidden by a Christian stranger in order to remain with her sisters; deportation to Auschwitz; reunion with her sister; their transfer to Birkenau after a few ...

  11. Helen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen G., who was born in Belleville, France in 1924. She remembers moving to Metz; her brother's death, then her father's in 1935; another brother traveling to Romania (they never heard from him again); German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Bordeaux, with her mother and one sister (her older sister remained with her husband and child); moving to Pleine-Selve; the German order to wear the yellow star; the mayor suggesting they not wear it so he could conceal their Jewish identities; her mother's arrest in summer 1943; hiding in the mayor's basement (he also hid thei...

  12. Margit F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. She recounts living in Tolcsva; her family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; attending Jewish schools locally and in Budapest; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; his return; ghettoization in Sa?toraljau?jhely in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; her father being beaten when he left the line to bless her; remaining with an aunt and her aunt's sister-in-law; their transfer to Krako?w; slave labor in a quarry; assistance from her aunt; the shooting of every...

  13. Lucy L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, the second of three children. She recalls her family's leadership role in the Jewish community; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; participation in an Agudat Israel youth group; the Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; preparations to emigrate; Nazis forcing her mother to scrub the street; confiscation of their apartment; witnessing their synagogue and its contents being burned on Kristallnacht; her parents arranging for her and her sister to join a children's transport organized by Rabbi Solomon Schon...

  14. Hirsh A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hirsh A., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. He recalls his large, extended family; their affluence; attending Jewish schools; participating in a Zionist group; antisemitic harassment at university; German invasion in September 1939; ghettoization; his family remaining together due to their affluence; hiding in a bunkers during round-ups; being discovered; deportation to Majdanek; separation from his mother and sister; remaining with his father and brother; slave labor; encountering his sister and learning his mother had been killed; the deaths of his brother and...

  15. Martin F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin F., who was born in Ulano?w, Poland in 1921. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's emigration to the United States; brief Soviet occupation; deportation to Belzec in spring 1940; slave labor digging ditches; release home six months later; deportation to Budzyn?; slave labor in a Heinkel airplane factory; a public hanging; transfer to Rzeszo?w, P?aszo?w, then Flossenbu?rg with Heinkel co-workers; improved conditions after transfer to Colmar; transfer to Oranienburg, then Watenstedt with Heinkel co-workers; slave labor in a munitions factory; Allied bo...

  17. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1921. He describes his childhood in Breslau and the changes which he experienced, particularly in school after 1933. He also details his apprenticeship, at the age of fifteen, to a Nazi electrician; the experience of Kristallnacht, during which he was protected by his gentile cleaning lady; his emigration to England in 1938, where he, a German citizen, was confined as an enemy alien after the outbreak of the war; and the effect of these experiences on his personality.

  18. Aca S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aca S., who was born in Bačka Topola, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recounts his family's affluence; the Jews identifying as Hungarians; membership in Betar; Hungarian occupation in 1941; his father's immediate arrest and deportation; deportation with many Jews to Bečej; release after a few weeks; futile attempts to escape and join the partisans; German occupation in March 1944; incarceration in Bačka Topola concentration camp; his mother's arrival in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; transfer shortly thereafter to Oberwüstegiersdorf; slave labor in a textile facto...

  19. John E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John E., who was born in Fulda, Germany in 1920. He describes living in a children's home from age eight to twelve; summer vacations with his mother and grandparents in Fulda (his parents were separated); harassment of Jews in 1933; his mother's decision to leave Germany; life in Paris; attending school; assistance received from HIAS and the Joint; and internment in 1939 as an "enemy alien." Mr. E. tells of poor conditions and forced labor in many French camps; rejoining his mother and brother in Marseille in 1942; help from the Joint; internment in Gurs for about a y...

  20. William U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William U., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (later southeastern Poland) in 1913. He describes two older brothers emigrating, one prior to his birth; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; joining Zionist groups; attending school in L?viv and Warsaw; teaching; Polish military draft; German invasion; being wounded; hospitalization; German takeover of the military hospital; release after three months; traveling to the Soviet zone; arrest in Przemys?l; release when his identity was verified; returning home; teaching in L?viv; German invasion in Jun...