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  1. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in approximately 1919. He recalls German invasion; being sent away for forced labor; returning to find no Jews; traveling to Warsaw; finding his parents and siblings; escaping with his brother to P?on?sk; being joined by his mother, another brother, and sister; their deportation; staying in Strzegowo-Osada, then M?awa; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in December 1942; their assignment sorting clothing of murdered Jews; living with the Sonderkommando, including Leyb Langfus and Zalman Gradowski, whose diaries were found an...

  2. Rene?e G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e G., who was born in ?osice, Poland, in 1932. She describes the German occupation of ?osice, its ghettoization, and the liquidation of the ghetto; her arrest along with her older brother; and their transfer to the "small ghetto", where she worked as a forced laborer. She also describes her escape from the ghetto with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend of her father; and life in hiding, first in the home of the Polish policeman who had arrested her and her brother, and later in the barn of a Polish farm family. Here, she and her family hid in a pit under a man...

  3. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in ?osice, Poland in 1896. He recalls entry into the family business; World War I; successful business affairs; marriage in 1927; the births of three children; acquiring and hiding gold; the German invasion; brief Soviet occupation and return of the Germans; continuing his business until 1941; ghettoization; hiding with family members in the attic during deportations; the capture of his older son and daughter; sending his brother-in-law's family to hide with a farmer in Konstantinow; bribing a Polish policeman to take his wife and younger son th...

  4. Halina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She describes her loving family; the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to S?omniki in 1940; returning to Krako?w; living with her family in a village to avoid ghettoization; returning with her family to S?omniki; entering a labor camp to join her older brother and sister as advised by her parents (she never saw them again); deportation to the Krako?w ghetto; her brother advising her to volunteer to move to P?aszo?w; transfer to Schindler's factory; Schindler arranging an easier job for her; visiting her brothe...

  5. Irene M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene M., who was born in Jano?w, Poland (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her family's move to Zimna Voda; attending a Jewish school in L?viv; joining Deror; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; hiding with one brother during deportations in August 1942 (she never saw her parents again); acquiring false birth certificates for them both; their flight to Krako?w, then Krosno, posing as non-Jews; refusing to follow relatives' advice to enter a labor camp; finding employment in a German...

  6. E. F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of E. F., who was born in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. She recalls her family observing Jewish holidays; frequent family outings; schoolmates who joined the Hlinka guard shunning her and other Jews beginning in 1938; empathy from teachers and evangelical students; expulsion from school in 1940; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; exclusion from deportation in 1942 due to her broken arm (most of her friends were deported); hiding in a friend's attic during subsequent deportations; evangelical youth movements providing...

  7. Agnes B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes B., a Romani, one of nine children. She recalls her brother's deportation from Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in 1938; being sent with her husband and many family members to Hohenbruch; forced labor; a severe beating after attempting to escape; relatives and friends being beaten to death; liberation by Soviet troops; her child's birth; learning her husband had been sterilized after her child was conceived; and moving to Berlin, Schwerin, Celle, and then Munich. Mrs. B. notes she could not endure those conditions again (she would kill herself rather than try to surviv...

  8. Fred O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred O., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1909. He describes his family life; growing up in an anti-Semitic environment; medical school in Montpellier, France and the pleasure of being away from the atmosphere in Poland; being compelled to repeat his medical education in Warsaw; and the stress involved with the return to Poland. He recalls the German invasion; working as a doctor in the Warsaw ghetto; the pervasive lice and resulting typhus epidemic; extreme hunger; returning to Hrubieszo?w; treating a Gestapo agent, then watching him shoot children and old peop...

  9. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recalls encountering "genteel" antisemitism before 1933; moving to Amsterdam immediately after Hitler's election; getting his parents and younger brother to Holland (his mother died prior to German invasion, his father in a concentration camp, and his brother emigrated to the United States); joining the Dutch military; escaping with a friend in 1941; traveling to Geneva via Lyon and Lons-le-Saunier; imprisonment; release after intervention by the Dutch consul; traveling to England using false papers via Marseille, B...

  10. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939...

  11. Lucien A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucien A., who was born in Paris, France in 1930. He recalls his family leaving Paris with relatives in early 1940; living in Pau for a year; his grandfather's death; moving to Italian-occupied Nice when Germans came to Pau; his bar mitzvah in their home; hiding after German occupation in 1943; being sent with his cousins to Cha?tillon-sur-Indre; living under false papers with a non-Jewish woman (she knew he was Jewish); attending school; the principal and a teacher denying there were Jewish children (there were others) when confronted by the Germans; visiting his cou...

  12. Mira K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916, one of eight children. She recalls being the only unmarried child; German invasion; her fiance? fleeing (she never saw him again); ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish, former customers; losing relatives during round-ups, including children; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from all the family except one niece; being shot; transfer to Oederan ten weeks later; forced labor in a munitions factory; hospitalization; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; difficultly recovering; tr...

  13. Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working...

  14. Rose T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose T., who was born in Poland and raised in an orthodox family. She recalls attending high school in Lublin; returning home for the summer in 1939; German invasion; deportation with her family to a farm; her younger sister's escape (she never saw her again); her father's and her younger siblings' escape with assistance from the camp Kommandant (she learned later they were denounced and killed); escaping from Che?m to Lublin; acquiring false papers with assistance from a Polish family; deportation as a non-Jewish slave laborer to Germany; her denouncement and impriso...

  15. Frederick T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick T., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. Mr. T. recalls his family moving to Benes?ov, then Prague; their assimilated lifestyle; his mother's death in 1932; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from gymnasium in 1939; his father obtaining false papers for him; working as a non-Jew on a farm for a year (the owners knew he was Jewish); returning to Prague when he was exposed; forced labor in another location beginning in October 1941; transfer to Theresienstadt in March 1943; reunion with his father; learning a great deal from him during their vi...

  16. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Holešov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910. He recalls a pogrom in 1918; his family fleeing to Vienna; his father's death in 1928; attending medical school; two years of Czech military service beginning in 1936; assignments in Prague and Brno; demobilization after the Munich agreement; marriage; living in Brno; German occupation; his brother's deportation; deportation with his mother. sister, and wife to Theresienstadt in April 1942; his privileged position as a doctor; his sister's voluntary deportation (he never saw her again); his son's b...

  17. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in London, England in 1910, the youngest of six children. He recounts moving to Rotterdam in 1911; his mother's death in 1912; his father's marriage to an American non-Jew; working from age twelve; moving to London in 1930; working as a hairdresser; joining his future father-in-law in business; marriage in 1935; moving in with his wife's grandmother in Holland; German invasion in May 1940; his son's birth; trying to obtain exit documents; their deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; efforts to be released as British citizens; his father's arr...

  18. Meir G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1929, an only child. He recounts attending a secular Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's arrest by Lithuanians (they released him because he was a Lithuanian army veteran); ghettoization; attending a vocational school; deportation to Stutthof, then Landsberg in July 1944; separation from his father; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor; a friend arranging to have his number removed from a selection list; a death march and train transfer to Mauthausen; observing cannibalism; a death march ...

  19. Darlene A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Darlene A., who was born in Dyatlovo, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus) in 1931. She recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; a round-up of 120 prominent Jewish men (they never returned); ghettoization; hiding with her mother, stepfather, and relatives during round-ups; escaping with her mother in August 1942; hiding in a forest; assistance from non-Jews; entering another ghetto; escaping two months later; living with partisans in the forests; joining her stepfather on an estate in a partisan-controlled area in late 1942; hiding in a bunker du...

  20. Sulia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sulia R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland in 1924. She describes her affluent family; their move to Vilna when she was four years old; returning to Nowogro?dek; her father's Zionist beliefs; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization and public executions; forced labor cleaning rubble and digging ditches; obtaining an easier job with assistance from a German official; escaping mass killings with her family in 1942; housing "visitors from the forest" to make contact with the partisans; beatings and interrogations after an escape attempt; esca...