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  1. Suzanne H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne H., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her grandfather living with them; attending a Jewish school; her brother's birth in 1937; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; imprisonment with her mother, brother, and grandfather; separation from her grandfather (they never saw him again); release with assistance from her father's supervisor; transfer to Keilis; her father working in his former factory; clandestine schooling; transfer to the ghetto; hiding with her family during its liqui...

  2. Fritzi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fritzi S., who was born in Sadagura, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls the family's move to Cerna?uti in 1932; antisemitism; Soviet occupation; leaving school because she did not know Russian; expropriations of jewelry from the family store; fear of arrest and deportation to Siberia; marriage in May 1941; German invasion; her parents encouraging her to escape with her husband; their train journey to Kam?i?a?net?s?'-Podil's'kyi?; walking to Vinnyt?s?'ka and traveling by train to Rostov; working on farms; friendly Russian farmers; fleeing the German advan...

  3. Sam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam S., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1920, one of eleven children. He recalls his parents' butcher shop; attending cheder and Polish school; belonging to Betar; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939, followed by a two-week Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviets; traveling with a brother and sister to Maladzechna; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Ivi?a?nets; a mass killing; the round-up of his brother's wife and children (he never saw them again); forced labor; transfer to Dvorets; slave labor; finding weapons abandoned by the Soviets;...

  4. Samuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel G., who was born in Podhajce, Poland (presently Pidhai?t?s?i, Ukraine) in 1931. He recalls attending public school; one sister's emigration to the United States; attending high school in L?viv; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; draft into the Polish military in 1936 for eighteen months; training to emigrate to Palestine in Khodoriv; military call-up in August 1939; posting to Nowy Sa?cz; German attack; being wounded; capture; hospitalization as a Polish POW; transfer to Stalag XIII-Nu?rnberg, then Stalag VIIIA; receiving mail and packag...

  5. 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...

  6. Mark A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's move to Krako?w; learning of Kristallnacht from Jews expelled from Germany; membership in a Zionist organization; his mother's death in 1938; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his father; his escape from Lublin to Krako?w with assistance from local farmers; returning to Lublin to look for his father and brother; their deportation to the Be?z?yce ghetto in April 1941; working in a quarry; hiding with his father and brother during round-ups; the role of the Judenrat; mass kill...

  7. Esther W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. She recalls her comfortable childhood; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving with her family to Warsaw and Falenica in 1940; ghettoization in Warsaw; fleeing to Stopnica; joining her aunt in Staszo?w in 1942; her father's deportation; deportation with her aunt to Skarz?ysko (she never saw her mother and sister again); forced labor in a munitions factory; public hangings; her father visiting, sharing his bread, and arranging her transfer to his camp; his deport...

  8. Ralph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 1939 to German refugees. He recounts his father bringing his own and his wife's parents and other relatives from Germany; his father arranging for them to hide with a Christian friend; barely escaping when they were betrayed seven months later; the underground placing him and his sister with a family for a few months; his mother's visits; living above an ice cream store with their parents for a few weeks; hiding in several other places; living in a chicken coop near Arnhem for three years with twelve people, all fri...

  9. Isak and Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isak F., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1922. He recounts his father's death when he was a baby; his mother supporting four children; her remarriage when he was ten; studying and working in Be?dzin and ?o?dz? beginning in 1936; returning home in summer 1939; German invasion; capture by SS men (he never saw his family again); slave labor in Rzeszo?w for a year; transfer to P?aszo?w, Wieliczka, Klinker, Flossenbu?rg, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Colmar, Hamburg, and Bergen,Belsen; escaping with a Soviet POW; capture; imprisonment in Hamburg; transfer to Sandbostel ...

  10. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...

  11. Bertha G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha G., who was born in Bia?obrzegi, Poland. She recounts living in Radom; German invasion; her father's murder by Germans; her nine year old brother working in a hospital and convincing his boss to also employ her; deportation of her mother and sisters (she never saw them again); ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Bliz?yn; her husband's death; escaping to join her brother in the Radom ghetto; being returned to Bliz?yn; her brother joining her; transfer to Auschwitz; her brother throwing bread to her over the fence; receiving extra food from a non-Jewish Polish p...

  12. Joseph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1918, one of seven children. He recounts living in Beijko?w, then Bia?obrzegi; his father's work as a cobbler; attending barber school; sharing tips with his family; moving to Warsaw; ghettoization; marriage; escaping to the Bia?obrzegi ghetto (he never saw his wife again); working as a barber for the Germans; he and two brothers being chosen as skilled workers during a round-up (his remaining family perished); deportation to Skarz?ysko; convincing a German not to separate him from his brothers; slave labor in a munitions fa...

  13. Dorothy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy H., who was born in W?oszczowa (Poland) in 1925, and raised in Cze?stochowa. She recounts ghettoization; slave labor at HASAG-Pelzery with her father and brothers (her mother was killed); transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Leipzig; a German who provided extra food; liberation; returning to Cze?stochowa; reunion with her father and brothers; marriage; moving to Germany; her son's birth in Landsberg; and emigration to the United States. Ms. H. notes she did not share her story with her son because she did not want to bring back painful memories.

  14. Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham K., who was born in Goworowo, Poland in 1933. He recalls German invasion; fires and shooting; his father arranging for them (his sister, mother, aunt, uncle, two cousins and three grandparents) to flee to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; deportation to Siberia by the Soviets; his mother's death (his grandparents and one cousin also eventually died); placement in an orphanage with his sister; his uncle and father serving in the military; separation from his sister for two years; retrieval by his uncle after the war; being smuggled to Germany; and emigration to the Un...

  15. Erika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother attending medical school; the Anschluss; her brother's expulsion from school; former friends turning on them; her parents leaving for Czechoslovakia; remaining with her brother; smuggling themselves to join their parents in Trenc?iansky; marriage in 1939; a futile attempt to emigrate with her husband from Bratislava to Palestine in June 1940; her husband's complying with a deportation notice (she never saw him again); rejoining her family; entering Nova?ky; meeting her f...

  16. Margalith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margalith C., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1928. She recounts her parents' move to Scheveningen, Netherlands (her father was Dutch); German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; having to move to Utrecht with her mother; her father joining them; a policeman warning them of round-ups; her mother receiving a deportation notice in summer 1942; feigning appendicitis so her mother would not go; moving to Amsterdam; receiving another deportation notice in 1943; finding a hiding place for them with her aunt's landlady in the Hague; the landlady's daughter finding an...

  17. Ilsa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilsa C., who was born in Hamm, Germany in 1916 and raised in Geilenkirchen. She recounts a large, extended family, their strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews until Hitler came to power; attending Catholic school; studying in Aachen and Berlin; official hiding of overt antisemitism during the 1936 Olympics; meeting her future husband in Cologne; obtaining papers to emigrate to the United States; returning home for a few months; going to the railroad station with her family during Kristallnacht; traveling to Cologne; visiting her parents in Aachen (th...

  18. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Da?browa Go?rnicza, Poland. She recalls attending business school in Sosnowiec; German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in 1941 so her sister would not have to go; slave labor in Gru?nberg; assistance from the camp elder and a neighbor from home; a death march to Bergen-Belsen in winter 1944/45; an aborted escape attempt; a beating; not reporting deaths in order to obtain additional rations; contracting typhus; liberation (she was not conscious); returning to Poland seeking relatives (only two cousins survived out of her family of 200)...

  19. Otto S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. He recounts his parents' move to the United States in 1899; his brother's birth there in 1911; their return visit to Austria before World War I; his father's draft when war broke out; his return in 1918 with injuries which precluded their return to the U.S.; Viennese welcoming Hitler during the Auschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; his brother's incarceration in Buchenwald; release as a U.S. citizen provided he left immediately; his father's death in 1941; his mother's emigration to the U.S.; hiding with his girlfriend'...

  20. Lisa O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa O., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls street fights between brown shirts and communists; playing with Jewish children; improved conditions after Hitler came to power; participating in the opening ceremony for the 1936 Olympics; saying goodbye to their Jewish doctor in 1938 when he emigrated; synagogue and book burnings; her mother's work with Martin Niemo?ller; being told Dachau was for those who wanted to harm the Reich; observing a sign forbidding Jews when vacationing in Baden-Baden; training as a teletypist in Giessen; volunteeri...