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  1. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...

  2. Leo E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1912. He recalls antisemitic boycotts of his father's store; one brother's emigration to Belgium; German invasion; forced labor for a day; fleeing with his sister and brother-in-law to the Soviet border; assistance from German soldiers; traveling to Bia?ystok; living in Kovel? from December 1939 through May 1940; deportation by the Soviets to Novosibirsk; forced labor in Osinovo; his marriage in Tomsk; living with his family in Bii?sk; traveling to Stettin via Warsaw; living in Schlachtensee, then Tempelhof; his son's birth in...

  3. Thomas B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1927. He recalls deteriorationg conditions after German invasion; Jewish refugees in 1941 who spoke of gassings at Che?mno and the inability to believe this; Izbica's use as a collection point for Jews starting in 1942; the first round-up and transport, ostensibly to L'vov; learning it had gone to Belzec, where there was a big fire and terrible smell; round-ups thereafter; obtaining Polish papers; and attempting to escape to Hungary in January 1943. Mr. B. relates capture and imprisonment; returning to Izbica; transport to ...

  4. Joseph and Max H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H. and his father, Max H., who was born in Hinterweidenthal, Germany in 1901 and moved to Fulda in 1902. Max H. recounts his father's death in 1918; his assimilated family; deteriorating conditions after 1933; losing his business in 1938; fleeing with his family to Frankfurt after Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; returning to Fulda via Munich; his children leaving on a Kindertransport for England; deportation with his wife in 1941; separation from her when he was sent to Salaspils; mass killings; joining his wife in the Ri?ga ghetto; separation from her ...

  5. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in a small village in Hungary (later Slovakia) in 1894 and moved to Vienna with his family at age fifteen. He recalls serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I; returning to Vienna on October 26, 1918; marriage in 1930; divorce and remarriage in 1932; his daughter's birth in 1937; the rise of antisemitism; German annexation of Austria in March 1938; his arrest and deportation to Dachau in April; transfer to Buchenwald in October; forced labor, humiliation, and beatings; Kristallnacht; receiving food and cigarettes from a non-Jewish...

  6. Bart S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bart S., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia and was twelve at the time of the Hungarian occupation in November 1938. He recalls Jewish refugees who fled from Sudetenland; being terrified that a Jewish community could disintegrate so rapidly; anti-Jewish laws; German occupation in 1944; suicides in the cattle car during deportation to Birkenau; transfer with his two older brothers to Auschwitz; slave labor in a coal mine in Jaworzno; his sense of complete hopelessness; transfer to a death block in Birkenau; hiding during evacuation in January 1945 (his brothers p...

  7. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  8. Gertrude G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. She recalls hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; expulsion from school; her father's arrest prior to Kristallnacht; public humiliation of her mother and grandmother on Kristallnacht; learning her father was in Dachau; his release, based upon a promise to leave Austria; their emigration to Italy; living in Milan with assistance from the Joint; attending a Jewish school; her father's internment as a political refugee; joining him, with her mother, in Cas...

  9. Harry U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry U., who was born in approximately 1909, to an Orthodox family of nine children. He recalls living in Zakopane; draft into the Polish military in 1928; recall in August 1939; German invasion; retreating to Przasnysz; returning home briefly; fleeing to Soviet-occupied L?viv via Cieszano?w, then to Pidhai?t?s?i; Soviet deportation by train to Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), then a forced labor camp; release due to his Polish citizenship; learning of a Polish exile army organizing in Kazakhstan; traveling with other Poles to Alma-Ata, Samarqand, Tashkent and Bukhoro to e...

  10. Leo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo R., who was born in Ro?z?an, Russia (currently Poland) in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls attending cheder and public school; participating in Po'alei Zion; anti-Jewish violence; working in Mys?lenice; German invasion; joining his family in Ostro?w Mazowiecki; fleeing with his father and brothers to Soviet-occupied Zambro?w; moving with his parents and several siblings to Slonim; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing; traveling with a brother, two sisters, and their families to Zambro?w via Bia?ystok; staying with a brother in Tarno?w to avo...

  11. Ervin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in approximately 1915. He recounts attending public school, then yeshiva in Czechoslovakia; working in his father's business; anti-Jewish legislation; marriage in 1941; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Kiev and Belopol?ye; encountering a school friend who was an officer (he beat other Jews, but communicated to Ervin H.'s parents for him); frequent beatings and killings; being left for dead when he was ill; a doctor (a friend from home) assisting him; Italian soldiers providing e...

  12. Roni B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roni B., who was born in 1930 in Berlin, Germany. She recounts antisemitic harassment and restrictions, including her father not being able to treat non-Jews (he was a dentist); some non-Jews sneaking in for treatment; a non-Jewish butcher providing them with meat; changing schools frequently; Kristallnacht; relatives emigrating to several destinations; the war's outbreak; bribing an official to obtain visas; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, San Sebastia?n, and Barcelona; emigrating by ship to the United States in August 1941; and receiving letters from relatives via the...

  13. Eric S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; his father's large, extended family; his death in 1929; living with his maternal grandparents in Crailsheim in 1932; his bar mitzvah in 1934; his grandmother's death; beatings by an antisemitic teacher; the Nuremberg laws negative impact on the family business; their move to Stuttgart in 1936, thinking it would be better in a large city; being sent to boarding school in England in November 1936; several family visits through summer 1938; an American industria...

  14. Mark M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in approximately 1922, one of ten children. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending school; working in his brother's commercial art studio; attending Betar meetings; participating in Maccabi; family vacations in Otwock; German invasion; his mother and brother being killed by German bombs; using identification papers of a non-Jewish friend who was killed; fleeing east; arrest on the Soviet border; brief imprisonment in Novosibirisk; deportation to a labor camp in Siberia; a brief reunion with his sister; transfer to Sumy; j...

  15. Ruth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth L., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1931, the older of two sisters. She recounts moving to C?esky? Te?s?i?n; her family's affluence; German occupation; her father attending the World's Fair in the United States in April 1939 (he did not return due to the outbreak of war); evacuation to Krako?w, then Bochnia in August 1939 in anticipation of German invasion; German bombings during which her aunt and cousin were killed; traveling to the Soviet zone; deportation to Siberia; forced labor with her mother; harsh conditions including starvation ...

  16. Mimi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mimi O., who was born in approximately 1926. Ms. O. recalls growing up in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia; her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth organization; destruction of Jewish stores during Kristallnacht; traveling with her parents to Prague the next day; living in Koli?n; German invasion; a non-Jew deceiving Germans who wanted to arrest Ms. O.'s father; traveling on a children's transport to England; living on a Zionist organization farm; receiving letters from her family through the Red Cross; the group moving to a castle in Wales; learni...

  17. Adam M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1927. He describes his family fleeing to Belgium; their peaceful life; German invasion; fleeing to Montpellier; his father's arrest and release due to a French medal received in World War I Polish Army service; life in Le Bousquet-d'Orb from 1940 to 1943; participation in a children's transport, organized by Quakers, to the United States in 1942; its cancellation when the U.S. entered the war; and German occupation. Mr. M. recalls his parents' and brother's internment; their release due to his father's World War I service; h...

  18. Ib J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ib J., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1924. Mr. J. speaks of his education and family life; the German occupation; becoming involved with the underground; sabotaging Nazi cars and trucks; and his feelings when a comrade was killed in an underground action. He describes the gradual reaction of the Danish population to the occupation and provides a general overview of the growth and activities of the Danish underground movement. Mr. J. also expresses his disappointment with the way in which certain people behaved immediately following the war; his embarrassment ...

  19. Rabbi Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Henry B., who was born in Fu?rth, Germany, in 1907. He speaks of family life before the war; antisemitism in Furth; his experience on Kristallnacht in Frankfurt am Main; and his 1940 departure for Cuba, from where he later emigrated to the United States. He stresses that antisemitism existed in Germany before Hitler, recalling the increasing repression and the persecution of German Jews before the outbreak of war. He also describes his return to Germany in 1950 to visit his father's grave; his brief stint as the head rabbi in Lima, Peru; and his anger at the Uni...

  20. Jean H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean H., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1920. She describes family and community life during the 1930s, noting the integration of Jews and non-Jews before 1933; the strong German identity of her father and the rest of her relatives; the beginning of anti-Jewish legislation, which prompted the Jewish community to establish its own schools; her involvement in a Jewish youth group until 1936; increasingly violent displays of antisemitism; and the general deterioration of the Jewish situation. She relates hearing stories of concentration camps in Germany and recalls t...