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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Sola B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sola B., who was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1911 and moved with her family to Berlin, Germany, in 1920. Mrs. B. describes her childhood and family life; her many non-Jewish friends; increasing anti-Semitic behavior and legislation; the deportation of her father, a Polish Jew, in 1938; rescuing her father-in-law from Sachsenhausen; being smuggled, along with her husband, into Antwerp; her life in the United States; and her attempts to educate her children as to the meaning of her experiences. Mrs. B. also discusses her feelings regarding the possibility of a recurr...

  2. Rabbi Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Rabbi Alexander A., who was born in Hungary in 1906. Rabbi A. recounts moving to Salzburg, Austria, then Trier, Germany where his father served as rabbi. He relates studying at Yeshivas in Cologne, Bratislava and Berlin; receiving his Ph.D. and rabbinical ordination in Berlin; serving as a rabbi at orthodox synagogues in Berlin; his marriage in 1932; and the difficulties he and his congregants experienced as Hitler rose to power. Rabbi A. describes Jewish community life; the attempts of almost all Jews to leave Germany; the cultural responses of the Jewish community which...

  3. Samson M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samson M., who was born in Poland in 1913 to a Hasidic family of seven children. He recalls their poverty; joyous holiday celebrations; antisemitic harassment at school; apprenticeship as a shoemaker in Seitesz; moving to Krako?w; German invasion; escaping east with his brother; Germans overtaking them; staying in Izbica; Soviet troops arriving; their withdrawal; leaving with them; living in L?viv; finding two of his brothers there; volunteering to work in a Soviet coalmine; harsh conditions; escaping with a friend; traveling to Kiev, then L?viv; volunteering for labo...

  4. Kathe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathe K., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1915. She describes her father's death when she was two-and-a-half; realizing she was different, having been diagnosed with cerebral palsy; and her sheltered childhood. Mrs. K. recalls sudden change in 1933 when she was denied entrance to college because she was a Jew; learning to type with one hand; and going to Prague to study English. She related hiding with Christian friends on Crystal Night; her brother's departure for England on a children's transport; her family's attempt to emigrate to Shanghai, resulting in her jo...

  5. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L., who was born in Vienna in 1925. She recalls with fondness her childhood in Vienna; the change in the situation of the Jews beginning in the spring of 1938; being sent to Holland in November, 1938, by her parents, who later perished; her placement in two different foster families; the arrival of her brother in Holland at the end of 1938; and going into hiding in 1942 with the help of a cousin and his non-Jewish girlfriend. She describes living as a Dutch non-Jew by means of false papers; aid from non-Jews, including the Dutch police; and the day to day difficu...

  6. Anne G. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Anne G., who was born in a small town in Germany in 1910, moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and then to Mannheim in 1932. She recalls anti-Semitic incidents; attending a speech by Hitler in Mannheim; her father leaving for France; and her fiance's attempt to leave Germany. She describes Crystal Night, detailing atrocities she witnessed; her conflict due to her love for Germany; being incarcerated in Mannheim prison; and obtaining papers enabling her to emigrate to England. Mrs. G. describes the painful departure from her mother and grandmother; her reunion with her fiance i...

  7. Clara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. She recalls attending Jewish school; her close family; sudden changes after the Anschluss; Crystal Night; and her father's and uncles' arrest and transport to Dachau. She describes his return in a month; an unsuccessful attempt to go to Belgium; and the winter in Vienna. Mrs. M. tells of going to Antwerp; the German invasion shortly thereafter; her father's internment in St. Cyprien, France; a short stay in Paris; settling in Marseille; visiting her father in Les Milles, a nearby camp; and their arrest and internment ...

  8. Daisy M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daisy M., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1938. She recounts illegally crossing the Italian border in 1941 with her parents, an aunt, and two cousins; living in Montecatini for almost a year; leaving illegally in September 1943 after hearing of deportations; partisans hiding them in a village outside Florence for two months; being hidden elsewhere after Germans neared; farmers bringing them food; warnings of German patrols during which they hid in a pit and mountain caves; liberation by South African troops; returning to the village outside Florence; her father'...

  9. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in 1934 in Paris, France, the only child of Polish immigrants. He recalls boarding outside Paris since his parents both worked; their weekend visits; his father enlisting in the French military in 1939, partially to obtain French citizenship; his father's decommission after French surrender; he and his mother joining him in Montrabé; attending school; his father's military friends warning them in summer 1942 that Jews would be rounded-up; crossing to Spain; assistance from the Joint in Barcelona; HIAS sponsoring his emigration to the United St...

  10. Ingeborg W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ingeborg W., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1923. She recalls increasing antisemitism; expulsion with her parents and younger sister to Zba?szyn? in October 1938 because her father was a Polish citizen; assistance from Polish Jews; living with an aunt in Kalisz; forced transfer to Krako?w, then Szczerco?w; smuggling themselves to Warta; imprisonment in Szczerco?w; ghettoization in Warta; a public hanging of Jewish community leaders; separation from her mother and sister at a selection (she never saw them again); transfer with her father to the ?o?dz? ghetto; for...

  11. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in approximately 1917. He recounts the German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother to L?viv in the Soviet zone; working in coal mines in the Donets region; escaping to Kiev; involuntary transport to Siberia in 1940 for forced labor; escaping to Ternopil?, then L?viv; German invasion in 1941; forced labor; acquiring false papers from a Pole; traveling with his brother and cousin to Wolbrom in late 1941; briefly hiding in a bunker; incarceration with his brother in Stalowa Wola in 1942 for almost two years; capture during an escape attempt; t...

  12. Louis C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis C., who was born in Berlin in 1925. He recounts his father's service in World War I; living in Nice while his father was a German government attorney; returning to Berlin in 1931; loss of family servants due to the Nuremberg laws; sham improvements during the 1936 Olympics; his bar mitzvah in 1938; Kristallnacht; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his father; expulsion from school; attending an ad hoc Jewish school; his parents putting him, his sister, and cousin on a train; arrival in Oldenzaal; living in a refugee camp, an orphanage, then another camp; joining his pa...

  13. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in approximately 1913. He recounts his father's death in 1925; working with his mother; pervasive antisemitism; deportation to Dachau; forced labor; observing Jewish holidays; transfer to Buchenwald six months later; release due to his future wife obtaining a ticket for Shanghai; selling his ticket because he would not leave his future wife; marriage; emigration to Milan; leaving for Palestine from Sicily; arrival in Bangha?zi?; incarceration under Italian occupation; being returned to Italy; imprisonment in Naples; transfer...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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 ...

  17. 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 ...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...