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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Koszyce, Poland in 1923. He describes moving to Paris in 1923; collecting money for Spanish children in 1936; joining the Communist Party; learning about Nazism from German and Austrian refugees in 1937 and 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; evacuation to Pau in June 1940; joining the Resistance after returning to Paris on July 14, 1940; his father's death on September 2, 1940; and participating in student demonstrations in 1940 and 1941. Mr. R. recalls his arrest in August 1941; release from Drancy in November; hiding with the aid...

  2. Greta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta M., who was born in Bocholt, Germany in 1924. She describes her family's strong sense of German identification; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions after 1936; being forced to sell the family business; the trauma of witnessing the violent destruction of a Jewish-owned store during Kristallnacht; expulsion from school in 1938; support from some German friends; being sent to Frankfurt for six weeks in 1939; her brother's departure for England; and her leaving, with her younger sister, on a children's transport in July (they never s...

  3. Rachel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel F., who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1924. She describes attending public and religious schools; orthodox observances in her close, extended family; German-Jewish refugees arriving in the early 1930s; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1941; volunteering to go to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp in June 1942; slave labor at the munitions factory; public executions; learning the ghetto was liquidated in October; a brief visit with her brother in 1943 (she never saw him again); transfer to Cze?stochowa in summer ...

  4. Shmuel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1926, the sixth of seven children. He describes his large, extended family, half of which were assimilated, half orthodox; his family's focus on music and humor; wonderful Sabbath dinners; his father's death in 1934; resulting pressures on his immediate family, particularly financial; his mother taking in boarders and Jewish refugees; assistance from some uncles; participating in Mizrachi; his bar mitzvah in 1939; one brother's emigration to Palestine; believing they were safe despite the war; German invasion in May...

  5. Kathi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kathi K., who was born in Tu?bingen, Germany in 1932 to a Jewish mother and a Christian father. She recounts living in Hockenheim; her maternal grandparents' wealth; moving to Cologne; visiting her grandparents; her mother being hit while protecting her grandfather from the SS; her grandparents' deaths; emigration to Aerdenhout, Netherlands; German invasion; her mother's failing health; frequent fear; forced relocation to Amsterdam because her mother was Jewish; hiding during round-ups; receiving her first communion; her father using his German passport to prevent aut...

  6. Helga K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1922. She recalls her family's comfortable, middle-class life in Godesberg; attending church; Nazi ascent to power; learning her father was half-Jewish and her mother Jewish; her family's baptism in 1933; antisemitic measures; expulsion from school; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; her father's arrest and release during Kristallnacht; her brother's emigration to the United States; her emigration to England in July 1939 to work as a domestic; the outbreak of war; internment as an enemy alien; learning of her father'...

  7. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1923. She recalls family life prior to Nazism; her father's death while preparing to emigrate; anti-Semitic incidents; expulsion from school; being sent to Holland in 1936; her mother joining her in Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; learning to be a furrier; escaping deportation in 1942 with assistance from Dutch women; working in a fur factory; four days in a collection center (a former theater); deportation to Vught; forced labor in a workshop making fur coats from used garments; learning about ...

  8. Sonia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Sonia G., who was born in ?ocho?w, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to ?ocho?w; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds ...

  9. Auguste V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Auguste V., a Roman-Catholic, born in Mouscron, Belgium in 1920, one of eleven children. He recalls receiving his diploma as an auto mechanic in 1938; sheltering German Jewish refugees; twice daily prayers at home; working in Liège; German invasion; returning home; briefly fleeing to Bailleul, France; participating in the Resistance; his family hiding Jews; learning his arrest was imminent; fleeing to La Rochefoucauld in March 1943; arrest; incarceration in Angoulême and Poitiers; deportation from Compiègne to Buchenwald in June; remaining with one friend; slave la...

  10. Oscar E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar E., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia in 1930. In unusual detail, he describes his maternal grandfather's and other relatives' emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; moving to Bardejov in 1938; deportations in 1942; being smuggled with his sister to Budapest; their mother briefly joining them; her deportation (he never saw either of his parents again); living with families in Sze?kesfehe?rva?r, Gyo?r, in a village with his aunt, then in Pribeta; being rounded-up in Nove? Za?mky in May 1944; deportation with his sis...

  11. Arnold K. Hocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold K., who was born in Suwa?ki, Poland in 1928, the second of four brothers. He recalls his family's affluence; vacationing with his mother and brothers in summer 1939 (he never saw his father again); German invasion; living in Soko??ka with his mother, brothers, and other relatives; moving to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; his relatives' deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with his older brother; smuggling food to his mother and younger brothers; hiding during round-ups; being found; separation from his mother and younger brothers; d...

  12. 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...

  13. Daniel I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932, an only child. He tells of his father's career as a writer and newspaper editor; his mother's as a teacher; an uncle, four aunts, and his grandmother emigrating to Palestine prior to his birth; German invasion in September 1939; destruction of their home by German bombs; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Białystok; moving to Moscow in summer 1940; attending school; visiting his aunt in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg); moving when his father found employment in Kaunas; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion; ghett...

  14. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. She recalls the Anschluss; her father's belief his World War I service protected them; his four-day arrest on Kristallnacht; futile efforts to emigrate; being sent with her brother on a children's transport to France; placement in a children's home in Paris sponsored by Baroness Rothschild; hearing from her parents until war in 1939; transfer to La Bourboule; difficulty parting from her brother; his arrival in Janaury 1943; his transfer six months later; transfer to an OSE home near Limoges; attending school; round-up...

  15. Elsa and Kurt S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsa and Kurt S. Kurt S. was born in Munich, Germany in 1917. He recalls being first in his class, but not matriculating due to anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of the family business; his father's death in 1936; his deportation to Dachau on Kristallnacht; release contingent upon his emigration; Hechalutz arranging his emigration to the Netherlands; working on a farm; and marriage in 1941. Elsa S. was born in Heidelberg in 1921. She recounts her family's move to Ludwigshafen in 1925; expulsion from school; preparing to emigrate to Israel with Hechalutz; meeting her futu...

  16. Anne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne S., who was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1922. She recalls a happy childhood until her mother's death in 1930; her father's remarriage; joy when her half-sister was born in 1932; excitement when Hitler visited Stuttgart; disappointment with her friends when she was banned from joining the Hitler youth; hiring an older maid due to the Nuremberg laws; her false accusations against her father; a non-Jewish neighbor testifying in his behalf, which saved his life; his sense of security due to his service in World War I and strong German identity; his death in 1937; e...

  17. Claire F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recalls attending German school; antisemitic measures in 1939, including expulsion from school; joining Hashomer Hatzair; expulsion from their home, then Bratislava; relocation to S?as?ti?n; round-up with her parents, sister, and grandmother in June 1942; transport to Z?ilina; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to Birkenau; assignment to the administration which resulted in privileged treatment; her work completing death certificates; learning abou...

  18. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. Mr. M. recalls his family background and education; not being permitted to finish school because he was Jewish; pro-Hitler demonstrations; activities in an anti-fascist organization with his brother and friends; Austrian support for the Anschluss; anti-Jewish violence; and the forced dissolution of his father's business. He describes having to move; sadness at leaving his childhood home; working for the Jewish community, which gave him some protection; warning friends or family of impending deportations, thus saving th...

  19. Suzan D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzan D., who was born in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1937 and raised in Banská Bystrica. She recalls baking with her mother for Shabbat; her brother's birth; her father's departure when she was five; her mother's sister coming to bring them back to the family in Berehove; her mother sending her, but remaining with the baby, hoping her husband would return; living with her maternal grandparents and aunt; being smuggled to Hungary with her aunt; her aunt placing her in a Budapest orphanage; her aunt's non-Jewish friend bringing her extra food at n...

  20. Herman W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herman W., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1919. He recalls attending Jewish and Catholic schools; expulsion from school in 1935 due to anti-Jewish laws; participation in Jewish athletic organizations; his employer's arrest on Kristallnacht; illegally entering Holland with a friend in December; traveling to Amsterdam with assistance from a Jewish organization; imprisonment through August; kindness from Dutch locals; transfer to Hellevoetsluis, Hoek van Holland, then Westerbork in February 1940; German invasion; evacuation to Leeuwarden; return to Westerbork; trans...