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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Lola P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, one of seven children. She describes her family's orthodoxy and scholarship; taking in German-Jewish refugees; her parents' disbelief that anything would happen to them; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; her older sister escaping to Russia; ghettoization; forced labor, crowding, and starvation; her father's death in 1942; her brother's and sister's disappearance when the Jewish hospital was liquidated; hiding with her mother and younger sister during round-ups; Germans finding them; deportation to Auschwitz in Augu...

  2. Walter R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter R., a non-Jew, who was born in Hamburg, Germany to Belgian parents in 1924. He recounts their move to Antwerp when he was three; his father's death; his mother's remarriage; housing German refugees; German invasion; mobilization; biking to Bordeaux with other conscripts; returning home; leaving for England with his friend Paul; traveling to Perpignan via Nantes, Bordeaux, and Narbonne; arrest by Germans while attempting to illegally cross the Spanish border; incarceration in Perpignan; transfer to Compiègne; slave labor in Paris uncovering unexploded bombs; tr...

  3. Cadik D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cadik D., descendant of a rabbinical family, who graduated from rabbinical school in Sarajevo in 1937. He recalls working in Kosovska, then Pristina; involvement with progressive student groups; his denunciation by the fascist newspaper "Balkan"; moving to Split; participation in Hoshomer Hatzair; being drafted in 1940; serving in Skopje; German invasion in April 1941; escaping incarceration as a prisoner of war; returning to Sarajevo; anti-Jewish regulations; traveling to Italian-occupied Split; resistance activities; hiding a partisan wounded by Ustas?a; his sister ...

  4. Victor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1919. He recalls two years attending medical school; German invasion; escaping with his father and brother to L?viv in the Soviet zone; his brother's assignment as a physician in a border town; traveling with him; returning to Krako?w; obtaining papers of a dead Pole from Polish friends; establishing a network to obtain papers of Poles ordered to report for forced labor in Germany and replacing them with Jews; retrieving his brother from Ukraine after German invasion of the U.S.S.R.; sending him to Germany to work as a Pol...

  5. Selma N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926, an only child. She recalls her family's emphasis on education and music; anti-Jewish restrictions after the Anschluss; her father's belief he would be safe due to his service in the First World War; having to attend a Jewish school; being warned of Kristallnacht by their non-Jewish building superintendent; her parent's decision to send her on a kindertransport; leaving for Sweden assuming she would see her parents soon; living with a family in Linko?ping, then in an orphanage in Go?teborg; warm relations with the othe...

  6. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Gvozdets, Poland (presently Hvizdet?s??, Ukraine) in 1916, one of nine children. He recounts attending school; Polish military draft; antisemitism in the military; German invasion; capture and incarceration as a POW; release; returning home, which was under Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; transfer to Kolomyi?a? ghetto; forced labor for the Wehrmacht; escaping (his family was killed); living in the Tolstoye ghetto; meeting his future wife; acquiring weapons; escaping from another forced labor camp; hiding in various places wi...

  7. Alice F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recounts anti-Jewish legislation; attending a Jewish nursing school; a cousin in England obtaining documents for her emigration; leaving on November 8 (she did not learn of Kristallnacht until her arrival in London); working at a hospital; categorization as an "enemy alien", resulting in her evacuation in 1940; communication from her parents through a friend in Sweden (they did not survive); joining the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) in 1943; not being allowed to leave due to her "enemy alien" status un...

  8. Jacqueline F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; close relations with grandparents; emigrating to Strasbourg with her family in April 1933 after her uncle's arrest and torture; moving to Tours in 1934; her father's business success; relatives en route to the United States urging them to leave; her father's refusal; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her family in Gurs as enemy aliens; liberation in 1940; living in Limoges; moving alone to Grenoble; studying law; participating in the communist Resistance; ...

  9. George S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1923. He recalls his intellectual home life; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1931; his mother's emotional breakdown; living with a family in Berlin while she recovered; returning to her; beatings by Hitler Youth; their emigration to Italy, then Palestine; living with foster parents so his mother could earn a living; his emigration to New York in 1938 to join his mother's sister; attending Columbia; his mother's suicide in Palestine; being drafted into the United States Army; training as an intelligence in...

  10. Odette J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette J., who was born to Polish immigrants in Paris, France in 1923, the middle of three children. She recalls her close and happy family; centering their life on the Bund; attending Bund youth group (S.K.I.F.) camps and gatherings, including one in Brighton, England; aiding Polish refugees in La Rochelle; returning to Paris with her family in 1940; losing her citizenship in 1941; hiding with a non-Jewish neighbor during the July 1942 round-up, later with another family; moving to the unoccupied zone with Bund help; living with her brother in Lyon, Dax, Pau, Bordeau...

  11. Hellmut S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hellmut S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls his parents' careers as musicians; losing their jobs due to anti-Jewish laws; piano and violin lessons; excitement at Nazi parades; singing in a Jüdischer Kulturbund youth choir; attending a Jewish school; his father arranging emigration to Palestine for his two daughters from a previous marriage; obtaining visas for Manchuria; witnessing mass destruction and synagogue burnings following Kristallnacht; departing on November 21, 1938; the long ship journey from Naples to Shanghai; traveling to Harbin; ben...

  12. Martin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin D., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. He recalls apprenticing as a furrier when he was fourteen; increasing antisemitism; warnings from non-Jews of a round-up; hiding with his father; applying with his sister to emigrate to relatives in London; obtaining a visa; emigrating with a cousin in January 1939 (he never saw his sister or parents again); his relatives refusal to assist him; futile efforts to obtain visas for his sister and parents; arrest as an "enemy alien"; transfer via Liverpool to an internment camp in Ontario, Canada; fights between German a...

  13. Yorgan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yorgan L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father serving in World War I; attending Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father losing his job; deportation of friends who were Polish citizens; Kristallnacht; participating in Habonim; collecting money for the Jewish National Fund; agricultural training on a kibbutz in Rüdnitz; moving to Paderborn; forced labor; learning his parents had been deported in December 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1943; transfer to Monowitz; slave labor; transfer to the hospital in Auschwit...

  14. Donia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donia M., who was born in Krystynopil?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Chervonohrad, Ukraine) in 1912. She recounts her mother's death when she was three weeks old; living with her aunt and two cousins; attending school in Sokal?; marriage in 1936; her son's birth; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Peremyshli?a?ny with her husband, aunt, cousins, and mother-in-law; German invasion; a German who knew her husband giving him a privileged position; ghettoization; mass killings including her aunt and mother-in-law; hiding with her cousins, their children, a...

  15. Hermine M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hermine M., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, one of eight children. She recalls attending Czech school; visiting relatives in Antwerp; Germany's occupation of the Sudetenland; her parents' decision that she remain in Belgium; German invasion; fleeing to Brussels; separation from her relatives because of her Czech citizenship; a Czech family befriending her and bringing her with them to a French town near the Spanish border; being placed in a convent by the Czech underground; arrest and incarceration in Aix-en-Provence; hospitalization for appendicitis; ...

  16. Martin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls antisemitic harassment on the street; German invasion; his father protecting his German business partner from Polish violence; betrayal by the partner resulting in expulsion from their home; ghettoization; smuggling food; hospitalization of his father, mother, and sister; their deaths; living with an uncle; the deaths of his other two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; staying with his uncle; joining a group with two friends that left Auschwitz under cover of Allied bombing; transfer to Fried...

  17. 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 ...

  18. Frank K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1915. He recalls his comfortable youth; antisemitic incidents; the Anschluss; the public humiliation of cleaning streets with his father; fleeing to Berlin after receiving an anonymous warning of his arrest; wandering through Germany unable to stay in one place without identification; returning to Vienna after learning his passport was available; marriage; leaving for Larnaca; his wife joining him four months later; teaching in Nicosia; internment by the British as an enemy alien in 1939; evacuation via Haifa to Tel Aviv; l...

  19. Paul and Rudi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul and Rudi O., brothers who were born in Berlin, Germany in 1928 and 1931 respectively. They recall an assimilated lifestyle, not celebrating any Jewish holidays; attending public school; emigrating to join their father's brother in England; attending school in Kilburn; their sister's birth; moving to Heedstede, Netherlands for their father's employment; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation to Amsterdam in 1942; their Jewish identities becoming important to them; their protected status due to their sister's British citizenship; i...

  20. Lili G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lili G., who was born in Yasinya, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. She recalls an antisemitic teacher; friendly relations with Christians; Hungarian occupation; her father's and brothers' service in Hungarian forced labor battalions; hiding Polish refugees; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; billeting of German soldiers in their home; her mother being beaten; their deportation to Ma?te?szalka; receiving food from Hungarians; a German soldier beating her grandfather; their deportation to Auschwitz; being told by a Jewish prisoner to say she was eightee...