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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. W?adys?aw L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of W?adys?aw L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1901. He recalls attending medical school in Vilna due to restrictions against Jews in Warsaw; transferring to Warsaw due to his high grades; practicing in Warsaw; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with his wife via Bia?a Podlaska and Kobryn; settling in Pinsk, in the Soviet-occupied zone; deportation with all refugees to Arkhangel?sk; working in hospitals; imprisonment in 1943 as an American spy; signing a false confession to spare his wife and to avoid additional torture; an eight year sentence to a labor...

  2. Wadja K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wadja K., who was born in Granice, Poland in 1896. He recalls the first World War; Germans confiscating food in 1915 and 1916; working on road construction; his family's move to Z?elecho?w; working briefly in Warsaw; returning home; working with his father making leather boots; marriage; six weeks compulsory army service; participation in the Jewish Worker's Party; and attending their night school classes. Mr. K. describes emigrating to Luxembourg in 1928 to escape antisemitism; visiting his parents in Poland in 1935; assisting his brother to emigrate to Argentina (an...

  3. Walter F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He recalls his close family; deciding to leave Austria immediately after the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment by brown-shirted boys; traveling to Italy with a cousin; working in Albanian oil fields; moving to Tirana before receiving their visas; a brief reunion with his father (he was waiting to leave for England to join his wife); emigration to the United States; enlisting in the army; and visiting his parents in London when he was stationed in England. He discusses his desire to forget everything prior to emigrati...

  4. Walter G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter G., who was born in Berlichingen, Germany, in 1924. Mr. G. recalls prewar life based on mutual respect between Jews and Catholics in his "conservative" village; the first antisemitic incidents in 1937; having to leave public school and attend a Jewish one in an orphanage near Stuttgart; Kristallnacht, when he and others at the school were beaten and Torahs burned; and returning home to care for his family's business when his father was briefly interned in 1939. He recounts coming to the United States to join his sister in May 1939; his parents arrival in Septem...

  5. Walter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. He describes his family background; the Anschluss and resulting terror; losing his job; unsuccessful escape attempts through Luxembourg to Brussels; returning to Vienna; the terrorism and destruction of Crystal Night; his arrest and transfer to Dachau; slave labor and his efforts to remain unnoticed; and release in April due to membership in a Zionist organization which obtained emigration papers for him to Great Britain as a farm laborer. He describes arrival in London; transfer to Wales; several farm jobs; internme...

  6. Walter K. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Ro?hrenfurth, Germany in 1922. He recounts anti-Jewish laws banning him from high school in 1936; Kristallnacht; imprisonment with his father and relatives in Kassel, then Buchenwald; his father's and uncles' release as World War I veterans; his release to Erfurt two weeks later; forced labor in Kassel; emigration to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport in February 1939; entering through Oldenzaal; living in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Amsterdam; obtaining emigration documents for the United States in March 1940; transfer to Westerbork refugee...

  7. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Ortelsburg, Germany (presently Szczynto, Poland) in 1922, the elder of two children. He recounts attending school; moving to Ko?nigsberg (presently Kaliningrad, Russia); antisemitic harassment; participating in Makabi ha-tsa?ir; his bar mitzvah in 1935; having to leave school; attending a Zionist agricultural school in Ahrensdorf; hospitalization in Berlin; apprenticing with a dentist; emigrating with his family to the United States via Hamburg in June 1938, with assistance from relatives there; marriage; and the births of four daughters. Mr...

  8. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in 1921 in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroclaw, Poland). He recounts graduating from a German gymnasium in 1938; leaving Germany on November 9, 1938; emigrating to Palestine; closely following events in Europe; and the killing of his parents and relatives during the war. Mr. L. discusses what average Germans, and the rest of the world, knew about the murder of European Jewry during the war as documented in his book The Terrible Secret. He notes a novel he wrote led to his research.

  9. Walter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Gerolzhofen, Germany in 1924. He recalls his father's death in 1931; significant local support for Nazism; anti-Jewish restrictions; attacks by other children when returning from school; his grandfather being marched through town to be cursed and spat upon; moving to Buttenhausen in 1936; expulsion from public school in 1937; his bar mitzvah; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; forced labor in a nearby town; moving to Cologne; receiving emigration papers through relatives in Palestine; traveling to Haifa under the auspices of Youth Al...

  10. Walter N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; the Austrian people's jubilation at the Anschluss; Hitler youth beating an elderly Jew; ransacking of their apartment, his father's deportation to Dachau, and the synagogue being burned on Kristallnacht; receiving postcards from his father; emigration with his sister to England via Holland on a kindertransport; living in Edinburgh with a Jewish physician's family; one week placement with a Christian family in Dysart; remaining, having bonded with ...

  11. Walter P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1926. He recalls his family moving to Berlin in 1933; attending public school until his expulsion as a Jew; attending a Jewish school; destruction of the store where his father worked on Kristallnacht; moving into a one-room apartment after his father lost his job; the outbreak of war; avoiding round-ups with the help of a friendly policeman; his bar mitzvah in 1940; his fear and humiliation after the introduction of the Jewish star in September 1941; learning Spanish and English in school in preparation for emigration; ...

  12. 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...

  13. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts attending a public school; participating in a social democratic youth movement, then a Zionist youth group; working as a locksmith; Anschluss; illegally entering Belgium; hiding with friends; moving to a refugee camp in Mechelen to obtain legal papers; training as an agricultural worker; corresponding with his parents; receiving papers; working in Bekkevoort and elsewhere; German invasion; arrest; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor as a gravedigger; tran...

  14. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. He recalls his family's affluence; their immersion in cultural activities; increasing Nazi influence leading to his expulsion from Boy Scouts; joining a Zionist youth group which provided positive experiences; the Anschluss; he and his mother visiting every embassy, hoping to emigrate; his sister moving to England in fall 1938; being stripped of all rights by the Nuremberg laws; hiding in his maternal grandmother's villa during Kristallnacht; his arrest in a round-up; his father obtaining his release through the Nazi...

  15. Walter W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter W., who was born in Emmendingen, Germany in 1922. He recalls his family's strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; his parents assuaging his and his sister's alarm when a Jewish neighbor was killed by a Nazi in 1933; former non-Jewish friends shunning him; his father's belief in Germany and that his status as a veteran would protect them; his bar mitzvah; expulsion from school; his father's disbarment; attending a Jewish school in Berlin; watching the synagogue burn on Kristallnacht; learning his father and uncles had been sent to Dachau; return...

  16. Werner A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, the oldest of three sons. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; observing Friday night sabbath, Passover, Easter and Christmas; his strong German identification; antisemitic harassment at school beginning in 1932; some non-Jewish students protecting him; his bar mitzvah; participating in Maccabi, then in Schwarzes F̈̈ähnlein, a Jewish-German nationalist youth group; living in an agricultural training facility led by Curt Bondy; his mother and brothers emigrating to Amsterdam; joining them (his father follo...

  17. Werner C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner C., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1921. He recalls his parents' German patriotism; social barriers between German and "eastern" Jews; anti-Semitic incidents in school; expulsion in 1938; attending a Jewish school in Cologne; destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; imprisonment, then transfer to Dachau; help from a cousin; and release due to the intervention of a friend who was an influential Nazi and his promise to emigrate (his mother obtained a commitment from Erich Klibansky for Mr. C. to accompany a children's transport). He recalls studying in Lond...

  18. Werner G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; participating in socialist Jewish youth movements; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; leaving school to help support his parents; an aborted attempt to escape to Czechoslovakia in 1936; traveling to Amsterdam via Luxembourg with assistance from a Jewish organization; his parents' emigration to Bolivia; his mother obtaining a Bolivian visa for him; emigration to join them; participating in anti-Nazi movements; his career as a publisher an...

  19. Werner H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner H., who was born in Ku?strin, Germany in 1910. He details his brother-in-law's death in September 1938; difficulties in arranging his burial because they were Jewish; arrest with his family during Kristallnacht; forced labor and harsh conditions in Sachsenhausen; his release due to their promise to leave for Shanghai; selling all their possessions; and emigrating from Berlin to Shanghai. Mr. H. recalls the international settlement; going into business with a friend; joining a Jewish volunteer company to patrol the international settlement; Japanese occupation; ...

  20. Werner N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1911. He relates his father's service in World War I; a brief family history; attendance at gymnasium in Berlin; work for an international dental supply firm; his father's feeling of safety during Hitler's rise to power because he was a World War I veteran; his sister's emigration to Palestine in 1934; his attempts to emigrate to the United States; and being able to hide during Kristallnacht because he was forewarned. Mr. N. describes leaving for Shanghai in 1939; obtaining a job and living quarters; deteriorating conditio...