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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Konrad B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Konrad B., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1916. Mr. B. describes his childhood and education; his mother's decision to move the family to Paris after Hitler's rise to power; volunteering for the French army; and internment by the French in Nantes in 1939, then by the Germans in a POW camp at Montreuil-Bellay. He details a friendship; his parents' flight from Marseille through Spain and Portugal to the United States; his escape in October 1940; teaching in a Quaker school for children of Spanish refugees in Montauban; serving as a Resistance courier; reunion with ...

  2. Aneta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aneta W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930 to an affluent and large, extended family. She recalls German invasion; briefly fleeing to Zg?obien?; moving to L'viv; Soviet occupation; returning to Krako?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups (they were warned by an SS-man for whom her mother made hats); sending her younger brothers to Bochnia; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w after liquidation of the ghetto; burial of all the children who were killed in the ghetto; working with her mother at the Madritsche factory; volunteering for transfer to the Tarno?w g...

  3. Victor L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. He describes attending Polish school; antisemitic incidents; active membership in Akiba; one sister's emigration to Palestine; his father's reluctance to emigrate to Palestine; entering his father's business in 1937; assisting Jewish refugees from Germany; German invasion; returning home after Germans overtook him fleeing east; using false papers to feign an authorized job; ghettoization; visiting his parents in Niepo?omice; arranging their move to the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; escaping with his brother from a deportat...

  4. Erika H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika H., who was born in Schivelbein, Germany (presently Świdwin, Poland) in 1921. She recounts the birth of her twin sisters in 1923; summers with grandparents in Kolberg (Kołobrzeg); her family's sabbath observance; antisemitic harassment by other children; her father's bankruptcy in 1930; attending gymnasium; their landlord forcing them to leave their apartment in 1934; moving to the same building as her grandmother in Berlin; attending Jewish schools; working as a tutor; membership in a leftist youth group; men asking for her father on Kristallnacht; non-Jews hi...

  5. Regina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She recalls involvement with Zionist movements; working in the Jewish hospital; German occupation; humiliating forced labor; marriage in 1939; her husband's departure for Italy in 1940; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); deportation to Theresienstadt in October 1942 with her mother, sister, and other relatives; assignment to a work detail registering Jewish prisoners; asking Rabbi Murmelstein (head of the Jewish Committee) to allow her to go with her mother in May 1944; their transfer to Birkenau; separat...

  6. Lilly T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly T., who was born in Szikszo?, Hungary in 1930. Mrs. T. details her family history; their comfortable and assimilated lifestyle; arrival of Jewish refugees from 1938 onward; anti-Jewish regulations; her older brother's resistance efforts; and deportation with her family to Kos?ice, then Auschwitz. She recounts immediate separation from her family; transfer to Birkenau; her sense that she grew up immediately; inclusion with a group of children; escape from that group with the assistance of a Wehrmacht soldier; transport to Estonia; slave labor cutting wood; receiv...

  7. Judith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Pies?t?any, Czechoslovakia in 1937, the youngest of six children. She recalls her family's affluence; her father taking them to Bratislava to avoid deportation; his arrest, escape from Z?ilina, and taking the family to hide on a farm; returning to Bratislava; their incarceration in Z?ilina; her father using bribery to obtain their release and false papers; living in the town of Z?ilina as non-Jews; the deportation of her parents and two siblings; an aunt arranging for the remaining children to be smuggled to Hungary; living illegally in Buda...

  8. Judith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia. She recalls her pleasant family life; attending Jewish elementary and Yugoslav high school; her father's Zionist activities; exclusion from university due to a Jewish quota; Hungarian occupation in 1941; working as a seamstress; her father's one-month service in a labor camp; German occupation in 1944; her father's deportation in April (she never saw him again); ghettoization; with her mother, aunt and grandmother, separation from the deportation train (they had been included in the Kasztner group); their transfer to Bu...

  9. Gustave J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustave J., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1923, the oldest of five sons. He recounts his father was a rabbi; attending a Jewish school; his father leaving for France in spring 1933 due to antisemtism; being sent to live with relatives in Prague; joining his family in Strasbourg in September; leaving for Vichy when war began in 1939; his father's three month internment as an enemy alien; German invasion in May 1940; internment in Montluc?on; release; traveling to Limoges; joining his family in La Chartre; deportation orders in November; escaping to Monte?limar; l...

  10. Charles R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. He recalls his parents' divorce; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; observing violence on Kristallnacht; he and his mother smuggling themselves to France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, but being apprehended and returned; illegally traveling to Strasbourg; arrest; his mother's brief imprisonment; moving to Paris; German invasion; living in a children's home in central France; transfer to Limoges; hiding during police searches; receiving correspondence requesting him to join his mother; going to Rivesaltes; learning...

  11. Shalom T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom T., who was born in 1921 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He recalls his family's move to Antwerp in 1936 and to Brussels three years later; their move to southern France in 1940; arrest in Lyon; two months incarceration in Rivesaltes; joining his parents in Nice; their escape to Italy; German occupation; being protected by the town's mayor; arrest and transfer to Borgo San Dalmazzo, Nice, and Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; forced labor at Buna/Monowitz; receiving food from non-Jewish co-workers and Wehrmacht officers; public hangings; being i...

  12. Gabriel D., Sylvain D., and Danielle H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of three siblings born in Paris, France: Gabriel D. (1937), his brother Sylvain D. (1939), and their sister Danielle H. (1936). They recount their grandparents' emigration from eastern Europe; their father's United States citizenship and their mother's British (she was born in Palestine); German invasion; their father's arrest in December 1941, after the U.S. entered the war; his privileged status as a U.S. citizen; visiting him; receiving financial support from relatives in Palestine; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; applying to join their grandparents in Palestine...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. Heinz W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz W., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1920, the second of three sons. He recounts his father's World War I service in the Russian army and capture in Germany as a prisoner of war (he remained there and established a successful tailoring business); difficulties finding a quorum for his bar mitzvah due to laws against Jews gathering together; his father's trip to Palestine in 1934, then sending his older brother to school there; antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school and an electrician's apprenticeship due to anti-Jewish laws; reluctantly jo...

  16. Odette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette S., who was born in France in 1925 to an affluent family. She recalls helping refugees from central Europe; the outbreak of war; the family's moves to Deauville, Dordogne, and Brive; participating in the scouts; moving to Larche in 1942, thinking it would be safer; three months in Italian-occupied Savoie; arrest with her parents in Larche in 1943; separation from her father (she learned later he was shot); transfer with her mother to Drancy via Pe?rigueux and Paris; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; digging ditches; her mother's death after six weeks; transfer...

  17. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. He recalls not understanding why he had to change schools after the Anschluss; his family's illegal emigration to Brussels; extended family following; fleeing to Arras, France during German invasion in 1940; arrest by the French due to their German accents; release by the Germans; returning to Brussels; deportation with his parents to Malines in August 1942, then eastward; removal from the train of men aged eighteen to forty-five, including him and his father (they never saw his mother again); slave labo...

  18. Egon and Mina H. and Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon and Mina H. Egon H. was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He recounts his family's proud German identity; destruction of their business on Kristallnacht; his father's decision to emigrate to Shanghai, the only place open to them; his father opening a grocery store; working in a metal factory; Japanese occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including ghettoization; assistance from the Joint and HIAS; food shortages and lack of sanitation; Allied bombings in July 1945; learning of the Holocaust after the war; and emigration to join uncles in the United States. Mina H...

  19. 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...

  20. Mikel C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikel C., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He describes his affluent family; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; beatings of Jews: illegally entering France; arrest in Metz; transfer to Germany; arrests for illegally entering Holland and Belgium; incarceration in a Belgian refugee camp; release to study art in Antwerp with assistance from the Jewish community; German invasion; traveling to Brussels; watching the British evacuation at Dunkerque; translating for the SS in Calais as a non-Jew; joining his sister in Brussels (she later emigrated to the United States)...