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  1. Haim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents an...

  2. Inga C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inga C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1926. She recalls her maternal extended family gatherings; her father, a Russian citizen, traveling to the Soviet Union in 1931, attempting to arrange their emigration; his imprisonment as a "spy"; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment by Hitler youth; eviction from their apartment in 1936; sexual harassment by the building superintendent, who threatened to deport her if she told anyone; hiding with her aunt's friend, a Nazi party member, during Kristallnacht; returning home to find their apartment ransacked; he...

  3. Ursula M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918 to a Jewish-Romanian father and a Christian mother who had converted to Judaism. She recounts attending school; expulsion of the Jews after Hitler's ascent to power and issuance of racial laws; remaining because she was a foreign national and child of a German non-Jew; her mother's refusal to divorce her father in order to attain "Aryan" status; her future husband's emigration in 1937; hiding Jews in their home during Kristallnacht; her parents' emigration to England in May 1939 (she was to follow shortly); her father...

  4. Ben A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben A., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921, one of six children. He recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; working in Hlybokaye; returning to Vilna; an influx of Polish-Jewish refugees; fleeing to Minsk when Germany invaded; returning to Vilna; forced labor; his father's arrest (they later learned he was shot); ghettoization; hiding with his mother and siblings during round-ups; conflicts between the ghetto underground and the Judenrat; learning his mother and some siblings were killed in Ponary while he was working; partisans bringing people to the woo...

  5. Annie J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annie J., who was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1900. She recounts moving to Nuremberg in 1915; her father's service in World War I; his death in 1924; anti-Jewish restrictions in the 1930s; ransacking of their apartment on Kristallnacht; moving to Paris with her mother in 1939; German invasion; incarceration in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; deportation to Gurs in May 1940; reunion with her mother; their release in October; living in Juranc?on; attending synagogue in Pau; living in Nay from April to August 1942; a Catholic woman hiding them after they received deportation no...

  6. Eva and Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva and her husband Frank S., both of whom are from Germany. Mrs. S. describes her childhood in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; her vivid recollection of the day that Hitler came to power; the changes that took place in Nazi Germany, particularly as they affected her in school; Kristallnacht; her emigration to England, as part of a children's transport; and her life in England. Mr. S. speaks of his childhood and youth in Breslau; experiences with antisemitism in school, beginning shortly before Hitler came to power; and the patriotism of German Jews ...

  7. Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1923, one of four children. She recalls her family's affluence; antisemitic street violence; attending a Jewish school; the non-Jewish caretaker protecting their house during Kristallnacht; her father and older brother leaving for France; her younger siblings being sent to Switzerland; traveling alone to Paris; her father bribing a French official to get her mother to Paris; German invasion; traveling to Vichy; an official allowing them to live in Bandol until 1942; attending a Jewish camp; being hidden by a miner in Collob...

  8. Felix P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix P., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the third of three sons. He recounts his mother's baptism, and having him and his brothers baptized thinking it would ease their lives; their affluence; becoming bilingual due to his English nanny; German occupation; expulsion from university; his father's and brother's exclusion from practicing law; non-Jewish friends assisting them to emigrate; his older brother's and parents' emigration to France, and his to Czechoslovakia; his other brother remaining to complete medical school (he perished in Buchenwald); living with frie...

  9. Sigmund W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund W., who was born in Berlin in 1921 and fled with his parents to Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. He tells of their flight to Brussels after an earlier failed attempt to flee to France; his flight to Vichy France that same year; and his capture and internment at Drancy. He recalls the journey in boxcars to Ottmuth in Silesia, from where he was sent to the Chevigner slave labor camp near Chrzano?w and his transfer to Annaberg, near Auschwitz in March, 1943, and to Blechhammer six weeks later. The conditions and organization of the latter, where Mr. W. remained until Fe...

  10. Lucie J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie J., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. She recounts antisemitic harassment; membership in a Jewish sports club; attending a swim meet in Breslau; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and deportation to Dachau in May 1938; eviction from their home; living with an aunt; participating in a Zionist youth group; a non-Jew warning them to leave their Jewish neighborhood prior to Kristallnacht; staying with friends in another area; her mother sending her to London in January 1939 on a Kindertransport organized by Hakoah; lea...

  11. Judith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. She tells of sailing with her parents and grandfather on the St. Louis in May 1939; being refused landing permission in Cuba; disembarkation in Antwerp; living in a French town on the Spanish border; friendship with their landlady; incarceration in Gurs in 1942; hysteria when she was separated from her parents (she never saw them again); placement with the landlady (her grandfather was still there, but died shortly thereafter); attending school and church; being protected by the villagers (they knew she was Jewish); ...

  12. Mark M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in approximately 1922, one of ten children. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending school; working in his brother's commercial art studio; attending Betar meetings; participating in Maccabi; family vacations in Otwock; German invasion; his mother and brother being killed by German bombs; using identification papers of a non-Jewish friend who was killed; fleeing east; arrest on the Soviet border; brief imprisonment in Novosibirisk; deportation to a labor camp in Siberia; a brief reunion with his sister; transfer to Sumy; j...

  13. Leo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo R., who was born in Ro?z?an, Russia (currently Poland) in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls attending cheder and public school; participating in Po'alei Zion; anti-Jewish violence; working in Mys?lenice; German invasion; joining his family in Ostro?w Mazowiecki; fleeing with his father and brothers to Soviet-occupied Zambro?w; moving with his parents and several siblings to Slonim; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing; traveling with a brother, two sisters, and their families to Zambro?w via Bia?ystok; staying with a brother in Tarno?w to avo...

  14. Katarína L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katarína L., who was born in Bratislava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910. She recalls attending gymnasium; participating in a Maccabi sports club; cordial relations with non-Jews; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria arriving in 1938; Slovak independence in March, 1939; anti-Jewish laws; helping to convey information about Auschwitz to Dr. Tibor Kovács of the Jewish rescue committee; visiting her sister in Nováky using false papers; obtaining her sister's release; exemption from deportation until 1944 due to her job; deportation with her parents and husband, ...

  15. Lala F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lala F., who was born in Kam?i?a?net?s??-Podil?s?kyi?, Russia in 1922. She recalls her family fleeing from the Bolsheviks to Lwo?w, Poland; attending a private school; her sister's birth in 1931; Soviet occupation; her mother assisting Jewish refugees from Poland; her brother's draft into the Soviet army; her father's disappearance during a round-up; refusing to move into the ghetto; obtaining a work permit; arrest during a round-up; escaping from Janowska (she later learned that her father saw her there); obtaining false papers for her mother, sister, brother's girlf...

  16. Alfons G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfons G., an only child, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's affluence; attending public school; expulsion in 1935; attending a Jewish school; his father's death in 1936; Kristallnacht; his mother purchasing passage to Shanghai the next day for six months hence; non-Jewish friends helping them move assets out of Germany; departure from Genoa in May; assistance from HIAS and the Joint (their representative was Laura Margolies); living in the international settlement; meeting Horace Kadoorie to obtain admission to the school he sponsored; J...

  17. 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...

  18. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Radoszyce, Poland in 1921. She recounts extreme poverty and antisemitism in Warta; illegal immigration to Brussels when she was nine; attending secretarial school; German invasion; fleeing to France; working for the police; warning Jews of round-ups; returning to Belgium after six months; joining the Rote Kapelle resistance group; using false papers; uncovering collaborators; escaping arrest three times; the arrest of her sister and brother-in-law after her transmitter was found in their apartment; deportation of her parents and other sibling...

  19. André C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of André C., a non-Jew, who was born in Liège, Belgium in 1921. He recalls his parents were both teachers; his academic success; housing German refugees, from whom he learned the personal results of antisemitic policies; entering medical school in 1938; conscription with all other medical students; retreating with the Belgian military to Le Mans, Nantes, and Les Sables-d'Olonne; capture by the Germans; release; returning to Liège; resuming medical school in September 1940; joining the Resistance; his engagement; arrest in August 1942; violent interrogations leading to...

  20. Lieselotte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lieselotte W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, an only child. She recounts her father's World War I service; an idyllic childhood; identifying themselves as Germans, not Jews; the family movie business; her father being warned to leave in August 1933; traveling to Crikvenica, Yugoslavia; moving to Zagreb; expulsion from Yugoslavia in 1934; joining an uncle in Budapest; an expulsion from Hungary six months later; moving to Milan; her father's poor health; expulsion notice in 1938; her mother arranging through a friend for her to go to London; working in a chil...