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  1. Ursula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula K. who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Budapest shortly after her birth; happy times as part of the German community; a decline in her family's economic circumstances leading to their return to Germany in 1933; Jewish holiday observances; antisemitism in school; her mother's wish to emigrate and her father's refusal; and her sister's emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. K. recounts their arrest on Kristallnacht; release with the other women and children; her father's detainment (she never saw him again); ...

  2. Ben G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1925. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; the 1939 influx of German Jewish refugees; German invasion in September; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; attending a clandestine school; forced labor; deportations; exemption from deportation due to his job; his father's deportation; separation from his mother and siblings when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Cze?stochowa, then Buchenwald; transfer to Dora in January 1...

  3. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  4. Georges P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges P., who was born in Belgium in 1909, the third of three children in a religious Catholic family. He recalls attending school in Brussels; his family's exile to Le Havre in 1914; returning to Brussels after the war; studying humanities; entering Abbaye de Maredsous in 1926 to study for the priesthood; ordination in 1933; providing safe havens for Jewish refugees beginning in 1934; hiding Jews in the abbey in 1939; enlisting in the army during German invasion in 1940; traveling with his brother to Boulogne-sur-Mer; imprisonment by the Germans; escaping to Brusse...

  5. Emil L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emil L., who was born in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder; emigration with his family to Antwerp in 1930; moving to Brussels; attending a Flemish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; participating in the Young Socialists (JS); participating in a meeting in Louvain to unite socialists and communists; arrest at an anti-Rexist demonstration; release; briefly fleeing to France; apprenticeship as a tailor; German invasion; fleeing with his family to France; his aunt's death and his...

  6. Peter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter K., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1937. He recalls his family's affluent, secular life; German invasion; his father's arrest (he never saw him again); moving with his mother, brother, and other relatives to Ljubljana; smuggling themselves to Italy; internment near Brescia as illegal immigrants; receiving a stipend from the Italian government; living with relatives in Quarata; German occupation; hiding in a hut with relatives, then with peasant families; avoiding arrest with assistance from their landlord and the marshal after being denounced; moving seve...

  7. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Kolomyi?a?; his father's Zionist activities; studying engineering in Lv?iv; futile efforts to return to Kolomyi?a? after the German invasion; round-ups of Jews; and escaping to the Soviet Union. Mr. F. recounts farm and office work; conscription into a workers' battalion; digging trenches near Stalingrad; working in a steel factory in Baku; returning to Lv?iv after liberation; traveling to Krako?w in 1945; learning his entire family had perished; leaving Poland; receiving help from Jew...

  8. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's assimilated life; arrest of her grandmother and parents after the Anschluss; their release weeks later; traveling to Aachen, then Brussels; living in a basement due to lack of resources; assistance from the Jewish community; her father's escape to England; German invasion; fleeing to Lille, then Dunkerque, futilely hoping to escape; return to Brussels; receiving a deportation notice; informing her mother they would hide; difficulty placing her four-year-old sister; she and her sister living w...

  9. Gerald F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerald F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, one of three children. He recounts his father being wounded in World War I; attending school; increasing antisemitism; attending a Jewish school; expropriation of his father's business; emigration to England via the Netherlands in 1938; working on a farm and attending evening classes at Cambridge University; his family joining him; imprisonment as an enemy alien; transfer to the Isle of Man five months later; reunion with his brother and father after his release; attending university in London; working as a chemist w...

  10. Roman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman B., who was born in L?viv, Poland in 1929. He recalls living in Katowice; his father's successful practice as an eye surgeon; attending Polish public school; his family's strong Polish identity; visiting his wealthy grandparents in Pidhai?t?s?i; assisting German Jewish refugees in 1938; visiting his grandparents in summer 1939 with his mother; his father's recall into the Polish military (he ended up in England); Soviet occupation; his grandparents' and relatives' deportation east as capitalists (it saved their lives); attending Soviet schools; moving to L?viv i...

  11. Martha E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha E., who was born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland in 1937. She recounts her family's affluence; German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet Union; living in Siberia; her aunt joining them; privileged status because her mother was a pharmacist; moving to Bukhoro; attending school; her father's two-year imprisonment; returning to Warsaw after the war; reunion with a cousin; moving to Munich; antisemitic harassment; moving to the Bremen displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS; attending school; and marriage to a survivor.

  12. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924. He describes emigrating with his mother and brother to Belgium in 1933; the family moving to Zaandam; adjusting to school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; obtaining Palestine visas; a brief arrest in 1940; anti-German riots in Amsterdam in 1941; internment with his parents and brother in Westerbork; building barracks; reluctance to leave his parents and brother when he had the opportunity to escape; avoiding deportation due to their Palestine visas; deportation in 1944 with his family to Bergen-Belsen to a special ...

  13. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland). He recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest and incarceration in Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; his release in December 1938 based on his departure from Germany followed by his emigration to Cuba in January 1939; his father's friend arranging for Mr. F., his sister, and mother to emigrate to Cuba; the painful separation from his grandparents (he suspected he would never see them again); buying permits in Hamburg at the Cuban consulate; their departure on the St. Louis; the Cuban govern...

  14. Hans and Ruth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) in 1928, and his wife Ruth F. In addition to information in a subsequently recorded testimony, Mr. F. notes visiting Chile after the war, where he met his wife, and his belief that the refusal of the United States to allow entry of the St. Louis passengers was a test in which Hitler determined no one would assist Europe's Jews. Ruth F. recalls her uncle's brother-in-law emigrating to Chile from Germany in the early 1930s; her uncle joining him in 1936 (he later arranged for her and her parents' emi...

  15. Celia O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia O., who was born in Dubienka, Poland in 1928. She recalls antisemitic incidents; German invasion in 1939; a German soldier assaulting a Polish child; her mother convincing her father that they should flee; being smuggled with her family to the Soviet zone; living with an uncle for several months; round-up by Soviet soldiers; their two-month train trip to Siberia with 1,500 others; incarceration in a camp in Irkutsk; forced labor, starvation, and cold; her brother's death in 1941; prisoner solidarity; transfer to Kazakhstan (only 750 remained); improved, but hars...

  16. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in Tyszowce, Poland in 1915. She recalls moving with her parents to Zamos?c?; engagement to her future husband; living with her older brother in ?o?dz?; returning home; German invasion; going to her fiance?'s small village for two weeks; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; receiving a letter from her fiance? asking her to join him in Soviet territory; her parents encouraging her to go; meeting her fiance? in Lut?s??k; marriage; being sent to Kazan?, then to Siberia; living in Asino; volunteering for transfer after German invasion of the Sov...

  17. Rene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene G., who was born in Luxembourg in 1934 to Polish refugees. He describes German invasion; moving to Brussels; wearing the yellow star; moving to southern France; detention by French police in Poligny; transfer to a refugee hotel in Lons-le-Saunier; being placed in a deportation train with his mother (his father had left the hotel); removal from the train through the intervention of his aunt while his mother was brutally forced to board; staying with his aunt in Limoges (his father hid in Lyon); brief placement in a Jewish orphanage outside Limoges; staying with Fr...

  18. Kurt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt G., who was born in a small town in Westphalia, Germany in 1917. One of fifteen children in a poor family, he recalls leaving home at age fourteen; an apprenticeship in Upper Silesia until 1937; his close friendship with the owner of a Berlin factory where he worked; Nazi attacks on students; fending off an SS assault; avoiding arrest during Kristallnacht by hiding in various locations in Berlin; escaping with three friends to Ter Apel, Netherlands; capture and return to Germany; five weeks in prison in Emden, then Berlin; emigration to England in March 1939; wor...

  19. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, an only child. She recalls a comfortable childhood in an assimilated family; attending private school, then at age ten, public school; observing Hitler marching from their balcony; close relations with their maids, which ended abruptly after the Nuremberg laws; the trauma of being shunned by former friends; hiding during Kristallnacht; her parents sending her to England in March 1939; working as a maid in London, and as a secretary in Epsom and at a paper factory; her parents emigrating to the United States, with assist...

  20. Madelyn L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madelyn L., who was born in Dereczyn, Poland (now Dzi?a?re?chyn, Belarus)) in 1933, the seventh of eight children. She describes their poverty; her father's emigration to Paris to obtain a rabbinical position; traveling to join him a few years later (1937); a week's stay in a Berlin convent waiting for their documents from Poland; settling in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Normandy to avoid bombings; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; her mother's detention in Drancy; her older's sister's efforts to obtain their mot...