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  1. Hella B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hella B., who was born in Neuss, Germany in 1915. She recalls living in Berlin; her father's position for Siemens in Spain; living in Seville; her older brother's death at a boarding school when she was five; moving frequently and attending boarding schools; living in Lu?denscheid, Cologne, and Nuremberg; antisemitic harassment; a book burning; finishing gymnasium; attending art school in Berlin; her parents obtaining emigration documents for her to join an uncle in New York; staying in England for six weeks with an aunt; arrival in the United States; learning her unc...

  2. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Moscow, Russia in 1906. He recalls arrest in 1925 due to his leadership of Hashomer Hatzair; being condemned to death; transport to Odesa; exile to Palestine with his mother and sister (his mother had arranged it); working in Haifa, ?Afulah, and Zikhron Ya?ak?ov for two years; admission to engineering school in Paris; arriving in Marseille in 1928; studying in Toulouse; graduation; working in a coal mine, a hotel, and for a Swiss company in Paris; dismissal due to the depression; working as a salesman; establishing a lucrative textile compa...

  3. Martin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. He recounts his maternal grandparents' anti-Nazi activities; joining them when they moved to Holland, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia; returning to Berlin; his father's death; joining his grandparents in Milan, with his mother and brother, in December 1939; his mother's remarriage; his mother's and stepfather's emigration; joining an uncle in Brussels; internment with his grandparents and brother in Marneffe as illegal immigrants; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; returning to Brussels; he and his brother deciding no...

  4. Erna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in Lich, Germany in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Giessen; visiting relatives in Ludwigshafen when Hitler came to power; her parents' business being ruined due to antisemitism; traveling to Venice in 1934, realizing there was no future in Germany; moving to Rotterdam three weeks later, then to Amsterdam; her father's death in 1936; her mother and siblings leaving for the United States by 1938; and her emigration to join them. Ms. S. notes her brother was beaten by Nazis and briefly incarcerated in a concentration camp before she went...

  5. 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...

  6. Karl K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1916, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school, then gymnasium; playing sports for Maccabi; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; military draft in 1937; the Anschluss; expulsion from the army with other Jewish soldiers two months later; increasing antisemitism; round-up with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; deportation to Dachau; slave labor cleaning nearby houses; assistance from the non-Jewish blockaltester; release on June 6 based on his pledge to emigrate w...

  7. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1931. He recalls attending public school; studying with his father, a rabbi; his grandfather's arrival from Austria in 1938; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with his family to France; living at a refugee shelter in Saint-Pourc?ain-sur-Sioule; moving to Vichy; living at a hotel which housed OSE offices; moving to Nice in August 1940; his grandfather's death; hiding after foreign Jews were required to report to authorities; living openly during Italian occupation; German occupation in September 1943; he and his broth...

  8. Anton and Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anton and Marion P., who served in the administration of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Jewish displaced persons camps in Germany in 1945-1947. Mrs. P. reflects on her wartime life in Holland and the subtle effect of antisemitic propaganda on even anti-Nazi audiences; serving as translator in a postwar trial of fourteen Dutch Nazis in Wolfratshausen; being sent by UNRRA as a welfare officer to a Jewish displaced persons camp at Fo?hrenwald; learning Yiddish to better communicate with refugees; and the difficulties of dealing with v...

  9. Gustav R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustav R., who was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1929. He speaks of his childhood in pre-war Germany; differences in the attitudes of his parents towards Judaism; the rise of Nazism in Germany; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald in the wake of Kristallnacht; the difficulties encountered by his family in attempts to leave Germany; the family's eventual emigration to the United States after spending one and one-half years in Cuba; and the influences his wartime experiences had on his later life, particularly on his relationship with his children.

  10. Mary G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1908. She tells of her orthodox family; moving to Graz in 1935 to prepare for emigration to Palestine; returning to Vienna in 1937; German annexation of Austria; one brother's escape to Switzerland and another's to Belgium; his placing an advertisement in a British paper to find a position for her; receiving an offer of employment and a visa from a British family; the difficult parting from her parents; seeing her brother in Belgium en route; and arrival in London. She describes living in Torquay; her employer's dissatisfact...

  11. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1915. Mr. B. recounts attending a Jewish school; working in a shoe factory; increasing antisemitism; studying English; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1933; emigration to the United States in 1936 (he never saw his parents again); military draft in 1941; officer training school; assignment to military intelligence in 1943; deployment to London in May 1944; German rocket attacks; landing in Normandy; participating in the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge; entering Frankfurt; searching fo...

  12. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Galicia in 1913. He recounts his family fleeing to Vienna during World War I; his determination to learn Austrian German and assimilate into the culture, thinking his future was there; working in a textile factory; attending law school; attending a Nazi convention in Munich in 1936 with fellow students; German occupation in 1938; marriage; arrest on Kristallnacht; beatings and shootings; an Austrian officer releasing him; emigration to Geneva via Italy; obtaining emigration papers to Cuba with assistance from a non-Jewish banker in Zurich; e...

  13. Moses K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and ...

  14. Ellen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. She recalls her parents' divorce; visiting her father; attending a Catholic school; a kind nun (she hid her mother at one time); expulsion from school; she and her brother attending a Jewish school; her mother keeping them inside on Kristallnacht; a non-Jewish patient of her uncle's placing them on a Kindertransport organized by a Quaker woman in England; living with a private school teacher in London (her brother was placed at a boarding school); transfer to Dorset after the onset of war; transfer to her brother's sc...

  15. Eric L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric L., who was born in O?hringen, Germany in 1916. He relates his family's history in Germany since the 17th century; moving in 1926 to Go?ppingen, where his father was rabbi, religious school teacher and cantor; friendly relationships with classmates; the shock of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor; people at school soon wearing swastika buttons; continued support from two Catholic classmates; students wearing brown uniforms and singing Nazi songs; and withdrawing from school due to antisemitism. He recounts the next four years at an orthodox teacher-training schoo...

  16. Helga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga G., a Lutheran, who was born deaf in Hamburg, Germany in 1923, the oldest of five children. She recalls attending a school for the deaf; Hitler's assumption of power; her parents' and other relatives' anti-Nazi beliefs; being forced by a teacher to join a Nazi group (N.S.D.A.P.); observing Jews wearing the yellow star; the disappearance of Jews; a deaf teacher informing the class he was to be involuntarily sterilized; his suicide when his arrest was imminent as an anti-Nazi; her involuntary sterilization; meeting her future husband in Leipzig (he was deaf and al...

  17. Frederick S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He recalls his family's financial instability; completing law school in 1931; supporting his mother after his father's death; arrest following the Anschluss in 1938; incarceration and receiving a severe beating; transfer to Dachau; his release after obtaining an English visa with assistance from his boss and the Quakers; traveling to England in March 1939; working for a committee helping Czech refugees; arranging for his mother and fiancee to join him; their emigration to the United States; marriage to his fiancee...

  18. Doris S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris S., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1925, the younger of two sisters. She recalls expulsion from public school in 1933; attending Jewish school; their maid leaving due to anti-Jewish laws; her father's sense of safety due to his status as a decorated World War I veteran; being rounded-up with her family on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; his release due to his veteran's status; his efforts to secure the release from Dachau of family and friends; visiting her grandparents in Berlin; placement on a Kindertransport with her cousins to London via Rotterdam; ...

  19. Louis G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Ve?subie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly;...

  20. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1926. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending German school; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; former friends ignoring her; anti-Jewish restrictions; her violin teacher discontinuing her lessons; a woman in their building, whose son was a Nazi official, offering her lessons despite the prohibition; Kristallnacht; her father's and grandfather's deportation to Buchenwald; their release several weeks later; her father's ruined health; expulsion from school; obtaining vis...