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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. David L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's move to Cologne, then Brussels in 1928; actively participating in socialist groups; German invasion; resistance activities from 1941 onward; killing a soldier in retaliation for his girlfriend's torture and execution; deportation of his father and brother in 1942; hiding in Brabant; his mother and youngest brother hiding; his arrest as a resistant; imprisonment in St. Gilles, then Malines; and deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. L. recounts finding his father; participating in the inmate underground; ...

  2. Francis O. and Ilia O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francis O., who was born in Novi Sad, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1913, and his wife Ilia O., who was born in Kisač, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1915. Mr. O. recounts his mother's death in 1915; his father's draft into the Austrian military in World War I; living in a Serbian village with his grandparents, the only Jews there; singing in the church choir; returning to Novi Sad in 1918; living with his aunt; learning that he was Jewish; attending a Jewish school; his father's two remarriages; the births of two half-sisters; part...

  3. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Arm...

  4. Helga H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga H., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the elder of two sisters. She recalls her father's strong German identity (he was a World War I veteran); their assimilated lifestyle; attending a public school; participating in Catholic prayers and Christmas shows; friends snubbing her with the rise of Nazism; harassment in middle school (she was the only Jew); increasingly restrictive anti-Jewish laws including reduced rations for Jews; observing vandalism, theft (including at her family's store), and burning synagogues on November 9, 1938; learning her uncle had ...

  5. David K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David K., a researcher who specialized in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. He discusses the emigration of many Jews to Shanghai, their relationships with the already existing Jewish communities, the Chinese, and the Japanese. His book Japanese, Nazis & Jews : the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945, is an authoritative study of this subject.

  6. Gerd E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerd E., who was born in Berlin in 1922. He describes his wealthy and prominent family; attending public school, then the elite French gymnasium; hardships resulting from the Nuremberg laws. including his expulsion from school in 1938; attending a Jewish school; synagogue burnings and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release six weeks later, a weak and broken man; completing his qualifying exam (arbitur) in 1940; an apprenticeship leading to a factory job; hiding money and valuables with non-Jewish friends; his father's death; four weeks of forced labor in Wu...

  7. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  8. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...

  9. Anne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne R., who was born in Ichenhausen, Germany in 1925. She recalls her observant home; attending a Jewish school; a large and close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's death in 1936; attending boarding school in Frankfurt; being called home at Kristallnacht; violence against Jews by former friends and neighbors; living with an aunt in Augsburg; receiving papers for a kindertransport in July 1939; parting from her mother and younger sister in August (they were supposed to join her in October, but war intervened and she n...

  10. Emma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emma S., a singer who was born in Russia, emigrated to the United States in infancy, and at the time of her interviews lived in both Israel and the United States. She tells of her musical education and training and the beginning of her career. She details her motivation for joining a cultural delegation sponsored by the World Jewish Congress which toured displaced persons camps in Europe in 1946. She recalls the devastation she encountered upon arrival; the vitality of the survivors in the more than fifty camps where she sang, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Landsbe...

  11. Irving S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Surawno, Austria (now U.S.S.R.) in 1907. He recounts attending cheder; his father's Austrian patriotism; fleeing to the Carpathians, Vienna, and Teplice during World War I; returning home where everything had been destroyed; attending school under Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet auspices as governments changed; and his brother's return from Austrian Army service, having lost a leg. Mr. S. tells of living with his aunt in Teplice; activities in Zionist groups; returning home; graduation from university and law school in Krako?w; legal clerkship...

  12. Pierre B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pierre B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1935 to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He recalls that his parents did not marry because of the political situation; his father's forced emigration, inability to adjust to life in Brazil, and return to Europe; and traveling with his mother to rejoin his father in Paris. He describes school; roaming the streets of Paris with his best friend Lucien, who died in Auschwitz and about whom he has written poetry; difficulties with other children who considered him German; his independence as a young child; his father's hos...

  13. Dora W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora W., who was born in P?ock, Poland in 1927. She recounts moving to France with her mother and brother when she was two; learning Yiddish in order to write to her father in Poland; fleeing to Croix-de-Vie in September 1939; returning to Paris after German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions in 1941; hiding with her mother and brother to avoid the round-up of July 16, 1942 after a warning from two non-Jewish friends; traveling with her mother and brother to unoccupied France, posing as non-Jews; living with her mother and brother in Grenade; her brother's deportation...

  14. Irving C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He describes a childhood of extreme poverty; working as a tailor; German occupation; slave labor and beatings; fleeing to Bia?ystok; staying with his sister and brother in a synagogue; meeting his future wife and her father; registering to go to the Soviet Union; traveling with his brother, sister, future wife, and her father in cattle cars to Omsk; his marriage; living in barracks on the outskirts of Omsk; hard labor, then working as a tailor; his daughter's birth; a year's military service in Kalachinsk; returning t...

  15. Peter G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter G., a distinguished scholar and professor of history, who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1923. Professor G. describes his childhood and education; his parents' atheism; the Nuremberg laws; the different opinions people held about the Nazis; his family's haphazard plans to emigrate; Kristallnacht; obtaining passage to Cuba; his two year stay in Havana; and his emigration to the United States. He also discusses the opposing theories of whether the Holocaust could happen again; the impact that the refugees had on United States intellectual life; and his thoughts o...

  16. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Czechoslovakia in 1933. She recalls her affluent family; vacationing in Belgium in 1938; moving to Prague with her parents in September; attending Jewish school; a last visit to her maternal grandparents; smuggling themselves into Hungary in 1939; six weeks in Budapest in her aunt's home; separation from her parents, when they were arrested while illegally entering Yugoslavia using false papers; telling the guards, as instructed, that she was Catholic; her release; brief stays in Zagreb and Mitrovica; attending school in ...

  17. Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts a close relationship with her Hasidic grandparents; German occupation; attending a Jewish school; Kristallnacht; expropriation of her mother's business; her parents obtaining false papers; their emigration to Brussels in spring 1939; living in Antwerp; obtaining visas for the United States; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest as an "enemy alien"; his deportation to camps in France; arranging to be smuggled to Paris, then Nice; living in Marseille; visiting her father in the cam...

  18. Fredka M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredka M., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, in approximately 1921, one of two sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public school; participating in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; skiing in Zakopane; working with Moshe Merin (future head of the Judenrat) to assist refugees from Germany; German invasion; her father fleeing east; fleeing with her mother, sister, and aunt; returning when overtaken by German troops; her father's return; working for the Judenrat, then in the Jewish hospital; organizing educational activities and food for children; traveling to Os?wie...

  19. Niusia A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Niusia A., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, circa 1924. She describes the changes caused by the German takeover of Poland; her family's move to the nearby town of Bochnia; the ghettoization of Bochnia and the subsequent liquidation of the ghetto; and her and her mother's return to Krako?w to avoid deportation (her father had died before the war). She also tells of living on the Aryan side in Warsaw and her journey from Warsaw to Budapest, where she remained until the German invasion of Hungary; her capture while trying to escape to Romania; and her detention in a Roma...

  20. Eitan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eitan G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, one of five children. He recounts attending school; participating in Po'alei Zion and other Zionist groups; fights with pro-Nazi youths; emigration to Belgium in 1935; traveling with his father to Marseille in an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States; German invasion in 1940; incarceration with his father as enemy aliens in St. Cyprien, then Gurs; their release; living in a village near Toulouse; studying chemistry at the university in Montepellier; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; joining the Mouvement ...