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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Kalman A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kalman A., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928, an only child. He recounts attending a Yavneh school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet invasion; attending a Soviet school; German invasion; Lithuanians openly stealing their possessions; his father's round-up (they never saw him again); ghettoization; slave labor at the airport; smuggling food into the ghetto; a selection prior to a mass shooting at the 9th Fort; hiding during the children's selection; a public hanging; transfer to Aleksotas with his mother, aunt, and her children; deportation to Stutthof; separatio...

  2. Lillian R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lillian R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of four sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; her mother's grandfather, a prominent rabbi in Warsaw; attending private Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; forced relocation with her family to De?bica in December; moving to Radom; ghettoization; her mother's deportation (she did not survive); transition of the ghetto into a camp; deportation with her father to Szyd?owiec; their return to Radom, due to her sister's influence with a German official; marriage in 1943; hi...

  3. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (presently Gusev, Russia) in 1922, the second of four children. He recounts living in Šiauliai; his father's executive position at a large leather factory; participating in Maccabi; summer vacations in Palanga; attending a Jewish elementary school, Hebrew high school, then a Lithuanian gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in spring 1941; briefly fleeing east; he and his brother being forced by Lithuanians to bury corpses of Soviet soldiers; arrest by one former classmate and relea...

  4. Avraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, the second of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and a Jewish high school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in April 1941; round-up when visiting friends in August 1942; slave labor in a factory; escaping; return to the ghetto; learning his family had been deported (none survived); assistance from friends; deciding not to eat bread during Passover; his future wife sending him vegetables; Poles throwing food over the wall; volunteering for depor...

  5. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He recalls his mother's severe illness; being raised in Chernyshevskoye by his father and grandmother; his family's Zionisim; attending German primary school until 1934; leaving due to antisemitism; studying with private tutors; attending a Hebrew gymnasium in Kaunas beginning in 1936; Soviet occupation; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German invasion in June 1941; a non-Jewish woman hiding them during a mass killing by Lithuanians; his grandfather being killed; ghettoization; his mother and grandmother being...

  6. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Dămăcușeni, Romania in 1926, one of seven children from her father's second marriage (his first wife, with whom he had five children, died in childbirth). She recounts her father's leadership of the Jewish community; his beating by Nazi sympathizers; Hungarian occupation in 1940; draft of her sisters' husbands into slave labor battalions; moving to a married sister's home in Reghin to assist with her business and family; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization with her sister and her children; deportation to Birkenau; separation fro...

  7. Thérèse G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thérèse G., who was born in Kłobuck, Poland in 1928, the older of two sisters. She recounts emigration to Brussels when she was three months old; attending school; German bombing and invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her parents placing her and her sister (with others from her school) in a convent in Louvain in 1942; the nuns instructing them not to reveal they were Jewish; attending mass and praying; her parents retrieving them in 1944, fearing Allied bombings in Louvain; hiding with them and her aunt in Groot-Bijgaarden (Grand Big...

  8. Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts attending Polish and Jewish schools, then yeshiva; working at a family store; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to Lublin; their unsuccessful attempt to enter the Soviet-occupied area; returning to Krako?w; moving to Rzeszo?w to avoid forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; a year later joining his parents in Kolbuszowa, then G?ogo?w Ma?opolski; arrest and a beating for smuggling food from Tarno?w; release by a Polish policeman in Rzeszo?w; volunteering for deporta...

  9. Arthur P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur P., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1927. He recounts beginning school in 1932; moving to Wielun?; antisemitic harassment; being sent with his brothers in 1939 to his grandparents in Piotrko?w Trybunalski; German invasion; his parents' arrival; fleeing to Lublin, then returning with his parents to Wielu?n (his brothers remained in Piotrko?w); finding their home confiscated and their possessions gone; his father returning to Piotrko?w; he and his mother supporting themselves teaching languages; non-Jews assisting them to send food to their family in Piotrko?w...

  10. Roman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland in 1928, an only child. He recounts his father's sense of both Polish and Jewish identity (he served in World War I); attending a Jewish school; participating in Maccabi; attending a Betar summer camp; traveling to Chełm immediately before the German invasion, then to to Zdolbunov; Soviet occupation; moving to Lʹviv; attending a Soviet school; obtaining false papers as Protestants; German invasion; his mother working as a secretary and his father on a farm; fleeing to Kraków when their discovery was imminent; continuing...

  11. Kenneth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth R., who was born in Gorlice, Poland in 1926, the only child in an affluent family. He recounts his mother's death in 1931; antisemitic harassment; attending Catholic church with his nanny; wonderful extended family gatherings; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; German invasion; assistance from a German soldier who befriended his aunt; ghettoization; smuggling food; working for a Volksdeutch; receiving extra food from him; hiding after warnings from the soldier of round-ups; transfer alone to the work camp; a mass shooting and deportation in Au...

  12. Yekutiel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yekutiel S., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1928, one of two children. He recalls a large, extended family; attending Jewish and Polish schools; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1938; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; German occupation in June 1941; ghettoization; forced factory labor; smuggling food into the ghetto; hiding during round-ups; his sister being taken from work; round-up by Ukrainians; being beaten unconscious and, upon awakening, seeing his mother shot; deportation to Bliżyn; slave labor in a quarry; trading va...

  13. Helen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen B., who was born in in 1923 in Łódź, Poland, one of four sisters. She recalls her family's affluence and modernity; their enthusiasm for opera and dancing; German invasion; deportation with her family to Dębica; moving to Radom; living with an aunt; all of them contracting typhus; ghettoization; forced labor outside the ghetto; her mother's deportation; hiding when her work group was deported; smuggling herself back to the ghetto; marriage; deportation with her family to Majdanek in January 1944; transfer with two sisters to Płaszów in March; a prisoner doct...

  14. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., a Catholic, who was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1923, one of two children. He recounts attending school in Uccle; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee to France; participating in an illegal demonstration; joining a Resistance group; printing and distributing illegal pamphlets and newspapers; collecting information from others on German equipment and troop movements to convey to a superior; meeting a contact in Floriffoux, Charleroi, and other locations; arrest on January 30, 1943 in Brussels; incarceration in Avenue Louise; being beaten; transfer to Br...

  15. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Dolný Kubín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1916, the third of six children. He recounts his family's move to Trstená; attending a Jewish school; his family's move to Pestújhely in 1923; his mother's long-term hospitalization; living with relatives; his father's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1933; moving to Bratislava; participating in Mizrahi; working in Ostrava; joining a Mizrahi kibbutz; moving to Nováky; he and his brother boarding a ship for Palestine; being returned to Slovakia; working in Pie...

  16. Chaim D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim D., who was born in Neresnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic harassment; his father's deportation (they never saw him again); his siblings moving to Budapest; assistance from the Joint; German invasion in spring 1944; his siblings return; deportation with his family to the Mátészalka ghetto, then five weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his brother from his mother and sisters; transfer to Buchenwald a few days later; slave ...

  17. Moshe R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe R., who was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recounts his relatively affluent family; attending a Jewish school, then engineering school in Vilnius in 1939; participating in Hechalutz; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; round-up of his father and brother for work (they never returned); ghettoization; his cousin Yitzhak Arad living with them; forced labor sorting weapons; a German soldier encouraging his group to escape; escaping with Arad and others to the Glubokoye ghetto; Arad's sister arrang...

  18. Krystyna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Krystyna B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932, the youngest of eight children. Ms. B. recounts her parents' orthodoxy; vacations in Otwock; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her brothers financially supporting them by building hiding places for others; one brother surrendering himself and family because his young children might expose others in hiding; her brother Rafael's marriage in 1941; deportation with his wife; his escape and return; his construction and provisioning a bunker connected to the sewer system; retreating to the bunker on...

  19. Miriam P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam P., who was born in Loosdrecht, Holland, the oldest of four children. She recounts attending school in Hilversum; graduation in 1936; living in England and Paris, each for a year, to improve her language skills; one brother's emigration to Canada in 1938; teaching school in Bilthoven; German invasion in 1940; opening a Jewish school in her parents' home; assistance from a nearby hachsharah, which included her future husband; organizing an underground group to obtain false papers and hide children; her family's deportation to Westerbork in 1943; an underground m...

  20. Benjamin J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin J., who was born in Dobra, Poland in 1919, the youngest of three children. He recalls antisemitic harassment; attending one year of dental school; German invasion; ghettoization; assistance from a few Polish friends; deportation with his father in 1941 to Poznan?; slave labor for Hoch und Tiefbau; receiving extra food from a Polish woman who also smuggled mail to him; a severe beating for smuggling bread; transfer with his father in 1943 to a nearby camp; public executions; assignment to the hospital as a dentist and medical assistant; learning his mother and...