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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Alexander L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander L., a non-Jew who was born in Kiev in 1936. He describes leaving Russia in 1941 at the onset of the German occupation of Kiev; the fear of being separated from his parents; and imprisonment in labor camps in Germany from 1942 until 1944/1945. He remembers on-going travel, and hearing shots fired but never seeing any bodies. He tells of going to Czechoslovakia after the war and expresses the hope that his children will never have similar experiences.

  2. Frania R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frania R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1932. She speaks of her memories of prewar life; life in the ?o?dz? ghetto, into which she, her brother, and her parents were among the first to move in February, 1940, and where they remained after the ghetto's liquidation until liberation by the Russians in January, 1945; and her postwar difficulties in adjustment.

  3. Sylvia J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia J., who was born Brooklyn, New York. She recalls joining the United States Army in March 1943; being set to Europe after the war; stationing at Frankfurt in August 1945; obtaining a job with UNRRA; working at Landsberg displaced persons camp orgainizing food distribution; trying to understand the survivors' struggles to restore their lives; a Purim and Passover celebration; minimal interaction with Germans; resigning from UNRRA in November 1946; and returning to the United States.

  4. Menachem S. edited testimony

    Menachem S., a child survivor relates his vivid memories of Kraków, the German occupation, and moving to the ghetto and to Płaszów concentration camp. He tells of being smuggled out of the camp and surviving as a street child from ages four to seven, with the aid of several Polish women. He reflects upon his postwar reunion with his parents, the psychological effects of his experiences, and the possible effects on his own children and the next generation.

  5. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She speaks of her childhood; the rise of antisemitism in prewar Berlin; escape from Germany through Holland in 1938; her family's emigration to the United States after being detained in an internment camp in Bonaire, Netherlands West Indies; and her adult life in the United States.

  6. Remembering Częstochowa, Poland

    Seven survivors from Częstochowa, Poland describe their lives before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; mass killings; deportations; slave labor in German factories established in Częstochowa; liberation by Soviet troops, and their losses. This edited program was prepared for an exhibit in Częstochowa that was also shown in Kraków, Warsaw, and the United States. There is a version with Polish subtitles.

  7. Mendel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Vienna and raised in Poland. He speaks of the Russian occupation of his home town; the ghettoization immediately following the German occupation; the killing of his family; his escape to the woods, where he remained in hiding for two years; his deportation to Siberia by the Russians in 1944; and his emigration from Russia, including his stay in a displaced persons camp.

  8. Omar W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Omar W., who served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He recalls his unit's arrival at Dachau shortly after its liberation; boxcars filled with corpses; emaciated prisoners; rooms full of bodies stacked like wood; and crematoria. Mr. W. recounts serving for three months as commander of a displaced persons camp near Salzburg, Austria and discusses his thoughts on hatred between peoples and the importance of his providing eyewitness proof of the Holocaust.

  9. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.

  10. Newton S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Newton S., a non-Jew, who was an American soldier during World War II. He tells of his military training and preparations for combat in 1943-1944; his arrival in England and participation in the Battle of the Bulge; his experience in a POW camp near Hanover; his postwar stay in a French field camp, where he was helped by a doctor whom he met again years later in New Haven; and the difficulty of resistance in the camps.

  11. Fred O. edited testimony

    Fred O., a physician, recalls the health problems resulting from pervasive lice in the Warsaw and Hrubieszów ghettos. He describes his futile attempt to save his parents and the last time he saw them before their murder at a mass grave outside of Hrubieszów, then discusses his sadness at liberation, and others taking revenge on their guards. Dr. O. reflects upon the inadequacy of language to convey his experience to others.

  12. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in 1921 and lived in a town near Khust, Czechoslovakia. She tells of the Hungarian, then German occupation; the deportations and deaths of members of her family; and her own hiding, first on a farm, then with a friend of her father. She also speaks of her suicidal feelings during that time and of the difficulties she later encountered when she and her older sister went to Prague.

  13. Christy A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Christy A., who was drafted into the United States army in December 1942. He describes training as a radio mechanic; service in France and Germany; briefly entering Buchenwald after it was liberated; emaciated prisoners in overcrowded bunks; his shock at the conditions; hundreds of corpses near the crematoria; the anger of a Jewish-American soldier who was in their group; difficulty communicating with the prisoners; and his wish to leave quickly.

  14. Rev. Michael V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael V., who was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1946 to a Christian father and a Jewish mother. He speaks of his mother's family, most of whom perished in Auschwitz; his parents' decision to raise him as a Christian; and his response to the Holocaust from the perspective of both a Jew and a Christian. He also discusses his decision to become a minister and his belief that his becoming a Christian is not a refutation of his Judaism.

  15. Miny H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miny H., who was born in Poland. Although she has great difficulty expressing herself in English, Ms. H. speaks of the loss of her family, with the exception of one surviving brother; slave labor in Estonia and Germany; life in the Stutthof concentration camp; and her attempts, amidst constant degradation, to retain her humanity.

  16. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in 1923 and drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts deployment to North Africa, then Italy; training in a medical laboratory; moving through to France to Germany; entering Dachau after lits liberation; observing malnourished and sick prisoners; corpses stacked "like wood"; testing prisoners for typhus, and leaving after a short time. He shows photographs taken at Dachau.

  17. Bill F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bill F., who was born in 1926 and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts attending military high school; induction into the army in 1944; fighting with the 7th Army in France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany; being awakened by the smell of death while riding in a half-track; entering Dachau; and observing emaciated corpses lying on the ground.

  18. Vincent C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent C., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He describes entering Remagen concentration camp; seeing corpses; the pervasive stench; leaving immediately to pursue German forces; liberating another camp in Leipzig in April 1945; and his reunion with an uncle from Italy who was a prisoner there.

  19. Brigitte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Brigitte W., a Romani, who was born in 1937, the youngest of seven children. She recalls childhood in Erfurt; frequent air raids; hiding in the forests; deportation of many relatives; liberation by United States troops; and continuing hostility toward Romanies.

  20. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., a non-Jew, and an American physician now practicing in New Haven, Connecticut. He speaks of his experiences in the Dachau concentration camp, where, as a physician with the U.S. Army, he arrived a few days after liberation and remained for six weeks with another U.S. Army physician to treat former prisoners and conduct research on typhus.