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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. About the Holocaust

    This documentary, narrated by the child of a survivor and including testimony excerpts, introduces the secondary school student to the Holocaust. Originally produced for an inner-city school system and currently distributed by the Anti-Defamation League, this edited program has had a favorable response from both teachers and students, particularly at the ninth grade level.

  2. Seeing

    Survivors and witnesses describe their experiences during the Holocaust period. This edited program includes a Jesuit priest who was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia; a Jewish woman who was a young girl in Locise, Poland; another who was deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek; a Jewish male survivor of Skarżysko-Kamienna; and a woman survivor of Auschwitz.

  3. 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.

  4. Rachel G. edited testimony

    Rachel G., a child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. She tells of her leave taking from her parents, and lovingly recalls the kindness of the priest, nuns, and childless couple who helped her survive in hiding. She also recounts her postwar reunion and experiences with her mother.

  5. Parallel paths

    This edited program follows the path of the Anne Frank: the family move from Germany to Holland; German invasion; going into hiding; arrest and deportation to Westerbork, Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen; and Anne Frank's death in Bergen-Belsen. It is seen through the eyes of survivors, witnesses, and rescuers who had experiences similar to Anne Frank's.

  6. Betty C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty C., who was born in Berlin in 1910. She tells of her happy life in prewar Berlin and describes the rise of antisemitism in Germany, culminating in Kristallnacht, after which she, her husband, and her infant daughter fled the country and emigrated to the United States.

  7. Witness: voices from the Holocaust /

    The stories of nineteen Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including an American POW, resistance fighters, a Jesuit priest, an American liberator, a Hitler Youth, and ghetto and camp survivors, create a narrative of the Holocaust in the words of those who experienced it. This edited program includes historical and personal photographs and footage.

  8. Frank L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank L., a former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, who was an American infantry soldier in World War II. He speaks of the need to remember the Holocaust; his experience in combat; the bureaucratic nature of the Nazi regime; and the lessons which must be learned from history.

  9. Carol W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carol W., a child of Holocaust survivors who was born in the United States in 1954. She relates her childhood sense of her Jewishness and tells of learning of her parents' wartime experiences only very gradually. She describes the experience of her father, who was born in Poland in 1921, and who came to New Haven in 1949, and of her mother, who was born in Germany in 1928, and who came to the United States in 1939. Mrs. W. also describes the impact of her parents' personal histories on her own life.

  10. Those who were there

    This edited program serves to introduce and promote the goals of the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. It was first shown at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in 1983 to encourage survivors to come forward and give their testimony.

  11. The secondary witness: an interview with Terrence Des Pres

    Terrence Des Pres, a scholar of the Holocaust describes the origins of his interest in the subject, and his work studying and teaching Holocaust literature. He particularly focuses upon his book about survivors.

  12. Gregory F. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Gregory F., a non-Jew, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941. He relates experiences as a "displaced person" in his own country when he and his family were relocated by the Germans from Vienna to a small Austrian town.

  13. Everything else is history

    in this edited program, Holocaust survivors describe specific memories, reflect upon how and why they remember particular incidents, and the impact of these memories on their present lives.

  14. Survivors among us

    This edited program contains excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Hartford, Connecticut area, organized around the themes of "Early Memories," "The Camps," and "Resistance."

  15. Joza K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joza K., a Catholic musician who emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1949 and is presently on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. Mr. K., who has dedicated the past several years to the study and performance of the music of Theresienstadt, details the history and development of musical composition and performance in the camp.

  16. Future imperfect

    In this edited program, survivors reflect on the effects of their Holocaust experiences upon their lives and those of their children.

  17. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

  18. Forever yesterday

    A New York area Emmy award-winning documentary based on survivor testimonies, produced by WNEW-TV in cooperation with the Holocaust Survivors Film Project.

  19. Flight from destiny

    A documentary based on interviews with survivors of the SS St. Louis and Shanghai.

  20. Ivan K. Holocaust testimony