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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
  1. Yehuda M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda M., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1914, the only child of an eighth generation Dutch-Jewish family. He recalls moving to Hilversum at age fourteen; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, then Betar; working in steel production; enlisting in the Dutch military; marriage in Rotterdam in 1940; capitulation to Germany; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; living as non-Jews; working with the underground to hide other Jews; his mother's death in Eindhoven; her Christian funeral; being shot when fleeing f...

  2. Albert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert K., who was born in Forth, Germany in 1923, the youngest of three sons, one of whom was deaf. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish policies; attending a Jewish school in Nuremberg; his hearing brother's emigration to Argentina; moving to Nuremberg in 1938; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; assistance from non-Jewish friends; futile efforts to emigrate; internment with his family in Langwasser in November 1941; deportation to Jungfernhof in December; his mother hiding him when he w...

  3. Fredrich H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredrich H., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He recalls participating in a socialist youth group; his sister's marriage to a non-Jew; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; a futile attempt to smuggle himself to Czechoslovakia; obtaining a visa for Luxembourg; being refused entry; brief imprisonment in Germany; release on the condition he leave Germany; smuggling himself to Luxembourg; his parents joining him; moving to Brussels with his parents, sister, and her husband; arranging emigration to the Dominican Republic; German invasion preventing their departur...

  4. Rivka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rivka K., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland, in 1920, one of two children. She recounts her family's Zionism; attending Hebrew schools; participating in Zionist youth groups; her family's move to Kraków in 1933; attending a Hebrew gymnasium; participating in Ha-No'ar ha-Ivri-Akiba led by Yoel Dreiblatt; antisemitic harassment; working for Akiba in Warsaw; being sent to establish Akiba in Bydgoszcz, Skarżysko, and Starachowice; assisting German-Jewish refugees in Zbąszyń; returning to Kraków as a leader with Shimon Draenger, Adolf Liebeskind (Dolek) and others; eng...

  5. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  6. Alfred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland) in 1920, the older of two siblings. He recounts his father's pro-German sentiments based on his military service in World War I; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; moving with his family to Berlin in 1935; participating in Hechalutz; attending their summer camp; hearing Martin Buber speak; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his family during Kristallnacht; his sister's emigration to England, then his to Wieringen, Netherlands with a hachsharah in M...

  7. Tobias S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tobias S., who was born in Tarn?ow, Poland in 1925, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1926; attending a Jewish school; a one-year visit with relatives in Poland in 1935; attending a Jewish school there; attending a Talmudic high school in Belgium; German invasion; fleeing with his family to France; returning after encountering German soldiers; anti-Jewish restrictions including closing of his school and wearing the star; his sister's disappearance (he never saw her again); illegally traveling with his parents to Paris, then south using f...

  8. Mira V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira V., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1919, the older of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; summering at their vacation home in Nemenčinė; attending a Bund, then another Yiddish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending lectures by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Vladimir Jabotinsky; her father's dismissal from his government job in 1938 due to increasing antisemitisim; living on a hachsharah in Częstochowa; German invasion in 1939; fleeing to Kovelʹ; Soviet occupation; returning home; German invasion; anti-Jew...

  9. Avraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Tykocin, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts attending cheder, then yeshiva; increasing antisemitism; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; visiting Białystok; German invasion; round-up with his family; his father sending him home; hiding with a friend; hearing the mass shooting of all the Jews while escaping to the forest; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; traveling to his grandparents' in Knyszyn; a round-up nine months later; escaping with his aunt a...

  10. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Lazdijai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending cheder; his family's expulsion during World War I; their return; attending Hebrew high school in Marijampolė; participating in Maccabi; leading the Lithuanian team in the 1932 Tel Aviv Makabiyah; attending the University of Pittsburgh; his father's death; returning home; completing law school in Kaunas; antisemitic harassment by university officials; marriage in 1935; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva; Soviet occupation in June 1940; worki...

  11. Uziel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Uziel L., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in 1916, the youngest of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending Jewish and public schools; moving with his family to ?o?dz? in 1929; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his sisters' emigration to Palestine in 1934 and 1935; training as a textile engineer; supporting his parents; his leadership role in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; attending officers' training school; German invasion; capture; imprisonment in Stalag II A; ...

  12. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1923, the oldest of eight children, two of whom died before the war. He recounts his father's trade as a barrel maker; attending a Czech school; extreme poverty; moving to Secǒvce; their improved situation; attending a Slovak school; working with his father from age thirteen; building a machine to improve their process; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's military draft; visiting him in Uz︠h︡horod; his release several ...

  13. Theo Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theo Z., who was born in Kovelʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, the younger of two siblings. He recounts moving to Brussels in 1929; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning tailoring from his father after completing high school; German invasion; fleeing to Revel; delivering to customers in Toulouse; briefly being drafted into the French army in Bressuire; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; briefly hiding; deportation to Malines in August 1942; transport the next day to Cosel, Ottmuth, then Klein Mangersdorf; slave labor co...

  14. Ruth T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth T., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in the early 1930s. She recounts her family's affluence; summer vacations in Krasnobród; German invasion; her father's military draft; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; delivering messages for her father to his colleagues in Hashomer Hatzair; hiding during round-ups; deportation of her parents and brother; escaping; a non-Jewish teacher hiding her; bringing food to her grandmother and two aunts in hiding; later seeing them killed; witnessing a mass shooting; being assigned to gather valuables from abandoned Jewish ...

  15. Maurice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice P., who was born in Brussels, Belgium to Polish immigrants in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recalls a happy childhood despite his family's poverty; the sacredness of Friday nights despite their general secularism; cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in Zionist and socialist organizations; leaving school to begin work at age twelve; non-Jewish friends attending his bar mitzvah; German invasion; traveling to Gravelines intending to enlist; returning after encountering German troops; obtaining authentic papers as a non-Jew; distributing Resistance...

  16. Yaakov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recounts his brother's death from pneumonia; attending a Jewish school; compulsory transfer to a public school; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's business from age fourteen; German, then brief Soviet occupation; traveling with his father to an uncle in Volodymyret︠s︡ʹ; their return home; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation with his family to Sobibór in spring 1942; separation from his mother and sister; slave labor with his father cutting t...

  17. Paulina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina B., who was born in Gorlice, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy), one of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her father's service in World War I; attending Beit Yakov, public school, then gymnasium; summer vacations at her aunt's house in Nowy Sącz; participating in Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni; arrest by Polish police for Zionist activity; attending university in Kraków; a trip to Italy with her boyfriend; vacationing in Zakopane; working for the Red Cross; German invasion; relocating to her father's village; fleeing east; German bombardment; trave...

  18. Ruth E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth E., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of two sisters. She recalls her parents' divorce; living with her paternal grandmother, then an uncle and aunt; their affluence; attending Jewish school, a German high school, then boarding school in Opava; participating in Maccabi; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; she and her sister hiding with relatives; joining their father in Brno, then a nearby village; living with a farmer, using false papers (she later learned they knew they were Jews); deportation to Theresienstadt in April 1942; marriag...

  19. Rudi F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudi F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, one of nine children. He recounts his family's move to Vișeu de Sus when he was about five; attending cheder, Romanian public school, then yeshiva; apprenticeships as a mechanic and barber; living with a sister in Arad; working at her husband's barber shop; antisemitic harassment; participating in Gordonyah; Hungarian occupation; returning to Vișeu de Sus; moving to Budapest; studying singing; a brother and sister joining him; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; slave labor in Kőszeg and Uzhok; f...

  20. Shaul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shaul S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the second of three children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending a Jewish school; his father purchasing property in the Netherlands; moving to Oosterbeek after Adolf Hitler's 1933 election; moving to Arnhem; joining Maccabi Hatzair; attending the Berlin Olympics in 1936; his maternal grandparents joining them after Kristallnacht; his grandparents' relocation to Westerbork as German refugees; their release to Amsterdam; working in his father's poultry business; moving to Amsterdam; German invas...