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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Dov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1913, one of six children in an orthodox family. He recounts attending cheder, yeshivas in Khust and Galanta, then a Jewish gymnasium in Brno; night work in a factory to support himself; attending an agricultural school in Tábor to prepare for emigration to Palestine; participating in Hechalutz; graduation in 1932; military draft; continuing contact with Hechalutz; discharge in 1936; returning home briefly; working in Prague; training at a kibbutz in Plzeň; military recall in 1938; his posting in Košice; his ...

  2. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919, one of three children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending cheder and a German school; participating in Zionist groups, including Betar; a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; his father purchasing land in Israel; managing a Zionist youth camp in Sękowa in summer 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and sister to Będzin; his mother and brother joining them; moving to Sosnowiec; organizing a Zionist group with Yiśraʼel Ḳoz'ukh and others; warning fellow Jews not to report for deportation; forced labo...

  3. Hugo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugo R., who was born in Ruma, Yugoslavia in 1926. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; cordial relations with multi-ethnic non-Jews; moving to Novi Sad in 1938; Hungarian occupation; not attending school due to anti-Jewish quotas; expulsion as non-Hungarians; living with his parents, grandmother, and sister in the Fruska Mountains; assistance from a Serb villager; returning to Ruma; brief imprisonment by the Ustaša; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; returning to Novi Sad; escaping the mass killing in January 1942 due to their false papers; German occupati...

  4. Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Nowy Z?migro?d, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment and beatings; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing to Lesko; returning; forced labor building roads; deportation to Frysztak; returning home; frequent round-ups; deportation to Jas?o, then P?aszo?w; slave labor constructing railways; receiving food from his sisters who were in hiding; their arrival; transfer with them and a cousin to Skarz?ysko; assignment to a munitions factory; meeti...

  5. Abram C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abram C., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1922, the oldest of four children. He recounts moving to Będzin when he was eleven; his father's privileges and high status due to heroic service in the Polish military; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; slave labor assignments; deportation to Klein Mangersdorf in fall 1940; slave labor building roads; transfer nine months later to Gross Sarne; privileged work in the kitchen; transfer to Blechhammer; privileged work ...

  6. Aharon C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon C., who was born in Opoczno, Poland in 1921, one of seven children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then Tarbut school; participating in Gordonyah; antisemitic violence; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; two brothers' conscription; German invasion; one brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; Germans taking community leaders for ransom, including his father; the community paying the ransom; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; ghettoization; working in the family bakery; volunteering in a soup kitchen; his assignment to b...

  7. Clara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara M., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland (then Russia) in 1915, one of four children. She recalls her father's work as a Hebrew educator and his strong Zionist commitment; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; her leadership role in Hashomer Hatzair; attending university in Warsaw; interning at Janusz Korczak's orphanage; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; directing a Zionist summer camp in Zakopane in 1939; German invasion; walking to Rzeszów via Kraków; futile attempts to escape to the Soviet zone; forced labor with her sister; escapi...

  8. Yaffa U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaffa U., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1927, the youngest of three children. She recalls her large, extended family; their affluence; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of their land and houses; her brother and sister leaving; German invasion in June 1941; Lithuanians taking her father (she never saw him again); giving their valuables to non-Jewish neighbors; forced labor in Polygon; living with her extended family; her uncle bribing a Lithuanian for their release (her mother remained and she never saw her again); returning to Šv...

  9. Simcha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simcha B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1912, one of six children. He recalls attending public school; working in a pharmacy; serving in the Polish army; moving to Warsaw in 1938; German invasion; returning with his sister to Izbica; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone; traveling to Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ in the Soviet zone; returning to retrieve his sister; not being able to leave; forced labor cleaning roads; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); hiding during round-ups; his sisters' and mother's deportations; transfer to a labor camp for two mon...

  10. Kopel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kopel K., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; briefly living in Sinkevichy; returning to Lakhva in 1930; his father's successful businesses in Chalanyets where they spent their summers; attending Hebrew school; joining Betar and other youth groups; antisemitic vandalism of their home; Soviet occupation in September 1939; attending a Soviet school; confiscation of the family businesses; his father's arrest and deportation in 1940; German occupation in July 1941; formation of a Juden...

  11. Chanan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan A., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1927, the youngest of four children in a wealthy, religious family. He recounts his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; attending a Romanian school; his sister's marriage; Hungarian occupation in 1940; attending a Jewish high school in Budapest, then in Uz︠h︡horod; German occupation in March 1944; immediately returning home; hiding family valuables in their cellar and with non-Jewish friends; refusing their non-Jewish maid's offer to hide the children, wanting to stay together; ghettoization; assistance from ...

  12. Baruch S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch S., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. He recalls his family's roots in Vilna; attending cheder and a Lubavitch synagogue, where his father was cantor; attending a Jewish gymnasium; preparing for his bar mitzvah for a year (he gave several readings and talks due to his father's position); transfer to a Polish gymnasium; attending summer camp where Abba Kovner lectured; Soviet occupation, then Lithuanian control in 1939; return to Soviet control in 1940; enrolling in a technical school; German invasion; hi...

  13. Itzchak H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak H., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's Hasidism; attending cheder and public school; his family's Zionism; his mother' death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; living with his younger sister in a children's home starting in June 1940; a Zionist leader, Shalom K., giving them hope; returning with his sister to his family in October 1942; obtaining food for his family; many deaths from hunger and disease; being slapped by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the ghetto, when asking for food for his brother;...

  14. Lawrence L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lawrence L., a professor and prominent scholar of Holocaust literature and testimony, who was born in Bronx, New York in 1929. He recalls no knowledge of the Holocaust or the Nuremberg trials when they occurred; traveling to Europe in 1955 after completing his oral examinations at Harvard, focusing on American literature; visiting Dachau, including a gas chamber; having no context with which to understand the site, outside of minimal signage; reading Night and The Last of the Just to prepare a lecture for Yom Hashoah in the early 1960s, his first encounters with Holoc...

  15. Chaim O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim O., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, one of six children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic violence; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; he and his siblings spending summers with their grandmother in Miecho?w Charsznica; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Charsznica, then returning in late winter; forced labor locally; one sister being taken to Krako?w; a round-up in fall 1942; a mass killing; transfer to a field near S?omniki; a child's birth; selection with his father and brother for transfer to P?aszo?w; their escape to Charsznica;...

  16. Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Kraków, Poland, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, then Mizrachi school; training with Akiva for two years; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; returning to Kraków in 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor as a gardener; his family's expulsion to Rzeszów; working as a translator in a garage; ghettoization; traveling to the Rzeszów ghetto, dressed as a German; seeing his family for the last time; bringing his friend's girlfriend back to Kraków; obtaining a job in the garage for Hesh...

  17. Menachem O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Menachem O., who was born in Dębica, Poland in 1922, an only child. He recounts attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harrassment; participating in a religious Zionist youth group; his father's business exporting eggs; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; attending a clandestine yeshiva; his father's emergency surgery arranged through non-Jewish contacts; separation from his parents after a round-up (he never saw them again); deportation to Rzesźow; severe depression due to separation from his parents; after six weeks deciding to do...

  18. Henri G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recounts that his parents were Polish immigrants; uniformed Nazis beating his father in front of him in 1933; his father's deportation to Poland; destruction of their store and home on Kristallnacht; joining his father in Katowice; living with relatives in Przemys?l; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; his parents efforts to protect him; having to bury murdered Jews after a mass killing; an attack by the dog of the ghetto Kommandant, Joseph Schwamberger; working for Schwamberger; deportation with his...

  19. Jacques R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of three children. He recounts his family's move to Anderlecht in 1924; his father working as a rabbi and mohel; attending public school and cheder; training for four years as a sculptor at the Academie Royale de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, then for six months with his grandfather as an engraver; German invasion; fleeing to De Panne; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; sculpting grave monuments; hiding his parents and sister with non-Jews in Sint-Genesius-Rode; obtaining false papers; arrest and interrogation i...

  20. Ze'ev G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of five children. He recounts his very close family, attending Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia, another to Vilnius); finding their home occupied upon return; moving to his grandfather's home (his grandfather had been killed); a non-Jewish neighbor bringing them food; ghettoization; his sister's return from Vilnius; his father's privileged position as a painter; working w...