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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
  1. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Koněšín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1906, one of five brothers. He recounts moving to Kunowitz; learning songs from soldiers during World War I; attending school in Uherské Hradiště; participating in Zionist youth groups, including Tehelet Lavan, Makkabi Hatsair, and Maccabi; cordial realtions with non-Jews; studying law in Brno; military training in Litoměrǐce and Terezín; practicing law; German invasion; his father's death; moving to Prague in 1939; working with Jacob Edelstein in the Jewish Agency fo...

  2. Nathan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recounts his nanny in Warsaw; visits with his grandfather to a country home; his family's move to join relatives in Antwerp in 1930; attending school in Berchem; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in May 1940; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; deportation with his father to Malines in 1942; transfers to Ottmuth, Kleinmangersdorf, Babitz, and Trzebinia; slave labor; receiving help from friends; a privileged position due to his fluency in several languages; Jews from the Chrzano?w ghetto giving t...

  3. Moshe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Semeliškės, Lithuania in 1931, the only son of seven children. He recounts his family moving to Slobodka when he was two; visiting relatives in Merkinė; antisemitic harassment in the streets; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing briefly; ghettoization; having a private tutor; his bar mitzvah; two sisters' marriages; deportation of his mother and one sister (they did not survive); hiding in bunkers during round-ups; another sister being killed while hiding in a bunker; deportation to Stutthof; transfer with his father to Landsberg; s...

  4. Pnina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pnina G., who was born in Nowy Dwor Mazoweicki, Poland in 1923, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Jewish school; participating in Maccabi; anti-Jewish violence; German invasion; her family joining a brother in Warsaw; her parents and several siblings returning home; ghettoization; smuggling goods to her father in 1941; working with her brothers in a furniture factory; eating at a Joint soup kitchen; caring for the child of a rich family, from whom she obtained food for her family; smuggling herself into the Nowy Dwor ghetto; leaving to stay with...

  5. Boris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris B., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1918, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his father's death; joining his brother in Saverne in 1928; attending rabbinical school in Paris; working in his family's business; military draft in 1939; German invasion; capture as a prisoner of war in Brest; incarceration in Coëtquidan, Loudéac, Compiègne, then Saint-Just-en-Chaussée; escape; returning to Paris; joining his mother in Caluire-et-Cuire via Lyon; employment as a glass-cutter; a year later, working for Father Alexandre Glasberg, OSE, and Sixièmè (Jew...

  6. Daniel C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel C., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1932, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's affluence; a non-Jewish servant who raised him; attending a Jewish school; vacationing in Kačerginė; Soviet occupation in 1940; joining the Soviet youth movement; his father's disability after a car accident; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; a German helping him hide during a round-up; deportation with his family; separation from his mother and sister en route (he never saw them again); arrival in Landsberg; p...

  7. Zipora V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipora V., who was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; learning one was killed; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; round-up with her family; the escape of two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her parents; slave labor with her sister sorting deportees' belongings; burying jewelry she found as an act of sabotage; being beaten for throwing food over a fence to a cousin; tr...

  8. Bronia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923, the eldest of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; celebrating Jewish holidays in their secular home; attending a Jewish pre-school, a public school, a Yiddish school for a year in 1933, then gymnasium; studying violin; participating in Zionist youth groups; committing to Deror; a local pogrom; Soviet occupation in 1939; destruction of their home during the June 1941 German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village for a week; obtaining food by doing agricultural work with her siste...

  9. Norman S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman S., who was born in 1927 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, the youngest of nine children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's store; attending yeshiva in Tarn?ow; German invasion; fleeing to Krako?w; arrest en route to the Soviet zone; escape; traveling to L?viv; arrest while returning home; escape; returning home; one brother serving on the Judenrat; his family's deportation to Rzeszo?w; ghettoization; retrieving his family; working for the Judenrat and in the ghetto hospital; arrest of the...

  10. Binjamin M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Binjamin M., who was born in Włocławek, Poland in 1917, the oldest of three children. He recounts a happy childhood in an affluent, assimilated home; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; studying engineering in Warsaw; German invasion; fleeing to Brest in the Soviet Union; corresponding with his family; assistance from a family friend; working as an electrician; his brother's arrival; moving to Lʹviv to work as an electrical engineer; arrest with his brother as non-Soviet citizens; using his influence to have his brother sent home, ...

  11. Henry and Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Sally K. Ms. K. was born in Wolano?w, Poland in 1930, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; harassment by non-Jewish children; attending a Jewish school in Radom; German invasion; soldiers burning the synagogue and killing the rabbi; her father being killed; her older brother hiding, and her sister going to Warsaw (she was killed); incarceration with her mother, sister, and younger brother in a forced labor camp for about a year; their transfer to Bliz?yn; public execution of her cousin when he tried to escape; transfer to Auschwitz/Birk...

  12. Emil L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emil L., who was born in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder; emigration with his family to Antwerp in 1930; moving to Brussels; attending a Flemish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his bar mitzvah; participating in the Young Socialists (JS); participating in a meeting in Louvain to unite socialists and communists; arrest at an anti-Rexist demonstration; release; briefly fleeing to France; apprenticeship as a tailor; German invasion; fleeing with his family to France; his aunt's death and his...

  13. Werner B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner B., who was born in Oberhausen, Germany in 1924. He recounts his family's move to Berlin in 1929; their strong German patriotism; his parents' divorce in 1932; living with his maternal grandmother in Pila; antisemitic harassment at school; his bar mitzvah; attending a Jewish boarding school in Szczecin; arrest of all the teachers on Kristallnacht; his mother's emigration with her second husband and daughter to Shanghai; joining a hachsharah; returning to Berlin; working in a factory; his father's suicide; planning to escape to Switzerland in 1943; traveling to ...

  14. Edith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, one of two children. She recounts her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; moving to Genoa in 1937; initiation of anti-Jewish "racial" laws after the German-Italian alliance; traveling to Nice illegally via Ventimiglia; obtaining political asylum in April 1939; assistance from a refugee committee; attending school; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war; German invasion; his release; his and her brother's incarceration in Gurs, then Rivesaltes; her brother's escape; hiding him on a nearby...

  15. Ada L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada L., who was born in Jarosław, Poland in 1915, the youngest of seven children. She recounts participating in Akiba; marriage; German invasion; her father's round-up and murder; one brother's escape to the Soviet zone; her husband's deportation (he was killed); deportation to Sobibór; meeting her future husband, Yitzchak Lichtman; assignment to the laundry; the stench of burning corpses; sharing food from incoming transports; learning of her mother's arrival; fellow prisoners preventing her from joining her mother; setting the table and standing close to Adolf Eich...

  16. Shmuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. He recounts attending a Jewish German language school; participating in the Bar Kochba swim club; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; studying plumbing; his father's death in 1940; slave labor for the Hlinka guard; release after four months; deportation to Sered; his mother hiding with non-Jews; bringing her to Sered with assistance from Alexander Pressburger, the head Jew of the camp; moving her out to a Czech family; his privileged position ...

  17. Benzyon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benzyon W., who was born in Sieniawa, Poland in 1928, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; participating in a Zionist youth movement; moving with his family to Jumet in 1936; attending a public school and cheder; German invasion; briefly fleeing to France; anti-Jewish restrictions; his bar mitzvah at home since the synagogue had been closed; his father and brothers volunteering for forced labor in 1942, hoping to save him and his mother (he never saw them again); he and his mother hiding wiith non-Jews in early 19...

  18. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his brother's death before his own birth; his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder; participating in Zionist groups; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; hiding his family during Ukrainian anti-Jewish violence and killings; ghettoization; hiding his parents during round-ups (he and his sister had jobs which exempted them from deportation); his later deportation to Janowska; escape with assistance from the camp underground; ...

  19. Daniel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, an only child. He recounts his family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; a large and close extended family; attending Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; his father working in the transport system; telling Germans his parents were out when they hid during round-ups; hiding during the childrens' round-up; capture; escape with his father's help; deportation with his parents to Stutthof; separation from his mother (he never saw her again) when they were sent to Landsberg, then,...

  20. Wili G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wili G., who was born in Olomuoc, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1914, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; attending the local German gymnasium; completing engineering studies in Belgium; draft into the Czech military; German occupation; military discharge at the end of 1938; one brother's emigration to Palestine; moving to Prague with his grandmother; participating in Maccabi; teaching at a Zionist school; joining a hachsharah; marriage to a woman he met there in October 1941; joining his parents in Olomouc; a no...