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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...

  2. Vladimir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir S., who was born in Daugavpils, Russia (presently Latvia) in 1916, one of five brothers. He recalls moving to Polatsk in 1928; his father's death from war wounds; attending a Jewish school; moving to Leningrad (presently St. Petersburg); working, then attending military academy; assignment as a communications officer in Eĭsk; German invasion; mobilization of three brothers; participating in several battles with high casualty rates; capture near Smolensk; incarceration in Monastyrshchina; having no food or shelter and sleeping onthe ground; transfer to a camp...

  3. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1926, one of six children. She recounts being raised in Oradea; her family's orthodoxy; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; help from non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selection with two sisters; humiliation, deprivation, and beatings; working near the crematoria; realizing her family's fate; selection for specious medical experiments; hospitalization; surgery; sepa...

  4. Lydia C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia C., who was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the direct...

  5. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  6. Rachel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel S., who was born in Belitsa, Poland in approximately 1919, one of five children. She recounts participating in a leftist youth movement; attending a Jewish seminary in Vilna; increasing antisemitism; Soviet occupation; marriage; her daughter's birth in 1940; living in Slonim; her husband's draft into the Soviet military; returning to Belitsa; German invasion; her brothers and father fleeing to the Soviet Union; Germans burning the town; forced transfer with her daughter, mother, and sister to the Dyatolovo) (Dzi︠a︡tlava) ghetto; constructing an underground tunn...

  7. Felix N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix N., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926, one of three children. He recounts attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending summer camp in Piotrków Trybunalski; his bar mitzvah; working in his father's tailor business; German invasion in September 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; public executions; working in a factory; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his sister and mother (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Gross-Rosen three weeks later; slave la...

  8. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in 1919 in Wadowice, Poland, one of ten children. He recounts his family's successful jewelry business; their adherence to hasidism; attending public school (his classmate was the future Pope John Paul II), cheder, then a yeshiva; his bar mitzvah; rebelling against hasidism; being sent to live with an uncle in Piešt̕any in 1934; expulsion as a non-Slovak in 1937; returning home; moving to Bielsko; participating in Mizrahi; working in a textile factory; his father preventing his sister and her husband from emigrating to Palestine on orders from ...

  9. Joe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1928, one of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; living with his grandparents; attending cheder; yearly visits to his father's grave in ?o?dz?; antisemitic harassment; an uncle visiting from England; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; transfer to the Dzierzbotki ghetto; building a bunker in the forest with others; hiding there during round-ups; he and his mother being captured by the Germans; their deportation to a labor camp; separation from her en route (he never saw her again); sla...

  10. Chanan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chanan B., who was born in Ústí nad Labem (formerly Aussig), Czechoslovakia in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts living in Bochum until his father's death in 1930; living with aunts in Aussig, then Teplice; moving to Prague with his mother in 1939; participating in Tehelet Lavan, a Zionist youth group; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; visiting his father's family in Slavkov u Brna; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from school; apprenticeship as an electrician; assistance from an aunt who was married to a non-Jew; deporta...

  11. Leon Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon Z., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recounts a close family life; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; deportation with his family; stopping in Modlin where non-Jewish friends hid them; their return to Sierpc; forced labor; deportation to the Strzegowo ghetto; working on a farm; deportation with his family to M?awa, then Birkenau; separation from his mother, sister, and grandparents (they were killed); his father's and uncle's selection for the Sonderkommando; remaining with his brother and cou...

  12. Frieda R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, one of three children of Polish émigrés. She recounts her paternal grandmother joining them from Poland; attending public school and a Bund school (her father was a Bundist); participating in Maccabi; her father's death in 1932; leaving school to help support the family; joining the Yiddisher Arbayter Sport Klub (YASK); friendships with young German refugees through the Freie Deutsche Jugend; her fiancé emigrating to the United States in 1939; fleeing to Baisieux with his family when the war began intending to go...

  13. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Jewish school through eighth grade; his father losing his business and their landlord forcing them to move due to antisemitism; round-up to Trnava in 1940; working as a non-Jew to support his family; deportation to Sered in fall 1941; beatings by the Hlinka guard; transfer to Majdanek; encountering a cousin and his brother-in-law; volunteering as a German translator; transfer to digging anti-tank trenches, then to Auschwitz/Bir...

  14. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Svali?a?va, Czechoslovakia (presently Svali?a?va, Ukraine) in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; attending a Czech school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; the deaths of two siblings; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father liquidating all their assets in summer 1939 to emigrate to Chile; the outbreak of war preventing their emigration; joining a relative in Uz?h?horod for nine months; moving to Mukacheve; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his brother escaping to Budapest; ghettoiza...

  15. Jeanette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette A., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of six children. She recalls her older brother attending medical school in France; his return immediately prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a leather factory; her mother and youngest sister joining her brother in another town; transfer to barracks at the factory; return to Radom; her brother, mother, and youngest sister joining them; selection of her parents for a mass killing from which her oldest sister escaped; transfer to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to...

  16. Iaacov R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iaacov R., who was born in Orlov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1917, one of five children. He recounts living in Prešov; his family's assimilated lifestyle; memorizing the Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; completing high school; two sisters emigrating to Palestine in 1935; leading Hashomer groups in Žilina, Košice, and Bratislava; anti-Jewish restrictions after Slovak independence; Joint support of Hashomer; draft into a Slovak labor battalion; serving in Trebišov; demobilization; Hashomer activities in Trenčín ...

  17. Roziana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roziana B., who was born in Deštnice, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recounts being the only Jewish family in town; their assimilated lifestyle; her mother's death in 1936; her father's remarriage in 1937; attending public school; moving to Žatec; German occupation; her father's friend, who was in the Gestapo, warning him to flee (he did); their arrest on Kristallnacht; being ordered to leave; traveling to the Czech border; being denied entry by Czech officials; incarceration by Germans in Kolešovice, then Karlsbad; release; returning to Žatec, then Deštnice; receiv...

  18. Lilli S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilli S., who was born in Zehlendorf, Germany in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recounts being raised as a Christian (her parents were Jewish); her father's service in World War I; his status as a doctor; living briefly with grandparents in Dresden; her mother's death when she was six; her father's remarriage to a non-Jew; studying agriculture; antisemitic harassment; surveillance of her father's clinic by Nazi troops in 1933; his suicide; emigrating to France; attending the University of Toulouse; marriage to a Lithuanian Jew in 1935; moving to Paris; freq...

  19. Elsie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsie M., a non-Jew, who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1924, one of three children, to a British mother and Belgian father. She recounts her sister's death at age thirty-months in 1925; moving to Brussels in 1929; attending public school in Evere, then Catholic school; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing on foot with her parents and brother; Germans overtaking them in Hazebrouck and returning them to Brussels; her father's resistance activities; Jewish schoolmates wearing the yellow star; Germans arresting Jews in her class; her family hiding Allied aviators since ...

  20. Marietta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marietta M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls moving to Amsterdam in 1935; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from school; hiding; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors and the Dutch underground; her parents' arrest in 1942 when she was visiting neighbors; their arranging for her to join them in Westerbork; deferment from deportations due to their privileged positions; joining a Zionist youth group; assisting prisoners to the transports, not knowing their destination; acquiring forged Paraguayan passports with assista...