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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Josef G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef G., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their relative affluence; attending seven years of public school, then one year of business school; attending cheder afternoons; his father's death; German invasion in September 1939; working to help support his family; being rounded-up with twenty other young people to Sosnowiec; deportation a week later to Ottmuth; slave labor building the autobahn; a German soldier giving him extra food; transfer a year later to Markstädt; arrival of two brothers; volunteer...

  2. Vera G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera G., who was born in Kecel, Hungary in 1938, the younger of two children. She recounts her grandmother living with them; confiscation of the family business due to anti-Jewish laws; her father's one-year imprisonment due to a supposed violation; cousins living with them; former non-Jewish business suppliers bringing them food; German occupation in spring 1944; deportation with her family (aunts, cousins, and her grandmother) to Szeged, a week later to Strasshof, then to Sankt Pölten; the older children organizing a "school" for the younger ones while the adults d...

  3. Samuel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel M., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania (presently Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine) in 1930, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school from age six; antisemitic harassment en route to school; beginning violin lessons; Soviet occupation; studying violin at the conservatory; his father not allowing him to be sent to study in Moscow; German invasion in 1941; murders and rapes of Jews; ghettoization; his father refusing when his German friend offered to help them escape and hide them; deportation with his family in cat...

  4. Manuel F. Holocaust testimony

  5. Anne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne B., who was born in Rexingen, Germany in 1931, the elder of two children. She recounts her mother confining them to their home on Kristallnacht; viewing the destroyed synagogue the next day; expulsion from school; her father's arrest; his return from Dachau four weeks later; expulsion from their home in 1939; a German woman who helped them obtain food; living with her grandparents; her father obtaining documents for him and her mother to emigrate to the United States; her mother's arrest in 1940; her release, conditional upon her leaving Germany within four days;...

  6. Sophie I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie I., who was born in Pidbuz︠h︡, Poland (presently Ukraine) in January 1939. She recounts her family's affluence; Soviet occupation the year of her birth; German invasion; her parents and aunt taking her to hide in the forests in the winter of 1942; wandering in the woods for six weeks, being carried by her mother or aunt; hiding in the barn of a large farm; the farmer, who knew her parents, finding them; his wife and five teenage children agreeing to hide them; meager food; hiding silently during frequent searches and visits by other Poles; lice infestation; bei...

  7. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Nowy Korczyn, Poland in 1930, the third of four sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public school, then afternoon Hebrew school until third grade; German invasion; confiscation of the family business; her parents arranging to hide relatives, including one sister, with Polish friends; other Poles hiding the rest of them in a sub-basement hole under planks; living in the dark with very little food; her father teaching them Bible stories; three others joining them; Germans living in the house above them for the last six month...

  8. Idessa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Idessa C., who was born in Staszów, Russia (presently Poland) in 1915, the youngest of five children. She recounts working at a a magazine; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in Kielce at HASAG Granat; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; slave labor in a clothing factory; liberation; transport to Łódź; contact with her brother's family in Argentina (her brother had died); and joining them in 1946. Ms. C. notes the difficultly of conveying what she experienced to those who were "not there."

  9. Malka O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka O., who was born in Poland in 1925, the youngest of four children. She recounts her father emigrating to Argentina in 1930; her brother's enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; German invasion in 1939; her sister's emigration to Argentina; hiding with a group of people one night during a round-up; finding her mother gone when she returned; staying with her brother-in-law's friends; leaving after an attack by Poles; her brother-in-law returning months later; living with him and his uncle; round-up for slave labor in a factory in Staszów; ghettoization; separ...

  10. Gina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gina S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1921, one of two children. She recalls moving to Katowice; attending boarding schools in Vienna and Hannover, where she lived with her maternal grandparents for two years; her mother 's death; returning to Poland; staying with a friend in Kraków; German invasion; returning home a week later; learning her family had gone to Sosnowiec; joining them; working for the German administration in early 1940 since she spoke German; her brother travelling to Kraków to sell saccharin; notification of his death; colleagues selling of...

  11. Moses F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses F., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1930, one of ten children. He recalls his family moving to Hajdúhadház; their orthodoxy; his father working as a teacher; his mother's business selling milk; his older brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; an older sister moving to Budapest; round-up with his parents and younger sister to the Hajdúhadház ghetto in spring 1944; his bar mitzvah there; transfer to the Debrecen ghetto; deportation to Austria; a forester taking his family, including cousins, aunts, and uncles, to cut trees; having to fill ...

  12. Herbert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, an only child. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in March 1938; expulsion from school; observing violence against Jews; traveling with his parents and uncle to Cologne, Aachen, then Breda; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion on May 10, 1940; his father's arrest; traveling with his mother and uncle to Toulouse; his uncle's arrest (he escaped and went to the United States); his mother placing him with a Jewish farmer in Fontenilles; his fa...

  14. Isador J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isador J., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the older of two children. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; his family's orthodoxy; completing high school; German occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; a fight with a non-Jewish friend; leaving the next day without telling his family; traveling by train to Innsbruck; interdiction while trying to enter Switzerland; being kept at the railroad station and placed on a train to Vienna the next day; jumping from the train; walking toward the Alps; a shepherd sheltering him overnight, then escorting and directing hi...

  15. Berthold G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berthold G., who was born in Regensburg, Germany in 1921. He recalls a cheerful early life; attending a Jewish school until fourth grade, then a high school for engineering training; observing Jewish holidays, although not orthodox; antisemitic harassment, particularly after 1935; working for a German who was kind to him until 1938; his family receiving United States visas, planning to emigrate in December; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his arrest with his mother and grandmother the next morning; finding his father at the assembly place; their deportation to D...

  16. Jorge G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jorge G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931, an only child. He recalls many relatives playing the violin, including his parents; studying violin with his uncle from an early age; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his preoccupation with playing and performing music; German invasion in March 1944; food shortages; ghettoization; his father's appointment as ghetto pharmacist and his as a messenger; the ubiquitous presence of the Arrow Cross, who abused and killed Jews; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to their apartment; attending music school beginning in 1948;...

  17. Albert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1930, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment on the streets; moving with his family to Budapest in 1939; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; four of his siblings emigrating; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; his father being caught in a round-up (they never saw him again); learning to forge false papers; forging papers for his mother and himself as non-Jews; selling false papers to support themselves; hi...

  18. Naoimi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naomi W., who was born in Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933, the elder of two sisters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending kindergarten; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; mass shootings of Jews in September 1942; hiding with her family for about two weeks; placement in another ghetto; hiding with a non-Jew in a nearby village; escaping when the village was bombed and burned in winter 1944; her sister being shot; her parents and uncles finding shelter for them in other villages; Soviet liberation in Ju...

  19. 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...

  20. Seymour M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Seymour M., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts a happy childhood in Bistrița, Romania; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940, resulting in antisemitic violence; his brother's military draft; German invasion in May 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his father from the women; his father convincing him to eat the soup; their transfer weeks later to Mauthausen, then days later to Melk; slave labor excavating tunnels; transfer to E...