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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Abe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe M., who was born in Chortkiv, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls membership in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; Ukrainian collaboration in rounding-up and shooting Jews; anti-Jewish regulations which resulted in impoverishment, hunger, and isolation; formation of the Judenrat; with assistance from non-Jews, hiding and finding jobs to avoid round-ups; ghettoization in April 1942; rumors of mass killings; his family's Judenrat exemption from deportation; hiding during "aktions"; his father and sister disappearing; and disbelie...

  2. Abe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's poverty; their inability to feed him; working in a meatpacking house beginning at age twelve; German invasion; forced labor in several villages from August 1940 to September 1941; transfer to a weaving factory; sharing extra food with an older man; meeting his future wife (his second cousin); transfer to another camp in 1942; slave labor cutting down trees; a death march to Buchenwald in 1944; veteran prisoners asking him and others to kill two "green triangles" (criminals); receiving extra food ...

  3. About the Holocaust

    This documentary, narrated by the child of a survivor and including testimony excerpts, introduces the secondary school student to the Holocaust. Originally produced for an inner-city school system and currently distributed by the Anti-Defamation League, this edited program has had a favorable response from both teachers and students, particularly at the ninth grade level.

  4. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born into a religious home, one of seven children, in Krako?w, Poland, 1924. Mr. B. tells of the sudden outburst of antisemitism in 1935 and of his discouragement at the sight of his father's defeatist attitude after a period of incarceration following the outbreak of the war. He describes his family's evacuation from Krako?w to a small neighborhood; their move back to the city; his unsuccessful attempt to escape from a 1940 deportation order; and his three years of forced labor in an airplane factory in Mielec and conditions in the slave labor cam...

  5. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Moscow, Russia in 1906. He recalls arrest in 1925 due to his leadership of Hashomer Hatzair; being condemned to death; transport to Odesa; exile to Palestine with his mother and sister (his mother had arranged it); working in Haifa, ?Afulah, and Zikhron Ya?ak?ov for two years; admission to engineering school in Paris; arriving in Marseille in 1928; studying in Toulouse; graduation; working in a coal mine, a hotel, and for a Swiss company in Paris; dismissal due to the depression; working as a salesman; establishing a lucrative textile compa...

  6. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school; his mother's death from a stroke; deportations of Jews; the family's exemption due to his father's business; moving to Nitra, thinking it safer; a Catholic man hiding his father, sister, and two brothers in his home for several months; moving to a bunker their rescuer built when it became more dangerous; liberation by Soviet troops four weeks later; returning to Bardejov; emigration to the United States in...

  7. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in approximately 1919. He recalls German invasion; being sent away for forced labor; returning to find no Jews; traveling to Warsaw; finding his parents and siblings; escaping with his brother to P?on?sk; being joined by his mother, another brother, and sister; their deportation; staying in Strzegowo-Osada, then M?awa; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in December 1942; their assignment sorting clothing of murdered Jews; living with the Sonderkommando, including Leyb Langfus and Zalman Gradowski, whose diaries were found an...

  8. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1907, one of three children. He recounts his father's profession as a master diamond cutter; the family moving to Amsterdam in 1907; their assimilated lifestyle; returning to Antwerp in 1928; training with his father as a diamond cutter; joining Maccabi and a non-sectarian sport club; marriage; the birth of a son; his wife's death from illness in 1939; living with his parents so his mother could care for his son; German invasion in 1940; obtaining papers as non-Jews; his parents going into hiding; moving to Brussels wher...

  9. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three brothers. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; brief Soviet invasion, then German occupation; his father and brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone (he never saw them again); forced relocation; his mother posing as a non-Jew and earning money as a messenger; her disappearance; living with his brothers' friend; hiding with Polish friends when the Jews were liquidated; leaving when his rescuers feared discovery; learning some Jews were taken to Budzyn?; walking there; a privileged kitc...

  10. Abraham E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham E., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1925. He describes the German invasion; fleeing eastward to Sokolow; returning to Os?wie?cim; finding their homes destroyed and possessions stolen; forced labor; SS troops photographing atrocities against the Jews; and evacuation of all local Jews as part of construction of the Auschwitz complex. Mr. E. recalls evacuation to Sosnowiec; his inability to find food; smuggling activities; incarceration and being terribly beaten; his disbelief that humans could treat others, especially a youngster, with such brutality; forc...

  11. Abraham F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham F., who was born in Łomża, Poland in 1919. He recalls his Hasidic family; attending law school in Warsaw; being drafted into the Polish military in 1939; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; imprisonment in a POW camp; returning to Soviet-occupied Łomża; fleeing to L'viv with a Zionist group; their unsuccessful escape attempt; organizing a kibbutz in Vilna in 1940; bringing his brother there; working in a Jewish theater in Kovno; German invasion; an unsuccessful escape attempt; ghettoization; his underground activities; volunteering for a labor camp to jo...

  12. Abraham G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham G., who was born in Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending a private Jewish school; his father's lumber business; Soviet occupation; moving to L?viv; German invasion; transport toward the Soviet Union; leaving the group in Brody; traveling to his uncle's home in Zolochiv; being caught in a round-up for a mass shooting; falling into the pit with the dead; crawling out at night; returning to his uncle's home; meeting his future wife; volunteering for a forced labor camp; convincing an Austrian guard to take him to his future wife's home wher...

  13. Abraham H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham H., who was born in approximately 1925 and grew up in Skhidnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Poland (presently Ukraine), the younger of two brothers. He recounts attending public and religious schools; antisemitic harassment by Poles and Ukranians; attending gymnasium in Drohobycz; participating in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; his father fleeing; hiding with his mother and brother to avoid anti-Jewish violence; joining relatives in Boryslav; round-ups and mass killings; ghettoization; forced labor; sexual harassment by a German; Ba...

  14. Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham K., who was born in Biecz, Poland in 1908. He recounts his youth; entry into the family businesses; marriage in 1939; and his son's birth in 1940. He describes German persecution of Jews in Biecz; conscript labor; the death of his father-in-law from typhus; ghettoization of Biecz; the killing of 169 Jews, including his father, sister, brother and nephew; and his wife's and son's escape. Mr. K. relates deportation to P?aszo?w in 1942; building railroads; camp conditions; reunion with his wife and brother-in-law in the Krako?w ghetto; and the killing of his son....

  15. Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham K., who was born in Goworowo, Poland in 1933. He recalls German invasion; fires and shooting; his father arranging for them (his sister, mother, aunt, uncle, two cousins and three grandparents) to flee to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; deportation to Siberia by the Soviets; his mother's death (his grandparents and one cousin also eventually died); placement in an orphanage with his sister; his uncle and father serving in the military; separation from his sister for two years; retrieval by his uncle after the war; being smuggled to Germany; and emigration to the Un...

  16. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L. who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1914. Mr. L recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; serving in the Polish military; marriage; German invasion; escaping to Prilesnoye (Manevichi); his son's birth in 1942; ghettoization; escaping into the woods from a mass killing in September; contact with partisans; acquiring a rifle; training units due to his military experience; assistance from some pacifist farmers; digging a bunker; mining rail and communication lines; battles with Germans and Ukrainians; antisemitism among the partisans; ...

  17. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (presently Gusev, Russia) in 1922, the second of four children. He recounts living in Šiauliai; his father's executive position at a large leather factory; participating in Maccabi; summer vacations in Palanga; attending a Jewish elementary school, Hebrew high school, then a Lithuanian gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in spring 1941; briefly fleeing east; he and his brother being forced by Lithuanians to bury corpses of Soviet soldiers; arrest by one former classmate and relea...

  18. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Sinyavka, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1918, the youngest of three children. He recalls attending cheder and a Polish school; learning carpentry at age fourteen; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; Soviet occupation in 1939; draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; Soviet retreat; hiding in a forest; transfer to a munitions factory where he worked as a carpenter; moving to Tashkent; traveling to Baranovichy after the war; learning of the extermination of Jews, including his own family; living in Szczecin; not returning to ...

  19. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recounts his father's scholarship; his family's focus on education; rabbinical ordination at age nineteen; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; slave labor; a Jewish engineer giving him a desk job; his father's selection in 1942 (he never saw him again); his mother's hospitalization; his sister clandestinely retrieving their mother; deportation with his mother and siblings to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from his sister and mother; transfer with his brother ten days later to Altenhammer; his brother sharing fo...

  20. Abraham N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham N., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1926; his parents' orthodoxy; their poverty; attending a Jewish school; participating in Mizrahi and Yiddischer Arbieter Sport Klub (YASK); apprenticing as a dental technician at age fourteen; joining Maccabi and the Communist party in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; being evacuated to southern France; expulsion from a Belgian refugee camp in Rouens due to his Polish citizenship; living in Segur; returning home a few months later; anti-Jew...