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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Bertha G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bertha G., who was born in Bia?obrzegi, Poland. She recounts living in Radom; German invasion; her father's murder by Germans; her nine year old brother working in a hospital and convincing his boss to also employ her; deportation of her mother and sisters (she never saw them again); ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Bliz?yn; her husband's death; escaping to join her brother in the Radom ghetto; being returned to Bliz?yn; her brother joining her; transfer to Auschwitz; her brother throwing bread to her over the fence; receiving extra food from a non-Jewish Polish p...

  2. Anonymous Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of a non-Jewish woman who was born in 1913 in Belgium. She recounts her happy childhood; marriage in spring 1932; moving shortly thereafter to Latvia, where her husband's family owned fur and textile businesses; living in Limbaži and Rīga; cordial relations with Jews, Germans, Russians, and Latvians; observing overt antisemitism in Germany while traveling to visit her family in Belgium; Latvian nationalism beginning in 1935, which included antisemitism; rabbis advising Jews to emigrate; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; observing ghettoization, round-ups...

  3. Ernest F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Pressburg (Bratislava), Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recalls his family of eleven children; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Nitra in 1941; hiding in Borinka with his father; assistance from a non-Jewish friend; hiding in an attic with his brother and sister when his family was deported in 1942; posing as a non-Jew in Cabaj; escape to Hungary with his siblings; returning to Nitra via Levice in 1944; fabricating false papers; deportation with his brother to Sered,? then Auschwitz/Birkenau in October 1944; slave labor in a...

  4. 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...

  5. Śimḥah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simcha R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, one of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish schools; fights with Polish children; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and Akiba through which he met Mordechai Anielewicz in 1939; German invasion in September; a bomb killing his grandparents, brother, aunt, and wounding him; anti-Jewish restrictions; removing the star to travel to Radom for food; ghettoization; trading with Poles for food; joining relatives in Klwów; working for six months as a cowherd for a non-Jew; returning to the Warsa...

  6. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1925. He recalls his father's death when he was a child; attending Greek schools; ghettoization; hiding with his family during a round-up; leaving to join friends; deportation for forced labor in Thebes; escaping against the advice of his uncle; traveling to Athens with assistance from Italian soldiers; obtaining false papers; contacting ELAS (partisans) through a friend's mother; being sent to Euboea Island to join them; participating as part of EPON, the youth movement; armed conflicts against Germans; clashes with ...

  7. Yetta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Che?m, then ?o?dz?; lear...

  8. Ruth M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth M., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls a wonderful childhood prior to her father's suicide; moving to her grandmother's with her mother and twin brother; German occupation; constant fear; she and her brother refusing to leave when her mother arranged their emigration to England; marriage; deportation to Theresienstadt with her husband and their families; transfer to Auschwitz; separation from her husband and twin brother; a last visit with her mother; useless slave labor; medical examinations; train transfer to a factory; attempting to he...

  9. Berta F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berta F., who was born in Romania to a family of seven children. She recalls her father going to Belgium in 1939; his incarceration as a refugee (she never saw him again); her older brother's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion; ghettoization in 1944; deportation with her siblings to Auschwitz in May (she never saw her mother again); separation from her siblings upon arrival (she never saw them again); digging ditches; transfer to Mittelsteine in November 1944; forced labor in an airplane factory; becoming a "lager sister" to four other prisoners; assistance...

  10. Leo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1921, the middle of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; participating in Agudat, intending to emigrate to Palestine; preparing for that in Darmstadt; his brother's emigration to Palestine; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; emigrating with his mother, father, and sister to Amsterdam; incarceration with his father in refugee camps; transfer by himself to Deventer, Eindhoven, then Westerbork; finding his father there; arrival of many Jews after German occupation; organi...

  11. Miny H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miny H., who was born in Poland. Although she has great difficulty expressing herself in English, Ms. H. speaks of the loss of her family, with the exception of one surviving brother; slave labor in Estonia and Germany; life in the Stutthof concentration camp; and her attempts, amidst constant degradation, to retain her humanity.

  12. Lea-Lily S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea-Lily S., who was born in Larisa, Greece in 1903. She recalls her five brothers; attending teacher's college in Thessalonike?; marriage; her daughter's birth; divorce; her immediate family escaping to Palestine, via Turkey after German invasion; not leaving with them due to her illness; obtaining false papers; her brother's friend hiding her and her daughter in a nearby village; leaving because she feared exposing her rescuers; traveling by boat to Skopelos Island in June, 1943; teaching in the local school; detention by German troops; a German releasing her with a...

  13. Edith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924, an only child. She recalls their assimilated home; essentially being raised by her grandmother; German invasion in 1944; her parents' round-up in November 1944 (she never saw them again); escaping with two friends from a round-up; returning to Budapest; hiding with her future husband's family; obtaining false papers through non-Jewish friends; living as a non-Jew in several places; liberation in January 1945; reunion with her grandmother; learning no other relatives had survived; marriage in 1948; escaping with her ...

  14. Aaron R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron R., who was born in 1915 in Wielun?, Poland (then Russia). He recounts his father's death when he was three; living with wealthy grandparents; his family's orthodoxy; attending yeshiva; moving to Pabianice; working as a bookkeeper; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto, then Dombrowa; slave labor sorting the clothing of murdered Jews; feeling he had lost his mind; burying valuables to keep the Germans from having them; transfer back to the ?o?dz? ghetto; working as a fireman; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944;...

  15. Rachel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel L., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. Mrs. L. recalls family life; her father's respected position; German occupation; establishment of the Judenrat; ghettoization; children becoming "old" people; hunger; a mass killing in December 1939; forced labor; her father's death from hunger; her mother being taken on the first round-up; forming a bond with another girl who had been left alone; and going together to Polish villages. She describes helpful farmers; fear of staying long due to the risk to their helpers; Germans compelling Jews to perform humiliating ac...

  16. Erika W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika W., who was born in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1936. She recounts her father's communist activities; being baptized, although her mother was "non-Aryan"; her father's military enlistment, hoping to save the family from concentration camps; two memories of her mother, one at a train station and another during an accident; placement with her three brothers in a convent orphanage in Landstuhl; hunger, illness, and arduous physical labor; antisemitic taunting; her brothers secretly bringing her food; learning their mother perished in Ravensbrück in 1943; placement wi...

  17. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Transylvania, Romania in 1925, one of fourteen children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy (his father was a scribe); moving to Beclean; antisemitic harassment; attending yeshiva in Va?c; learning the textile trade in Budapest; German invasion in 1944; returning home; ghettoization in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; transfer to Longwy-Thil; slave labor; transfer to another camp; work in an underground salt mine; transfer to Dachau, then Allach; reunion with one brother (he died a few days later); liberation by United States troops; me...

  18. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Leszno, Poland in 1936. She recounts moving to Kalisz when she was eighteen months old; German invasion; fleeing to Kutno, ?o?dz?, then Warsaw; joining her maternal grandparents in Rzeszo?w; her grandparents' deaths; ghettoization; her mother paying a Polish woman to hide her; being returned because she wouldn't stop crying; accompanying her mother to work; her mother's boss hiding them and providing them with Polish identity papers; staying with another Pole; a brief visit to her father in the ghetto (she never saw him again); traveling to Wa...

  19. Dragutin B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dragutin B., who was born in Čalma, Serbia in 1912, one of six children. He recounts three Jewish families living there; his family history; moving to Zemun in 1920; working in a bank in Belgrade; military draft; marriage to a non-Jew in Pančevo in 1940; retreating through numerous towns, ending in an Italian-occupied area; returning home to be with his family; temporary exemption from anti-Jewish restrictions due to his non-Jewish wife; obtaining false papers with assistance from a non-Jew; working for Organisation Todt in Metovnica; saving two Romanies by obtainin...

  20. Miriam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. She recalls German invasion; her father's flight to Lida in the Soviet zone; joining him with her mother; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; removal, with her parents, from a group being herded to a mass killing; being hidden with a non-Jewish woman; her parents retrieving her; returning to the ghetto; their escape into nearby forests with partisans in fall 1942; partisan military actions; German attacks; hunger, cold, and frequently changing locations; fear of losing her mother; establishment of a partisan ...