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

  1. Margita H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita H., who was born in Šamorín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. She recounts visiting grandparents in Martin; moving to Vel̕ké Leváre, then Tomášov; attending school in Bratislava; expulsion in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; participating in Hashomer Hatzair in Nové Zámky and Budapest; returning to Tomášov; German occupation; forced relocation to Rastice; working in Hubice; transfer to Dunajská Streda; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her sister from their mother (they never saw her again); remaining with a group from Šam...

  2. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Albigowa, Poland and moved to Cologne, Germany in 1919, after her father's death. She recalls her grandfather's textile factory; attending a commercial high school; employment with agencies which helped Polish Jews emigrating west through Germany; working for Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland in 1936, providing assistance for German Jews; and the difficulties emigrating from Germany at that time. She recounts receiving notification of expulsion to Poland in October 1938; receiving permission to remain in Germany; Kristallnacht; being allo...

  3. Lori S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lori S., who was born in Linnich, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. S. speaks of her family's longstanding local prominence; the Nazi boycott of her father's department store; the family's move to Sittard, Holland, in 1934; German invasion in 1940; anti-Semitic measures; ignoring friends' advice to hide; and her family's internment in Westerbork in November 1942. She details camp regimen; her father's anguish at working for the camp Jewish police; naivete? about the destination of departing transports; transfer to Terezi?n in September 1944; separation from her parents and broth...

  4. Matilda B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matilda B., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1921. She describes her family's poverty; working in a factory starting at age fourteen; cordial relations with non-Jews; caring for her mother who was paralyzed; placing her in a hospital during German bombing in April 1941; she, her younger brother, and a friend moving her mother to an apartment; registering as a Jew; her brother deciding not to register himself and their mother; her brother obtaining false papers for all of them, including her friend; her mother's death in 1942; burying her as a Christian Serb wit...

  5. Ladislas G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testiomony of Ladislas G., who was born in Munka?cs, Hungary, in 1906, one of six children. He discusses prewar Jewish life in Munka?cs; his father avoiding the draft during World War I; Hungary under Czech occupation; and his life in Khust, where he worked in the lumber industry. Mr. G. tells of his resistance to and conscription into the Czech army (1936-1938) and the Jewish brigade of the Hungarian army (1941-1943.) He recounts the ghettoization of Khust in April, 1944, following the German occupation, and the activities of the Judenrat, on which he served. Also noted are his b...

  6. Jola H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jola H. who was born in 1931 in Leipzig, Germany. She recounts her family's affluence; visiting relatives in Poland; lifestyle changes after the Nuremberg laws; deportation to Poland with her mother in 1938 (her father was in England) because they were Polish citizens; living with relatives in ?o?dz?; her father's arrival in August 1939; moving to Warsaw; German invasion; her father leaving; joining him in Soviet-occupied L?viv; German invasion; her father going to Warsaw; joining him in the Warsaw ghetto; hiding during round-ups; her mother arranging her escape with ...

  7. Ester E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ester E., who was born in Šal̕a, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, one of four children. She recounts her family's affluence; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; certification as a seamstress; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; arrests and beatings of her father; transfer to the Nové Zámky ghetto; a letter from her brother noting he had documents for their emigration to Palestine; her mother's refusal to leave her relatives; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May; she and one sister's separation from ...

  8. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Odesa, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1916. She recounts her mother's death during her birth; moving to Estonia with her father; his remarriage; living in Berlin; attending school in Switzerland; her father's death; living in France with her stepmother who had remarried; her conversion to Catholicism; the outbreak of war; visiting relatives in Estonia; attending university in London; traveling to France; expulsion for sheltering German Jewish refugees; moving to Portugal where her step-parents lived; working for a Portuguese Jewish organization...

  9. Kurt and Trude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt S., who was born in 1904 in Oelde, Westphalia, and his wife Trude S., who was born in Wiesbaden. Mr. S. recalls that his family was the only Jewish one in the neighborhood; antisemitism during high school; passing his law exams in 1928-1929; the boycott of Jewish businesses; losing his job as a result of the Nuremberg laws; and taking a new job in Wiesbaden where he then met Mrs. S. Mrs. S. speaks of her childhood memories and religious observance; nationalist protest in 1930; and anti-Jewish actions in 1934. Mr S. describes his arrest during Kristallnacht and th...

  10. Mike R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mike R., who was born in Pogost-Zagorodskiy, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls that his family was the wealthiest one in town; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying Russian in school; deportation with his family to Siberia in 1941 as capitalists; harsh conditions during the one-month train journey; incarceration in a primitive labor camp; their transfer five and a half months later to Asia; obtaining more food because there was more vegetation; enlisting in the Soviet military when he was eighteen; serving on the frontline in Poland; being hidden by Poles w...

  11. Mary L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary L., who was born in Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Croatia) in 1910. She recalls the beginning of World War I; her father's military service; living in Vienna from 1916 to 1918; the family's move to Berlin in 1926; working for an insurance company; Hitler's ascent to power; losing her job due to anti-Jewish laws; the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; returning to Zagreb; studying English in Britain in 1935; marriage to a Catholic; German invasion in April 1941; moving to the United States Consulate where her husband worked; anti-Jewish measures; denuncia...

  12. William N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William N., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1923. He recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing to Wolbrom; returning after several days; forced labor; one brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; his other brother volunteering for forced labor in Germany, hoping to protect his parents and William N.; deportation to Ottmuth, then Fu?nfteichen/Marksta?dt in 1942; receiving packages from his parents through a Polish factory worker; a severe beating after being caught with extra food; his brother's arrival in 1943; frequently helping each other; their tran...

  13. Tobias S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tobias S., who was born in Tarn?ow, Poland in 1925, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1926; attending a Jewish school; a one-year visit with relatives in Poland in 1935; attending a Jewish school there; attending a Talmudic high school in Belgium; German invasion; fleeing with his family to France; returning after encountering German soldiers; anti-Jewish restrictions including closing of his school and wearing the star; his sister's disappearance (he never saw her again); illegally traveling with his parents to Paris, then south using f...

  14. Harry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry G., who was born in Proste?jov, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He recalls his family's strong Czech patriotism (his father was a decorated veteran); expulsion from school in 1939; attending Jewish school; deportation to Theresienstadt, via Prague, with his mother and younger sister in spring 1942; living in a children's block; attending school; working in the gardens; maintaining contact with his mother and sister; participating in a musical production during a Red Cross visit; liberation by Soviet troops; transfer to Proste?jov with his sister; and learning of his mot...

  15. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1932. She tells of her mother's marriage, against her parents' wishes, to a non-Jew who converted to Judaism; her mother's father living with them after her grandmother's death; a close relationship with her grandfather; her mother and grandfather having to wear the yellow star after German invasion; continuing to attend school as a non-Jew; her grandfather being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her mother going into hiding; her mother's deportation in 1943; hiding her cousin in her house; her father threateni...

  16. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Velykyi? Bereznyi?, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. B. speaks of her early family life; her Orthodox upbringing; and the absence of prewar Czech antisemitism. She recalls the effects of the Hungarian occupation in 1939, including anti-Jewish regulations and a Jewish census in 1942; and continued Czech benevolence under Hungarian rule. She recounts the German occupation, during which she had to hide; the rumor-filled environment of Passover in 1944; the round-up of the town's Jews in a synagogue; and her deportation with her...

  17. 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;...

  18. Edward H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Sevlus?, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in approximately 1930. He recounts his father being sent for forced labor in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization with his mother and extended family; deportation by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to German soldiers in Kos?ice; arrival at Auschwitz in April; selection with his brother for work; volunteering for transfer (his brother did not, wanting to stay with an uncle); train transport three weeks later to Dyhernfurth; slave labor; his father's best friend "watching over" him; ...

  19. Clara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara S., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine). She recalls her father's Zionist beliefs; attending a Zionist Hebrew school; Hungarian occupation; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1938; hiding in Budapest with her family in 1941; returning to Uz?horod; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family upon arrival; transfer to Ri?ga with her friends; slave labor on a farm; recovering from typhus with assistance from her friend's sister; transfer to Stutthof in December 19...

  20. Viola G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viola G., who was born in Kosyny, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921, one of four children. She recalls attending Hungarian and Czech schools, then Hebrew gymnasium in Mukacheve; her parents joining her; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; assistance from neighbors; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her sister from her family (she never saw her parents again); assistance from a friend; slave labor digging ditches in a nearby area; receiving extra food and medication from civilian w...