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  1. Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to Piotrków when his father became its rabbi in 1935; his bar mitzvah in Kraków in 1939; German invasion in September; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father having to collect money to meet German demands; hiding the synagogue's Torahs; an influx of Jews from the surrounding area; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; slave labor; Polish non-Jews protecting him; public hangings; contacting his family; his arranged escape with a Polish baker who made deliveries to Auschwitz; hiding in his...

  2. Tatyana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatyana G., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1918, the fourth of five children. She describes her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a polytechnic institute; working as a chemist; participating in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; a mass killing including some relatives; warning of an impending mass killing; escaping at her mother's insistence; a former non-Jewish neighbor reluctantly keeping her overnight; hearing machine guns and thinking they were killing her mother, sisters, and other relatives; co...

  3. Zena G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zena G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1914. She recalls her close family; Jewish cultural life; marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; a round-up of men, including her husband; mass killings at Ponary; ghettoization; escaping with help from Polish friends; returning to the ghetto because her sister required hospitalization; forced labor for H.K.P. in Keilis; a public execution; and her mother being taken to Ponary. Mrs. G. describes teaching her daughter Christian prayers in the hope she could be smuggled out and hidden; being knocked unc...

  4. Jean S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean S., who was born in 1928 in Rejowiec, Poland. She recalls attending Polish school where Jewish children were taunted; German invasion; fleeing with her family to the Russian occupied area; journey by train to the Ural Mountains; their return to Soviet-occupied Poland; travel by freight train for weeks to a Siberian labor camp; caring for her three siblings while her parents worked; transport to Uzbek, then Kazakh; attending school; her mother inviting an orphan (whom Mrs. S. later married) to live with them; and returning to Poland in 1944. Mrs. S. describes lear...

  5. Aleksandra U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandra U., who was born in Russia in 1912, the third of six children. She recounts a brother's death prior to her birth; destruction of their house during World War I; building a new house in Kalinkavychy in 1918; the deaths of two sisters; her father's death in 1919; her brother's birth shortly thereafter; her mother's marriage to her sister's widower in 1923; his six children moving to their home; leaving school at fourteen to help support the family; working in Poltava until 1930; learning accounting; completing teachers education in Minsk; assignment to teach ...

  6. Arthur B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur B., who was born in Tomaszo?w Lubelski, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's affluence; German bombardment and invasion; brief Soviet occupation; return of the Germans; occupation of their home by officers; the round-up and beating of Jewish men; bringing valuables to free his father; and escape to Rava-Ru?ska in the Soviet zone. Mr. B. recounts deportation with his mother to Siberia; forced labor at a logging village near Barnaul; cold and hunger; release after a year and a half; working in Barnaul; repatriation to Wroc?aw in early 1946; learning of his fat...

  7. Lazar T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lazar T., who was born in Uzlyany, Soviet Union (presently Belarus) in 1930, the oldest of four children. He recalls attending a Jewish school that was closed in 1937, then a Belarussian school; observing Jewish holidays within the family; clandestine religious services; German invasion in June 1941; forced relocation to a designated area; slave labor repairing roads; escaping a mass killing with his brother and sister in October 1941; burying his mother and brother who had been killed; being hidden by a peasant, then a former schoolteacher; finding his father; joinin...

  8. Josef C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. He recalls poverty; his family's Hasidism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; arrest by Jewish police for taking bread from the garbage; fleeing with a friend to Praga, De?blin, and Kuro?w; slave labor; kindness from one German soldier; returning to Warsaw; learning his father and one sister had died; deportation to Treblinka; escaping to a work group; gassings and mass shootings; a visit by Heinrich Himmler; vicious personnel, including John Demjanjuk, Franz Stangl, and Kurt Franz ("Lalka"); a ...

  9. Rivka B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rivka B., who was born in Volove?, Czechoslovakia (presently Miz?h?hir?i?a?, Ukraine) in 1919. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her mother's death and father's remarriage; attending gymnasium in Munkacs; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; passing Hungarian matriculation exams; moving to Budapest in 1941; German occupation in March 1944; briefly staying in Go?d with a former employer; returning to Budapest; marriage during her fiance?'s brief release from a forced labor battalion; obtaining Swedish protection papers from Raul Wallenberg's office; ...

  10. Violette J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Violette J., who was born in 1925. She remembers speaking Hungarian at home in Le Havre; violin lessons; her father's draft after the outbreak of war; fleeing to Brittany with her mother in June 1940 with her mother; returning to Le Havre a month later; her father's return; their move to Paris in 1942; obtaining false papers; living with her uncle in Lille; their denouncement and arrest; transfer to Brussels, then Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); several work assignments; brief hospitalization; auditioning for ...

  11. Rabbi Meyer S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Meyer S., who was born into a rabbinic family in Poland in 1920. He describes in detail his childhood and family life in Poland and in Germany; his family's move to Wittmund, Germany, in 1926; the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; and his family's observance of the Jewish dietary laws in spite of the prohibition of ritual slaughter. Rabbi S. tells of his family's arrival in the United States on July 4, 1935; his father's work as a cantor and shochet (ritual slaughterer) in Pennsylvania; and his own studies at a Yeshiva in New York. He also relate...

  12. Marguerite M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., who was born in France in approximately 1932 to Polish e?migre?s. She recalls living in Paris; her father's enlistment in 1939; German invasion in 1940; her father's return in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; visiting him there; the local police chief warning them of an imminent round-up in 1942; briefly hiding with Jewish and non-Jewish friends; entrusting valuables to a non-Jewish friend; being smuggled to Limoges in the unoccupied zone; living in Oradour-sur-Vayres, using false papers; atte...

  13. Arnold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. He remembers learning of his mother's death when he was four; membership in Maccabi; many relatives emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's remarriage in 1936; his bar mitzvah in 1937, including a gift of visiting cousins in Berlin; attending gymnasium; the Anschluss; antisemitic restrictions and laws; a non-Jewish friend keeping his bicycle for him; his father's deportation to Dachau; emigration with his older brother to Palestine in 1938 (his friend returned his bicycle which he took with him); learning his f...

  14. Philip B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1929. This testimony includes and expands upon information from an earlier testimony [HVT-198]. Mr. B. recounts prewar antisemitism; his arrival in Sobibo?r; his brother's privileged position as a pharmacist, to which Mr. B. attributes his survival; forced labor sorting clothing of the Jews who were gassed; escape attempts and subsequent public executions; prisoners conspiring to kill a kapo who allied himself with the camp administration; revenge on the camp staff during the prisoner uprising in October 1943; help from non...

  15. Selma N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926, an only child. She recalls her family's emphasis on education and music; anti-Jewish restrictions after the Anschluss; her father's belief he would be safe due to his service in the First World War; having to attend a Jewish school; being warned of Kristallnacht by their non-Jewish building superintendent; her parent's decision to send her on a kindertransport; leaving for Sweden assuming she would see her parents soon; living with a family in Linko?ping, then in an orphanage in Go?teborg; warm relations with the othe...

  16. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Gvozdets, Poland (presently Hvizdet?s??, Ukraine) in 1916, one of nine children. He recounts attending school; Polish military draft; antisemitism in the military; German invasion; capture and incarceration as a POW; release; returning home, which was under Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; transfer to Kolomyi?a? ghetto; forced labor for the Wehrmacht; escaping (his family was killed); living in the Tolstoye ghetto; meeting his future wife; acquiring weapons; escaping from another forced labor camp; hiding in various places wi...

  17. Salvador B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salvador B., who was born in Preveza, Greece in approximately 1923 and lived in Io?annina, part of the Romaniot Jewish community. He recalls attending university in Athens; joining EAM (National Liberation Front) in March 1942; working with EPON (the youth group of EAM); partisan work in the mountains, Athens, and Io?annina; benign Italian occupation; German occupation in July 1943; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew from EAM people; assistance from fellow university students; evacuation to the mountains with assistance from EAM; joining ELAS, the military arm of EAM...

  18. Irving R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving R., who was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, in 1920. He tells of his family's move from Ri?ga to Moscow before World War I; their return in the mid-1920s; antisemitism in prewar Latvia; German occupation in 1941; arrest by a Latvian Volksdeutsche who was a childhood friend; the Rumbuli massacres; forced labor; and life in the small ghetto. He describes his transfer to Kaiserwald in 1943; transport in 1944 to Stutthof, then Buchenwald, where he was forced to perform meaningless labor; producing ammunition at Bochum; escaping during a death march back to Buchenwald...

  19. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls a happy childhood; her family's good relations with non-Jews; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; public hangings; her father moving to a tractor plant outside of Kharkiv, following German orders issued on December 16, 1941, for the Jews to gather there; her mother's decision to hide after visiting her father, who begged her not to bring their children there; obtaining false papers with assistance from their non-Jewish building superintendent; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; traveling to the c...

  20. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school and his family's eviction from their apartment; attending a trade school in Frankfurt; destruction of the family business and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his father's return from Dachau three weeks later; futile efforts to emigrate; deportation with his family to Rīga in November 1941; slave labor on a farm with 500 others for two years; public hanging of a man for tradin...