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  1. Henry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. He recalls his family's unsuccessful escape to France; staying in Antwerp; his father's arrest; going to Paris, then Marseille, with his mother and two sisters; their arrest and detention in Rivesaltes in 1942 where his father rejoined them; being loaded on a freight car for deportation and being taken off with his younger sister at the last moment; separation from his sister; and being placed with a family near Limoges where he lived until the end of the war. He describes posing as a Catholic; his foster family's con...

  2. Yelena M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yelena M., who was born in approximately 1934, the younger of two sisters. She recounts growing up in Odesa; their relative affluence; a close extended family; war beginning on June 22, 1941; her father's mobilization; hiding in catacombs; her father's return; arrival of Axis troops in the fall; her father hiding; her mother being beaten and her uncle being shot to death in front of her; her mother obtaining false papers; being denounced by a neighbor; her mother bribing a guard for their release; fleeing by train; ghettoization in Chechelสนnik, still posing as non-Je...

  3. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1927. She recalls attending a Jewish school; her father's shoe store; antisemitism beginning in 1938; confiscation of the store in 1943; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Strasshof in June; finding her mother, sister, and aunts after their separation; their transfer to a munitions factory near Vienna; Allied bombings; assistance from an Austrian engineer; observing Yom Kippur with religious prisoners; singing and reciting p...

  4. William W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William W., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; working as a tutor from age fourteen to help support his family; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion; ghettoization for three weeks at a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother, father, and one sister being selected for killing; transfer three weeks later to Jaworzno; slave labor in a coal mine; civilian workers leaving him food and cigarettes; public executions of escapees...

  5. Hugo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugo R., who was born in Ruma, Yugoslavia in 1926. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; cordial relations with multi-ethnic non-Jews; moving to Novi Sad in 1938; Hungarian occupation; not attending school due to anti-Jewish quotas; expulsion as non-Hungarians; living with his parents, grandmother, and sister in the Fruska Mountains; assistance from a Serb villager; returning to Ruma; brief imprisonment by the Ustaša; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; returning to Novi Sad; escaping the mass killing in January 1942 due to their false papers; German occupati...

  6. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Svali?a?va, Czechoslovakia (presently Svali?a?va, Ukraine) in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; attending a Czech school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; the deaths of two siblings; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father liquidating all their assets in summer 1939 to emigrate to Chile; the outbreak of war preventing their emigration; joining a relative in Uz?h?horod for nine months; moving to Mukacheve; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his brother escaping to Budapest; ghettoiza...

  7. David G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David G., who was born in ?osice, Poland in 1928. He recalls his family's relative wealth; increasing antisemitism; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations and violence; his father's refusal to form a Judenrat; forced labor; ghettoization and resulting hunger, disease, beatings and random killings; people's disbelief in rumors of mass murders; hiding with his family and others during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1942; venturing out with his younger sister; their arrest and forced labor; his father bribing a Pole for their release; amd a...

  8. Suzanne W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne W., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1919. She recalls expulsion from public school due to antisemitism; attending a private school; leaving in 1938 to join an aunt in the United States; efforts to bring over her family; her older brother joining her around 1940; her younger brother living with an aunt in Belgium, then returning to Mannheim immediately after their parents were deported to Gurs (he went to an orphanage in Frankfurt); receiving some correspondence from her parents; losing contact during the war; learning after the war that her parents had be...

  9. Vincent C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent C., who enlisted in the United States Army in 1937. He recalls landing in Normandy on D-Day; transfer from a ranger to a tank battalion; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; liberating Ahlem; encountering sick, emaciated prisoners left to die; sharing K rations with them, which resulted in several deaths; entering Gardelegen; observing buildings where prisoners had been machine-gunned and confined while the buildings were burned; liberating Salzwedel; observing carts piled with corpses; shooting German personnel; and local civilians claiming no knowledge ...

  10. Tadeusc D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tadeusc D., a Roman Catholic, who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1921. He recalls growing up in ?uko?w, Kock, and Torun?; separation from Jews in elementary school; admiring the vitality of the Jewish community; antisemitic incidents; German invasion in 1939; arrest of Polish leaders; anti-Jewish measures; printing leaflets for the underground with his brother; their arrest; interrogations in Warzyn; transfer to prison in Lublin where he and his brother were sentenced to death; their transfer to Auschwitz in January 1941, and several weeks later to Flossenbu?rg; forced...

  11. Lillian N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lillian N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933 to an assimilated, wealthy family. She recalls German invasion while visiting her grandfather; returning to Warsaw with her mother and one-year-old sister to join her father; ghettoization; becoming sad; always being terrified of round-ups; her parents sending her sister to non-Jews; being smuggled in 1942 to her grandmother, whose second husband was not Jewish and no one in the village knew she was; being hidden in a hole during a German raid; her parents retrieving her two years later; being informed her sister was ...

  12. Batya L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Batya L., who was born in Berdychiv, Ukraine in 1926. She recalls her parents' religious observances; German invasion; ghettoization in August 1941; a round-up in September; standing in line while hearing gun shots nearby; escaping (her parents and sister were killed and a brother survived); hiding with a non-Jewish friend of her brother, then with relatives in Raygorodok; being warned of a mass killing by a non-Jew; hiding with non-Jews during the killing; working in another village; moving to Samgorodok; living with and working for a pig farmer until liberation by S...

  13. Ida S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida S., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her father working as a kosher slaughterer and rabbi; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father illegally continuing kosher slaughtering; a sister and brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; deportation of three brothers in June 1942; hiding in sewers, then with her brother-in-law in a cellar; deportation in cattle cars; escaping (she had false papers); returning to the Tarno?w ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w in 1943;...

  14. Lola S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her childhood in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's prewar death; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her sisters' deportations (one of whom she never saw again); her older brothers' deportations (she never saw them again); her mother's death; forced labor and starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; reunion with her sister who had learned of the ?o?dz? ghetto transport from an SS woman who frequently helped her; receiving extra food from her sister; transfer with her sister to Bergen...

  15. Felicia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She describes her affluent and protected childhood; involvement in Zionist youth movements; participation in student demonstrations against antisemitic violence at the university in Krako?w in 1933-1934; one year at university in Vienna; marriage in 1936; moving to Os?wie?cim; helping Jews expelled from Germany; her family's disbelief that this could happen in Poland; traveling with her husband to the New York World's Fair in July 1939; confiscation of their returning ship by the British due to the outbreak of war; travelin...

  16. Israel M. Holocaust tesimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1922; moving to Antwerp; his father's bankruptcy in 1930; being supported by his fourteen year-old brother; working as a diamond cutter; German invasion; working with a German refugee (his future wife) smuggling Jews to Belgium; marriage; arrest; incarceration in Antwerp, then Malines; an encounter with Mala Zimetbaum; choosing to remain with his wife when he could have left; his deportation to Laurahu?tte; a Jewish funeral when the first prisoner died, but none thereaft...

  17. Emmy K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmy K., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1939. She recounts her parents' active support of the Social Democrats; her father losing his job after the German invasion; the birth of a sister in 1942; being placed in hiding, separated from her family, with a minister in Wieringermeer Polder; having to change hiding places several times; the terror of waiting alone in a dark room between hiding places; liberation by Canadian troops in May 1945; reunion with her mother and sisters; and learning her father had been deported and killed. Mrs. K. discusses the experie...

  18. Edita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita W., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. She recalls pleasant visits to her grandparents in Dovalovo; working for the Bata shoe company in Zlín and studying; participating in Maccabi ha-Ẓair; returning to Liptovský Mikuláš; working for a local leather company; marriage in August 1939; anti-Jewish laws; obtaining false papers; her employers negotiating to save her from deportation; a policeman warning her family in order to save them from deportation; a friend who was married to a Hlinka guard helping her; hiding...

  19. Haim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents an...

  20. Etta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in her village; attending a Christian school; joining a Zionist group against her grandmother's wishes; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; leaving for Budapest in 1939; emigration to Palestine using the passport of another person; joining the British army as a nurse; serving in Italy; assisting survivors to emigrate to Palestine after the war; learning most of her family and people from her village had perished; discharge...