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  1. Viera F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Viera F., who was born in Liptovský Hrádok, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921. She recalls her family's secularism but attending synagogue every Saturday; moving to Martin when she was four; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school until she was expelled in 1940 due to anti-Jewish regulations; converting to Christianity; a local policeman helping her hide; her mother convincing her to marry to save herself; an arranged marriage to a Jewish man who had also converted; moving to Dubova, his town; learning her grandfather had been deported and the pr...

  2. Tatiana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatiana S., who was born in Olʹshana, Ukraine in 1925. She recounts attending Jewish and Ukrainian schools; German invasion in June 1941; her older brother's draft; fleeing with her family to Cherkasy; her father's draft; returning to Olʹshana with her mother and younger siblings; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; her father's return; receiving food from local people; a mass killing of Jewish men; transfer in May 1942 to a prison in Zvenigorodka, then to Nemorozh; slave labor building roads; transfer with her family to Smilʹchentsy; her father's and brother's murde...

  3. Zev H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zev H., who was born in Romania in approximately 1930. He recounts being one of two Jewish families in his town; moving to Baia Mare when he was eight; antisemitic violence by German fascists; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; ghettoization in April 1944; a non-Jewish neighbor bringing them food; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from his mother; transfer with his brother and father five weeks later to Mauthausen, then three days later to Ebensee; slave labor in a quarry, then digging tunnels; occasionally seeing his brother and f...

  4. Fele F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fele F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1921, one of four children. She recounts attending a Jewish school; her father's death in 1933; participating in Betar where Menachem Begin was one of her leaders; visits from Vladimir Jabotinsky; her brother's Polish military draft; German invasion; working on a farm with her other brother in Hrubieszów as part of Betar; returning to Warsaw in small groups; all the other groups being killed en route, including her brother; ghettoization; working in a leather factory; her mother's round-up (she never saw her again); particip...

  5. Bela Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela Y., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and affluence; ghettoization; transfer to the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family; deaths from starvation and disease; slave labor; a German guard twice saving her from selection; fellow prisoners sharing extra food; briefly encountering a brother; a guard injuring her when she insulted him; smuggling water to a cousin; sorting shoes of the murdered Jews; taking valuables hidden in the shoes to tra...

  6. Emily V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emily V., who was born in Patras (Patrai), Greece in 1913. She recalls moving to Athens; marriage and return to Patrai in 1934; her daughter's birth in 1936; the outbreak of war in 1940; her husband's army service in Albania; his return in 1941; the benign Italian occupation; her second daughter's birth in 1942; German occupation in 1942; and fleeing a round-up in October 1943. Mrs. V. describes the arduous journey to Mikhalai?ika; hiding with a non-Jewish family; receiving food and money from non-Jewish friends in Patrai; escaping to Karou?sian during a German search...

  7. Margolith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margolith R., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1919. She describes a warm and sheltered Jewish environment and growing up in a large, extended family; teaching Dutch to German children in Amsterdam beginning September 1939; living in Hilversum in 1940; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to Westerbork in August 1941; escaping; working in a Jewish hospital in Hague; her family's deportation; hiding with assistance from her brother's non-Jewish friend; posing as a non-Jew and moving when people became suspicious; delivering arms for the underground; libe...

  8. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Lut?s??k, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933, one of four children. He recounts German invasion in June 1941; mass shootings, including three of his uncles; ghettoization; pervasive deaths; his mother's emphasis on running, rather than acceptance; scouting the ghetto at night for escape routes; escaping with his mother and sister in June 1942; staying briefly with non-Jewish friends; learning from them the ghetto population had been killed in a mass shooting; hiding in the forest; and liberation by Soviet troops in February 1944. Mr. S. note...

  9. Ida L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic incidents during her childhood; activities in a Zionist youth group; harsh conditions in the Krako?w ghetto; smuggling food to share with her sister; one sister's deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to P?aszo?w when the ghetto was liquidated in 1943; working in the laundry; random killings by camp commander Amon Goeth; a Jewish doctor being severely beaten and displayed in a wheel barrow as an example of punishment for helping others; declining to escape with help from a Polish friend fearing retr...

  10. Daniel F. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Daniel F., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Dr. F. recounts having a gun after liberation and deciding not to shoot a German; returning home to Craidorolt?; recovering photographs from a woman and currency his father had buried; reopening his father's store; realizing he had no future there; traveling with a cousin to Budapest, Vienna and Paris; and joining an uncle in the United States. He discusses fantasizing about revenge and food in the camps; the vividness of some memories and loss of others; telling himself in the camps to remem...

  11. Genia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia W., who was born in Brzesko Nowe, Poland in 1914. She recalls her family's move to Proszowice, then Krako?w; their extreme poverty; her marriage; German invasion; fleeing to Brzesko Nowe; her husband escaping east (he was killed); joining her oldest brother in the Krako?w ghetto; forced labor at the Madritsch factory; aid from a non-Jewish supervisor; making shirts for Amon Goeth, the Kommandant of P?aszo?w; and liquidation of the ghetto when many were killed. Mrs. W. describes brutality and frequent killings in P?aszo?w; her future husband arranging her transfe...

  12. Helen W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen W., who was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1932. She recalls her father's medical practice; a close, extended family; her father's strong sense of German identity; antisemitic harassment in the streets; attending a Jewish school (it was illegal to attend a secular school); her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his return about three weeks later; his departure for England in April 1939; placement with her brother on a kindertransport in July; meeting their father in London; attending a boarding school; her mother's visit; evacuation with the school to Richmond whe...

  13. Katalin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katalin L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, the second of two children. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; anti-Jewish legislation; attending communist meetings with her brother; marriage; her husband's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (he did not survive); German invasion; her brother obtaining false papers for therr and her mother; their arrest and imprisonment; beatings during interrogations; seeing her brother once (he escaped); their transfer to Sárvár; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother...

  14. Anya K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anya K., who was born in Ostrog, Poland (presently Ostroh, Ukraine). She recalls her mother's charitable activities; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family business; one brother's conscription into the Soviet army (she never saw him again); German invasion on June 21, 1941; her other brother fleeing; her mother surviving a mass murder in August; ghettoization; frequent round-ups and murders; hiding with her parents and sister; the impossibility of remaining without water; and escaping with her sister. Mrs. K. recounts searching for Soviet partisans and ...

  15. Inga C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inga C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1926. She recalls her maternal extended family gatherings; her father, a Russian citizen, traveling to the Soviet Union in 1931, attempting to arrange their emigration; his imprisonment as a "spy"; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment by Hitler youth; eviction from their apartment in 1936; sexual harassment by the building superintendent, who threatened to deport her if she told anyone; hiding with her aunt's friend, a Nazi party member, during Kristallnacht; returning home to find their apartment ransacked; he...

  16. Sidney S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sidney S., who was born in Dolgoye, Ukraine in 1915. He details Jewish life in the Carpathian region, including extreme orthodoxy and poverty; his attendance at yeshiva and gymnasium in Beregovo; medical school in Brno from 1936 to 1939; and Jewish communal life and institutions in Brno. Mr. S. recalls sudden German occupation; Hitler's visit to Brno; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; returning to Dolgoye, which was occupied by Hungary; increasing anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Budapest to avoid forced labor in Hungarian army battalions; and his eventual draft into ...

  17. Richard O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard O., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. Mr. O. remembers German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east; returning to Krako?w; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; once refusing to work; ghettoization; training as a nurse in the Jewish hospital, then working there; hospital workers' exemption from deportation; his mother's deportation; helping a patient escape from the ghetto; transfer to P?asz?ow in February 1943; working in the hospital; public hangings; delivering medication to the Kommandant, Amon Goeth; help from an SS guard; a mass shooting of J...

  18. Fania S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fania S., who was born in Novohrad-Volynsʹkyī, Ukraine in 1926. She describes her family's orthodoxy; German invasion in June 1941; her family's flight to Dovbysh; returning home when Germans arrived; anti-Jewish restrictions; living with her aunt in Krasnostav; hiding during a round-up for a mass killing; leaving town posing as a non-Jew; walking to Novohrad-Volynsʹkyī; meeting her younger brother who told her all Jews, including her parents and other brother, were rounded-up; finding her family; her mother pushing her into the ditch before she was killed; crawling...

  19. Gabriel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabriel D., who was born in Hradec Kra?love?, Czechoslovakia in 1922. He recalls his father's death in 1935; moving to Prague in 1936; participation in Maccabi, a Zionist youth group; German occupation; his brother's and sister's emigration; his mother's death; living in a Maccabi commune; volunteering for deportation to Theresienstadt in November 1941 in order to be with his friends; overcrowding and starvation; deportations resulting in separation trauma; secret Maccabi meetings; cultural and educational activities; working as a gardener; participating in theater pr...