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Displaying items 2,101 to 2,120 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Fred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1904. He recalls attending Gymnasium; his father's losses during the hyperinflation of the early 1920s; studying banking; moving to Mannheim in 1924 to work in a cigar factory; his mother's death; friendships with Jews and non-Jews; exclusion from his company's soccer team in 1933 because he was Jewish; marriage in 1936; futile efforts to emigrate to the United States; losing his job; returning to Schweinfurt to work for his uncle; arrest and imprisonment in Schweinfurt in November 1938; transfer to Dachau; release afte...

  2. Hannalore F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannalore F., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1931. She recalls leaving school due to antisemitic harassment; her father's work as a cantor and teacher; his arrest on November 9, 1938; a neighbor warning them to leave their home; hiding in her aunt's home during Kristallnacht; a Nazi neighbor protecting their home (all other Jewish homes were vandalized); learning her father was in Dachau; her mother planning their emigration; receiving documents from her uncle in Norway (he was a rabbi there); her father's release; living with her uncle in Oslo; German inva...

  3. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1924. He recalls German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish measures; expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school; his father's arrest in October 1941 (he never saw him again); his older brother hiding with a Dutch physician to avoid deportation; he and his mother joining his brother in hiding in September 1942; having to move to the attic of the doctor's housekeeper's home; constant fear of discovery; and liberation by Canadian troops in April 1945. Mr. L. describes learning of his father's death in Mauthau...

  4. Charles V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. He recalls feeling Belgian rather than Jewish; military service beginning in 1937; German invasion; capture; one year imprisonment as a Belgian POW; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; forced closing of the family business; hiding with his parents and sister; denunciation as a Jew in June 1944; imprisonment; transfer to Malines, then Auschwitz (his family remained hidden); slave labor; fierce struggles for food; his sense of complete isolation; willing himself to forget his past and f...

  5. Dov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov D., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending Hebrew school; summer vacations in Kulautuva; his father's death in 1938; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his family's property; summering with an uncle in Jieznas; German invasion; ghettoization; working as a carpenter; his family surviving the large Aktion of October 1941; his sister smuggling food for them; his mother's deportation; witnessing Germans and Lithuanians killing infants during another Aktion; his brother serving in the Jewish police; hiding wi...

  6. Erna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in 1923 in Simleul, near Timisoara, Romania and presently lives in Australia. She recalls her childhood, which was relatively trouble-free until 1937. She describes lining up with the rest of the town's Jews in 1944; their march to the ghetto; her transport to Auschwitz in 1944, where she was separated from her family, "adopted" by an older Jewish woman, and worked in the kitchen; her transfer, six weeks later, to Bergen-Belsen; and her experiences there. She relates her forced labor in Beendorf and Braunschweig; liberation; her post-war journey ...

  7. Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls celebrating Easter and Christmas; moving to Kiel in 1926; antisemitic abuse in school; moving to Frankfurt in 1931; Nazi demonstrations; leaving school in March 1933; her parents changing her name to the more "Aryan"-sounding "Dora"; traveling to Switzerland in April 1933; moving to Manchester; assistance from the Jewish community, her first contact with other Jews; attending nursing school in London in 1938; the school's evacuation to Wales in September 1940; and emigration to the United States in 1940. ...

  8. Lilly F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of seven children of a rebbe. She recounts her mother's death in 1937; her older sister's emigration to the United States; her father's futile emigration efforts, including a trip to Portugal; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; working in a factory to help support her family; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return nine months later; German invasion; deportation to Irshava, then the Munkács ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father and...

  9. Mikhail B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikhail B., who was born in Tulʹchin, Ukraine in 1927. He recalls a happy childhood; his observant home; German invasion; the draft of most men into the Soviet military; his father staying to dismantle factory machinery; arrival of German troops; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to Peciora about a month later; mass shootings of young men; starvation and beatings; his younger brother and father dying; escaping with friends at night to obtain food for his mother and sister; being caught; being locked up and beaten in Brat︠s︡lav, then Vyshkove; surviv...

  10. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Chop, Czechoslovakia in 1925 to a family of nine children. She recalls growing up in Uz?h?horod; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her father's arrest for assisting relatives escaping from Slovakia; German occupation in 1944; refusing to leave her family when non-Jews offered to provide false papers and hide her; forced relocation to a lumber yard; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and brothers upon arrival; twice going through selections as a replacement for her younger, weaker sister; their transfer to Stutthof; working at a...

  11. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. He describes his sister's deportation; building railroads in a Hungarian labor camp in Transylvania in 1944; evacuation of German troops as the Soviet army advanced; escaping with his friend to Budapest with assistance from a Hungarian guard; reunion with his mother in the Budapest ghetto; collapse of the Horthy regime; worsening conditions; learning of his division's evacuation to Budapest; and rejoining his labor battalion. He recalls escaping with help from the underground; acquiring false documents and shelter f...

  12. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1925, one of seven children. He recalls attending cheder; German invasion in 1939; forced labor in Płaszów and Wieliczka; his family fleeing to Będzin during a round-up in 1942; returning to Wolbrom, then going back to Będzin; living with cousins; transport with four brothers and his sister to Sosnowiec, then Brande; his cousin helping him get a privileged job in the kitchen; transfer to Graeditz; slave labor in a munitions factory; becoming ill; his cousin's death; receiving extra food from German bakers; transfer to Gr...

  13. Juliette H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juliette H., who was born in Oran, Algeria in 1925, one of eight children. She describes the vibrant Jewish community; cordial relations with the Arabs; her family's Jewish holiday celebrations; antisemitism during lycee? entrance exams; receiving a scholarship; antisemitic policies after formation of the Vichy government; food shortages; expulsion of Jewish students from schools; non-Jewish teachers offering them private lessons; her father's loss of his government job; liberation by United States troops in December 1942; hosting Allied troops; her younger brother's ...

  14. Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Otwock; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; moving to the Warsaw ghetto; his father's job as policeman; studying with a private tutor; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his grandfather's death from starvation; his father placing his sister in a workshop to save her from deportation (he never saw her again); his father removing him and his mother from the Umschlagplatz several times after they had been rounded-up for deportation; his father weeping after ro...

  15. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. He recalls not understanding why he had to change schools after the Anschluss; his family's illegal emigration to Brussels; extended family following; fleeing to Arras, France during German invasion in 1940; arrest by the French due to their German accents; release by the Germans; returning to Brussels; deportation with his parents to Malines in August 1942, then eastward; removal from the train of men aged eighteen to forty-five, including him and his father (they never saw his mother again); slave labo...

  16. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children in an orthodox family. She recalls fleeing toward Krako?w when Germany invaded in 1939; living there briefly with relatives; returning home; moving in with relatives (their house and business had been pillaged); her parents' deportation in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated; discovering her sister and brother had been deported; her deportation to Sosnowiec, then Neusalz; slave labor in a thread factory; a death march; obtaining food for herself and a friend; briefly staying in Gross-Rose...

  17. Ivan I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan I., who was born in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1929. He recounts cordial relations in an ethnically and religiously diverse community; his family's conversion to Christianity; their German affinity (his parents and grandfather attended German medical schools); his father's military service; German invasion in April 1941; his paternal grandparents' suicide; his aunt from Hungarian-occupied Novi Sad bringing him and his sister to live with her (he never saw his parents again); attending gymnasium using his baptismal papers; a massacre of Jews and S...

  18. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-717), Mr. P. recounts a forced march to Siedlce, then Ostro?e?ka in 1939; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to ?osice with his sister and brother-in-law en route to Soviet-occupied territory; working as a Soviet policeman after the war; deserting in April 1945; traveling to Lublin; obtaining false papers from an official; and traveling west to Katowice, then Wroc?aw.

  19. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. Ms. G. recounts her father's parents were Jewish, but he had been baptized, and her mother was a German Christian; their divorce in 1935; joining the Bund Deutscher Ma?del (BDM); her father's arrest in 1938 for marrying a non-Jewish German; his release and emigration to Bolivia in 1940; her paternal grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt (she never saw her again); expulsion from the BDM and school in 1942 due to the Nuremberg laws; mandatory domestic work for a year; assignment to a lab...

  20. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...