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

  1. Judah V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judah V., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1925. He recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; apprenticing to a milliner; German invasion; frequent round-ups; his father's exemption due to his job; his father hiding him and his sister during a round-up in spring 1943 (they were not covered by the exemption); his parents and two younger siblings being taken despite the exemption; posing as staff of the Jewish council to see his family in the Schouwberg (the theater used to hold Jews in Amsterdam prior to their deportation); his father's instru...

  2. Julia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia W., who was born in Paris, France to Polish immigrants in 1925. She recalls her father volunteering for French military service when the war began; German invasion; hiding when a non-Jewish resistant warned them of round-ups; her mother's arrest (she never saw her again); hiding her father and uncle; denunciation and arrest with her father; incarceration in Drancy in April 1943; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin warning her never to go to the hospital; slave labor carrying dirt; being beaten; assignment to the Canada Kommando; smuggling cigarette...

  3. Myer C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myer C., who was born in Zdolbunov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He recalls his large and close extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; expropriation of the family business; German invasion in 1941; a mass shooting of Jewish men; ghettoization; slave labor; his mother's escape, then his with his brother, father, and a girl when the ghetto was liquidated in October 1942; hiding with farmers they knew, as well as in bunkers and the forest for two years; some separations from his family; contacts with Jewish and non-Jewish partisan groups, although not joining...

  4. Menachem S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Menachem S., who was born in Krako?w in 1938. In this unusually vivid and insightful testimony, he outlines his family background and relates his earliest recollections, which date to 1942 when his family moved into the Krako?w ghetto ,then P?aszo?w concentration camp. He describes his March 1943 leavetaking from his parents (noting that they promised to find him after the war) and his mother's parting gift of her high school photo identification which sustained him throughout the separation. He tells of being smuggled out of P?aszo?w; his stay in a whorehouse, where ...

  5. Max N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max N., who was born near Moscow in 1914. He recounts his family's move to Otwock, Poland after the revolution; attending university in Warsaw from 1933-1936, then briefly in Jerusalem; returning home due to Arab uprisings; marriage in 1937; his daughter's birth; ghettoization; his wife and daughter escaping the day before liquidation of the ghetto (his remaining family were killed); his transfer to Karczew; escaping to the Warsaw ghetto to join a sister (his wife was hiding with a non-Jew outside the ghetto and their daughter was in a Catholic orphanage in Otwock); w...

  6. Rose M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose M., who was born in Radzyn? Podlaski, Poland in 1923. She recalls German invasion; fleeing to S?awatycze in January; returning home; marriage in spring 1942; hiding during round-ups; escaping when they were discovered; finding her husband and mother at a friend's house; learning her father, brother, and other relatives had been caught and killed; working with her mother on a farm; returning to Radzyn?; reunion with her husband; hiding with farmers; going to the Miedzyrzec ghetto; her son's birth and immediate death; learning her husband and brothers had been kill...

  7. Hanan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanan L., who was born in Traby, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recalls a happy childhood; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; forced relocation to Iu?e; forced labor; ghettoization; a selection for a mass shooting (he and his family were chosen for work); his father obtaining shepherds clothing for him and then he and a friend smuggling themselves to Nikolaev to a non-Jew friendly to Jews; hiding with him; stealing a gun to join the partisans; returning for their families; learning they had been deported (none survived); returning to the parti...

  8. Terry D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Terry D., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1925. She recounts her father's death; her mother's remarriage; moving to Brzostek; antisemitic violence and discrimination; German invasion; help from Germans, who mistook her family for non-Jews; anti-Jewish measures, including forced labor; her step-father's suicide after his arrest; disbelief when Austrian soldiers warned them all Jews would be killed; declining to be hidden by an Austrian soldier; escaping to a forest during a round-up in August 1941; being smuggled with her mother into the De?bica ghetto by a non-Je...

  9. Myra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myra L., who was born in 1919 in ?o?dz?, Poland. Mrs. L. describes anti-Jewish legislation and extreme antisemitism; German occupation; forced labor; ghettoization; her work in a hospital as a student nurse; deportations; thousands of deaths caused by starvation, including her older brother, younger brother, and mother; the conflict between wanting to help others and the instinct for survival; liquidation of the ghetto; evacuation of the hospital; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer, with a friend, to Freiberg; slave labor; and liberation by United States t...

  10. Laure K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laure K., who was born in Philippsburg, Germany in 1925. She recalls increased anti-Jewish restrictions from 1933 onward; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; attending a Jewish school; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht and release from Dachau in December; deportation with her family in October 1940 to Gurs; primitive conditions; her grandmother's death; the family's transfer to Rivesaltes; attending ORT classes; leaving Rivesaltes to work in a children's home; placement of her younger brother in a French home; her sister living in a home run by the scouting movement,...

  11. Jenny Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny Z., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland. She recalls living in Da?browa Go?rnicza; hostility toward Jewish businesses; German invasion; hiding in Czeladz?; arrest; incarceration in Sosnowiec; transfer to Oberaltstadt where she met her two sisters; slave labor in a textile factory; frequent selections; enduring prolonged appels; her younger sister's transfer (she did not survive); a Red Cross visit; severe punishment when her diary was discovered; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; a hostile response from the local Poles; meeting her future husband who ...

  12. Henni S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henni S., who was born in Dobromil?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Ukraine), in 1906. Mrs. S. tells of her family's move to Holland in 1921; her marriage during a visit to Przemys?l, Poland; the birth of her son in 1929; separation from her husband and son (both of whom she never saw again) when the war began while she was visiting her family in 1939; leaving Brussels on the last train to Paris in May 1940; fleeing to Marseille; living in Italian-occupied Barcelonnette for a year; and paying a guide to take her and others into Switzerland. She relates capture and inc...

  13. Eva J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva J., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1931. She recalls living in Rava-Rus?ka; her father moving to France due to antisemitism; she and her mother joining him in Paris in 1935; her father's enlistment when the war began; fleeing to with her mother to Lisieux; returning to Paris; German invasion in June 1940; her father moving to the unoccupied zone; being smuggled with her mother to join him in Valence; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; being hidden in a remote village for three months, pretending to be Catholic; returning to her mother; her sister's birt...

  14. Sol E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in a Polish village and raised in Gorlice. He recalls a large and close extended family; working for a wholesale food business; learning English, anticipating emigration to join relatives in the United States; German invasion; forced labor; ghettoization; starvation; non-Jewish farmers bringing them food; selection with his brother for deportation to P?aszo?w; slave labor for Siemens; hospitalization for typhus; working as a nurse; sharing extra food with others; working for Krupp; separation from his brother (he never saw him again); transfer to ...

  15. Malvina H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malvina H., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913 and raised in Subotica. She recounts membership in Hashomer Hatzair; moving to Zagreb with them; leaving the Zionist group to join Marxist groups; moving to Belgrade; marriage to a Croatian non-Jew; German invasion in 1941; not registering as a Jew (her documents listed her as a Catholic Croat); her husband's death escaping from a camp; living with her mother-in-law; helping her Jewish friend Blanka acquire false papers as a non-Jew; registering Blanka's daughter as her own; living together; hosting communist meeti...

  16. Mordechai Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordechai Z., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1921, the second of five children. He recounts participating in Halutz; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a round-up that included his older brother (they never saw him again); fleeing with his family to Milkuskos, then Svir; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor for Organisation Todt in Palemonas; escaping; entering the Vilna ghetto with assistance from non-Jews; living in an orphanage; arrival of his father, mother, and sisters; hiding with FPO partisans during the ghetto's liquidati...

  17. Eva T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born in 1925 in Zgierz, Poland. She recalls German invasion in 1939; her father's arrest and release after a severe beating; expulsion from their home; living with her paternal grandfather in ?o?dz?; moving to Warsaw after being warned by her father's German friend; her father's return to Zgierz with Mrs. T's brother and sister; working in a brush factory to earn food for her family; her mother's death from starvation; her siblings' disappearance (she never saw any of them again); attempts to avoid deportation; and transport to Majdanek. Mrs. T. descri...

  18. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in 1922 in ?uko?w, Poland, one of ten children. He recalls antisemitic attacks; helping in his mother's store from age ten; briefly fleeing German invasion; being caught in a round-up; deportation to Ostro?w Mazowiecka; release; returning home; traveling to Soviet occupied Brest; returning home three months later; deportation to a forced labor camp in summer 1940; his brother obtaining his release after sixteen days; hiding during round-ups in April and October 1942; living with one brother in De?blin for ten weeks; returning home; ghettoizati...

  19. Rena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena B., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1935. She recalls the family's move to Zagreb; Sephardic Jewish life, particularly Passover; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; her father hiding to avoid arrest; fleeing with her mother to Italian-occupied Split, with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend; her father's arrival after several months; living in a displaced persons camp in Trieste; living in Asti for eighteen months; friendship with a local girl; briefly attending school in Turin; a fascist round-up and internment in Ferramonti; Zionist activities in the c...

  20. Alfred C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred C., a non-Jew, who was born in Ciply, Belgium in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending school in Mons; working as a butcher to support his family; German invasion; fleeing to Marseille; returning home; working at a slaughterhouse in La Louvière; his father's death in December 1940; hiding with friends in Frameries to avoid compulsory labor; arrest; imprisonment in Mons; transfer to Watten; slave labor for Organization Todt; escape; returning home; hiding in Brussels; joining the underground; obtaining false papers; living in Braine-le-Comt...