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

  1. Simon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon B., who was born in Berlin in 1909. Mr. B. recalls his family's close relationship with the non-Jewish family who lived in the apartment above his; his father's military service during the first World War; quitting school in order to help his ailing father with the family business; his attempt to emigrate to Israel; and the totally transformed attitude of his German "friends" after 1933. He describes anti-Jewish measures to which he was subjected; Kristallnacht; hiding from the police; being smuggled, with his wife, into Belgium, and arranging for his parents to...

  2. Joe D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe D., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1923. He describes vibrant Jewish life; a boycott of Jewish stores; Soviet occupation in 1939; learning plumbing at an ORT school; German invasion; mass killings; ghettoization; establishment of Jewish factories by the Judenrat under Ephraim Barash's leadership; his father's deportation in 1942; forced labor; hiding with his mother and brothers during deportations in February 1943; his mother's and younger brother's deportation in August; being jailed in Hrodna and ?omz?a with his brother; their deportation to Stutthof in D...

  3. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland in 1925, the eldest of three children. He recounts Sabbath and Jewish holidays in a large, extended family; attending public school; antisemitic violence; his father's service in the Polish military; German invasion; his father's return three weeks later; confiscation of his company; a public hanging of randomly selected men (Poles and Jews); ghettoization; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; non-Jews helping them hide in a bunker; discovery; separation from his father and youngest sister; transfer to Sosnowie...

  4. Saul C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1916, one of seven brothers. Mr. C. recalls his father giving his children religious freedom despite his own orthodoxy; playing soccer on a team of Jews and non-Jews; participation in Zionist youth organizations; attending Jewish and Polish schools; working in his brother's factory; organizing self-defense groups of young Jewish men to resist attacks by Polish antisemites; bringing food and clothes to relatives in Siedlce following a pogrom; German invasion; antisemitism of former Polish friends; ghettoization; building bunke...

  5. Philip B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip B., who was born in Izbica, near Lublin, Poland, in 1925. He describes his prewar family life; the wartime transfer of German and Czech Jews to Izbica, a railroad center; and a typhus epidemic there. He recounts the beginning of deportations to Be?z?ec, a nearby extermination camp, in 1941; his family's life in hiding; and the deportations of his father and other family members. Mr. B. relates his own capture by Polish police and his transfer to Gestapo headquarters; his feigned death in front of a firing squad; hiding with siblings and his mother; and his moth...

  6. Regina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Strzemieszyce, Poland in 1923, one of eight children. She recalls her orthodox home; attending public school; rising antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; arrest of her four brothers one by one (she never saw them again); her mother's death following a beating; ghettoization with her father and three sisters in 1942; deportation to Ludwigsdorf; slave labor in a (munitions) factory; her sisters' arrival from another camp; learning her father was deported (he did not survive); fasting during Yom Kippur; liberation by Soviet troops; livin...

  7. Judit B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judit B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; their conversion to Unitarianism; attending a Lutheran school; her father losing his job in 1942 due to antisemitic laws, despite their conversion; German occupation in spring 1944; her father's brief incarceration in a labor camp; expulsion from school in April; moving to a Jewish designated area; her family obtaining Swedish passports in summer 1944; a non-Jewish friend arranging for her to be hidden in the countryside as a non-Jew using false papers; her parents bri...

  8. Stella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stella M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930. She describes her wealthy and assimilated family; an antisemitic incident in school; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacationing in Rabka; German invasion; escaping east with her family for two months eluding the Germans; reaching Tarno?w; deciding to return; obtaining a horse in Bochnia; expulsion, from their home; their maid hiding valuables for them; ghettoization in March 1941; non-Jewish friends sending them food; her father working as a ghetto policeman; his warning others of pending round-ups; liquidation of ...

  9. Hetty D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hetty D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1930. She recalls close relations with her extended family; her sense of Dutch, not Jewish, identity; German invasion; unsuccessfully attempting to flee with her parents; gradual implementation of anti-Jewish laws; deportations; brief arrest with her parents; their release by Ferdinand aus der Fu?nten because they were considered non-Jews due to their descent from Marranos; her father's decision to flee from the Jewish quarter; being taken from Amsterdam by a member of the underground; hiding with a Protestant family...

  10. Judith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. She tells of sailing with her parents and grandfather on the St. Louis in May 1939; being refused landing permission in Cuba; disembarkation in Antwerp; living in a French town on the Spanish border; friendship with their landlady; incarceration in Gurs in 1942; hysteria when she was separated from her parents (she never saw them again); placement with the landlady (her grandfather was still there, but died shortly thereafter); attending school and church; being protected by the villagers (they knew she was Jewish); ...

  11. Daniel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel W., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1927. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; deportation with his mother and brother to Birkenau in 1944; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); taking the number of a dead man thus enabling his transfer from Birkenau to Auschwitz; slave labor; the death march to Gross-Rosen; clearing bombing rubble in Hannover; transfer to Dachau; train transport; being shot in the leg while escaping from the train with a friend; encountering United States troops; returning to Budapest; learning his immediate fam...

  12. Rozalia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rozalia S., who was born in Tomášov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, an only child. She recalls attending a local Catholic school, then schools in Malinovo and Senec; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; exemption from many due to her father's status as a decorated, disabled World War I veteran; assistance from the local Roman Catholic priest; deportation of all the other Jews in May 1944, including her beloved aunt (none survived); transfer with her parents to Dunajská Streda in September 1944; some ...

  13. W?adys?aw L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of W?adys?aw L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1901. He recalls attending medical school in Vilna due to restrictions against Jews in Warsaw; transferring to Warsaw due to his high grades; practicing in Warsaw; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with his wife via Bia?a Podlaska and Kobryn; settling in Pinsk, in the Soviet-occupied zone; deportation with all refugees to Arkhangel?sk; working in hospitals; imprisonment in 1943 as an American spy; signing a false confession to spare his wife and to avoid additional torture; an eight year sentence to a labor...

  14. Miriam R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam R., who was born in Zaleszczyki, Poland, in 1929. Mrs. R., the youngest of four children and the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust, recalls her happy childhood before the war. She notes prewar antisemitism in Poland and describes life under Russian occupation (1939-1941). Also detailed are the German occupation and subsequent acts against Jews which Mrs. R. witnessed and recorded in a diary. She tells of her escape from a group of Jews who were later massacred and of the refusal of the Jews of her town to believe her account of what happened. S...

  15. Sara F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of seven children. She recalls her father's death; her mother raising them and managing the family bakery; caring for her nephew when her sister remained in Budapest in 1942; ghettoization; forced relocation to a farm; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; a prisoner forcing her to give her nephew to her mother, which saved her life (they perished); remaining with her younger sister; saving her from a selection; their transfer to Allendorf after ten weeks; slave labor in a munitions factory; a German super...

  16. Rose F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920. She recalls her father's early death; poverty; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in 1940; her child's birth; deportations and mass killings in 1942; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker; leaving when her baby cried; deportation to Auschwitz; a prisoner taking her baby from her upon arrival (she never saw the baby again); being punished as a result of her brothers' attempts to contact her; working at an ammunition factory in Birkenau; smuggling gun powder for the underground; a revolt and execution of the...

  17. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918, one of three children. He recounts attending public school; working repairing bicycles; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east with his father, brother, and uncles; returning; meeting his future wife; forced labor cleaning streets; working instead of his father; slave labor in a factory; smuggling chickens into the ghetto; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); his brother's and future mother-in-law's deportation; marriage; transfer to P?aszo?w; brief visits with his sister and wife; a fe...

  18. Georgette B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgette B., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. She tells of her parents' emigration from Poland in 1920; their Jewish, multilingual neighborhood; anti-Semitic incidents after the war began in 1939; her father's enlistment; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; her father's arrest; his incarceration outside of Paris; cessation of letters from him; fleeing to Montfermeil; hiding with a French family; leaving her youngest sister with this family when they escaped to unoccupied France; her mother's difficulty due to her artificial leg; living in Luchons, Bruges and...

  19. Paul R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul R., who was born in Nowy Sa?cz, Poland in 1920. He recalls apprenticeship to a tailor at age eleven; the family's move to Belgium in 1936; working as a tailor; poverty and unemployment; local prominence as a table tennis player; German invasion; table tennis matches with German officers; deportation to Dannes in 1942, then to Malines and Auschwitz; sadistic beatings; working as a tailor and in the Canada Kommando; emotional numbness including indifference to others; trading valuables found in clothes for food; witnessing SS put Zyklon B in gas chambers; punishmen...

  20. Betty C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty C., who was born in Berlin in 1910. She tells of her happy life in prewar Berlin and describes the rise of antisemitism in Germany, culminating in Kristallnacht, after which she, her husband, and her infant daughter fled the country and emigrated to the United States.