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

  1. Ben S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben S. who was born in Ozeryany, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1920. One of nine children, he describes poverty in the shtetl; attending cheder where his father taught; the family's move to Goloby when he was eleven; attending yeshiva in Lutsk from 1933 to 1937; returning home to teach when his father became ill; increasing antisemitism; participation in Zionist youth groups to prepare for kibbutz life; Soviet occupation in 1939; and many refugees fleeing from German occupation. Mr. S. recounts the German invasion; fleeing east with three friends to Kiev; working on a colle...

  2. Eugene H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene H., who was born in Libau, Russia (now Latvia) in 1908. He describes moving to Belgium as an infant; growing up in Ghent; fleeing to England during World War I; his parents' deaths in the 1920s; marriage in 1935; living in Paris for two years; returning to Belgium; the outbreak of war; unsuccessful efforts to enlist in the Belgian military; joining the French Foreign Legion; returning to Belgium after the armistice; his wife's Resistance activities; supplying food to people in hiding or on illegal papers with her; his arrest; a few days imprisonment in St. Gill...

  3. Jelena H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jelena H., who was born in Padina, Yugoslavia. She recounts graduating as a physician from university in Belgrade; German invasion; briefly returning home; returning to Belgrade in June; working in a hospital; returning home; deportation of all Jews to Belgrade in August; a round-up in November, including her father (she never saw him again); incarceration in Zemun in December; working in a hospital; efforts to save children; Serbs bringing them food; her husband (a Bulgarian) arranging for her and her mother to join him in Bitola in March 1942; deportation in March 1...

  4. Maine Survivors Remember

  5. Aleksandar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandar A., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce in 1937; living with his father; good relations with his mother; learning he was Jewish when he was expelled from school in 1940; fleeing with his father to a village during German invasion in April 1941; his father's employment as an architect in another village; the residents' promise to protect their identity; his mother's arrival; their arrest by Chetniks; the torture of other prisoners; German orders to report to Belgrade; his father's transfer (he never saw him again); ...

  6. Léon P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Léon P., who was born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France to Polish immigrants in 1933. He recalls his father volunteering for military service in 1939; evacuation with his mother and brother to Gironde; living there for two years (his father was a POW in Germany); joining his aunt and uncle in Paris in 1943; his mother's belief that his father's POW status would protect them; their arrest in February 1944; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in May; remaining with his mother and brother; living with death and killing becoming "normal"; train evacuation i...

  7. Shalom T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom T., who was born in 1921 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He recalls his family's move to Antwerp in 1936 and to Brussels three years later; their move to southern France in 1940; arrest in Lyon; two months incarceration in Rivesaltes; joining his parents in Nice; their escape to Italy; German occupation; being protected by the town's mayor; arrest and transfer to Borgo San Dalmazzo, Nice, and Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; forced labor at Buna/Monowitz; receiving food from non-Jewish co-workers and Wehrmacht officers; public hangings; being i...

  8. Lidia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lidia G., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1928. She recalls a happy childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in June 1941; her father's draft; German occupation in October; assistance from a German doctor and soldier; ghettoization with her mother in a tractor factory in December; killing of hostages, including her cousin; meeting her future father-in-law who was married to a non-Jew and who gave them his address; his escape; escaping with her mother in January 1942; hearing screaming from the mass murder site; obtaining false papers; hiding wit...

  9. Nathan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan G., who was born in Paris, France in 1925, one of three children. He recalls a happy childhood; leaving school at thirteen to work with his father as a cobbler; German invasion; his father's arrest in 1941; seeing him in a window at Drancy; leaving his family for the unoccupied zone in 1942; living in Limoges, Toulouse, and Lyon; learning his mother and younger sister were deported (he never saw them again); arrest while returning to Paris in November; imprisonment in Autun and another location; kindness from a priest; transfer to Drancy in December; deportatio...

  10. Tibor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He describes participating in Zionist organizations; the influx of Austrian refugees in 1938; German invasion; obtaining false papers in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; compulsory service in a Slovak forced labor battalion in Sva?ty? Jur in 1941; learning his parents were deported in June 1942; returning to Bratislava in March 1943; escaping to join the Slovak uprising in Banska? Bystrica in August 1944; being wounded; fighting in Donovaly in September; surrendering in October; escaping with his friend to Banska? B...

  11. Milton L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton L., who was born in Ulanów, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls working in the family bakery business; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; two brothers emigrating to the United States in 1939; German invasion followed by Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviet forces; traveling to Młodów; two brothers and his sister returning home; deportation by the Soviets to Siberia in fall 1940; working with his brothers cutting trees; moving with his mother and brothers to Samarqand two years later; separation from his family whe...

  12. Memoirs d'en France

  13. Bella R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella R., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926. In this detailed testimony, Mrs. R. recalls antisemitic incidents; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Wolbrom; returning to Sosnowiec; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; conflicts between the Judenrat and the underground; avoiding deportation due to the family business; transfer to the Srodula ghetto; hiding in a bunker in August 1943; discovery (one brother was killed and her parents taken); remaining in the bunker with her sister and brother for seven days; leaving after her siblings had gone; capture by a Pole...

  14. Jean K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean K., who was born in 1918 in Vilnius, Poland (presently Lithuania). She recounts her sister's birth; attending Zionist meetings; studying business; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; the shooting of her mother, sister and grandparents; her father's illness and death; a round-up in September 1943; separation from her husband and child (she never saw them again); deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor in an AEG factory; assistance from fellow prisoners after a severe whipping; transfer to Stuffhof in 1944, t...

  15. Daniel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1921. He recalls graduating from private school in 1937; Soviet occupation; working for a textile company; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; daily forced labor; a beating by German soldiers from which he still bears a scar; transfer with his father at the end of 1943 to Stutthof, then two weeks later to a labor camp; slave labor digging ditches; his deteriorating physical condition; losing his will to live; his father saving him several times; transfer in April 1945 to Dachau, then Allach; liberation ...

  16. Roger V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger V., a Catholic, who was born in Bredene, Belgium in 1920. He recounts moving to Nieuwpoort in 1926; attending a Catholic, then a public school; working in his mother's store; military draft in 1940; service in Ghent for three months; transfer to Montpellier, France; the Nieuwpoort mayor bringing them home; working for the resistance recording truck and car traffic in Ostend to convey to the Allies; obtaining false papers indicating a younger age so he could travel freely; arrest in 1942 for black market activity; release six months later; arrest in April 1944 fo...

  17. Leo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, the oldest of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; his bar mitzvah in 1934; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father to Sachsenhausen in September 1939; arduous slave labor; assisting his father; transfer to Braunschweig in 1941; slave labor for Volkswagen-Vorwerk; return to Sachsenhausen; transfer with his father to Auschwitz in 1942, then to Buna/Monowitz; his father's selection for death in 1943; his friends from Berlin helping each other; public hangings; starvation and sadistic beatings; h...

  18. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Da?browa Go?rnicza, Poland, circa 1928. He speaks of life in the community before the war; the effects of the German occupation; the dispersal and deaths of members of his family, while he and his brother tried to hide together; and his eventual arrest and torture in Katowice. He relates his deportation to Birkenau and vividly recalls conditions there, where he saw subjects of medical experiments, was hospitalized after contracting typhus, and, after his recovery, worked in the "Canada" Kommando. He remembers the camp orchestra as well as t...

  19. Fran L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland wit...

  20. Oscar F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1921, one of eight children. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; help from a former schoolmate who was in the SS; round-ups by Jewish police appointed by the Judenrat; escaping from a labor camp with assistance from a non-Jew; moving with his family into the Podhajce ghetto; hiding with his brother during "aktions"; his mother lighting Sabbath candles despite the constant fear; escaping to the woods with friends; learning the ghetto was liquidated; seeking and finding many other escapees in the w...