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

  1. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (presently Gusev, Russia) in 1922, the second of four children. He recounts living in Šiauliai; his father's executive position at a large leather factory; participating in Maccabi; summer vacations in Palanga; attending a Jewish elementary school, Hebrew high school, then a Lithuanian gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in spring 1941; briefly fleeing east; he and his brother being forced by Lithuanians to bury corpses of Soviet soldiers; arrest by one former classmate and relea...

  2. Edita Š. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita Š., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recalls growing up in Košice; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in spring 1944; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); remaining with her sister and two friends; transfer three days later to Kasierwald, then to Rīga, Dundangen, and Stutthof; slave labor; walking to other camps; being injured in January; her sister and friends assisting her; hiding from the Germans; being shot while escaping (her sist...

  3. Karl W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl W., a Romani, who was born in 1931, one of ten children. He recalls his father's death; deportation with his family from Kiel to Majdanek in 1940; separation from his older brothers (they went to the men's camp); remaining with his mother and sisters; public hangings; slave labor; good relations with Polish and Jewish children; returning to Germany after liberation in 1945 (five siblings had perished); marriage to another survivor; and continuing hostility to Romanies. He discusses the importance of marrying a survivor; observing that the Jews received the worst ...

  4. David S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public and Jewish schools; participating in Akiva; apprenticing as a painter; Soviet occupation in 1939; his stepbrother's deportation to Siberia (he survived); his older brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in June 1941; a pogrom by Ukrainians; antisemitic restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor as a painter; deportation of his mother, father and youngest brother; receiving a letter from his fat...

  5. Joshua B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joshua B., who was born in 1930 in Lechint?a, Romania where his grandfather was the rabbi. He recalls moving to a village; anti-Semitic incidents; Hungarian occupation; moving with his grandparents and older brother to another town in 1941; being forced to move to the Bistrit?a ghetto around Passover in 1944; and deportation to Auschwitz about a month later. Mr. B. describes separation from his grandfather, whom he never saw again; transfer to Birkenau; finding his father, who brought extra food to him and his brother; his father's transfer (he did not survive); shari...

  6. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  7. Robert B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929. He recounts his parents were orthodox, but had secular educations; speaking German at home; cordial relations with non-Jews; antisemitic laws beginning in 1940, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; eviction from their house; protection from deportations due to his father's position; Hlinka guard rounding-up relatives for deportation, including his grandmother; arrival of Germans during the Slovak uprising in 1944; deportation with his parents to Sered; volunteer...

  8. Leslie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie R., who was born in approximately 1925, in Oradea, Romania. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungarian occupation; his brother's conscription into a slave labor battalion; ghettoization in May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); separation from his father (he never saw him again); slave labor in a munitions factory; a black market in his barrack with prisoners from other kommandos; his group of seven friends from Oradea; stealing food as a group; e...

  9. Elisheva Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisheva Z., who was born in 1931 to a Vishnitz Hasidic family in Sighet, Romania. She recalls Hungarian occupation; general disbelief of reports of annihilation of Jews from a man returning from Poland; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her family in May 1944; prisoners informing them how to survive selection; encountering Gisella Perl, whom she knew in Sighet, and who often helped her in camp; separation from her mother (whom she never saw again); saving her shoes (she still has them); her sisters trading their food for medicin...

  10. Renee C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renee C., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts having no memories prior to being sent to London on a train when she was four; living in an orthodox Jewish orphanage; evacuation to small towns after war began in 1939; a visit from her brother (he was thirteen years older than she); living in several foster homes of non-Jews; hearing stories of Jewish persecution in Europe from other orphans; completing high school; living in a Sephardic community in Manchester; no one telling her anything about her family, although they seemed to know something; lear...

  11. Stephen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen L., who was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. He recalls his mother's death in 1931; living in a Jewish orphanage; his father's two month incarceration in Oranienburg; his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage to a Jewish woman in 1938; violent harassment by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; his father losing his business; his parents sending him to France; attending public school; German invasion in 1940; Quakers transporting his group to unoccupied territory; assistance from OSE and ORT; learning from the Red Cross that his parents ...

  12. Leon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon R., who was born in Ostrowiec, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with his father and brother to a labor camp; escaping; learning his mother and sisters were deported; a non-Jewish neighbor offering help; rejoining his father and brother; transfer to Bliz?yn; public hangings; his brother's transfer; his father giving him his bread ration, telling him it was extra; his father's death; hardening himself; stealing food...

  13. Judita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judita K., who was born in Lušci Palanka, Yugoslavia. She recalls moving to Drvar; celebrating Jewish holidays with relatives in Sanski Most; attending high school in Banja Luka and Podravska Slatina; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning to Drvar in 1941; living freely for one year under Italian occupation; encountering Serbians covered in blood after they participated in a mass killing; deportation with her family; a prisoner escaping nightly to smuggle food; Ustaša guards raping female prisoners; train transport to Prijedor; escaping with her family; trave...

  14. Freda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Freda S., who was born in Turulung, Romania (presently Ukraine), in approximately 1923, one of six children. She recounts her family's affluence and orthodoxy; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; expropriation of her father's business; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (she never saw him again); German invasion; non-Jewish neighbors hiding her and her sisters; deportation with her family to the Sevlus? (Vynohradiv) ghetto; living with relatives there; deportation four weeks later to Auschwitz/Birken...

  15. The secondary witness: an interview with Terrence Des Pres

    Terrence Des Pres, a scholar of the Holocaust describes the origins of his interest in the subject, and his work studying and teaching Holocaust literature. He particularly focuses upon his book about survivors.

  16. Bente T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bente T., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1935. She recalls attending services on Saturday mornings and celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion on April 9, 1941; many German soldiers on the streets; attending a Jewish school beginning in 1941; in September 1943; her father telling them they were leaving; hiding in a summer cottage on the coast in Hornbæk for nine days with sixteen other Jews, including her relatives; being taken at night by a fishing boat to Ven Island, Sweden; placement in a hotel near Norrköping; attending school; moving to an apartment...

  17. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. He recalls his older brother telling him about the German invasion; traveling with his family to Dunkerque; returning to Antwerp with German soldiers; and his parents' arrest in September 1942 (he and his brother were not home). He recalls staying with his babysitter; traveling with his brother to his aunt's house in Brussels; their placement with a non-Jewish family for a year and a half, then on a rural farm without his brother; liberation by Allied troops; placement in a monastery orphanage; attending church; bri...

  18. Jean F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean F. who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls a happy childhood despite prevalent antisemitism; warnings from German refugees; German invasion in 1939; immediate arrests and shootings of Jews; ghettoization; her selection for transport to Gleiwitz in March 1942; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a death march to a train in January 1945; and escape from the train in Czechoslovakia. Mrs. F. describes a village woman's efforts to hide them; arrest and imprisonment in Prague; transfer to Theresienstadt; and liberation by the Red Cross. She recounts he...

  19. Margita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita K., who was born in Dunasziget, Hungary in 1920, one of four children, and raised in Bratislava. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; hiding from deportation at home, then with Catholic friends; her family's deportation to Sered; joining them in August 1942; working in the laundry room; cultural events including theater productions; their release and return to Bratislava in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation upon arrival from her mother and younger sister (they were killed); transfer to Freiberg nine days later; slave labor in an airplane fa...

  20. Meir V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir V., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1926. He details his pleasant childhood in a cultured home; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's essential job which saved their lives; ghettoization; mass killings in Ponary; frequent aktions; smuggling food; participation with his younger sister in organized cultural and educational activities; hiding with his father during the ghetto's liquidation in September 1943; discovery; separation from his family; and deportation. Mr. V. describes escaping from the train; hiding...