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Displaying items 3,421 to 3,440 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Minya J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Minya J., who was born in Warta, Poland in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family living there for seven generations; a happy childhood; German invasion; briefly staying with her married sister in ?o?dz?; returning home; ghettoization; smuggling food to her family; public hangings of escapees and hostages; a privileged position caring for a German child outside the ghetto; her father's arrest; obtaining his release; escaping from a round-up with one sister (she never saw them again); their transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with their sister;...

  2. Larry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry R., who was born in Lez?ajsk, Poland, in 1929. In this exceptionally vivid and detailed testimony, Mr. R. describes his privileged childhood; his family's move to Zakliko?w in 1937; and the outbreak of the war in 1939. Mr. R. recalls seeing his father beaten; his family's eviction from their estate; their eventual betrayal and arrest; and the deportation of Jews from Zakliko?w. He describes conditions in the freight cars to Budzyn? and in the camp, where he arrived with his brother in April 1943. He tells of witnessing a mass murder and his consequent desire to ...

  3. Arthur R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur R., who was born in Derecske, Hungary in 1928, one of seven children. In a reflective and detailed testimony, he remembers centering their life on the synagogue, religious school, Sabbath, and Jewish holidays; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; rescinding of Jewish business licenses, including his father's; increasing poverty; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in Nagyva?rad (Oradea); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and younger brothers (they perished); pervasive hunge...

  4. Martin H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1931, the youngest of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence; their orthodoxy; attending cheder and Romanian school; his father's emigration to Palestine with two brothers and sisters; his return with one brother; Hungarian occupation in 1940; German invasion in 1944; his bar mitzvah; forced relocation with his family to the Vis?eu de Sus ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Birkenau; selection with three brothers; their transfer to Do?rnhau; slave labor; risking death to sneak into the kitchen for extra fo...

  5. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder at age three; completing Jewish trade school in 1938; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; he and his older sister working to support the family; ghettoization; smuggling food; working in a battery factory; volunteering for road building near Łęczna; assistance from a non-Jewish woman; escaping; doing farm work posing as a non-Jew; arrest; incarceration in Lublin; release by a...

  6. Lea P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea P., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1923. She recalls attending a Jewish school; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; speaking Judeo-Spanish at home; cordial relations with non-Jews; joining SKOJ, the communist youth movement; her sister's death in childbirth; German invasion; one brother joining the partisans (he was killed); her other brother's capture as a POW (he survived); German invasion; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; her father's incarceration in Topovske Šupe; visiting him until his "disappearance"; forced labor; learning she was want...

  7. Beatrice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment of her brother; moving to Warsaw in 1932 or 1933, then to Brussels; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in 1941; obtaining false papers; capture with her brother by Germans in Besançon while fleeing to Switzerland in 1942; their release by an officer because she resembled his daughter; returning to hide with their parents; a German raid; her escape (she never saw her family again); assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; hiding briefly with a non-Jewish ...

  8. Alex F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex F., who was born in Ladmovce, Czechoslovakia, in 1926. He describes the Hungarian occupation in 1938; being taken as a hostage by the Hungarian police in 1944; the relocation of the region's Jews to the ghetto in Sa?toraljau?jhely in the same year; his deportation to Birkenau, where he was separated from his parents; and his transfer to the labor camp of Auschwitz, where he worked making fertilizer. He relates his experience as an experimental subject in Auschwitz, after which he hid to escape a selection; the death march from Auschwitz to Breslau in January, 194...

  9. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1912. He recalls serving in the Polish army until 1937; working in the family business; German invasion; mobilization; fleeing to W?odawa; his mother's illness and death; round-ups and beatings; serving a few days in the Jewish police; hiding with Ukrainians; learning of a mass murder; ghettoization; transfer to a nearby labor camp; and his father's and two sisters' deportation to Sobibor. Mr. K. recounts escaping; his leadership of a group hiding in the forest; joining Soviet partisans; help from local farmers during an i...

  10. Illeen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Illeen G., who was born in Gol?shany, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a large, extended family; her father's emigration to the United States in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; trading with non-Jews for food; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; deportation to Dundangen; encountering her sister; slave labor building roads; a German soldier giving her extra food; her mother's and other sister's arrival in 1942; transfer with her mother and sisters to Kaiserwald, then a month later to Stutthof; encoun...

  11. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  12. Klara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara M., who was born in Dolné Saliby, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the oldest of three children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a local Catholic school, then high school in Bratislava; Hungarian occupation in 1938; expulsion from school; forced relocation in 1944 to the Galanta, then the Nové Zámky ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; exposure to chemicals that turned t...

  13. Lena A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lena A., who was born in Zboriv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1929. She recalls attending Hebrew and Polish schools; holidays and sabbaths with a large, extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; seeing puddles of blood after a mass killing of men, for which her father, uncle, and brother were not taken; ghettoization; learning through a friend in the Judenrat of the final liquidation; being hidden in her mother's bed when her family was moved to the Zboriv labor camp; learning her younger sister and grandmother were not hidden...

  14. Mitchell W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mitchell W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926. He recalls his large and close extended family; German invasion; confiscation of Jewish property resulting in loss of family income; ghettoization; working as an electrician; his father's death from starvation in April 1941; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; transfer to Mys?owice (Gu?nthergrube) after volunteering as an electrician; forced labor in coal mines; being saved from a selection by doctors in the infirmary; prisoner variety shows on Christmas and New Year; the death march in...

  15. Marcel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel K., who was born in Paris, France in 1932 to Polish e?migre?s. He recounts his mother's death in 1938; his father's tailor shop in their apartment; evacuation to south of Orle?ans during German bombing; anti-Jewish laws upon his return, including wearing the yellow star; a non-Jewish neighbor warning them of round-ups; hiding with her; his eldest brother leaving for the unoccupied zone; his father and other brother hiding in their basement; his father's girlfriend's deportation (she did not return); obtaining false papers for himself, his father, and brother fr...

  16. Irena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1923, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts visits to her grandfather's farm in Borek Fałęcki; attending a Polish school, then a Jewish gymnasium; German invasion; her father, sister, brother-in-law, and their child fleeing to Lʹviv (she never saw them again); anti-Jewish restrictions; completing a nursing course; eviction; joining an uncle with her mother and sister in Borek; her sister's marriage; working as a German teacher; receiving postcards from her father who had been deported by the Soviets to Samarkand; ass...

  17. Shawn B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shawn B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1940 and moved to Vilnius soon after. She recalls her mother putting a cross on her and leaving her outside the ghetto near a church on a Sunday; being taken home by a judge and his wife who were helping many Jews; not being allowed outside until she spoke Lithuanian; a brief visit from her mother (the judge had helped her escape from Kaiserwald); arrest with her foster family (they were killed); placement in prison with only women; a German taking her to adopt when the others were shot; placement in a Catholic orphanage; pr...

  18. Bernard K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard K., who was born in Iňačovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919, the youngest of three children. He recalls his family's extreme poverty; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death in 1929; attending school in Michalovce; antisemitism from Hlinka guard members beginning in the late 1930s; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; draft into the Sixth Battalion, a Jewish forced labor brigade, in 1941; being sent to Čemerné, then to Prešov for twenty months; learning two sisters had been deported and neighbors were hiding his mother; visiting home;...

  19. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Nyi?rba?tor, Hungary in 1927. She recalls close relations with her extended family; childhood experiences of antisemitism; rumors of events in Poland; her father's belief that Hungary would not allow such things to happen; deportation to Auschwitz (she had no idea where they were); and separation from her family. Mrs. W. describes her extreme humiliation during arrival; daily routine; seeing her father through a fence; transfer with her aunt six weeks later to Stutthof; extreme hunger; work in a forest; walking through villages where German chi...

  20. Baruch H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch H., who was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1924, one of four children. He recounts his happy childhood; his father's secularism and Zionism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's illness; his father's military draft as a veterinarian in 1940; German invasion in May; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school, his father's dismissal from his job, confiscation of valuables and compulsory wearing of the yellow star; his father's decision to hide the family in different locations in summer 1942; entrusting valuables ...