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

  1. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending cheder, then public school; visiting his grandmother in Chlewiska; apprenticeship as a tailor at age fourteen; working in Warsaw; military service in Skierniewice from 1937 to 1939; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (he perished); slave labor in Jo?sefo?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his family's deportation; incarceration in Wolano?w, Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Sulejo?w, Laura, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Allach; slave labor in HASAG factories; liberation from an evacuat...

  2. Fyodor I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fyodor I., who was born in Ostrog, Poland (presently Ostroh, Ukraine) in 1920. He recalls attending Polish school; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; a mass shooting (his father was killed); ghettoization; the Judenrat finding ways to help people survive; hiding during a second mass shooting in fall 1941 (his brother was killed); hiding with his mother and aunts during liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942; fleeing to another hiding place, then to a village (he never saw his family again); finding a Jewish friend; hiding together in a barn, ...

  3. Chaia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaia B., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924, one of eight children. She recounts her family's relative affluence and orthodoxy; participating in a Zionist youth group with her sisters; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1933; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; confiscation of her father's store; German invasion; her brother's capture while fighting in the Polish army; his escape and return; her father's assignment to the Judenrat, led by Dov Lopatin, which met at their home; her father's resignation; her father secretly tradin...

  4. Esther B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther B., who was born in Pabianice, Poland in 1927, the youngest of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; experiencing daily discrimination as a Jew; her oldest brother's draft into the Polish military; German invasion; ghettoization; her brother's return, then deportation; knitting gloves to sell for food; her other brother volunteering for a labor camp (she never saw him again); transfer with her parents and sisters to the ?o?dz? ghetto in spring 1942; forced labor in a factory; hiding her parents during a round-up; one sister's deportation; deportat...

  5. Rosa W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. She recalls her close extended family; attending Polish public school in Kielce; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Płaszów; slave labor with her mother in the Wieliczka salt mines; transfer back to Płaszów; her father's and brother's deportation (she never saw her father again); transfer with her mother and other relatives to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin being taken for specious medical experiments; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; enco...

  6. Raymond L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond L., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1919. He recalls his training in the United States Army; advancing through France and Germany with the Sixth Armored Division; learning that a prisoner-of-war camp was found; seeing living "skeletons" in stripped clothes on an ambulence when passing the camp; learning the camp was for civilians; the revolting smell in the 'living quarters' when he revisited the camp; and his trauma upon seeing a room full of children's shoes, the crematoria, and human ashes. Mr. L. notes he had no prior knowledge of what he encountere...

  7. Gusta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gusta S., who was born in Kam?i??anka Buz?ka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She recalls her affluent, Orthodox family; antisemitic posters; eight-day German occupation in September 1939; Soviet occupation; confiscation of her father's business; attending Russian school; German invasion in June 1941; forced labor; her father bribing Germans; his arrest; learning he was killed; deportations; relatives disappearing; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; their denouncement and deportation on October 28, 1942; jumping from the train; walking to a cousin's house in ...

  8. Vera T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera T., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), an only child. She recounts her family moving to Prague the following year; her family's perfume and cosmetics business; their relative affluence; a sheltered childhood; attending a Czech school; transferring to a French school due to antisemitic harassment; German occupation in spring 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; studying English; her father obtaining Hungarian passports for them based on his service in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I; deportations in...

  9. Nunzio V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nunzio V., a Catholic, who was born in Serradifico, Italy in 1924, one of eight brothers. He recounts learning fascist doctrine in school; military draft in 1943; postings and training in Cervignano del Friuli, then Pula; Italian capitulation; German occupation; declining to collaborate with the German military, resulting in prisoner of war status; transfer by ship to Venice, then by train to a camp which he thinks was in Austria; digging pits to bury the dead; transfer to Graz with other Italian POWs; assignments to various jobs in the area; good relations with local...

  10. Helga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helga G., who was born in Berlin in 1929 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who had converted. She recalls futile efforts in the 1930s to emigrate due to anti-Jewish laws; her father fleeing to Italy; moving with her mother to Krosno Odrzańskie; attending school; joining her father; illegally entering France in 1938 following the introduction of Italian antisemitic laws; living in Nice; attending school and learning French; the outbreak of war; her father's French military conscription; incarceration with her mother in Gurs; Spanish POWs giving the Jewish child...

  11. Odette A. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in Paris, France in 1914. She describes childhood in an assimilated family; antisemitic incidents which caused her to define herself as Jewish; completing medical school; volunteering in Perpignan for the international sanitation committee at the end of the Spanish Civil War; working as a government physician in Montargis, where she met her future husband; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; returning to Paris; working in Jewish dispensaries; arrest of her mother and sister when they smuggled themselves to the unoccupied zo...

  12. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Romania, the youngest of six children. She recalls that her father was a successful merchant; Hungarian occupation; all of her brothers and brothers-in-law being drafted into slave labor battalions; her father's death in 1943; having to support her siblings and their twelve children; ghettoization when she was twenty-one; smuggling food in from her village; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau after six weeks; horrendous conditions on the transport; separation from her family upon arrival; being compelled to give blood for wounded German soldiers...

  13. Pavel E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pavel E., who was born in Opava, then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in 1911. He recounts his affluent, assimilated parents; registering to study law in Prague in 1930; theater study in Vienna; working in theaters and studying law; compulsory military service; working as a lawyer in Prague in 1937; German occupation; being fired due to anti-Jewish laws; marriage in March 1939; planning to emigrate, but staying due to family pressure; deportation with his wife to the Łódź ghetto in October 1941 (he never saw his parents again); a privileged position as a streetcar dr...

  14. Miriam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933, the youngest of three daughters. She recounts her family moving to Amsterdam in 1934; her father compiling a library/archive of Nazi documents; she and her sisters attending a Montessori school; her father bringing his library to London in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; her father arranging Paraguayan passports for them; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Westerbork in June 1943; weekly transports to Auschwitz; her mother managing to keep them off the list for Auschwitz; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January...

  15. Gerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerry S., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1935. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his family's emigration to Oslo in March 1939 with assistance from an uncle who was a rabbi there; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in April 1940; his uncle's arrest and deportation in 1942 (he did not survive); his father hiding in a hospital pretending to need surgery; a Norwegian policeman informing his mother of an impending round-up; the underground arranging to hide him, his mother, and sister with non-Jews, then smu...

  16. Marius-Cornelius D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice-Cornelius D., an evangelical Christian, who was born in Poperinge, Belgium in 1930. He recalls attending officer training school in Antwerp beginning in 1939; capture by the Germans; incarceration in Kortrijk; deportation as a POW to Germany; returning to Kortrijk; joining the resistance in Merkem; arrest in May 1942; solitary confinement in Kortrijk for four months; reading the Bible; transfer to St. Gilles for two weeks, four days to Essen, then to Bochum; slave labor cutting patterns for shoes; Allied bombings in May 1943; transfer to Esterwegen; receiving ...

  17. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Bronx, New York in 1922 and served in the United States military as a radio repair man in Europe during World War II. He recounts passing outside of Buchenwald immediately prior to its liberation and observing thousands of skeletal prisoners in striped uniforms as well as the pervasive stench of dead bodies. Although his unit left the next day, having no exposure to the prisoners except briefly observing them twice, Mr. S. notes it was one of his most traumatic experiences.

  18. Ralph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph M., who is a retired United States Army colonel. He recounts encountering Dachau during his unit's advance through Germany; the fatal wounding of a lieutenant in the fight for Dachau in April 1945; killing a number of Germans while entering Dachau; their complete lack of knowledge regarding concentration camps; encountering freight cars packed with corpses and a few living prisoners outside the camp; seeing crematoria with four ovens, basements full of stacked corpses, and the room where human medical experiments were conducted; arranging medical assistance for ...

  19. Esther A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther A., who was born in Radautz, Bukovina (today Radauti, Romania), in 1908. In this vivid testimony, Mrs. A. tells of her family's ardent Zionism; fleeing with her mother and siblings to join her father in Berlin in 1914; Jewish life in inter-war Berlin; participation in the "Bar Kochba" sports club; work for a Jewish newspaper; courtship and marriage; her husband's emigration to America in 1941 with his parents; her attempts to emigrate; and forced labor. She relates her mother's and a brother's deportations (she never saw them again); preparing herself for depor...

  20. David W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David W., who was born in 1922 in Krako?w, Poland, one of three children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; beatings because he was Jewish; German invasion; fleeing east for several weeks with his brother; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; ghettoization in 1941; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); incarceration in P?aszo?w; public hangings and shootings; transfer to Auschwitz for less than a day, then to Mauthausen; meaningless slave labor carrying rocks; transfer to St. Valentin; slave labor in a tank factory; a non-Jewish acquain...