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

  1. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his older brother's death from illness; the Anschluss; expropriation of his father's business; antisemitic harassment; his father obtaining visas for Panama through his brother in Holland; traveling to Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; working at a rubber plant; a general strike in 1941; hiding during a raid (several friends were captured and deported); traveling illegally to Belgium with a group of friends; his parents joining him; being smuggled with a group to Pa...

  2. Eva T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born near Bereg, Hungary in 1932, an only child. She recounts moving to Mukacheve in 1938 when her father lost his position due to anti-Jewish laws; attending the Hebrew gymnasium; her father's employer offering to hide them in Budapest; her parents declining, in order not to abandon her father's stepfather; ghettoization; refusing the same employer's offer to hide her; deportation to Auschwitz; a Polish prisoner advising her to say she was sixteen and not sit; separation from her father; an SS woman advising the haircutters not to shave her blond hair...

  3. Jacob W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1914, the youngest of eight children. He recalls life in a vibrant Jewish community; working in his father's fur business; anti-Semitic actions by local Poles; German invasion in September 1939; SS atrocities and killings; and deportation to Buchenwald in October with 3,200 Poles, less than 100 of which were Jewish. Mr. W. details in depth conditions in Buchenwald: camp organization; formation of the underground; relations among prisoners from many countries, including Russian POWs; camp songs; abusive forced labor and beatin...

  4. Dorothy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dorothy H., who was born in W?oszczowa (Poland) in 1925, and raised in Cze?stochowa. She recounts ghettoization; slave labor at HASAG-Pelzery with her father and brothers (her mother was killed); transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Leipzig; a German who provided extra food; liberation; returning to Cze?stochowa; reunion with her father and brothers; marriage; moving to Germany; her son's birth in Landsberg; and emigration to the United States. Ms. H. notes she did not share her story with her son because she did not want to bring back painful memories.

  5. Denise L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Denise L., who was born in France in 1916. She recounts her family's history; marriage in August 1938; moving to St. Honore? with her parents; her son's birth in June 1939; her husband being taken as a prisoner of war; assistance from French neighbors; her mother's death in 1943; hiding during round-ups with the non-Jewish wife of another POW; arrest with her father and son; internment in Nevers and Drancy in February 1944; her father's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw him again); deportation with her son to Bergen-Belsen as a POW's wife; her son's illnesses; c...

  6. Leon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919, one of three children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending cheder and a German school; participating in Zionist groups, including Betar; a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; his father purchasing land in Israel; managing a Zionist youth camp in Sękowa in summer 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and sister to Będzin; his mother and brother joining them; moving to Sosnowiec; organizing a Zionist group with Yiśraʼel Ḳoz'ukh and others; warning fellow Jews not to report for deportation; forced labo...

  7. Ted G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ted G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls growing up in Be?dzin; moving to Warsaw; German invasion; forced labor; a ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; being saved from deportation by a policeman (a non-Jewish friend); factory work outside the ghetto; smuggling food to relatives; his parents' and relatives deportations (he never saw them again); escaping from the ghetto with help from an aunt and a non-Jewish Pole; living with a family with underground connections; obtaining false papers; working as a German translator; meeting his future wife, al...

  8. Edit K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edit K., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1929, an only child. She recounts her grandfather's political career; warm relations with her grandmother; attending a German school; German occupation; learning she was Jewish due to anti-Jewish restrictions; her parents sending her to live with friends in a village for a year; returning home; attending a Jewish school; participating in athletics led by Fredy Hirsch; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; learning her father's brother had reached Palestine; writing a diary that she still has; her grandparents' depo...

  9. Ruth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth R., who was born in Pabianice, Poland in 1927. She describes her older brother and sister; her family's relative affluence; German invasion; ghettoization; round-ups including her father and brother (she never saw them again); deportation with her mother and sister to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced factory labor; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from her mother and sister (she never saw them again); transfer to Bergen-Belsen, then Hasag-Leipzeig; slave labor in a munitions factory; nurturing from an older woman; receiving extra food from a French PO...

  10. Renata Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata Z., who was born in Z?ywiec, Poland in approximately 1924. She describes her family's affluence; their strong Polish identity and interest in music; cordial relations with non-Jews; living in Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; relocation to Krako?w, thinking it safer; ghettoization; forced labor; an informal music group; her parents' deportation in October 1942; her parent's friend caring for her and her sister (she married him after the war); transfer to P?aszo?w; humiliation and abuse by an SS-man; slave labor; Amon Goeth tearing her earrings out; a Polish civil...

  11. Lea E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea E., who was born in Danzig in 1925, an only child. She recalls antisemitism in school beginning in 1933; moving to Baranowicze, Poland in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; mass killings in 1942, including her mother; working as an interpreter for the Germans; forced labor manufacturing gloves; marriage; final liquidation of the ghetto; asking a German officer to allow her father and cousin to stay with her during a selection; their transfer to Koldyczewo in fall 1943; a three month plan to organize an escape; escaping with on...

  12. Ernest K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest K., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919. He recounts his father had been born in the United States and retained his U.S. citizenship; speaking Esperanto at home; attending an Esperanto conference in Vienna with his younger brother and parents when he was five; speaking German, Hungarian, and Slovak; leaving gymnasium due to increased antisemitism; participating in Maccabi (wrestling and gymnastics); his father's efforts to obtain visas to the U.S.; arrest with his father and brother for defending themselves from an antisemiti...

  13. Rose C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose C., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland in 1923, one of five children. She recalls ghettoization; volunteering for a "work camp" to allow the rest of her family to stay home (they were deported and most killed after she left); slave labor in a textile factory in Kruszwica-Gruschwitz; the death march to Flossenbu?rg, then transfer to Bergen-Belsen; a friend obtaining a privileged job for her in the infirmary; quitting after a few days because she could not tolerate handling the corpses; liberation by British troops; being cared for by German nurses; lear...

  14. Rebecca L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebecca L., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1908, one of ten children. She recalls her family spending World War I in London; the births of two siblings there; returning to Antwerp; working as a diamond cutter starting at age sixteen; marriage in 1933; her sister's incarceration in Wurttemburg in 1941 as an English citizen; some family members hiding, while others were deported; her husband encouraging her to join the resistance; arrest in 1943; imprisonment in Antwerp, St. Gilles, Luxembourg, and Aix-La-Chapelle, (presently Allach); singing resistance songs to ma...

  15. Irene R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene R., who was born in Vynohradiv, Ukraine in 1922 to a Hasidic family of twelve children. She recalls visits to grandparents in rural areas; one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations resulting in their impoverishment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from the males, her mother, younger siblings, and relatives; remaining with two sisters, an aunt, and cousins; her sister giving birth to a son (he was taken away by the Jewish midwife); assisting and assistance from her re...

  16. Samuel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending a Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; picketing of Jewish stores; German invasion; being arrested with Poles and Jews in early September 1939; detention at Gestapo headquarters, then Montelupich prison; release of the non-Jewish prisoners; transfer to Troppau; encountering Gustaw Morcinek, a prominent Polish writer; transfer to Sachsenhausen some two years later; separation of Jews; a sadistic barrack commander; loss of toes due to severe cold; relations between prisoner groups; slave...

  17. Fanny L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny L., who was born in Majdan, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recalls Hungarian occupation; witnessing horrible sights during an eight day forced transport with her family to Romania; and their 1943 move to Khust thinking they would be safer. Mrs. L. describes German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Birkenau; starvation, lice, endless roll calls and selections; atrocities committed by Irma Grese; the importance of remaining with her cousin; receiving food from a Polish political prisoner; the birth of a dead baby in her barrack; and burying the child....

  18. Erika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. She recalls her happy, observant and prosperous life in a close, extended family; attending Jewish school; hearing discussions of the situation in Vienna (her grandmother lived there); the outbreak of war; harboring Polish Jewish refugees; round-ups of non-Hungarian Jews; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures, including the yellow star; moving with her parents into her grandmother's apartment, a Jewish-designated house; her grandfather's arrest...

  19. Abe G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1911. He recalls moving to Bia?obrzegi; learning to be a shoemaker from his father; making boots for Nazis after German invasion; deportation with his brothers to Skarz?ysko in 1942; slave labor in Werke A, a munitions factory; transfer to Cze?stochowa; transfer with his youngest brother (the other remained) to Buchenwald in 1944; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recuperation in sanatoria in Weimar and Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald and Landsberg displaced persons camps; learning from their uncle in the U.S. tha...

  20. Renee G. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Renee G., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mrs. G. notes her previous testimony was the first time she opened up about her experiences; now wanting to tell everything rather than censor herself because time is running out; memories returning as she writes her memoir; her younger brother's fury when she was hidden; dreaming of specific incidents; and her memories differing from her older cousin (he hid with them). She recounts specific childhood memories which are very sensory; not being told much after ghettoization; now needing open s...