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

  1. Dina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dina L., who was born in Paris in approximately 1927 to Polish immigrants. She recounts her family's poverty; antisemitic harassment by children; participating in a program that sent poor children to country farms during the summer; her father's enlistment in the French military; German occupation in June 1940; her father's brief return, then departure to work in Belgium; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the yellow star; a teacher and bystanders convincing a German soldier not to arrest her for not having her papers; joining her brother, who was living with farmers...

  2. Maurice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice B., a non-Jew, who was born in Jemappes, Belgium in 1924, the older of two brothers. He recounts his family's extreme poverty; working in a factory from age fifteen; German invasion in May 1940; briefly fleeing to France; the disappearance of local Jews; volunteering to work in a factory in Germany in 1943; an Allied bombing; rescuing a German woman from the rubble; receiving a two-week furlough as a reward; returning home; deciding to remain; hiding at his aunt's home; joining the Resistance; learning his father was active in the Resistance; hiding and transp...

  3. Joseph F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph F., who was born in Missouri in 1919. He relates enlisting in the army in 1942; assignment to the 20th Armored Division; entering France in early 1945; hearing horror stories from Jewish refugees; starting a daily newspaper in his division; coming into the town of Dachau on April 30th, the day after the liberation of the camp (which he did not enter); viewing boxcars filled with corpses, the area littered with body parts, and the horrendous conditions of the prisoners wandering outside the camp; the disparity between the peaceful life in the town and the horror...

  4. Peter H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter H., who was born in Spišská Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935, an only child. He recalls his secular household; having to wear the yellow star; former friends harassing him; his father's deportation to Majdanek in 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation with his mother to Nováky in July 1943; release in the fall; living in Nitra; imprisonment with his mother and grandparents in Prešov in fall 1944; deportation to Ravensbrück; separation from his family; finding his grandfather in another block; sharing his bread with him; assistance ...

  5. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic incidents beginning in 1938; anti-Jewish measures in 1940; forced labor in Mokoto?w in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with his family during round-ups; being caught with his brother on the street; their deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7); separation from his brother upon transfer to Majdanek (he never saw him again); slave labor building barracks; transfer to Birkenau in 1943; pointless slave labor; encountering his other brother there and learning that his family had been deported (he never saw them ...

  6. Henri M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri M., a non-Jew, who was born in Saverne, France in 1920. He recalls attending school with Jews; his family's strong French patriotism; learning German in Berlin; studying in Strasbourg and Nancy; German invasion; military draft in June 1940; capture; escape from a POW center; traveling to Paris and Dijon; living in Saverne; studying in Heidelberg; arrest and escape; returning clandestinely to France with the help of French and Austrian Resistance members; studying law in Clermont-Ferrand; anti-Petain sentiments among students; Resistance work in the unoccupied zo...

  7. Claude L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claude L., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. Mr. L. recalls his family's varied eastern European origins; his paternal grandfather's service and injuries in World War I, for which he received high military distinctions; his father's service and subsequent gassing; his mother's difficult childhood; his parents' arranged marriage; their separation when he was nine; his lack of a traditional Jewish upbringing; and awareness of his Judaism resulting from World War II. He describes his father's intuition that the German occupation would result in tragedy; his father's...

  8. Harold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold S., who was born in Ostrowiec S?wie?tokrzyski, Poland in 1925. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish regulations; public hangings; forced labor; deportations, including his mother, grandmother, and younger brother; ghettoization in 1940; his father's deportation; the ghetto's conversion to a concentration camp; his brother's injury; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; helping his brother when he was injured; public hangings of escapees; the death ma...

  9. Eva V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva V., who was born in 1922 in Oradea Mare, Romania. She recalls her family's high position in local society; their sense of Hungarian identity; graduation from a convent school in 1939; Hungarian occupation; compulsory service for Jewish men in Hungarian labor battalions; the Gestapo commandeering their home; living with her grandfather in the ghetto; refusing to leave her family to escape to Romania; her grandfather's death; and deportation to Auschwitz. Mrs. V. recounts separation from her parents, whom she never saw again; transfer to Kaiserwald, Danzig and Stutt...

  10. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., a Catholic, who was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1923, one of two children. He recounts attending school in Uccle; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee to France; participating in an illegal demonstration; joining a Resistance group; printing and distributing illegal pamphlets and newspapers; collecting information from others on German equipment and troop movements to convey to a superior; meeting a contact in Floriffoux, Charleroi, and other locations; arrest on January 30, 1943 in Brussels; incarceration in Avenue Louise; being beaten; transfer to Br...

  11. Henryk P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henryk P., who was born in Go?ra Kalwaria, Poland in 1916. He recounts his father's death when he was a baby; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending six years of Polish school; participating in Hapoel Hamizrachi; apprenticing as a tailor; working for a Catholic; military draft in November 1937; serving in an elite unit in Suwa?ki; becoming an officer; transfer to Raczki; German invasion; skirmishes in Cimochy and elsewhere; transfer to Hrodna; capture by Soviet troops in Shchuchyn in September; forced labor; release in December; returning home via Warsaw; forced l...

  12. Klara M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara M., who was born in Čaňa, Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of six children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; learning to be a seamstress in Košice when she was sixteen; being rounded-up with her family in Čaňa in spring 1944; ghettoization; non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food; declining to hide with a non-Jew, not wanting to leave her family; incarceration in the Košice brickyard; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in fall 1944, then to Braunsch...

  13. René B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of René B., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Belgium in 1916. He recalls apprenticeship as a butcher; military service for a year beginning in 1936 in Tournai; marriage; military recall in 1939; capture by the Germans in Louvain; transport to a POW camp in Cologne; forced labor doing farm work; transfer to several POW camps; separation of Flemish and Walloon Belgian prisoners; removal of Jewish prisoners (they did not know their fate); receiving packages from the United States, England, and the Red Cross; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Odesa, Gdańsk, ...

  14. Valeria S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valeria S., who was born in Čata, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, one of three sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1939, followed by anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of the family store; working to obtain food for her family; German invasion in March 1944; round-up and transport to Levice in May; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; horrendous conditions in the cattle car en route; an SS threatening to shoot her for assisting her grandmother to debark; separation with her sisters from their family; ha...

  15. Eric C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric C., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1938. He recounts having few prewar memories; reconstructing his story (deportation to Gurs in 1940 with his parents and younger sister, being smuggled out by the French underground, living in the basement of a Christian family - his sister was elsewhere - for eighteen months); placement in an orphanage in Livry-Gagnan in 1944; being introduced to his sister; their transfers to other orphanages, ending in Paris; his father finding them in 1946 (he survived Auschwitz - his mother did not); living with their father in German...

  16. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born into a religious home, one of seven children, in Krako?w, Poland, 1924. Mr. B. tells of the sudden outburst of antisemitism in 1935 and of his discouragement at the sight of his father's defeatist attitude after a period of incarceration following the outbreak of the war. He describes his family's evacuation from Krako?w to a small neighborhood; their move back to the city; his unsuccessful attempt to escape from a 1940 deportation order; and his three years of forced labor in an airplane factory in Mielec and conditions in the slave labor cam...

  17. Linda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Linda F., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1927. She recalls her large extended family; attending public school; helping her father in the family butcher shop; assisting German Jewish refugees; believing events in Germany would not impact them; and the shock of German invasion. Mrs. F. recounts round-ups of children and men; confiscation of the family business; secretly slaughtering meat for friends; her father's beating and arrest (she never saw him again); her mother's disappearance; reporting for forced labor in 1942 in her sister's place; transport to Skarz?y...

  18. Maria M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's assimilation; attending medical school in Paris and Tours due to Polish quotas against Jews; visiting home in summer 1939; German invasion; her parents retrieving all their assets from the bank (this later saved their lives); ghettoization in 1940; working at the Jewish hospital; starvation, epidemics and deaths; her father working for the Joint; deportations beginning in July 1942; her father encouraging her and her mother to escape (they did not look Jewish); her mother's refusal to leave him...

  19. He?le?ne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of He?le?ne R., who was raised in Strasbourg, France. She describes participating in Zionist youth groups; her father's death in 1936; moving to Vichy in 1939 with her mother and brother; her brother's deportation (she received mail from him postmarked Monowitz), then her mother's in November 1943; hiding for seven months; resuming her job; imprisonment in Clermont-Ferrand in June 1944; transfer to Drancy in July; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; forming a group of French girls; selections, beatings, and hunger; transfer to a munitions factory in Kratzau; forcing the a...

  20. Hannah D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah D., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1922. She describes her family's move to Bochum when she was two; her father's death in 1929; expulsion from boarding school in 1937 because she was Jewish; the impact of anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; her mother's remarriage in 1939; and emigration to England three weeks later on a kindertransport. Mrs. D. recalls entering nurse's training; internment on the Isle of Man as an "enemy alien"; friendship with a woman who committed suicide; receiving her nursing diploma in 1941; enlisting in the army; the horro...