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

  1. Martin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916. Mr. L. speaks of his childhood; his enlistment in the Polish army in 1938; the defense of Warsaw in 1939; and his prisoner-of-war status in Stuttgart. He describes his return to Warsaw, then to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1940; Polish collaboration with Germans; deprivation within the ghetto; and the deaths and deportations of family members. He recounts voluntarily leaving the ghetto with his brother; their arrival at Auschwitz; witnessing mass burnings of inmates; the murder of H?ayim Rumkowski by camp inmates; and transfe...

  2. Myron P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myron P., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1923, one of six children. Mr. P. recounts his father's death prior to his birth (he was named for him); orthodox observances of holidays and Sabbath by his family and the community; attending cheder; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws and quotas; conscription of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); graduation from business school; German invasion in 1944; forced labor in a nearby town; ghettoization in Sighet; deportation with his mother, sister, and family to Auschwitz/Birkenau...

  3. Herbert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1922. He recalls expulsion from public school; an apprenticeship in 1936; moving to Berlin in 1938 to learn carpentry and attend art school; Kristallnacht, which he learned was more severe in Nuremberg; his father's incarceration in Dachau for eight weeks; returning to Nuremberg in 1939; attending art school until 1941; working in a book bindery where he observed many Allied war prisoners; deportations of Jews in 1941 and 1942; his family's exemption because his father was an executive of the Jewish community; and depo...

  4. Dina G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dina G., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1919. She recalls constant poverty and hardships due to "five year plans"; the focus on education; all religions being forbidden; completing four of five years of medical school when Germany invaded in June 1941; fleeing east; strafing by German planes; living in Rastov for two months; traveling with her parents to the Chinese border; receiving a temporary diploma so she could practice medicine; military mobilization; training in Moscow; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; working as a front line surgeon; meeting her f...

  5. Efraim F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Efraim F., who was born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Tarbut school, then gymnasium in Rivne; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, Betar, and Mizrachi; Soviet occupation; interrogation by the NKVD due to his Zionist activities; German invasion; fleeing to Koret︠s︡ʹ; forced labor for the German army; returning to Rivne; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a non-Jewish friend hiring him to tutor her children and giving him her husband's birth certificate; hiding in her attic during a mass killing ...

  6. Testimony excerpts - bystander and two survivors

    An edited program with excerpts from three testimonies. John S., a Jesuit priest, who during the war was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Košice, now Slovakia, vividly describes two personal encounters with the suffering and horrors of the Holocaust and laments his inability to intervene or protest on behalf of the victims. Leon S., a Jew from Poland, describes the liquidation of the Jews of his town, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed. He speaks of his experiences in slave labor and concentration camps and tells how he was able to retain his faith and humanity ...

  7. Nina A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina A., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1926 to Turkish immigrants. She recalls moving to Ostend; German invasion; moving to Brussels in summer 1940; arrest with her parents on October 23, 1943 (her younger sister was not at home and subsequently went into hiding); incarceration in Malines; her parents' belief that their Turkish citizenship would protect them from deportation; her father's deportation on December 12, 1943; deportation with her mother to Ravensbru?ck on December 13, 1943; arranging for her mother to work in the knitting area; efforts to avoid hard...

  8. Anni H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anni H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, the youngest of five children. She recounts her father was not Jewish and her mother was a non-practicing Jew; her father's service in World War I; her family not considering themselves Jewish until antisemitic laws and restrictions forced them to do so; her school's dissolution in March 1938; having to wear the yellow star and add "Sarah" to her name; working as a photographer's apprentice and a housekeeper as a non-Jew; baptism with her siblings in December 1941; deportation of her brother and his daughter in 1942; s...

  9. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italian...

  10. Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Hausberge an der Porta, Germany in 1919, one of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to a small town in Hessen, then to Hannover; increasing antisemitism after 1933; apprenticing as a seamstress in Dortmund; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; living briefly in Munich; Allied bombings; her family's unsuccessful effort to obtain emigration papers in Stuttgart; their deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; forced labor; frequent round-ups; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); a friend preventing her from committing suici...

  11. Hilda T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda T. who was born in Iglo?, Czechoslovakia (presently Spis?ska Nova? Ves, Slovakia) in 1904. She recalls her mother's death when she was five; studying in Brno; her family's move to Vienna; good relations with non-Jews prior to 1934; participating in Sportklub Hakoah; meeting her husband there; hiding a union leader after the Nazis came to power; her husband's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release providing he left Austria within two weeks; the union leader obtaining Swedish visas for them; and emigration to Sweden, then the United States via Norway. Mrs T. describ...

  12. Eva N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva N., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1923. She recounts her middle-class family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; visits to her maternal grandparents in Hegyalja; attending gymnasium with her younger brother; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in June 1943; moving to her husband's home in Nyi?regyha?za; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Berehovo; her father's appointment to the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; ...

  13. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1926, the youngest of six children. He recounts his sister's death; cordial relations with non-Jews; summering with relatives in Veliouna; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; taking art courses; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing to Veivis; returning home via Rumšiškės; Lithuanian collaborators taking his uncle and a brother; ghettoization; round-ups; one brother working at the airport; his father's death from a heart attack in December 1941; employment painting signs for the Judenrat; leaving the ...

  14. Mennerem W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mennerem W., who was born in Paris in 1923 to Polish immigrants. He recalls his family's poverty; speaking Yiddish at home; lack of religious observance; attending French and Jewish schools; the absence of antisemitism; remaining in Paris with his mother and three sisters after German invasion; his father and brothers-in-law fleeing; participation in a Bund youth group; his mother joining his father in the unoccupied zone; joining his parents in Montauban; moving to Nice; meeting a friend who had been in Drancy; deciding not to register as Jews; planning an escape to ...

  15. Hans L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans L., who was born in Stralsund, Germany in 1926 to a Christian mother and Jewish father. He recounts his father's service in World War I; his family's assimilation (they celebrated Easter and Christmas); moving to Potsdam in 1936 due to antisemitism, hoping to be anonymous there; relatives who were Nazis, including his maternal aunt; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a Jewish school; observing the destruction in Berlin after Kristallnacht; his mother's refusal to divorce his father despite official pressure; being assigned to work in a Borsig munitions fact...

  16. Leslie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie S., who was born in Ma?te?szalka, Hungary in 1927. He recounts his orthodox family life; childhood antisemitic harassment; inability to continue his education due to the Jewish quota; German invasion in March 1944; implementation of anti-Jewish policies; ghettoization; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); transport to Birkenau; selection for work; transfer to Auschwitz; forced labor; evacuation to Mauthausen in January 1945; loss of toes due to frost bite; hiding in the camp hospital with assistance from a fellow prisoner; liberation by United Sta...

  17. Ben-Zion H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben-Zion H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, one of five children. He recounts his father carrying him across the street during a German bombing; ghettoization; he and a sister sneaking through holes in the wall to get food; another sister, who was a nurse, hiding him in the hospital during a round-up; his family's deportation; escaping; an elderly Polish woman hiding him and other children; selling newspapers and cigarettes; observing the ghetto uprising; his sister taking him to Kraków to hide with her; returning to Warsaw when she did not come home one ni...

  18. Ida G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida G., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. She recalls her parents placing her with a French family in Deux-Se?vres in 1940; warm relations with her foster mother; visiting her parents before her mother's arrest on July 16, 1942 (she never saw her again); arrest on January 30, 1944; interrogation by French police in Melle; her foster mother's unsuccessful efforts to free her using false papers; transfer to Niort, then Drancy; deportation to Birkenau in February 1944; working in a munitions factory; transfer to Auschwitz in October 1944; public hanging of the women...

  19. Sara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara S., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1922, one of ten children. She recalls her father was a Ger Hasid; attending public and a Beth Jacob school; some of her brothers' military service; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and two siblings to Sandomierz; staying in Da?browa Go?rnicza; reunion with her father and two siblings in Krako?w; moving to Stopnica, her mother's hometown; her youngest brother going to Krako?w (she never saw him again); taking in a friend and her family; her father secretly acting as a shochet; deportation with a brother and sis...

  20. Anna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna P., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine)in 1926. She recalls antisemitic discrimination; visiting her grandparents in Sambir; German invasion in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; escaping a mass killing in April 1943; incarceration; her uncle arranging her release; returning to the ghetto; her uncle hiding her with a Ukrainian farmer (she never saw her parents or brother again); leaving the farm; hiding in a forest with others; escaping capture with one girl; returning to the farm; from afar, obse...