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

  1. Nikola R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nikola R., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He recounts his father serving in World War I, his capture by the Soviets, then enlisting in the Soviet military (he never saw him again); attending school in Valpovo, then Osijek; attending university in Zagreb beginning in 1929; participating in Jewish academic and left-wing groups; military service in 1933; working as a teacher in Cetinje; draft in February 1941; Italian occupation; retreating to Nikšić; smuggling himself to Osijek via Sarajevo; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Djakovo, then a Serb vill...

  2. Saul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul S., who was born in Bielitz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1918. He recalls his family's poverty; celebrating Jewish holidays; active participation in Hanoar Ha'Tsioni; becoming a group leader; his father's death; pervasive antisemitism which increased after Hitler's ascent to power; attending secular school; being unable to attend university because of poverty and Jewish quotas; emigrating alone to the United States in September 1938 under his grandfather's sponsorship (he never saw his mother and sisters again); living with an aunt in Brooklyn...

  3. Ralph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1903. He recalls being one of the few Jews at law school in Oklahoma; military service beginning in 1941; joining the staff at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials in November 1946; visiting refugee camps near Nuremberg; prosecuting the industrialist, Friedrich Flick and Hitler's Reich Press Chief, Otto Dietrich; the unprecedented argument in Dietrich's trial that Nazi propaganda was a military weapon; interaction with chief prosecutor Telford Taylor; housing Rezso? Kasztner in their villa; visiting Vienna and Salzburg with him...

  4. Betsy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betsy H., who was born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands, in 1917, the oldest of four children. Mrs. H. tells of working in a Jewish home for deprived children; her indifference regarding German events; German invasion; living with a Jewish family in Amsterdam; the last contact with her family (they were all deported); hiding in Rijnsburg; meeting her future husband who was hiding to avoid forced labor; joining a resistance group; carrying messages under a false name throughout the country; and witnessing the daily heroism of ordinary people. She describes her arrest with the...

  5. Betty D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty D., who was born in Bodrogkeresztu?r, Hungary in 1927. She recalls pleasant experiences in an observant home; attending Hungarian schools; friendships with non-Jews; disbelief in the horror stories of Polish refugees; unexpected change in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; transfer to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother and brother; efforts to always remain with her sister; work in the Canada Kommando; the emotional trauma of being beaten; her sister's efforts to protect her; and the public hangin...

  6. Jacqueline M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline M., a Catholic, who was born in Tournai, Belgium in 1923, one of two children. She recounts her parents' leftist activities; the family move to Charleroi; attending school in Roux; moving to Brussels; attending high school and university; studying medicine; German invasion in May 1940; her father's mobilization and capture; his return one year later; a Jewish classmate wearing the yellow star; her family hiding Resistants and Allied soldiers; accompanying some of them to Paris; delivering Resistance letters; her family hiding the Resistance leader Georges L...

  7. Henriette K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henriette K., who was born in Nove? Za?mky, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls growing up in a prosperous family; her close relationship with her father; Hungarian occupation; anti-Semitic incidents including the vandalizing of their home; the family's move to Budapest in 1940; her father's employment by a Swiss company; her sister's marriage and emigration to Palestine; their busy social life in 1942 and 1943; and German occupation in March 1944. Mrs. K. recollects her engagement to a Hungarian soldier who obtained false papers for her family; her father's refusal t...

  8. Eva R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva R., who was born in approximately 1919, the youngest of ten children. She recalls living in a small village; her father's death; German invasion; forced labor; escaping with her brother, sister, and niece from a transport in October 1942; hiding in the woods, with a non-Jewish farmer, and in her niece's husband's town; entering Kielce concentration camp with her niece since hiding was too dangerous; slave labor in a HASAG factory for two and a half years; transfer to Cze?stochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, and Landsberg; Allied bombings; a death march to Allach; libe...

  9. Margaret L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret L., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1922, an only child. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; living across the street from Adolf Hitler and looking into his apartment with binoculars after his rise to power; anti-Jewish laws restricting her activities; attending high school despite the laws, since her father was a wounded World War I veteran; her parents' unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; learning her father was in Dachau; his return four weeks later; expulsion from their apartment; ...

  10. Harold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold S., who was born in Missouri in 1920, and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts joining the Air Force in 1942; deployment to England; serving with a radar unit in France, Luxembourg, and Germany; visiting Buchenwald three days after liberation; sick and emaciated prisoners; wheelbarrows filled with corpses; a lampshade made of human skin; feeling numbness, disbelief, then anger; taking photographs (his wife, horrified, threw them away); and visiting divided Berlin as an officer many years later.

  11. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assis...

  12. Henry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls pervasive antisemitic violence; his father's futile attempt for the family to emigrate to Palestine in 1936; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his cousin; ghettoization; organizing clubs; working in his father's stead in food delivery; public hangings; being married by H?ayim Rumkowski in May 1943; his child's birth, and death a few days later in 1944; deportation with his remaining family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; deportation a few weeks later to Dachau, then Landsberg; slave labor in an airplane fact...

  13. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. In an unusually detailed testimony, he recounts his musical education; emigration to Amersfoort, Holland; his musical career; activities in the Dutch underground; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwitz; and witnessing atrocities. Mr. L. recalls transfer to Monowitz; work for I.G. Farben; teaching accordion to a German officer resulting in extra food and privileges; giving food to a boy whom he took home with him after the war; the influx of Hungarian Jews and acceleration of killing; work in the musicians unit; and ...

  14. Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S.. Anita B. was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1929. She recalls German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of their home; moving to a Jewish old age home; forced relocation to Amsterdam; attending a Jewish school; round-ups; her parents' decision in 1943 that they would go into hiding; her parents' and sister's departures; being taken by Anna S., her camp counselor, to hide with a non-Jewish family in the south; kind treatment by her foster parents; and liberation by British and United States troops in September 1...

  15. Roza S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roza S., who was born in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Ukraine in 1924. She recalls her father's military draft; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding in the cellar during a round-up in September 1941; being caught after leaving to check if the round-up was over; placement on a line for shooting in a mass killing; being asked if she was Ukrainian; being released when she answered affirmatively (she had blond hair); returning home; trading her family's valuables for food; hiding with her mother at a neighbor's during another mass shooting; living with an aunt until April ...

  16. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Ladmir, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ, Ukraine) in 1927, the third of four children. He recalls his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; his father's membership in a Hasidic synagogue; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; improved economic conditions; German invasion in June 1941; reporting for forced labor in place of his brother; round-up; his mother offering to take his place to be killed (they were both released); ghettoization; obtaining extra food for his family when working at German headquarters and fr...

  17. Elka F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elka F., who was born in Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. She recalls meeting her future husband in 1932; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish harassment; forced labor; surviving a selection in October with her future husband and their families (almost all other Jews were killed); ghettoization with approximately 600 survivors; Magalif (head of the Judenrat) giving them permission to wed; marriage in February; Magalif discouraging people from escaping so the elderly ...

  18. Anna O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna O., who was born in Hungary in 1927. She recounts pervasive antisemitism; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; German invasion in March 1944; staying with her boyfriend's family; returning home despite regulations against Jews traveling; the town's Jews being forced into one house; deportation by cattle car to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father and grandmother (she never saw them again); remaining with her mother and a cousin; transfer to P?aszo?w; assisting her mother with slave labor; return to Auschwitz; relief at being tattooed, thinking they would su...

  19. Lenke Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lenke Z., who was born in Sevlus?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1914. She recounts being raised by an aunt after her parents' death; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Mukacheve; marriage in 1937; moving to Nitra; her son's birth; antisemitic laws after the establishment of independent Slovakia; "Aryanization" of their business; an aborted attempt to smuggle themselves from Humenne? to Hungary in 1943; returning to Nitra; arranging to hide with non-Jewish friends during a round-up in October 1944; her husband's nervous breakdown; hiding wi...

  20. Abraham L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham L. who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1914. Mr. L recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; serving in the Polish military; marriage; German invasion; escaping to Prilesnoye (Manevichi); his son's birth in 1942; ghettoization; escaping into the woods from a mass killing in September; contact with partisans; acquiring a rifle; training units due to his military experience; assistance from some pacifist farmers; digging a bunker; mining rail and communication lines; battles with Germans and Ukrainians; antisemitism among the partisans; ...