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

  1. Jacov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacov S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1912. He recalls attending an Italian school; marriage; the birth of a son; working as a barber; German invasion in 1941; six months in a forced labor camp; returning home; deportation of his family (none returned); his deportation two months later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; disbelief upon learning of the crematoria; transfer to Warsaw; slave labor clearing rubble in the former ghetto; liberation by Poles during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a barber for the partisans; posing as a non-Jew in a small village after t...

  2. Ernest P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest P., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls his father's death in 1918 serving in World War I; his mother's struggle to support him and two younger siblings; working at age sixteen to assist; the Anschluss; immediate anti-Jewish laws and violence; obtaining a forged passport in 1938 (his siblings had already left and his mother followed); living in Luxembourg for eighteen months; support from the local Jewish community; marriage to a Polish-Jewish refugee; the Jewish community organizing a group emigration to Cuba; traveling to Iru...

  3. Elizabeth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth G., who was born ca. 1911 in Miskolc, Hungary. Mrs. G. recalls her pleasant childhood and adolescent life, marred by prewar Hungarian antisemitism; her marriage in Budapest in 1935; and her life in hiding with her husband and two sons during the Russian and German occupations (from 1942 until liberation.) She also speaks of her and her family's postwar emigration, first to Italy and later to the United States; her happy marriage; and the loss of her husband, who died four years before the interview.

  4. Itzchak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; attending public and Jewish schools; bar mitzvah; participating in Jewish and Zionist youth groups; antisemitic harassment; traveling to Amsterdam; his mother joining him; founding a Zionist youth group; returning to Berlin to obtain a certificate to emigrate to Palestine (his mother remained); establishing a Youth Aliyah center in Cologne; improvements during the 1936 Olympics; teaching at a Jewish school in Herrlingen; returning to Berlin; obtaining false p...

  5. Andre B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1937. He recounts moving to Naarden in 1939; attending pre-school; playing with his sister; his father bringing him and his sister to another family "for a few days" in 1942 (he never saw his parents again); moving to another family in Amsterdam six weeks later; never going outdoors and hiding in a closet for long periods; difficult relations with the family's children; being taken to Cornjum on a transport with other children in 1944 after payments for them stopped; a Jewish worker smuggling them out; placement with...

  6. Albert H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert H., who was born in 1920 near Liège, Belgium, an only child. He recounts that his grandfather had been a priest but left the order; his father's union activities; German invasion in May 1940; military draft; serving in Charleroi; evacuation to Boulogne-sur-Mer; capture as a prisoner of war; release after a few weeks; marriage; his son's birth in January 1942; joining the Resistance; heading a clandestine press; hiding; living apart from his family in order not to endanger them; committing acts of sabotage; arrest in November 1943; imprisonment and torture; re...

  7. Marion C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion C., who was born in Berlin, German in 1936. She recounts her father paying for them to be smuggled to the Netherlands in 1942; his arrest (she never saw him again); escaping with her mother; a non-Jewish friend giving her mother her identity papers; betrayal by a paid smuggler; her mother telling the soldiers she was seeking her husband who was in the army; making their way to Arnhem; a priest giving them fare to Amsterdam; contacting the Jewish committee; separation from her mother; being hidden with a young couple; arrest; the underground getting her out; liv...

  8. Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recalls a good life until Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; moving to Khust; deportation to Auschwitz in 1934; separation from her father and brother (she remained with her mother throughout); transfer to Bremen; slave labor; thinking only about food; her mother sharing her food with her; transport in a train that was bombed; emerging to find no guards; an extended hospitalization; living in Neustadt, then Heidenheim displaced persons camps; marriage; her mother's return to their hometown, seeking her father...

  9. Simon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon M., who was born in Ziegenhals, Germany (now G?ucho?azy, Poland) in 1905. He recalls his impoverished childhood in a large family; his father's military service in World War I; completing eight grade; working as a peddler; marriage in 1928; his first son's birth in 1930; living in Breslau when Hitler came to power; serving as a liaison to the Gestapo; helping Jews emigrate; Kristallnacht; arrest and deportation to Buchenwald; release with assistance from an SS officer; receiving help from Jews in Leipzig; returning to Breslau; traveling to Shanghai via Italy in ...

  10. Regina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina B., who was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1920. She recalls her family's emigration to Paris in 1934 due to antisemitism; working for low wages; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; marriage in 1940; German occupation; moving to Toulouse with her family; their return to Paris; her daughter's birth in 1941; hiding with her family in Maisons-Laffitte; her protected status as a POW's wife; arrest in Paris in 1944; refusing to divulge her daughter's location; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Drancy; abuse from non-Jewish prisoners; cold, starvation, and degradat...

  11. Judith N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith N., who was born in Gherla (Szamosu?jva?r), Romania in 1930 to a rabbincal family of eight children. She recalls moving to Kolozsva?r (Cluj); attending Tarbut school; her family's return to Gherla after German occupation; her brother's conscription for forced labor in 1944; ghettoization in April; transfer to the Cluj ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in May; selection with two of her sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); their belief that they would survive; appels and selections; transfer to a labor camp; her sisters dying during a death...

  12. Michel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel M., who was born in Wasilko?w, Poland in 1927. He describes an affluent childhood prior to 1933; increasing antisemitism; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; assisting Jewish refugees from the German zone; German invasion in June 1941; hiding with his family in Zab?udo?w after being warned by his father's non-Jewish acquaintance of a mass killing; ghettoization in Bia?ystok; learning his father's arrest was imminent; their transfer to the Pruz?h?any ghetto in November 1941 to save his father; choosing not to escape in order to remain with his parents; dep...

  13. Henry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry W., who was born in Boryslaw, Poland in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending a Soviet high school with his sister; German invasion; local violence against Jews prior to German arrival; forced labor in the forests; his father's death from illness; his mother's Polish friend offering to hide them during round-ups, then her refusal to do so; hiding in the forest; being found while returning to town; his selection to remain when most were deported (his sister also remained); ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; conversion ...

  14. Rabbi Avraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Avraham S., who was born in Holland in 1943. Now a prominent rabbi, author, and activist, he describes his experiences through recurring reflections on a memorable telephone conversation with his sister, and he reads several of his own poems and midrashim during the course of the interview. Rabbi S. tells of his parents' decision to place him with non-Jews; his foster families and their relationship to his real parents; his parents' hiding in Holland; his father's postwar search for him; the death of his foster father on the day of the liberation; and the suicid...

  15. Gerhard B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhard B., who was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls attending Jewish and Czech schools; learning German; attending gymnasium in Duchcov; being sent with his sister to live with his grandparents in Krako?w in 1938; being joined by their parents in 1939; German invasion; substituting for his father for forced labor; their expulsion from Krako?w; moving to Niepo?omice; forced relocation to Wieliczka; his grandparents', parents', and sister's deportation (he never saw them again); digging mass graves for murdered Jews; transfer to Rzesz?ow; escaping to...

  16. Abe and Sari B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in Warsaw circa 1925, and his wife Sari B., who was born in Hungary circa 1928. Mr. B. describes the bombardment and burning of his house in 1939, in which his mother was killed; living conditions and slave labor in the Warsaw ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto; and his deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. B. speaks of the worsening situation in 1944; her family's confinement in the ghetto; her separation from her family on the transport to Auschwitz/Birkenau; her transfer from there to the slave labor camp in Allendorf, where she worked in a bomb fac...

  17. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's emigration to France due to antisemitism; living in Belleville, Montreuil, then Levallois, a leftist community; living with a cousin in Nantes and attending boarding school in 1939; her father's draft; German invasion; returning to Paris in May 1940; "discovering" she was Jewish; her father's arrest in October 1941; his internment in Drancy and deportation in May 1942 (he perished); hiding with her mother in Bois de Vincennes in July 1942 after being warned of a round-up by non-Jews; fleeing to Fonten...

  18. Emanuel A. and Lily A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel A. and his wife Lily A. Mr. A. was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916. He recounts studying medicine in Athens; membership in the Communist Party; joining the EAM resistance after German invasion; organizing the rescue of Jews with others, sending them to Greek islands, Turkey, and Palestine; assistance from Greeks and the Orthodox Church; joining partisans in the Parnethas Mountains in September 1943; treating the wounded; liberation in October 1944; returning to Athens in April 1945; learning his sister and parents survived by hiding in Macedonia; resumin...

  19. Mark G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark G., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Rabka in 1933; German invasion; military draft of his father and brother; witnessing the execution of a classmate; his sister's privileged position as a maid for a brutal German officer; the officer's wife warning her to flee; escaping with his mother, sister, and a friend to the forest; a Polish woman helping them; smuggling themselves into the Krako?w ghetto; leaving to join an uncle in S?omniki; returning to the Krako?w ghetto with his sister and a you...

  20. Anne C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919, the middle of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth group; removal from school in 1934 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school; her parents' emigration to Luxemburg in 1935; attending a boarding school in Munich; emigration to London in 1937; seeing one brother on his way to the United States; visiting her parents in France; her other brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; marriage; living in Scotland; her husband's death in 1946 (he was killed w...