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Displaying items 4,001 to 4,020 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Donald G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donald G., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He tells of his training in Georgia and Scotland, then his position as a military policeman in Aachen, Germany; entering the Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen; lack of knowledge of what they were going to see; orders to separate the living from the dead; the terribly undernourished and overworked prisoners; the overwhelming stench (a memory which always returns when he remembers this time); taking pictures; not being able to talk about what he witnessed after his return to the United States; and his l...

  2. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913, one of four children. In addition to information in a previously cataloged testimony, Mr. S. recounts playing violin as a youth in a Maccabi orchestra; his Greek commander issuing him, his brother, and others false papers as non-Jews so they could safely return home from front-line military services when Greece was defeated; refusing offers from non-Jews to hide in order to remain with his pregnant wife; encounters with Nazi officials Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner; playing the violin in the camp hospital ...

  3. Sara L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara L., who was born in a small town near Munka?cs, Hungary in 1897. She recalls growing up in a rich household as the youngest of eleven children; her marriage and subsequent move to Kos?ice; the birth of two sons; and her doubts about the future when she encountered Jews fleeing from Poland. She describes many episodes of fleeing with her children after the German occupation (her husband had already been taken away); the loss of her elder son; traveling through Czechoslovakia and Hungary seeking safety; leaving her younger son with relatives in Cojocna, Romania; pa...

  4. Dora M. and Jaime M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora M., who was born in Be?chato?w, Poland in 1913, one of ten children. She recalls her happy youth; her mother's death in 1937; German invasion; fleeing to Pabianice with her family; returning home; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; her father's humiliation when forced to shave his beard; marriage; her husband traveling to Piotrko?w; his inability to return immediately before their deportation (she never saw him again); transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with her brother and two sisters; working in a hospital; being forced to put patients on trucks for deporta...

  5. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1923. She recounts her father's death when she was ten months old; antisemitic harassment by teachers and students in school; her mother's remarriage; moving to Sosnowiec; the births of two half-siblings; German invasion; ghettoization in Srodula; pervasive hunger; deportation with her sister to Guentherbruecke; forced labor in a munitions factory; she and her sister helping each other; receiving extra food from her cousin; transfer to Peterswaldau; liberation by Soviet troops; their return to Sosnowiec; learning her immedi...

  6. Zehava R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zehava R., who was born in Żywiec, Poland in 1935, one of two children. She recounts living in Bochnia; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; an aunt's wedding; separation from her brother during a round-up (they never saw him again); living with an aunt who worked for the Germans; her aunt arranging for a non-Jewish woman to hide her; escaping from the ghetto; the woman taking her to Jews in Prokocim; entering Slovakia illegally with them; living in a Joint camp in Liptovský Mikuláš; intense loneliness; arrest in Košice while attem...

  7. Zelda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zelda G., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1924. She recalls involvement in a Zionist organization; the outbreak of war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; efforts to organize an underground; moving to her sister's home with her mother when the second ghetto was formed; the Judenrat and Zionist organization's efforts to protect people; joining her relatives in the first ghetto when the other was liquidated; hiding during the round-ups in January 1943 (she was separated from her family and never saw them again); transport to...

  8. June F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. She recounts her comfortable childhood and loving family; joining her grandmother in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941; escaping with false papers to the Aryan side; assistance from a German in obtaining a job in the Tomaszo?w ghetto; transfer with her husband to Bliz?yn in 1943, three months after their marriage; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz; communicating with him until his deportation to another camp; selections and meaningless slave labor; public hanging of those who tried to escape; cleaning sewers as a punish...

  9. William R. Holocaust testimony

  10. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Galicia, Poland in 1910. She speaks of her medical education in Czechoslovakia; her return to Poland in 1939 after the outbreak of the war; and her work in a Russian hospital during the Russian occupation of her town (1939-1941). She describes the ghettoization of her home town; life in the ghetto, where she lived with her family and worked as a physician; the liquidation of the ghetto hospital and her transfer to another town where she served as physician and dentist for the gentile population for nine months, until it became unsafe for her...

  11. Sara T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara T., who was born in Middelburg, Netherlands in 1922, one of three children. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3114), Ms. T. recounts attending public school; German invasion; Dutch police warning them to hide their belongings; incarceration in many camps, including Gross-Rosen; and prisoners freezing to death in open cattle cars. She shows photographs.

  12. Alice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Hungary, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's export business and their farm in the country; harassment by non-Jews; visiting a cousin in Budapest; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; completing high school; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation with her sister and cousins from their parents; reciting poetry, singing, and discussing their previous lives to raise their morale; her sister protecting her; their separation (she never...

  13. Allegra K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Allegra K., who was born in Kastoria, Greece in 1927, one of seven children. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; warm family life; one brother's emigration to the United States; benign Italian occupation; her father's arrest and escape from Thessalonike? in 1943; German invasion; her father refusing offers from non-Jewish friends to hide some of them in order to keep the family together; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Thessalonike?; separation from her family upon arrival; slave labor digging potatoes; hospitalization; a prisoner expelling her from th...

  14. Rachel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel M., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1929, one of six children. She recalls Hungarian occupation; her father's service in a forced labor battalion; his return over a year later; ghettoization; non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from her family; finding her sister; volunteering for work; her sister's selection for transfer; trading with another set of sisters to remain together; their transfer to Christianstadt after seven weeks; improved conditions; slave labor in a munitions factory and her s...

  15. Shulamit L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shulamit L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's poverty; attending public school; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in expulsion from school; participating in a Zionist youth group; her father's remarriage; Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to the United States; her emigration with other children via Trieste to Palestine in 1940; receiving a postcard from her mother in Theresienstadt; living with a family in Jerusalem, then at a children's village; learning after the war...

  16. Miriam T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam T., who was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the older of two sisters. She recounts living in Pohořelice; attending Czech public school; her mother's illness in 1931; wonderful visits to her maternal grandmother; participating in Makabi ha-tsaʻir; her mother's death in 1936; attending boarding school in Brno; fleeing with her father to Luhačovice two days prior to the German invasion; returning to school in Brno; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her expulsion from school; participating in hachsharahs in Mělník, Prague, and another town; a brief fa...

  17. Vincent Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent Z., who served with the United States Army in World War II. He recounts speaking fluent Polish; deployment to London; working in a press unit publishing Polish newspapers; contacts with the Polish government-in-exile and Polish resistants; transfer to Paris, then to Germany; visiting Dachau in November 1945; observing the gas chambers and crematorium; speaking with a Catholic priest and other liberated prisoners; working with UNRRA in Bad Nauheim to publish newspapers for the displaced persons camps; and assisting with displaced persons camp education programs...

  18. Dora Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora Z., who was born in P?on?sk, Poland in 1921. She recalls chaos as the war began; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; frequent atrocities; seeing her parents for the last time when they were evacuated from the ghetto; and deportation with her three sisters to Auschwitz in 1942. Mrs. Z. describes the arrival routine including shaving and tattooing; meaningless forced labor; supporting each other during selections; the deaths of her sisters; friendships with other prisoners; new arrivals being herded to the gas chambers; the pervasive stench and smoke from the ...

  19. Ervin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin S., a twin, who was born in Topol̕čany, Slovakia in 1940. He recounts that his father had been a bank executive prior to Slovak anti-Jewish laws; his maternal grandfather supporting them; riding scooters with his twin brother; round-up by Germans on September 5, 1944, his worst memory seeing his father frightened and vulnerable; deportation to Sered; his father becoming part of the Jewish camp leadership; their transfer to Theresienstadt in December 1944; living together with his parents and brother; spending days in the Kinderheim; inadequate food and sanitati...

  20. Michael J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael J., who was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1907. He describes family life before World War I; the Bolshevik revolution in 1917; famine, civil war, and pogroms which followed the revolution; his family's escape to ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922; entering an engineering school of the Polish army in 1928; and working in his uncle's textile factory in ?o?dz? until he was drafted in August 1939. He recalls the German bombings; the Polish army's retreat to Modlin; his arrest and transfer to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany with his fellow officers; transfer to a camp in Prenzlau...