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

  1. Heinz P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1911. He recalls his apprenticeship and employment in a bank; the anti-Jewish boycott in 1933; his brother's emigration to South America; co-workers suddenly shunning him; dismissal from his job in February 1937; working for his father's business associate in Kitzingen; arrest on Kristallnacht; imprisonment in Dachau for three months; his release; and departure for Shanghai a few days later. Mr. P. recounts living outside the Jewish area; starting a photography business with a friend; corresponding with his father who wrote...

  2. Molly K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly K., who was born in Augusto?w, Poland in 1925. She relates moving to Vilna at age three; attending Catholic school until fourth grade, then Jewish high school; prevalent antisemitism; German invasion; learning of mass murders of Jews at Ponary from a woman who escaped; ghettoization; forced labor in the H.K.P. camp; receiving medication from a Jewish doctor when she became ill; escape with her fiance; being hidden by a former teacher, then by a Polish neighbor, in a bunker in her family's former home; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. K. recalls seeking surv...

  3. Edith K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith K., who was born in 1929, in Va?c, Hungary, the oldest of four children. She recalls a close and large extended family; pervasive antisemitism; her family's orthodoxy; Austrian cousins arriving after Kristallnacht; uncles serving in Hungarian slave labor battalions; hiding Czech cousins; her uncles' return in early 1944; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; removal of all men for slave labor; receiving letters from her father (she still has some); forced relocation to a brick factory in Monor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother a...

  4. Lisa O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa O., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls street fights between brown shirts and communists; playing with Jewish children; improved conditions after Hitler came to power; participating in the opening ceremony for the 1936 Olympics; saying goodbye to their Jewish doctor in 1938 when he emigrated; synagogue and book burnings; her mother's work with Martin Niemo?ller; being told Dachau was for those who wanted to harm the Reich; observing a sign forbidding Jews when vacationing in Baden-Baden; training as a teletypist in Giessen; volunteeri...

  5. Rena R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1917. She recounts her family's affluence and orthodoxy; her mother's death; her father's remarriage; marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth in 1937; anti-Jewish boycotts; one sister's emigration to Palestine; vacationing in Zakopane in summer 1939; German invasion; returning to Krako?w; moving to a village; her sister and mother-in-law joining her; a policeman warning them of a deportation; hiding in a barn for three weeks; walking to the Krako?w ghetto; hiding her daughter with her maid; slave labor in a uniform factory; d...

  6. Ruth W. and Maryann L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was active in New York in the wartime relief efforts of the Congregational Church, and her daughter, Maryann L., who has helped lead church groups through Germany since the war. Mrs. W. describes her work with refugees in Europe and the United States, including the rescue network operated by the churches, and the difficulty in assigning responsibility for the refugees. Mrs. L. discusses her group trips to Germany, noting the desolation that characterized Warsaw and Berlin. Both speak of their reactions during a visit to Dachau, of bringing information bac...

  7. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Na?sa?ud, Romania in 1925 to a family with fourteen children. He describes his father, a biblical scribe; his very religious upbringing; moving to a small village in Hungary as a young child; German occupation, ghettoization, and transfer of all Jews to another town; his father's humiliation at having to shave his beard; and transport to Auschwitz. Mr. S. recalls the treatment of the prisoners as numbers, not humans; not knowing what happened to his family and not being able to comprehend that he was in a death camp; volunteering as a mechanic...

  8. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., who was born in a village in Czechoslovakia in 1928, the fourth of eight children. He recalls everyone was Orthodox; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1938; the draft of two older brothers into slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); ghettoization in Vynohradiv in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father and brother from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father and brother to Warsaw; slave labor clearing the former ghetto; trading salvaged v...

  9. Alice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice G., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, one of six children. She recounts speaking German at home; anti-Jewish events beginning in 1939; being sent to an uncle in Spišské Podhradie, thinking it was safer; returning home; confiscation of the family store; her twin sister's death from illness; deportation with another sister to Poprad, then Auschwitz in March 1942; slave labor hauling bricks in Harmęż, then sorting clothing in Canada Kommando; transfer to Birkenau; separation from her sister; bringing her fo...

  10. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, in 1933. Mr. S. recalls his happy childhood; the inferno of the German occupation; hiding in a small town; his arrival in the Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp, where he was separated from his mother; his decision to be a 'model prisoner' as a means of surviving in spite of his youth; his work in the camp; his extreme reactions to the brutality and dehumanization; his transfer, along with his brother, to Buchenwald; their liberation from Buchenwald; and their postwar return to Poland, where they found that their entire famil...

  11. Martin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls antisemitic harassment on the street; German invasion; his father protecting his German business partner from Polish violence; betrayal by the partner resulting in expulsion from their home; ghettoization; smuggling food; hospitalization of his father, mother, and sister; their deaths; living with an uncle; the deaths of his other two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; staying with his uncle; joining a group with two friends that left Auschwitz under cover of Allied bombing; transfer to Fried...

  12. Sol F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol F., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1907. He describes his mother's struggles to support the family after his father's death; becoming a dancer; deteriorating conditions for Jews from 1941 onward; forced labor on the Russian front in 1942; one family visit; transport to Auschwitz; beatings and hunger; and transfer to Longwy-Thil, France where he worked approximately one year. He describes a forced march; working in a salt mine at Heilbronn; transfer to Dachau, then Passau; desertion by SS guards; foraging for food; exchanging clothes with a German soldier; receiv...

  13. Rita S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1935 to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls living with her maternal grandparents; close bonds with them and her maternal uncle; her father's brief military service in 1939 which protected them; having to wear the "star" beginning in 1941; beatings from children on the street; deportation of her uncle, his wife and children, and her grandparents in 1942 (only her uncle survived); being forced to move in 1943; assistance from prostitutes in the neighborhood; her father's forced labor service (they knew he was a...

  14. Harold G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold G., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls working in Budapest from age sixteen; belonging to a Zionist organization; lending his identity papers to a fellow member who had escaped from Slovakia; his friend warning him not to listen to any Nazi instructions; returning home for Passover 1944; German invasion of his Hungarian-occupied town; escaping prior to ghettoziation, posing as a non-Jew; buying bread from a non-Jew and sending it to his mother in the ghetto; joining a group escaping to Slovakia; smuggling themselv...

  15. Albert D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert D., who served in the United States Army, 104th Infantry Division (Timberwolves). He recounts encountering emaciated prisoners in labor camps; German civilians denying knowledge of the existence of camps; entering Nordhausen in April 1945; the horrific sight of rows of thousands of corpses; and then entering Halle labor camp. Mr. D. shows photographs he took.

  16. Eugene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene B., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the oldest of six children. He recounts leaving school at age fourteen, apprenticing as a tailor; Hungarian occupation; confiscation of his family's store; moving to Budapest by himself; working in a factory and selling used clothing; returning home in early 1944; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and one brother; transfer about a week later to Erlensbusch; good treatment because a friend from Uz︠h︡horod knew a German official there; s...

  17. Tatyana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatyana K., who was born in Berislav, Ukraine in 1934. She recalls a round-up (her two older brothers refused to go); escaping (she did not "look Jewish"); witnessing the mass shooting of Jews, including her parents and two younger siblings; hiding with her two brothers; receiving food from Romanian troops; hiding six months with her brothers and another boy in a haystack; leaving due to cold; separation from her brothers; returning to Berislav; hiding with a woman, who told her that her brothers had been shot; being forced to leave; begging for food and shelter at di...

  18. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Lypsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1920, the second of eleven children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; working in Budapest; returning home by train in spring 1944: removal from the train in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Czechoslovakia seeking relatives; learning one brother was in Israel; marriage in Chomutov; and emigration to the United States. Ms. K. discusses slave labor in the camps; prisoners he...

  19. Ado K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ado K., who was born in Visoko, Yugoslavia in 1915. He recounts cordial relations between the small Jewish community and Muslims, Serbs, and Croats; serving in the Yugoslav army; creation of Croatia in 1941; his capture in Doboj; anti-Jewish regulations enforced by the Ustas?a; deportations of Serbs and Jews; his deportation to Jasenovac in October 1941; forced labor in Lonjsko Polje; mass killings of prisoners; transfer to Gradis?ka in January 1942; observing the horrendous conditions of the women and children (his mother and sisters were there); sadistic public kill...