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

  1. Trenton D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trenton D., who served in the United States 11th Armored Division during World War II. He recounts enlisting in 1936; being stationed in Alaska; attending officer training school after Pearl Harbor; promotion to captain in 1944; deployment to England; fighting in France and the Battle of the Bulge; overtaking a column of prisoners near Linz guarded by German soldiers; prisoners killing disarmed German guards; entering Mauthausen days after its liberation; the pervasive stench; emaciated prisoners; piles of corpses; entering Gusen; transferring sick prisoners to Mautha...

  2. Hanka L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her close, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; attending Jewish school; German invasion; Germans looting her parents' store; standing on the food line with her brother because they did not "look Jewish"; ghettoization; crowding, starvation, and frequent deaths; clandestine schools and cabarets (the black humor raised their spirits); forced factory labor; reciting the seder while hiding with her brother during a round-up for deportation; her father's and brother's deaths; volunteering with her moth...

  3. Lili G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lili G., who was born in Yasinya, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. She recalls an antisemitic teacher; friendly relations with Christians; Hungarian occupation; her father's and brothers' service in Hungarian forced labor battalions; hiding Polish refugees; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; billeting of German soldiers in their home; her mother being beaten; their deportation to Ma?te?szalka; receiving food from Hungarians; a German soldier beating her grandfather; their deportation to Auschwitz; being told by a Jewish prisoner to say she was eightee...

  4. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in 1935 in Split, Yugoslavia. She describes the Jewish community; Italian occupation including parades and expulsion of Jews from public schools; an influx of refugees; a book burning and destruction of the synagogue in June 1942; denial of official responsibility by the Italian government; and rebuilding of the synagogue. Mrs. K. recounts Nazi occupation; her father, brother and oldest sister joining the partisans; being warned of a Nazi round-up by a non-Jewish friend; hiding with her mother and another sister in a mountain village for severa...

  5. Erna E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna E., who was born in Oświęcim, Poland in 1920. She recounts her large family's affluence; summering in mountain resorts; participating in Betar; Vladimir Jabotinsky staying at their home; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1933; one year of school in Myslowice; one brother serving in the Polish military; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with her family to Przeworsk; her father continuing to the Soviet zone; finding her brother in Kraków (he had been wounded); their return home; brief arrest with her sister by Soviets in Tarnów en route to find their father; r...

  6. Samson M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samson M., who was born in Poland in 1913 to a Hasidic family of seven children. He recalls their poverty; joyous holiday celebrations; antisemitic harassment at school; apprenticeship as a shoemaker in Seitesz; moving to Krako?w; German invasion; escaping east with his brother; Germans overtaking them; staying in Izbica; Soviet troops arriving; their withdrawal; leaving with them; living in L?viv; finding two of his brothers there; volunteering to work in a Soviet coalmine; harsh conditions; escaping with a friend; traveling to Kiev, then L?viv; volunteering for labo...

  7. Andre T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre T., a non-Jew, who was born in Belgium in 1920, the older of two children. He recounts his "bourgeois" background; attending university; military draft in 1939; postings in Liège, then Brussels; German invasion in May 1940; brief capture; returning to Brussels; attempting to escape to England via France; arrest in Port-Vendres; transfer to Peripignan; being tried for having improper documents; release and immediate re-arrest; transfer to Argelès; escape with two friends; traveling to Limoux; obtaining false papers; returning to Brussels via Sète and Lille; jo...

  8. Simon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon B., who was born in the Soviet Union (now Estonia) in 1920. He recounts his family's emigration to France in 1922; growing up in Courbevoie; his bar mitzvah; his mother's death in 1934; military draft in 1940; German invasion; demobilization; staying in a youth camp near Cluny for eight months; moving to Paris; arrest in August 1942; internment in Drancy; transfer to Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, then back to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September 1942; hospitalization in December; assistance from a non-Jewish nurse; a privileged assignment in t...

  9. Alfred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland) in 1920, the older of two siblings. He recounts his father's pro-German sentiments based on his military service in World War I; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; moving with his family to Berlin in 1935; participating in Hechalutz; attending their summer camp; hearing Martin Buber speak; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his family during Kristallnacht; his sister's emigration to England, then his to Wieringen, Netherlands with a hachsharah in M...

  10. Magdolina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdolina S., who was born in Dunafo?ldva?r, Hungary in 1924. She recalls German occupation; cordial relations with German soldiers; fleeing with her mother to Pe?cs as Soviet troops advanced; help from a German officer (her future husband); fleeing, with his assistance, to Szombathely and Berlin; marriage; brief visits to Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg; living on a farm near Bergen-Belsen; observing barbed wire and towers, emaciated people marching to the railroad station, guards shooting those who couldn't walk and her inability to identify a strange odor; being forc...

  11. Josif V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif V., who was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in approximately 1928. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (he never saw him again); German invasion in March 1944; a round-up for a mass killing of both Jewish and Serbs by the Arrow Cross (Nyilas) which included him, his mother, and sisters; not being chosen; their release with others at the end of the day; their deportation to Subotica, Baja, then Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters (the oldest was selected for work); ...

  12. Eva and Carl S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary and her husband Carl S., who was born in Breslau, Germany. Mrs. S. describes her and her family's journey by cattle car to Auschwitz; her separation from her parents and younger brothers there, as well as her reunion with her sister; and her selection for a labor transport to a factory in Germany, where she was an interpreter. She also speaks of her evacuation to another camp and finally to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated. She tells how, unable to locate any surviving family members in Hungary, she returned to Bergen-Be...

  13. Celia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia K., who was born in Szarkowszczyzna, a small town near Vilna, Poland, in 1923. In this extraordinarily detailed and vivid testimony, Mrs. K. describes her prewar education; the German occupation; the ghettoization of her town; and her work there as a waitress in the officers' dining hall. She tells of her transfer to the Glubokoye ghetto; being tortured for refusing to become the mistress of a Kommandant, and the psychological effects of this experience; assisting others to flee the ghetto; and her own escape, with the aid of a Polish farmer. She relates spendin...

  14. Rivka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rivka K., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland, in 1920, one of two children. She recounts her family's Zionism; attending Hebrew schools; participating in Zionist youth groups; her family's move to Kraków in 1933; attending a Hebrew gymnasium; participating in Ha-No'ar ha-Ivri-Akiba led by Yoel Dreiblatt; antisemitic harassment; working for Akiba in Warsaw; being sent to establish Akiba in Bydgoszcz, Skarżysko, and Starachowice; assisting German-Jewish refugees in Zbąszyń; returning to Kraków as a leader with Shimon Draenger, Adolf Liebeskind (Dolek) and others; eng...

  15. Sheima L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sheima L., who was born in Grodno, Russia (now Hrodna, Belarus) in 1912. He recalls moving to Kirovohrad when World War I began; his father's death; a pogrom; returning to Grodno (then in Poland); the deaths of two sisters; living in an orphanage with another sister; attending a Jewish boarding school; military draft; German invasion; serving in Vilnius; capture by Soviets; returning to Skidelʹ seeking his wife and daughter; their return together to Grodno; Soviet occupation; recall into the military; German invasion; capture; escape to Grodno in August 1941; ghettoiz...

  16. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Teaca, Romania in 1932. He recounts his large, extended family's orthodoxy; moving to Maros-Va?sa?rhely (Ti?rgu-Mure?s); Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization in January 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May 1944; assignment with his uncle to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); sudden disappearance of the Romanies; learning his mother had been killed; transfer to the children's camp; work assignments collecting garbage and ...

  17. Lily C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lily C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. She recalls her affluent and secular home; the Anschluss; her father's refusal to emigrate; his arrest on Kristallnacht and release due to his Czech citizenship; obtaining Hungarian citizenship; their move to Budapest in May 1940; becoming a milliner's apprentice; strained finances; German occupation; a forced move into designated Jewish housing; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); her own arrest; internment in a brick factory; starvation and exposure during a forced march; escape with two friends; hiding wi...

  18. Liliane L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liliane L., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. She recalls leftist activities; marriage; German invasion; joining the Resistance; arrest in 1941; solitary confinement in Sante?; her mother's visit, arranged by a German guard; transfer to La Roquette in March 1942, then Les Tourelles; organized solidarity among the resistants in several camps; escaping with a friend's assistance in December 1943; arrest and incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Birkenau in January; slave labor and selections; assignment to the Union Kommando, providing better food and conditions;...

  19. Piotr R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3304), Mr. R. recounts is mother giving him the family photographs to save; his German supervisor hiding him after the October 1942 mass killing and instructing him how to act as a non-Jew; marriage in 1949; the births of his children; attending a survivor conference in Warsaw in 1996; and his attempts to locate and honor the German who saved him. Mr. R. notes that only two of his five siblings survived. He shows photographs and d...

  20. Richard F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard F., who was born in approximately 1936. He recounts fleeing Warsaw with his parents when Germany invaded; his and his mother's capture by the Soviets; his father arranging their transfer to Moscow; traveling to Shanghai via Vladivostock and Kōbe; living in the French section; an Indian friend giving him a crucifix; his parents informing him for the first time that they were Jewish; attending an American then a Jewish school; Japanese invasion; attending a French-Catholic school; participating in Soviet youth activities and Betar; his father's hospitalization...