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Displaying items 761 to 780 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Anna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna B., who was born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the oldest of three children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; German invasion in 1944; her mother's non-Jewish friend offering to hide her (she would not leave her parents); their deportation to the Uz︠h︡horod ghetto., then to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her family; being used for so-called medical experiments; transfer to Stolp; horrific slave labor laying railroad track and digging bunkers; public hanging of nine boys for taking cigarettes; transfer to Rīga,...

  2. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division; dropping into France behind enemy lines; fighting from town to town in Germany; entering Dachau, having no conception of a concentration camp; observing prisoners who looked like walking cadavers, mostly Jews; providing whatever food and water they had; observing piles of corpses, human hair, and belongings; United Stares military authorities compelling local Germans to go through Dachau; their specious claim of having no knowledge of the camp; and leav...

  3. Rachel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel F., who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1924. She describes attending public and religious schools; orthodox observances in her close, extended family; German-Jewish refugees arriving in the early 1930s; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1941; volunteering to go to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp in June 1942; slave labor at the munitions factory; public executions; learning the ghetto was liquidated in October; a brief visit with her brother in 1943 (she never saw him again); transfer to Cze?stochowa in summer ...

  4. Moses M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, the oldest of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; leaving school at thirteen to work in his parents' bakery; working in his uncle's bakery in ?o?dz?; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; having to stay in the factory while the ghetto was liquidated (he never saw his family again); transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; digging anti-tank trenches in 1944; trans...

  5. Simon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's move to Paris; German invasion; arrest and incarceration in Drancy in October 1941; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Compiègne in March 1942; receiving refreshments en route from the Red Cross; slave labor constructing roads; transfer to a position supervising the kitchens, a privileged position; sharing extra food with friends; recovering from typhus with assistance from friends; transfer to a disciplinary Kommando; assistance from kapos in avoiding selection and bei...

  6. Laura S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laura S., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece in an affluent family. She recounts her marriage in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; her husband's military service in Albania in 1940; his return; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a deportation in 1943; realizing that they would be deported next; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto; obtaining false papers; illegally traveling to Athens; posing as non-Jews; German occupation; escaping to Aleppo, then Palestine; receiving assistance from the Joint and WIZO; their return after the war; her husba...

  7. Victor W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor W., who was born in New York and entered the United States Army in 1936. He recalls serving in Panama and Jamaica, then in Patton's army in Casablanca, Tunisia, and Sicily after Pearl Harbor; returning to the United States in summer 1944 for training under the Judge Advocate's office to assist with war crime trials; return to Europe in September; assignment to war crime investigations in Paris; transfer to Nuremberg; orders to accompany the unit liberating Flossenbu?rg; entering the camp when fighting had abated; shock at the prisoners' condition despite his tr...

  8. Tirca G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradac?ac; attending school in Gradac?ac, then Osijek; returning to Gradac?ac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustas?a; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradac?ac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; ...

  9. Josef R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef R., who was born in Krzeszowice, Poland in 1921 and grew up in Krako?w. He recalls a comfortable childhood, attending secular and religious schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; ending his education due to Jewish quotas; German invasion; fleeing to Tarnobrzeg with his parents; their return to Krako?w; forced resettlement in Borek Szlachecki, Borek Fa?e?cki, and Samborek; hospitalization with assistance from a non-Jewish physician; joining his parents in Prokocim; forced labor for a German railroad company; ghettoization in ...

  10. Molly B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Molly B., who was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1920. She recounts her father's service in World War I; her family's German patriotism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1933 when Hitler came to power; a mandatory "racial science" course; the pain of being snubbed by a former friend; her parents' loss of their citizenship because they were naturalized; attempts to emigrate; attending vocational school near Lake Constance, then learning dressmaking in Heidelberg and Berlin to prepare for emigration; loss of the family business due to...

  11. Peppi D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peppi D., who was born in Apeldoorn, Holland, in approximately 1935. She recounts attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws resulting in her transfer to a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father hiding with non-Jews during a round-up; his deportation; round-up with her mother and twin sister to a Catholic school; transfer to Arnhem; deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; reunion with her father; hospitalization; remaining in Westerbork due to her aunt's non-Jewish husband paying the Germans; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944;...

  12. He?le?ne W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of He?le?ne W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recalls emigration to Paris in 1933; visiting relatives in Poland; her father's internment in Beaune-la-Rolande in 1941; hiding him after his release; her mother's and brother's internment in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver; begging a German official to release them; their return home; her mother's arrest; their final moment together; receiving food from neighbors; her Resistance work; her arrest in February 1944 (her brother escaped); internment at Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; extreme hunger, cold, and hum...

  13. Rosalie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosalie S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-737), Ms. S. recounts deportation to P?aszo?w with her husband; sharing bread with an aunt in Skarz?ysko; observing cannibalism; and living in Linz after the war.

  14. Jacques R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of three children. He recounts his family's move to Anderlecht in 1924; his father working as a rabbi and mohel; attending public school and cheder; training for four years as a sculptor at the Academie Royale de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, then for six months with his grandfather as an engraver; German invasion; fleeing to De Panne; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; sculpting grave monuments; hiding his parents and sister with non-Jews in Sint-Genesius-Rode; obtaining false papers; arrest and interrogation i...

  15. Shmuel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1926, the sixth of seven children. He describes his large, extended family, half of which were assimilated, half orthodox; his family's focus on music and humor; wonderful Sabbath dinners; his father's death in 1934; resulting pressures on his immediate family, particularly financial; his mother taking in boarders and Jewish refugees; assistance from some uncles; participating in Mizrachi; his bar mitzvah in 1939; one brother's emigration to Palestine; believing they were safe despite the war; German invasion in May...

  16. Theo Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theo Z., who was born in Kovelʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, the younger of two siblings. He recounts moving to Brussels in 1929; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning tailoring from his father after completing high school; German invasion; fleeing to Revel; delivering to customers in Toulouse; briefly being drafted into the French army in Bressuire; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; briefly hiding; deportation to Malines in August 1942; transport the next day to Cosel, Ottmuth, then Klein Mangersdorf; slave labor co...

  17. Alina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She recalls attending an ORT school; German invasion; ghettoization; hunger and round-ups; marriage in 1941; jumping from a train to Treblinka with her husband, having been warned by a Pole of their destination; hiding with a farmer; returning to Warsaw because they feared exposure; living on the Aryan side; returning to her parents in the ghetto because of blackmail threats; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; and deportation to Majdanek in May 1943 and Birkenau several months later. Mrs. Z. recalls her realization...

  18. Isak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isak S., who was born in 1916 in Thessalonike?, Greece, the oldest of four children. He recounts his family's return to S?tip when World War I ended (his family had been in S?tip for generations); working in a bank in Ljubljana; moving to Sarajevo after the war started in Yugoslavia in April 1941; Bulgarian occupation; volunteering for military service; anti-Jewish restrictions; leading an underground group in S?tip; a raid on underground members in November 1942; asking non-Jews for hiding places based on military surrounding the town; a round-up of all Jews in March...

  19. Marion F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930. She recalls her happy childhood; a summer visit to her uncle in Krako?w; antisemitic harassment by playmates; expulsion from public school; being sent to Strasbourg with her sister in January 1939 (her parents went to Frankfurt); living in a Jewish orphanage (she remained with her sister); visits from distant relatives; the outbreak of war; evacuation with the orphanage to southern France; refusing to be adopted; one year in a children's home in Arcachon; transfer to Bergerac, then an OSE children's home; police visi...

  20. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close and large, extended family; an affluent home; attending school in Sosnowiec; Zionist activities; German invasion; forced relocation; a German who opened a factory in order to help Jews; separation from her parents during a round-up; securing her parents' release; ghettoization; separation from her brother during a round-up (he later perished); her release; round-up and separation from her parents; hiding in a bunker with her sister during the ghetto's liquidation; surrendering fearing they would p...