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Displaying items 821 to 840 of 4,487
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Iurii G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iurii G., who was born in Smolensk, Soviet Union in 1930. He recounts moving to Kaluga in 1932; antisemitic insults in school; his father's arrest in 1939 and later learning he was in a Soviet labor camp; German invasion; his father's return and military draft; ghettoization; rationing and forced labor; starvation and mass killings; having to load corpses on trucks; assisting his grandparents; escaping during a Soviet offensive; being hidden with his mother by a former neighbor; liberation by Soviet troops; his grandparents' deaths from starvation; learning in 1944 hi...

  2. Alexandra L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexandra L., who was born in Danzig Free State (presently Gdan?sk, Poland) in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; her maternal grandmother living with them; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1937; her father's arrest; looting of his store; his non-Jewish employees providing assistance; expulsion from school; not understanding sudden rejection by non-Jewish playmates; attending a Jewish school; a beating by Hitler Youth; destruction of their synagogue; her father contacting a cousin in the United States; her brother's birth in ...

  3. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1922. Mr. W. vividly describes the Jewish environment of his childhood in Krzywcza; attending gymnasium in Przemys?l; the antisemitic atmosphere; Polish anti-Jewish laws; his father's and his own involvement in Zionist activities; German invasion; mass killings; escaping with his family; Soviet occupation; returning to Przemys?l; and the German invasion in 1941. He relates fleeing with his friends; returning to be with his family; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor; appointment of the Judenrat; deportations; the impac...

  4. Clara C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara C., who was born in Stryi?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922. She recalls non-Jewish friends; studying in Krako?w in 1936; becoming engaged; Soviet occupation; traveling with false papers to her fiance?'s parents' in Nowy Targ via Tarno?w; staying with her fiance?'s sister; narrowly avoiding arrest (her brother-in-law and a woman were killed by Germans); briefly staying in Wis?nicz and Krako?w; moving to the Bochnia ghetto in 1941; arrest while attempting to escape; bribery which resulted in her release; traveling to Krako?w as a non-Jew; smuggling herself int...

  5. Chana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917, one of eleven children. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; some of her brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; forced labor sorting possessions of deportees; smuggling herself to Brzeziny with her mother; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Bad Kudowa; slave labor in a munitions factory; recurring dreams of her father; a beating which resulted in permanent deafness in one ear; receiving extra food from ...

  6. Eric S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in S?umperk, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1916. He recalls attending public school; religious instruction by a rabbi; active participation in a Zionist group; his father's death in 1933; attending university in 1934; German occupation; forced expulsion from their town; imprisonment for six weeks in 1940; marriage; living in a village; deportation with his wife and mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942; a privileged position since he knew several leaders; working in the gardens; smuggling food; learning deportation meant death; deteriorating condit...

  7. Morris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, the oldest of three children. He recalls his father's successful business; his close extended family; their orthodoxy; German invasion; his father's military draft; learning he had been killed; slave labor building a tram line; his mother's arrest; traveling with his siblings to Warsaw to join family; learning his mother had been released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; supporting his mother and siblings; pervasive deaths; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944; separation from his family (he never saw them again...

  8. Shoshana N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925, the younger of two sisters. She recalls a happy childhood until 1932; attending a Jewish school; harassment en route; fascination with Nazi parades and music; accompanying her father to his sewing factory; participating in sports through Bar Kochba and Maccabi; their nanny's grief when she had to leave due to the Nuremberg laws; confiscation of her father's factory; observing the destruction of Kristallnacht; her sister's emigration to Palestine; emigrating with a group of twenty-five children to Copenhagen in Apri...

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  10. Eva E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. She recalls moving to Mukacheve; close relations with a large, extended family; attending Jewish schools; Hungarian occupation in 1938; helping relatives fleeing from Poland; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with three cousins; learning about the gas chambers and realizing her mother had been killed; her cousins' help when she was ill; one cousin who "organized" extra food for them; their transfer to Lenzing in November; forced factory labor; being seriously injured;...

  11. Lisbeth B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisbeth B., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1911. She recounts living in a small village; moving to Berlin for safety during World War I; returning to Posen which became Poland; attending a German school; her father's death in 1928; working as a tutor and in a German publishing house; assisting Jews deported from Germany in 1938; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion in 1939; deportation in December to Ostro?w Lubelski; traveling to Warsaw; working as a tutor; her mother declining a non-Jew's offer to hide them; ghettoiz...

  12. Werner H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner H., who was born in Ku?strin, Germany in 1910. He details his brother-in-law's death in September 1938; difficulties in arranging his burial because they were Jewish; arrest with his family during Kristallnacht; forced labor and harsh conditions in Sachsenhausen; his release due to their promise to leave for Shanghai; selling all their possessions; and emigrating from Berlin to Shanghai. Mr. H. recalls the international settlement; going into business with a friend; joining a Jewish volunteer company to patrol the international settlement; Japanese occupation; ...

  13. Rabbi Nathan N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Nathan N., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1934, the oldest of three children. He recounts his parents' immigration from Germany in 1926; his mother's parents immigration from Germany in 1939; his father helping place German-Jewish children in Belgian homes; German invasion in 1940; his father's arrest and internment in France, where he earned payment for visas to the United States; and his mother's refusal to leave her parents behind. Rabbi N. recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing their yellow stars and not registering them as Jews; assist...

  14. Jakob Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob Z., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; the family move to Warsaw; ghettoization; their move to P?on?sk; his father being taken away; deportation with his family to Birkenau in December 1942; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); slave labor; contact with the camp underground; reassignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chamber to the crematoria; wanting to commit suicide the first night; a rabbi dissuading him; becoming accustomed to horrendous work; burning corpses in o...

  15. Al B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al B., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1918. He describes a pleasant life in Proszowice; working in a textile factory in ?o?dz?; visiting his parents in September 1939; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his father after the outbreak of war; later fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv); brief arrest by the Soviets in Przemys?l while smuggling themselves back; returning to Proszowice in 1941; forced labor in the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; his parents and brother joining him; hiding with his family on a nearby farm; returning to the ghetto; his family's deportation during the g...

  16. Peter A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter A., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1931. He recalls his father's prewar death; attending synagogue with his grandfather; expulsion from public school; attending the Philanthropin Jewish school; witnessing stormtrooper parades; his mother's reluctance to leave Germany because of the family business; being chased by Hitler Youth on Kristallnacht; and his mother selling the family business for one German mark after swastikas were painted on the windows. Mr. A. recounts difficulties obtaining visas for emigration; his brother joining relatives in England in A...

  17. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in 1929 in Ti?a?chiv Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), the oldest in a large Hasidic family. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1939; her father's conscription into a slave labor battalion; anti-Jewish restrictions; harassment by locals; her father's return in March 1944; German invasion; ghettoization; obtaining food from Hungarian friends; her father instructing her and her brother to escape; her unwillingness to leave her family; her brother's escape to Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remainin...

  18. Sonia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Sonia G., who was born in ?ocho?w, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to ?ocho?w; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds ...

  19. Sylvie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvie S., who was born in Westhoffen, France in 1924. She speaks of her family's strong sense of French identity; her father's concern when the Nazis came to power; fleeing with her family from Westhoffen in June 1940; spending a night in Decize; settling in Saint-Amand; her uncle's and older sister's involvement in Jewish organizations; and implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions. Mrs. S. remembers escorting Jewish children with false papers on a train; round-ups of Jews who were deported; avoiding deportation with assistance from local people; Saint-Amand's brie...

  20. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...