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

  1. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Źuromin, Poland in 1924, one of eight children. He recalls his family's impoverishment; anti-Jewish boycotts; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish violence; his family's forced relocation to several towns; living in a ghetto; his escape; traveling to Praga; hiding with a non-Jew; traveling to other towns; capture and escape; returning to the ghetto; a public hanging; forced labor; deportation to Birkenau in November 1942; sighting his sister; transfer with his brother to Buna/Monowitz; hospitalization; transfer to Auschwitz; surgic...

  2. Norbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland, in 1922. Mr. S. describes antisemitism in prewar Poland; entering medical school after Soviet occupation; persecution and Aktions following the Nazi invasion; his mother being taken in 1941; ghettoization of L?vov; smuggling arms into the ghetto; and forced labor in Janowska. He recalls a Romanian medical orderly replacing the injured and sick at appells; producing false work permits with his friend, Edward S.; his sister's escape; the liquidation of the ghetto; his father's death; escaping from Janowska; receiving shelter fr...

  3. Rena G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena G., who was born in 1936 in Thessalonike?, Greece. She recalls her family's move to Athens in 1940 due to the German occupation; hiding in a basement; her father's activities in the resistance; posing as non-Jews; extreme hunger; attempting to reach Turkey by boat in 1943; and capture by the Germans. She recounts their interrogation in Mou?dhros on Lemnos Island; her father being taken elsewhere; being jailed with her mother and uncle for three months; her mother's influence with the Gestapo commander, resulting in Mrs. G's release from prison to live with a fami...

  4. Ludmila P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludmila P., who was born in Kishinev, Romania in 1920 and raised in ?owicz, Poland. She recounts her father's death in 1934; studying medicine in Vienna in 1937; returning to Poland after the Anschluss; refusal of admission to the University of Vilna because she was Jewish; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with her mother to Krako?w; marriage; her mother's deportation to the Warsaw ghetto (Mrs. P. visited her there); working at a munitions factory; transfer with her husband to P?aszo?w in March 1943; constant fear, killings, and public hangings; ...

  5. Sophie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie R., a Romani, who lived in Germany, one of eight children. She recalls imprisonment in Stuttgart; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; the deaths of her parents and siblings; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then to a munitions factory; a death march from Oldenburg to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; recuperating for six months, living in Munich; marriage; her strong faith in Jesus leading to her very honest lifestyle; surgical removal of her tattoo; and reluctance to share her experience with her children lest they hate Germans. Mrs. R.'s daughter and grandda...

  6. Words and Images: Appelfeld Demo

  7. Max G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in Grenchen, Switzerland in 1920 to Polish immigrants. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva as a pageboy; completing medical school in 1945; employment as a physician for UNRRA; assignment to a displaced persons camp for Poles; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in May 1946; gaining the trust of the residents who had difficult relations with the British and UNRRA administrators; working closely with the Jewish Committee and its head, Joseph Rosensaft; working with UNRRA and Joint medical staff and the ...

  8. Bronia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1914, the second of five children. She recounts her family moving to the Netherlands, then Berlin due to World War I; moving to Katowice in 1928; participating in Zionist organizations; vacations in Zakopane; returning to Os?wie?cim; her older brother's emigration to France; German invasion; fleeing with her mother to L?viv; Soviet occupation; one brother joining them; returning to Os?wie?cim to rejoin her father, sister, and one brother; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; h...

  9. Isador J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isador J., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the older of two children. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; his family's orthodoxy; completing high school; German occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; a fight with a non-Jewish friend; leaving the next day without telling his family; traveling by train to Innsbruck; interdiction while trying to enter Switzerland; being kept at the railroad station and placed on a train to Vienna the next day; jumping from the train; walking toward the Alps; a shepherd sheltering him overnight, then escorting and directing hi...

  10. Aranka S. and Violet S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aranka S. and her sister Violet S., who relate their surviving sister Eta's story. They tell of Eta's attending school in Budapest before the war; losing contact with her when she was hiding with Christian friends; learning of this through Violet's boyfriend who came into their ghetto from Budapest; and the coincidence that helped them to find Eta after the war. They describe their trip to Israel for a reunion with Eta and visiting Violet's boyfriend as well. They discuss the different ways their memories work.

  11. Magda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda F., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, in 1918. Mrs. F. recalls her happy prewar life as the youngest of seven in a middle-class family; increasing antisemitic restrictions after 1939; her family's rejection of hiding, since it involved separation; marriage and her mother's death in 1941; her husband and brother being drafted for a Hungarian labor battalion soon after (she never saw either of them again); deportation with her family to Kos?ice in May 1941; and deportation to Auschwitz. She details camp routine; transport to P?aszo?w, where she did p...

  12. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929, one of four children. He describes his orthodox family; living in his grandfather's home in Konstantyno?w until age five; attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; his father's death in 1940; smuggling food from outside the ghetto with his younger brother; hiding his youngest brother during round-ups; giving him up when all children were collected; his mother's death in 1943; several jobs in ghetto factories; friendship with Jankele Herszkowicz, a popular ghetto singer, who raised spirits with his songs; his b...

  13. Monty T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monty T., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1928, one of six children. He recounts his family belonging to a Hasidic sect; their extreme poverty; attending cheder; speaking only Yiddish; antisemitic harassment; his older brother leaving home; German invasion; fleeing to an aunt's home in another town; returning home weeks later; Germans forcing his father to shave; reporting for forced labor in his father's place; ghettoization; transfer to De?blin camp with his sisters; his parents' deportation; slave labor on farms and at an airport; maintaining contact with his si...

  14. Felicia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia B., who was born in Warsaw. She speaks of her prewar life in Warsaw; her life in L?vov, where she and her son were taken by her husband (who was a medical officer in the Polish army) after the German occupation; her and her son's deportation to Siberia with a transport of wives and children of Polish officers (her husband was shot in a Russian internment camp) and their life in Siberia, where they remained for six years, until the end of the war. Mrs. B. also describes their return to Poland, where they witnessed postwar antisemitism; her feelings on returning...

  15. Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. Mr. S. describes his childhood and vague identification with Judaism; the German occupation and its immediate effect on the lives of Jews; his family's move to Skawa, an outlying village, to avoid living in the Krako?w ghetto; atrocities during the liquidation of the village, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed; separation from his parents and his selection for slave labor. He relates experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of P?aszo?w; Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, where he narrowly escaped worki...

  16. Frieda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Freida F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, the youngest of four children. She recalls Hungarian occupation; receiving money from American relatives; a forced march to Svali?a?va; train transfer to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from her parents and other relatives; remaining with her sisters; sorting clothing of the murdered Jews; smuggling food and valuables to her barrack; separation from one sister; being compelled to give blood; learning of a planned revolt from a cousin who worked in the crematoria; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, Venusberg, t...

  17. Thou Shalt Tell They Sons' Sons

  18. Anna L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. Ms. L. recalls a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; visiting relatives in Skryhiczyn; attending school in Dubienka; a disproportionate failure rate for Jews taking exams in 1932; completing university in Warsaw in 1937; participating in a banned left-wing organization; working in a CENTOS institute for mentally handicapped children in Otwock, while living in Warsaw; German invasion; traveling to Skryhiczyn, then fleeing east to Kovel?; Soviet occupation; working in an orphanage; moving to L?viv; German invasion in...

  19. Michel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel G., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Belgium in 1912. He recalls his father's death; living with his grandparents; completing medical school in 1929; military service; observing many Nazi emblems when visiting Munich in 1932; doing research at the university in Liège; military recall during German invasion; being taken prisoner; caring for the wounded; release; involvement with the Resistance; assisting English soldiers to escape; arrest in September 1941; incarceration in St. Gilles; transfer to prison in Germany in July; forced labor; transfer a year later...

  20. Yafa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yafa R., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's business in Niedrzwica Duża; spending summers there; participating in Gordonyah; living with relatives in Lublin to attend high school; briefly living with a family in Zaklików; German invasion in September 1939; confiscation of the family business; her father obtaining false papers for her; arranging for a job in Kraków as a non-Jew; deciding not to go in order to remain with her family; hiding jewelry in their cellar and placing possess...