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

  1. Lotte B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lotte B., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1915. She recalls her family's affluence; attending a Jewish school, then secretarial school; her father's death in 1931; her brother's emigration to the Netherlands (they were Dutch citizens); caring for her mother; her mother's death in 1936; assistance from non-Jews; being harassed on Kristallnacht; moving to Amsterdam; marriage in June 1941; confiscation of her husband's business; incarceration in a former barracks, then in Westerbork in 1943; bribing officials to avoid transports; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in Se...

  2. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in ?uko?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1907, the oldest of thirteen children. He recounts his successful hardware business; marriage in 1927; the births of five children; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s, including boycotts; German invasion; fleeing with his family to avoid bombings; returning alone two weeks later; hiding with his father and sister from a round-up; brief Soviet occupation; bringing his family back to ?uko?w; German reoccupation in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; random killings; arrest and incarceration in Lublin; release...

  3. Sarah L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah L., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls working as a bookkeeper; participation in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; German invasion; ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish friends; being selected with her parents to work when the ghetto was converted to a camp in 1942 (over 20,000 were deported to Treblinka); deportation with her mother to Ravensbru?ck in November 1944; sharing extra food with her; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; her mother's death; learning her fathe...

  4. Maurice N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice N., who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1924. He recalls enlisting in the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor; posting in Europe in June 1943; landing in North Africa; moving through Sicily, Italy, and France; recovering from a wound; high casualties in his regiment; capturing Munich; visiting Dachau shortly after its liberation; seeing piles of corpses of prisoners and camp personnel recently killed; his anger at the extent of German atrocities; cordial relations with the German population; assisting former inmates of Dachau at the Funk Kaserne displaced persons camp;...

  5. Paul M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending school in Piotrko?w and Warsaw; antisemitic harassment and beating by fellow students; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; burning of the synagogue; ghettoization; forced labor; arrest and beating by the Jewish police; his workshop director securing his release; his brother's deportation; working in another factory; being denounced as a saboteur; arrest; transfer to Katowice; a beating; hospitalization; recruitment by Armia Ludowa; release with his factory director's assistance; smuggling h...

  6. Ignatez R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ignatez R., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1923, one of five children. He recounts his family's affluence and orthodoxy; attending school and yeshiva in Frankfurt; returning home in 1935; Hungarian occupation; draft into a slave labor battalion; postings in Minsk, Ivano-Frankivs?k (where he saw a grave from a Jewish mass killing), then Stalingrad; returning home via Budapest in February 1944; German invasion; deportation from Sighet to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his parents and siblings (none survived); slave la...

  7. Dov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov E., who was born in 1925 in Vasil'kovtsy, Poland (presently Ukraine). He recounts living in Husi︠a︡tyn; his mother's death; his father's remarriage; the birth of a half-brother; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; participating in Gordonyah; spending holidays with his grandmother; Soviet occupation; fleeing to cousins in Kopychynt︠s︡i; returning home; attending a Soviet school; German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village; living with his grandfather in Vasil'kovtsy; returning home; slave labor clearing roads and in a warehouse; working in Probezhna; round-up and...

  8. Alvin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alvin G., who was born in Kroměříž, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1919, one of four children. He recalls a pleasant childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; joining Makabi ha-tsaʻir at age ten and spending summers at their camps; becoming the leader in his town; completing gymnasium; studying carpentry; training and certification in Prague in industrial housing; studying architecture starting in 1938; spending the summer of 1939 at a hachsharah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school; confiscation of his father's business; having...

  9. Amelia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amelia B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She recounts her happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions in 1940; attending a Jewish school; ghettoizaton following German occupation in 1944; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival; the importance of remaining with her sister; the value of friendship and helping each other; frequent selections, starvation, lice, and constant death; moving from one barrack to another to find a safer place; transfer to a work camp in Breslau; receiving bread from a Yugoslav civil...

  10. Ida F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida F., who was born in Vilma?ny, Hungary in 1925. She describes her non-observant family; education in a Catholic primary school; leaving gymnasium to help her father in the family farm and store; a close Catholic friend who became anti-Semitic and terminated their friendship; her family's 1944 deportation to Kos?ice; the arduous conditions; their transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; her selection for forced labor; and discovering her parents had been killed. She tells of her transport to Peterswaldau; the camp regimen; hiding food for a fellow prisoner; making hand gren...

  11. Rosette L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosette L., who was born in approximately 1923. She recalls her family's relative affluence; living on a farm near Moson; moving to Gyo?r in 1938; her brother's emigration to the United States in 1940; apprenticing as a dressmaker in Budapest in 1943; returning home; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization enforced by Arrow Cross and Germans; transfer to an army barrack; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; the trauma of separation from her parents ("the lowest point" in her life); transfer to Lippstadt six weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; i...

  12. Rolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1916. He recounts his father was a German industrialist and his mother the daughter of a Jew who had converted in 1908 (she was baptized and raised as a Christian); half siblings from his father's previous two marriages, the first to a non-Jew, the second to his mother's sister (both wives had died); not knowing he was legally Jewish until his expulsion from school in 1933; attending technical school in Mittweida because he was barred from university; draft into a forced labor battalion; returning to school after his release...

  13. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. Mr. S. recounts his father's early prominence as a Russian Bolshevik; losing favor; his emigration to Germany; his mother's death during his birth; his family's emigration to Juan-les-Pins in 1933; a secular childhood (he was not circumcised); moving to Paris; completing high school; arrest in 1943; transfer to Drancy; forming close friendships; an intense social life in Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz two weeks later, then to Monowitz; the head kapo favoring him due to his fluent German (he saved his life six times);...

  14. Fanny W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny W., who was born in Paris, France to Polish immigrants in 1925, one of five children. She recalls membership in a communist youth organization; resigning due to antisemitism; joining the Bund; her father's military draft in 1939; his demobilization; German invasion; one brother's arrest in 1942 (she never saw him again); hiding with her parents in Orly; her arrest in Paris; prostitutes in jail with her warning her parents to hide; transfer to Drancy in March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau three months later; slave labor breaking stones; hospitalization;...

  15. Salamon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salamon K., who was born in Nizhna Apsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Dubrava, Ukraine) circa 1915, one of nine children. He recalls Hungarian occupation in 1940; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; postings in Budapest, Munkacs, and the Soviet Union; digging trenches; transfer to an indoor position after demonstrating his carving skills; watching soldiers burn a building filled with sick, elderly Jews; transfer to Kiev, then L'viv; being assigned to cover mass graves filled with murdered Jews near a Polish town; returning to Nizhna Apsha; his family not ...

  16. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1928. He recalls the integration of Jews in his hometown, Niederrad; his father's position as a university professor of medicine; his family's ties to Jewish culture, even though they were not religious; his first anti-Jewish experience when he was not allowed to play with a non-Jew in 1933; his father's dismissal from his position due to anti-Jewish laws; and the family joining his maternal grandparents in Zurich. Mr. S. recounts his father's efforts for the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars; thei...

  17. Fred R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred R., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1931; experiencing antisemitism beginning in 1933; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; transferring to a Jewish school in 1935, then to a school in Milan in 1936; and emigration to the United States in 1938. Mr. R. recounts his mother joining him in 1939; his draft into the United States military in 1943; serving in the Office of Strategic Services in London and Paris; broadcasting from London to Germany; interrogating a German general in Paris; spying in Aachen; participating in Dacha...

  18. Chaim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim G., who was born in Lithuania in 1926, one of two sons. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school from age three; speaking Yiddish at home; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1936; antisemitic violence in 1938; his bar mitzvah at his grandmother's house; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; confiscation of their home; visiting Kaunas; German invasion (his mother was in Panevėžys); mass killings of Jews by Lithuanians; arrest with his father; their release (the others were all shot); ghettoization; falsifyin...

  19. Siegried K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Siegfried K., who was born in Danzig in 1930. He notes Danzig's unique place in Jewish history and speaks of his luxurious prewar life. He tells of the rise of Nazism and recalls shaking Hitler's hand during a visit to Berlin as a small child. The disturbances and attacks by the Brownshirts and his experiences with antisemitism, which continued in the United States, are also related. He describes his family's flight to England in 1938; the difficulty of leaving home and relatives, and, for him, leaving behind his beloved dog; the help given them by German non-Jews; hi...

  20. Margaret M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret M., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1941. She notes that she has no recollection of her parents; being told her father was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, and her mother arrested six months before liberation; being placed with a Flemish farm family with her sister; memories of Catholic school and complete love from her foster mother; their transfer to a Jewish orphanage in 1945; four unhappy years there; and their adoption by an orthodox Jewish family from the United States in 1950. Ms. M. discusses her uncle's decision to place them for adoption; her ide...