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

  1. Regina N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina N., who was born in Myszyniec, Poland in 1920. She recounts her father's death when she was a baby; antisemitic violence; participating in Zionist youth groups; child care work in Warsaw, then P?ock; German invasion; her mother's death from cancer; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; deportation to Dzia?dowo; escaping upon arrival; traveling to Starachowice; ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Starachowice camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; pregnancy and childbirth (the child was taken after three days); a failed escape attempt by the camp resistanc...

  2. Josef S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930, the third of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; cessation of schooling; smuggling goods with his sister and mother to support the family; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto; his youngest sister's death from illness; his illness due to starvation; an aunt assisting his recovery; hospitalization for typhus; learning of his parents' deaths upon release; his youngest brother's death; he and his sisters co...

  3. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania), in 1916. He recounts his friendship with Abraham Sutzkever; studying art; German invasion; fleeing east with his wife; German troops overtaking them; traveling back to Vilnius for nine months via Lyubashevo, Svirʹ and other villages; witnessing round-ups of local Jews; entering the Vilna ghetto; helping to smuggle food into the ghetto; joining an uncle in Švenčionys; ghettoization; working as a shoemaker, and a translator for the Judenrat; transfer back to the Vilna ghetto when the Švenčio...

  4. Hubert D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hubert D., a non-Jew, who was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1922. He recounts his parents' divorce shortly after his birth; placement in a foster home for twelve years, then with his father and paternal grandmother, both of whom were abusive; running away to his foster mother; placement with his biological mother; apprenticing as a butcher; working from age fifteen; German invasion; becoming unemployed; volunteering for work in Germany in early 1941; placement in Flensburg; returning to Belgium a few months later; returning to work in Germany in 1942; assignment to a meat...

  5. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their strong German identity; antisemitic harassment in school; transferring to the Philanthropin, a Jewish school; his family applying to emigrate to the United States in summer 1938; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Buchenwald; his release five weeks later providing he left the country; his emigration to England; Henry S.'s emigration with his mother and sister to the United States in February 1940 (his father preceded them); assistance ...

  6. Sylvia F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia F., who was born, an only child, in Krako?w, Poland, in 1909. During the last quarter of the testimony she is joined by her husband, Jacob, who details the circumstances under which they met and notes the camps in which he was interned: Lemberg (Lv?ov,) Borislav, Krako?w (P?aszo?w,) Vielichka, Mauthausen, and Linz. [His wartime experiences are more fully recounted in Holocaust videotape testimony T-120.] Mrs. F. describes her marriage at the age of nineteen; the arrest and murder of her first husband; her life in the ghetto and her work in the commissary in Kra...

  7. Fernand V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fernand V., a Catholic, who was born in Ndjoko-Punda, Congo in 1909, one of three children of a Belgian man and a Congolese woman. He recounts his father's death in approximately 1911; his father's family bringing him to Belgium without his mother's permission (he never saw her or his siblings again); living with his father's sister in Uccle; German invasion in World War I; attending school; racist harassment; enlisting as a reserve cavalry officer; studying art; working in a bank and as a newspaper illustrator; marriage in 1937; his daughter's birth; military mobiliz...

  8. Jerry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry W., who was born in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1927. He recounts his mother's divorce and remarriage; living with his grandmother; his beloved dog's disappearance, then finding a box at his door with the dog's corpse and an antisemitic note; expulsion from school; attending a girls' convent school (he was the only boy); having to leave when officials learned he was there; attending a Jewish boarding school in Coburg; being forced to shine a German officer's shoes and carry books to a fire on Kristallnacht; emigration with his mother and stepfather to the Unit...

  9. Abraham G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham G., who was born in Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending a private Jewish school; his father's lumber business; Soviet occupation; moving to L?viv; German invasion; transport toward the Soviet Union; leaving the group in Brody; traveling to his uncle's home in Zolochiv; being caught in a round-up for a mass shooting; falling into the pit with the dead; crawling out at night; returning to his uncle's home; meeting his future wife; volunteering for a forced labor camp; convincing an Austrian guard to take him to his future wife's home wher...

  10. Pearl N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pearl N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919 and raised in Soko?o?w Podlaski. She recounts a sheltered childhood in a rabbinic family (her grandfather was Rabbi Yitzhak Zelig); pervasive antisemitism; German bombardment in September 1939; fleeing to a farm; returning home; the two-week Soviet occupation; transfer to German sovereignty; ghettoization in 1941; hiding her grandfather's library and religious objects; working in a labor camp with her brother; paying a Pole to bring her mother and sister there; sharing food with them; volunteering to work on a farm outs...

  11. George G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George G., who was born in Dallas, Texas in 1924, and served in the 99th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He recounts deployment to England; crossing the Channel in November 1944; fighting in Belgium and Germany; capture; his foxhole mate giving him his rosary and advising him to discard his Star of David; identifying himself as Catholic when asked by his captors; execution of a wounded U.S. soldier; transfer in cattle cars to Nuremberg, then Hammelburg; severe cold and hunger; train transfer back to Nuremberg, then a 100 kilometer marc...

  12. Pessia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pessia B., who was born in 1922 in Zheludok, Poland (presently Belarus), one of seven children. She recounts her family's Zionist beliefs and activities; the emigration of two older sisters to Palestine; Soviet occupation; joining her sister in Vilna, intending to emigrate; returning home; traveling to Lida; brief incarceration in Eis?is?ke?s; returning home; German invasion; a brother and sister fleeing east; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; hearing a mass shooting of Jews and seeing the open grave; hiding with others during a round-up; discovery; escape; hidi...

  13. Genia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1927, one of seven children. She recalls moving to Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; a round-up of men including her father; his return three months later; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of their business; her family's move to Sosnowiec to join relatives; serving in her older sister's place for forced labor (her sister was ill); deportation with other girls to a camp; slave labor in a textile factory; starvation, lack of sleep, and arduous labor; her older sister's arrival two years later; assisting each ot...

  14. Veronika S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Veronika S., who was born in Vráble, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, the middle of three children. She recalls celebrating Jewish holidays; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her father's six-month imprisonment for assisting Jews escaping from Slovakia; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Levice, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in spring 1944; separation with her sister from her family; brutal conditions; a woman from her father's hometown giving them soap and a thermos, which saved their lives; transfer to a factory; slave labor; Italian male prisoners giving t...

  15. Le?on K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Le?on K., who was born in Lotte, Germany in 1911. He recalls moving to Paris in 1933; difficulties with his citizenship status starting in 1934; enlisting in the French military in 1941; German invasion; returning to Paris after the armistice; deportation to Pithiviers in May; playing chess and sharing food packages among his group; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; slave labor doing various jobs; public hangings; assistance from a prisoner-doctor when he was ill; observing corpses everywhere; a death march, then train transport to Ebensee; transfer to M...

  16. Monique B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monique B., who was born in Marseille, France in 1929. She describes growing up in an affluent and assimilated family; German invasion; her family's Protestant baptism in Nice to protect themselves; hiding in a village in Lot-et-Garonne; her parents' arrest (she never saw them again); being placed on a farm, unaware of the assistance provided by Jewish organizations to children whose parents had been deported; being placed in a boarding school; her older sister receiving a letter which her parents had thrown from the train which advised them to remain in hiding; retur...

  17. Henrika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henrika M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of three children. She recalls pervasive antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish high school; German invasion in September 1939; her father's death from a beating by a German soldier; ghettoization; factory work; her brother's position in the Jewish police which allowed him to help others; deportation of her mother and sister (she never saw them again); being rounded-up and twice escaping from the Umschlagplatz; deportation to Majdanek; assisting a wounded friend en route; slave labor in the tailor workshop; p...

  18. Marika B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marika B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She recounts summer vacations in her grandmother's Czech village; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1938; her half-sister's emigration to the United States (her father was previously married); German invasion in March 1944; eviction from their home; trading apartments with an Italian man; her parents hiding her with a non-Jewish man; learning he was her father's illegitimate son; his returning her to her parents, fearing he would be exposed; placement in...

  19. Alexander B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Lučenec, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1914, the youngest of three brothers. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; working as an accountant; annexation by Hungary in 1938; moving with his parents to Budapest in 1939; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1941; deportation to the Pestlőrinc ghetto, then Kőszeg; hard labor and harsh treatment; transfer to the Romanian border three months later to destroy bunkers, to another location to build roads, then back to Budapest to build river embankments in II...

  20. Mendel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mendel B., who was born in Poland in 1921, one of three children. He recounts his family moving to Izbica that year; their poverty; attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; participating in Shomer Hatzair, Maccabi, and Ha-Poel Ha-Zair; their move to Łódź in March 1939; working as a watchmaker with his father; improved economic conditions; German invasion in September; briefly fleeing with his father to Izbica; ghettoization in February; forced labor in several ghetto workshops; pervasive starvation, disease, and death; deportation...