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

  1. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in New York in 1920. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army at age twenty-one; assignment to the 101st Cavalry Reconnaissance; entering Europe shortly after D Day; receiving radio orders to proceed to a concentration camp in April 1945; prisoners wearing striped uniforms; mounds of smoldering bodies; smoking chimneys; giving the prisoners food; leaving the camp when they were relieved by other soldiers; and learning later that it had been Landsberg concentration camp. Mr. K. recounts his reaction of disbelief upon entering Landsberg and...

  2. Josif P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif P., who was born in Derventa, Yugoslavia in 1924. He recalls cordial relations between the Serbs and Jews; his father's observant Judaism and acts of charity; inclusion of Derventa in Croatia (a German ally) in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and terrorism by the Ustas?a; deportation with his family to Zagreb; returning to Derventa; his mother's bribe resulting in his release from a month's imprisonment; escaping to Banja Luka; traveling to Italian-occupied Split using false papers and bribery; resistance activities; joining partisans in the Mosor Mountains after...

  3. Helene R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helene R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, into a large Orthodox family. Mrs. R. remembers attending a Polish school, yet not considering herself a Pole; the German occupation in 1939; being a nurse during the typhus epidemic in the ghetto; deportations of the sick in 1941; and moving with some of her family away from the ghetto to the forest, where they lived with a group of underground Jews and acquired false papers. She recalls her arrest while acting as a courier for the Wieliczka ghetto and her and her sister's leaving the underground group and the rest o...

  4. Mira B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira B., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She describes her parents who were both teachers in Jewish schools; her and her brother's education; their Zionist activities; the difficulties of life as Jews in Vilna; the outbreak of war; Russian occupation; the return of Vilna as capital of Lithuania; having to learn Lithuanian at the university; German occupation two years later; the first round-ups of Jews, including her brother, when they were taken to Ponary, forced to dig their own graves and shot; formation of the ghetto and the Judenrat; obtaining a job outside the gh...

  5. Marie P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie P., who was born in Albi, France to Polish immigrants in 1941. She recounts living with her parents in Milhars (her father was in hiding while her mother posed as a French peasant); her sister's birth; often staying with other families (she later realized it was during German raids); learning never to talk about her parents during these stays; attending Catholic services; not attending school; the war's end; moving to Paris; emigrating to the United States in 1951; learning she was Jewish; trying to be as American as possible; and marriage at nineteen. Mrs. P. d...

  6. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

  7. Werner G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; participating in socialist Jewish youth movements; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; leaving school to help support his parents; an aborted attempt to escape to Czechoslovakia in 1936; traveling to Amsterdam via Luxembourg with assistance from a Jewish organization; his parents' emigration to Bolivia; his mother obtaining a Bolivian visa for him; emigration to join them; participating in anti-Nazi movements; his career as a publisher an...

  8. Anna N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna N., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her father's wholesale dairy business; German invasion; ghettoization; remaining in Krako?w when her parents moved to another city; obtaining false papers to visit them; working in the Madritsch factory; the brutal mass transfer to P?aszo?w; Madritsch choosing her to work, which afforded better food and conditions; escaping with help from a Polish co-worker; joining her boyfriend in Rzeszo?w; working for the railroad using false papers; fear of denunciation; her friend's arrest; returning to Krako?w; and receiving ...

  9. Jannushka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jannushka J., who was born in Paris, France in 1933. She recounts her parents' eastern European backgrounds; their secularism (she did not realize she was Jewish); German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brother to Pithiviers; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish harassment at school; being sent to Drancy; their escape; assimilating Nazi propaganda thus believing Jews were ugly and usurious; her parents placing her and her brother with the Resistance; being hidden outside Paris; living with a woman who treated them cruelly; converting to Catholicism; carrying messages...

  10. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1929. He recounts his family's affluence; his parents' emphasis on education; confiscation of their property and expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish laws; he and his family's conversion to Reformed Evangelicism due to the kindness of the pastor, despite objections from his orthodox grandparents; moving to Liptovský Mikuláš; leaving his family to work in the Bata shoe factory in Partizánske using false papers; escaping when exposure was imminent due to the Slovak uprising; traveling from Topol̕čany to Br...

  11. Rasela K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rasela K., who was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (presently Macedonia) in 1925. She recalls attending public school; her family being the only Jews in their neighborhood; German, then Bulgarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; round-up to a tobacco factory (Monopol) on March 11; starvation and lack of sanitation; arrival of Jews from surrounding areas; deportations beginning March 22; the release of Italian and Spanish citizens after twenty days, including her family and other paternal relatives, due to assistance from Spanish and ...

  12. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Kuro?w, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recounts antisemitic harassment at school; his father's Polish military service; German invasion; briefly fleeing with his mother and siblings; his father's return; forced labor in Janiszo?w; he and his brother escaping a round-up in Kon?skowola (he never saw his mother and sister again); returning home; reunion with his father; hiding by himself on farms and in fields, then in a forest with other Jews, including an aunt; leaving to find food; learning the others had been killed; recei...

  13. Andreas S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreas S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1929, an only child. He recalls ghettoization; obtaining false papers from his grandfather's friend, a police officer; escaping by train to his relatives in Athens to live under the benign Italian occupation; his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their children escaping to Chalkis on Euboea Island, then joining him in Athens; German invasion; fleeing to Argos with assistance from his father's client; their rescuer's death in an Allied bombing; living on a farm for fourteen months; hiding during conflicts; an...

  14. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts antisemitism after the Anschluss; her father's arrest; his departure for Antwerp; illegally entering Belgium with her mother to join him; attending a Flemish school; fleeing when Germany invaded in 1940; arrest in Tournai; release with her mother; going to Brussels; learning her father had been killed by Belgian soldiers as a suspected spy; hiding with non-Jews; deciding not to enter a Catholic institution, not wanting to be separated from her mother; distributing leaflets for the underg...

  15. Fridrich F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fridrich F., who was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1932. He recalls a happy childhood; increasing antisemitic harassment; deportation with his parents in 1942 to Sered, which was run by Slovak Hlinka guards; attending school and social events; escape during the Slovak uprising in 1944; traveling to Nitra; hiding with assistance from the Jewish community and non-Jews; capture; return to Sered; transfer of camp control to Germans; being whipped by the Kommandant, Alois Brunner; deportation in cattle cars to Theresienstadt; a German soldier giving milk to the children ...

  16. Lisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa F., who was born in Ungvar, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1909. She recalls living in Vienna and Budapest; the family's move to Berlin in 1922; her parents encouraging her political interests; participating in socialist groups; the Nazi ascent to power; crossing a Nazi picket line during the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; her parents' emigration to Prague; remaining in Berlin to continue her political activities; producing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets; joining her family to live in Prague from 1933 to 1935; marriage to a ...

  17. Helena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Rakovec nad Ondavou, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921. She recounts that her father was not Romani; his death when she was three (she does not remember him); only three Romani households in the village; cordial relations with non-Romanies; marriage to a Romani when she was eighteen; the birth of one child prior to the war; her brother's military draft; his capture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war in Germany; deportation of all the Jews from her village; bringing food to partisans in nearby forests; German c...

  18. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Romani, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recalls being raised in Sásová; his father's role as a village elder; all Romanies living in wooden houses; shopping in the store of a Jewish merchant; attending films, cultural events, and musical performances by Romanies; attending school; expulsion under the Slovak regime; training as a mason and working in construction; persecution of both Jews and Romanies; the Jews being forced to wear stars and confiscation of their property; a local priest hiding Romanies when police pursued them; leaving with othe...

  19. Sara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara G., who was born in 1929 in Biała Podlaska, Poland, one of four children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; her sister's marriage and move to Vilnius; antisemitic harassment; brief Soviet occupation; one brother fleeing east; German occupation; ghettoization; clandestinely trading merchandise from the family store; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); hiding during a three-day round-up, in which her grandfather was shot; transfer to the Międzyrzecz ghetto; staying with an aunt who already lived there; her mother's death...

  20. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., a non-Jew, and an American physician now practicing in New Haven, Connecticut. He speaks of his experiences in the Dachau concentration camp, where, as a physician with the U.S. Army, he arrived a few days after liberation and remained for six weeks with another U.S. Army physician to treat former prisoners and conduct research on typhus.