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

  1. Christy A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Christy A., who was drafted into the United States army in December 1942. He describes training as a radio mechanic; service in France and Germany; briefly entering Buchenwald after it was liberated; emaciated prisoners in overcrowded bunks; his shock at the conditions; hundreds of corpses near the crematoria; the anger of a Jewish-American soldier who was in their group; difficulty communicating with the prisoners; and his wish to leave quickly.

  2. Henri I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri I., a non-Jew, who was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1926. He recounts his father's death when he was four; his mother's remarriage; being raised by his grandparents in Oostakker until he was thirteen, then living with his mother and stepfather in Brussels; fleeing with them to Dunkerque as Germany invaded; returning to Brussels; distributing leaflets for the Resistance; briefly hiding a downed American pilot in their home in spring 1944; arrest with his parents on May 2, 1944; confessing, hoping it would be easier for his parents; imprisonment in St. Gilles; deport...

  3. Lubov R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lubov R., an only child, who was born in approximately 1929 in Ukraine. She recalls living in Kam'i︠a︡nka Buzʹka; German invasion; her parents bringing her to non-Jews; being asked to leave after two nights; seeing blood covered walls when she returned home; learning her parents were shot in a mass killing; incarceration in a work camp; escaping; wandering from village to village; entering Nemyriv after people began recognizing her, preferring to die with her own people; escaping; wandering from village to village; working as a "dry nurse" for a year; fighting between...

  4. Edith W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1916, the youngest of eight children. Mrs. W. recalls Jewish holidays; antisemitic harassment; friendships with non-Jews; German invasion; men escaping to the Soviet Union, including her husband (she never saw him again); remaining with her son and mother; ghettoization; her mother's murder; working at Oskar Schindler's factory; her child's selection for death; transfer to P?aszo?w; living at Schindler's factory camp; asking Schindler to move her boyfriend to the factory; deportation of the women to Auschwitz, then Bru?nnli...

  5. Jules G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jules G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, one of six brothers. He recounts attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; daily forced labor; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to work in a non-Jew's dairy outside the ghetto; escaping after being arrested; transfer to a camp outside Radom in 1942; observing the execution of two Jewish children; transfer to Kruszynia, then Pionki; slave labor in a munitions factory; a beating by Ukrainian guards; his cousin's capture and execution after escaping; transfer in 1944 to Birkenau, then Sosnowiec; a death march...

  6. De?sire? H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of De?sire? H. He recounts studying medicine in Tours, France due to restrictions against Jews in Romania; vacationing in Romania when the war began; returning to Tours; continuing medical school; joining the Front national; demonstrating and minor Resistance activities; arrest on July 15, 1942; deportation from Angers to Auschwitz; brief slave labor; volunteering as a physician; a privileged assignment to an administrative block from August 1942 until October 26, 1944; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); a prisoner uprising which destroyed one crematorium; i...

  7. Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1911. He recounts hardships during World War I; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; draft into the Soviet military in 1941 (he never saw his family again); German invasion; fleeing toward Russia with other soldiers; incarceration in labor camps in the Urals; learning in 1945 that his entire family had been killed; being allowed to return to Wroc?aw, Poland in 1946; traveling illegally to Vienna to escape antisemitism; living in a displaced persons camp, then Linz; emigrating to the United Sta...

  8. Olga S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. She recalls her family's comfortable and observant life; occasional antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic laws resulting in eviction from their home and termination of her father's employment; his death; joining her mother who had moved to Budapest to work (two sisters and a brother were in Budapest orphanages); German occupation; Swedish government designation of their building as a "safe house"; visiting her siblings disguised as a non-Jew; escaping arrest (her mother was arrested but escaped w...

  9. Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls a comfortable, happy life until Hitler came to power; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; her father's emigration to Johannesburg in 1936; she and her mother joining him in 1937; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in 1939; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien; moving to Montargis; returning to Paris; her father's release upon enlistment in the Foreign Legion in 1940; German invasion; fleeing to Bordeaux, then Toulouse; reunion with her father; transport...

  10. Norbert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert L., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1922. He recalls his parents' orthodoxy; the rich Jewish life in Danzig; anti-Jewish restrictions following the ascent of the Nazis to power; expulsion from school; attending an ORT school in Berlin; hiding during Kristallnacht; returning to Danzig; fleeing with his family to Belgium and London in 1939; emigrating to the United States; being drafted into the army in 1943; participating in the liberation of Paris; and his postwar life. Mr. L. notes many family members perished in the Holocaust; visiting Danzig with his wif...

  11. Reva F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reva F., who was born in Iwye, Poland (presently Iu?e, Belarus) in 1937. She vaguely recalls German occupation; seeing dead bodies; Germans beating people; escaping with her mother; being hidden alone with a man in a nearby village; her mother coming for her; hiding with her mother in the attic of a non-Jewish woman who shared her food with them; hiding in a forest with her aunt and cousin; the war's end; returning to Iwye; her mother's remarriage; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Ladispoli, Italy; her sister's birth; and emigrating to the United States to joi...

  12. Jean C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean C., who was born in France in 1908. He recalls his family had been in France for many generations; his prewar position as director of the Minister of the Interior's cabinet; military service when Germany invaded; demobilization; living in Carcassonne; marriage to a Catholic in 1940; their daughter's birth; arrest and imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; joining a group building an escape tunnel; their denunciation in November 1943; being shot at to scare him into revealing information; train deportation; jumping from the train; assistance from local villagers and ra...

  13. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Zalishchyky, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of three children. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending business school in another town; German invasion; returning home; hiding with her family during a mass killing; deportation to the Tolstoye ghetto in September 1942; forced labor in the fields; meeting her future husband, Paul S.; escaping a mass shooting with Paul S., in which her parents and nine-year-old sister were killed; hiding with Paul S., his brother, and others; Ukrainian ...

  14. Rene?e V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. She recalls her secular childhood; her avowed atheism despite her Jewish ancestry; participating in anti-fascist activities; marriage; German invasion; briefly fleeing to France; returning to Brussels; arranging hiding places for her parents and husband's parents; continuing to teach; quitting to devote full time to the Resistance; arrest with her husband in July 1943; incarceration in St. Gilles; torture during interrogations; transfer to Vught via Cologne; slave labor for Philips; sabotaging the work; deportation...

  15. Rose O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose O., the youngest of nine children, who was born in 1908 in Sierpc, Poland. She describes overt antisemitism; leaving school to help at home; one brother's emigration to the United States and another's to Paris in 1926; moving to Paris in 1930; and her sense of freedom and absence of antisemitism there. Mrs. O. recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; once removing her star to attend the theater; deportation of Jewish men to Drancy; her brother and family fleeing to Grenoble; hiding from July 16, 1942, first alone, then with a woman and her child; their ...

  16. Naftali F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali F., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1924, the youngest of nine children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish-Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; membership in Gordonyah; siblings emigrating to Palestine, Bolivia, and Netherlands; German invasion in 1939; one brother's flight to Soviet-occupied territory; deportation in 1942 to Sakrau, Ottmuth, then Gogolin; slave labor building a highway; factory work with British POWs; transfer to Marksta?dt in 1943; slave labor in a Krupp facility; learning his parents had been deported (he never saw them ...

  17. Irene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Warsaw. She describes Polish antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; the German occupation; the arrest and disappearance of her father; and the establishment of and life in the Warsaw ghetto. She relates being smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto into L?vov; her move to Brody, and her departure from there upon its ghettoization; living as a non-Jew with her mother, first in Przemys?l, then in a nearby town; and her sustaining hope that her small cousin would survive. Mrs. G. also tells of her liberation by the Russians; her postwar return home...

  18. Vladimir M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir M., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1933, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his father's participation in the Bolshevik movement; his family's move to Moscow in 1935; his brother spending the summer with grandparents in Minsk in 1937; his father's arrest, then his mother's arrest; placement in orphanages; his uncle bringing him to Minsk in December 1939; being coddled within his large, extended family, especially by his grandmother; attending summer camp in 1941; German invasion; a teacher returning him to Minsk; learning of mass shootings, including...

  19. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913. He recalls training as a violinist; completing engineering studies in Marseille, Paris, and Bordeaux; military service; discharge; working as a government engineer; Italian invasion in fall 1940; six months of front-line service with his brother; German occupation of Thessalonikē; military colleagues offering to hide him; refusing in order to return to his family; marriage; deportation to Birkenau with his and his wife's families in May 1943 (his wife was eight months pregnant); remaining with his brother (he...

  20. Michael I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael I., who was born in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls his family's business in Warsaw and Falencia; attending yeshiva until age fourteen; participating in Akiba; becoming head of the Otwock branch; antisemitic violence; living on training farms (hachsharah) in Be?chato?w and Siemiatycze; German invasion; fleeing to Ostro?e?ka, then ?omz?a; returning to his family in Otwock; fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; traveling to Vilnius via Bia?ystok and Hrodna; working at a hachsharah in Garliava; living in Kaunas; German invasion; fleeing to Ukmerge?; posin...