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

  1. Sophie L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1921. She recalls her family's Zionist beliefs; membership in Betar; her older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1938; attending a Jabotinsky lecture; German invasion; being drafted as a nurse into the Polish army; returning to ?o?dz?; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; deportation of her mother and two sisters (she never saw them again); watching children being thrown to the pavement from the fourth story during a round-up; working as a ghetto administrator; joining the underground;...

  2. Catheryne M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Catheryne M., who was born in Vru?tky, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's move to Ruz?omberok; ostracizism by non-Jewish students; their move to Hungarian-occupied Sobrance; attending a Jewish school in Uz?h?horod; German occupation in 1944; confiscation of her father's pharmacy; incarceration in a brick factory; the humiliation of a strip search by Hungarian soldiers; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother, sister, and aunt; learning about extermination; receiving extra food from an acquaintance; helping her...

  3. Celina M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her father's prominence in Yiddish theater; playing children's roles in the theater; participating in Hakoah; antisemitism, particularly on Poland's constitution day; German invasion; moving with her family to Warsaw; ghettoization; food shortages and round-ups; her mother's escape using false papers; arrest and imprisonment trying to follow her mother; release; escaping with paid smugglers (she never saw her father or sister again); joining her mother near Lublin; working on a farm in Wolica Brzozowa; fri...

  4. Peter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter K., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1937. He recalls his family's affluent, secular life; German invasion; his father's arrest (he never saw him again); moving with his mother, brother, and other relatives to Ljubljana; smuggling themselves to Italy; internment near Brescia as illegal immigrants; receiving a stipend from the Italian government; living with relatives in Quarata; German occupation; hiding in a hut with relatives, then with peasant families; avoiding arrest with assistance from their landlord and the marshal after being denounced; moving seve...

  5. Marian F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied L?viv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtain...

  6. Fela M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fela M., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1917, one of eight children. She recalls attending school in ?o?dz?; marriage in 1938; German invasion; her family's deportation to Warsaw; ghettoization in ?o?dz? in February 1940; her daughter's birth in April; her husband's death in 1941; her father-in-law's death in 1942; her daughter's deportation in September 1942; learning of her father's death in 1943; forced labor; recovering from typhus with help from two cousins; deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; transfer two days later to a labor camp, then in Ja...

  7. Yvonne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne B., a Catholic, who was born in Pipaix, Belgium in 1918. She recounts attending public school; completing advanced degrees in nursing school in Tournai; mobilization as a nurse; assignment to a military hospital in Nieuwpoort; evacuation to Avilley, Nantes, then a village in France; caring for a friend's five young daughters; transfer to Rochefort; working as a head nurse; returning to Belgium two months later; working at a hospital; hiding resistance members; the Red Cross and a local nobleman arranging for them to hide Jewish children; helping transport twent...

  8. Armand H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Armand H., who was born in Paris, France in 1927. He recalls his older brother's bar mitzvah; his younger brother's ritual circumcision in 1934; attending public school; temporary evacuation with other children during the "Phony War"; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions and propaganda; rumors of a round-up in summer 1942; his father making a hiding place in their apartment; hiding with his father and older brother the night of July 15 (they thought women and children would not be taken); arrest with his mother and younger brother in August; his relea...

  9. Werner K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. Mr. K. recalls attending school; expulsion after passage of the Nuremberg laws; futile attempts to emigrate with his brother, legally and illegally; the destruction of Jewish businesses on Kristallnacht eliminating work opportunities; doing manual labor; his parents' deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto in October 1941; joining them weeks later; volunteering with his brother to leave the ghetto; transfer to Rawitsch; slave labor; public hangings; his brother's death from a beating; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1943;...

  10. Morris R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. He recalls ghettoization; forced labor; hunger; selections and deportations; his mother's death in 1941; transfer to Cze?stochowa; prisoners sharing food and assisting each other to meet production quotas; and transfer to Buchenwald. Mr. R. describes forced labor for HASAG; Allied bombings; carrying corpses; assistance from priests who were prisoners; a death march; his "safe" job pulling the officers' wagon; a local man preventing the guards from killing the prisoners; and liberation by American troops. He recounts r...

  11. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Kolomyi?a?; his father's Zionist activities; studying engineering in Lv?iv; futile efforts to return to Kolomyi?a? after the German invasion; round-ups of Jews; and escaping to the Soviet Union. Mr. F. recounts farm and office work; conscription into a workers' battalion; digging trenches near Stalingrad; working in a steel factory in Baku; returning to Lv?iv after liberation; traveling to Krako?w in 1945; learning his entire family had perished; leaving Poland; receiving help from Jew...

  12. Asja T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Asja T., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1917, one of six children. She recalls attending Russian school; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; her son's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; her father being caught in a round-up in August 1941 (he was killed); her mother being killed in March 1942; obtaining false papers a year later from a non-Jewish neighbor; escaping with her son; briefly staying with her brother's non-Jewish girlfriend; leaving because she did not want to endanger her rescuers; wandering from place to plac...

  13. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's assimilated life; arrest of her grandmother and parents after the Anschluss; their release weeks later; traveling to Aachen, then Brussels; living in a basement due to lack of resources; assistance from the Jewish community; her father's escape to England; German invasion; fleeing to Lille, then Dunkerque, futilely hoping to escape; return to Brussels; receiving a deportation notice; informing her mother they would hide; difficulty placing her four-year-old sister; she and her sister living w...

  14. Chaim H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim H., who was born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, in 1924, one of three brothers. He recounts attending public and Hebrew school; participating in Zionist youth groups; antisemitic harassment; his mother's death; being sent to live with an uncle in Chernivt︠s︡i; moving to a Zionist agricultural training community; their expulsion and move to Bucharest; Iron Guard violence against Jews; arrest, beatings, then release; moving to Goleț; returning home; deportation with his family in October 1941 to Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ via Ataki; transfer to Sledy; slave labor on farms; ...

  15. Herbert J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert J., a non-Jew, who was born in Maine in 1921 and served in the United States Army 11th Armored Infantry in World War II. He recalls enlisting in June 1944; entering Germany during the Battle of the Bulge; his capture; and transport through several holding camps to Gusen, then Mauthausen. He describes the prisoner hierarchy; many dying of starvation; brutal punishments and atrocities; taking clothes from the dead, avoiding those marked with a "J" because Jews were treated more harshly; inadequate sanitation; forced labor in a quarry; cannibalism among Soviet pr...

  16. Ludwig F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig F., who was born in Poland in 1908. Mr. F. speaks of his education; his successful business in Cze?stochowa; his marriage in 1933; and the birth of his daughter in 1937. He describes the German occupation and the anti-Jewish measures which followed; the ghettoization of Cze?stochowa; and conditions and slave labor in the ghetto. He relates the liquidation of the ghetto, during which he smuggled himself out on a cart of corpses, then joined the group of laborers charged with burying the bodies; his work as a clerk for a German captain; and how, with the assistan...

  17. Marianne D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. She recalls living among a large extended family; German invasion in 1940; antisemitic measures, including wearing the yellow star; her father's arrest; arrest with her sister and mother; placement in a children's home; escaping to her grandmother's house; being taken with other children to Limburg; being hidden with eight different families over two and a half years; divulging she was Jewish to friends which necessitated frequent moves; one brief placement with her sister; liberation; living with her uncle ...

  18. Larry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z?H?uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgon?, and Oshmi?a?ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi?a?ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an e...

  19. Denise B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Denise B., who was born in Paris, France in 1934. She remembers a home filled with love and happiness; her father's arrest in 1941 (she never saw him again); she and her sister being sent to hide with a French family in Seiches-sur-le-Loir (her mother remained behind with their baby brother); their conversion to Catholicism; comfort provided by church ritual; liberation by United States troops; returning with an uncle to Paris; learning their mother was taken from Drancy to Majdanek where she perished (her brother survived); living in a Jewish orphanage in Andre?sy; e...

  20. Miriam Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam Z., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1922, the youngest of six children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; leaving school after eighth grade to help her mother at home; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her father's disbelief when a Polish refugee warned them to flee; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; remaining with her four sisters; seeing their father once when he delivered food; transfer with her sisters to Stutthof, then ano...