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

  1. David R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Lublin, Russia (presently Poland) in 1913, one of three children. He recalls expulsion from the Hebrew gymnasium due to his participation in illegal communist activities; imprisonment in Bi︠a︡roza, Rawicz, and Koronowo; forced labor; escaping during the 1939 German invasion; returning to Lublin; smuggling pigs from Mełgiew to support his family; escaping when Germans came for him; arranging for Polish friends to hide him and his family in Trzeszkowice, then in Mełgiew; obtaining false papers for all of them; traveling to Lublin with his mothe...

  2. Susan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938. She recounts her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; his return a few months later; his conscription in May 1942 (she never saw him again); German occupation in March 1944; her mother obtaining Catholic baptismal papers for them in October; their move to a Swedish safe house; bringing food to her grandmother in the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; her mother bribing a Hungarian policeman with her wedding ring during a round-up; hiding, beginning in November, in a factory, then an apartment; lib...

  3. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Drui?sk, Belarus in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; her father's good business relations with non-Jews; German invasion in July 1941; transfer of the Jews out of town; her father arranging their transfer to the Braslau? ghetto rather than another rumored to be worse; hiding with many others during a round-up; a cousin having to suffocate her child to prevent their discovery; escaping; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer her father knew; leaving when the neighbors found out; hiding in the woods, then with another non-Jewish family; part ...

  4. Beatrice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice B., who was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. She recounts her parents' emigration to the United States in 1900; her mother's return with three children in 1911; her father's return after World War I; their affluence; living in Solotvyno; siblings emigrating to the United States; her father's death in 1939; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; remaining with one sister (she never saw her mother or younger si...

  5. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Zambro?w, Poland in 1926. One of three brothers, he describes his large, extended family; German occupation in September 1939, followed by Soviet occupation; his continued school attendance; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's round-up by German troops (they never saw him again); collection of all Jews in August; mass killing of the elderly outside of town and ghettoization of the remainder; forced labor; transfer in November 1942 to an abandoned Polish army barrack; his escape and discovery one week later; a...

  6. Samuil K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuil K., who was born in Uzda, Belarus in 1924. He recalls suppression of Jewish religious observances by the Soviets; a close relationship with his paternal grandparents; German invasion in June 1941 while in Minsk with his father; returning home by foot; fleeing with his family to Shat︠s︡ʹk; German orders to return home; ghettoization; forced labor; separation as skilled workers prior to a mass killing in October 1941; a German officer befriending his father and providing food for them; transport with his family to the Minsk ghetto in February 1942; hiding during ...

  7. Rikki R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rikki R., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1927. She recalls a happy childhood in a close, Orthodox family; German invasion in 1941; expulsion from school; termination of her father's government job; his arrest with her older brother in October (she never saw them again); hiding with her mother, younger brother, and grandmother in her aunt's house with assistance from Muslim neighbors; escaping to Mostar in February 1942 using false papers supplied by Muslims; internment with her family by Italian forces on Hvar Island in September; their transfer to Rab Island...

  8. Miroslava H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miroslava H., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1932 to a Jewish father and Serbian mother who had converted to Judaism. She recalls her father's and grandfather's orthodoxy; German occupation; expulsion from school; confiscation of the family businesses and their house in Banovo Brdo; her father's forced labor; she and her two sisters staying with her mother's non-Jewish family after her parents fled; after a few days, the relatives refusing to let them stay; returning to their apartment; her parents' return after learning what happened; her father's incarcerat...

  9. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liber...

  10. Yugoslav Voices from the Holocaust /

    Many aspects of the history of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia are told through the voices of those that survived it. This edited program includes excerpts of Jews rescued by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; a Serbian non-Jewish rescuer whose husband was shot for hiding Jews; survivors of concentration camps in Yugoslavia; those deported elsewhere; camp escapees; and partisans. The survivor and witness testimonies were recorded in the United States, Israel, and the former Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1996. They tell of the Sephardic Jewish community before the war, life under the Nazis, l...

  11. Galina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Galina K., who was born in Pyatigory, Ukraine in 1923. She recalls her family's move to Munus (Crimea) during the famine; returning to Pyatigory in 1935; celebrating Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; graduating from high school in June 1941; German invasion; encountering Germans while fleeing east with her parents; returning home; her father's draft into the Soviet army; Germans killing her brother and uncle in front of them; burying them with assistance from non-Jews; forced labor; imprisonment in Zhashkov in spring 1942; a forced march to Buki; slave...

  12. Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in a village in Slovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death; attending school in Pres?ov and synagogue in Tern?a; participating in Maccabi; working on a hachsharah; military draft in 1936; demobilization in 1939; a sister's deportation; deportation with his family to Sabinov, then Pres?ov, in May 1942; transfer to Z?ilina, then a ghetto in Poland; selection for slave labor (he never saw his family again); receiving food from non-Jews; escaping with two others; traveling ...

  13. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Drohobych, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1931, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; Soviet occupation in September 1939; moving to avoid deportation to Siberia; German invasion in 1941; an immediate pogrom; hiding with non-Jews for three days; her brother's illness and death; her father and sister obtaining jobs exempting them from deportation; her father trading goods for food; hiding with her mother during round-ups; organizing classes with other children; her father obtaining work papers for her as a kitchen...

  14. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Paliseul, Belgium in 1917, one of two sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; living with an aunt in Bastogne; attending school in Boullion (his neighbor was Léon Degrelle); living in Sugny; enlisting in the military in 1936; assignment to barracks in Liège; marriage in June 1939; German invasion; his wife fleeing to England; brief capture as a prisoner of war; returning to Antwerp; recapture; forced farm labor in Meldorf; release; joining his father in Bastogne; repairing radios to provide access to the BBC; hiding membe...

  15. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Kharkiv, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his parents fleeing due to the revolution; their divorce when he was about three; living with his mother and her affluent family in Rīga; spending a summer in 1927 at his father's business in Kremintsi, then moving with him to Paris; studying textile engineering in Roubaix; spending summers in Rīga; not being able to return to Paris when war broke out in 1939; working in Soviet textile factories in Rīga, then Bolderāja; German invasion in July 1941; returning to Rīga; anti-Jewish ...

  16. Kopel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kopel K., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; briefly living in Sinkevichy; returning to Lakhva in 1930; his father's successful businesses in Chalanyets where they spent their summers; attending Hebrew school; joining Betar and other youth groups; antisemitic vandalism of their home; Soviet occupation in September 1939; attending a Soviet school; confiscation of the family businesses; his father's arrest and deportation in 1940; German occupation in July 1941; formation of a Juden...

  17. Gennadi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gennadi S., who was born in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg) in 1929, the older of two children. He recounts his mother was Jewish and his father was not; the family moving to Kiev when he was six months old; drills in preparation for military invasion beginning in 1940; German invasion on June 22, 1941; a notice for all Jews to report on September 29; his father deciding en route to turn back; learning thousands of Jews had been shot at Babi Yar that day; remaining in their apartment; a neighbor reporting they were illegally hiding a Jew; officers taking his mo...

  18. Sigmund J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund J., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls working in the family bakery; attacks on Hasidic children in school; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Przemys?l, then L?viv in the Soviet zone; working in Donbass; returning to L?viv; an aborted attempt to return home; working in bakeries in Boryslav and Truskavet?s??; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to Chrzano?w; forced labor in Sosnowiec, Bautrupp-Seybusch, K?obuck, Annaberg, and Klettendorf; smuggling food with a friend; receiving food from a Czech c...

  19. Esther S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther S., who was born in 1913 in Chernikhov, which later became a Czech city and is now in Ukraine. She recalls growing up in an affluent and modern orthodox family of nine children; one brother who was in the Czech army; a younger brother who escaped to Yugoslavia after German occupation of the Sudeten; her family's ghettoization in Uz?h?horod; crowded conditions and lack of food; transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; traumatic separation from her mother; meeting two nieces and remaining with them; the pervasive smell of burning flesh; transfer with her nieces to Tor...

  20. Rubin J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rubin J., who was born in Sosnowiec in 1928. He recalls antisemitic violence as a child; reporting for forced labor in his brother's place in 1940; building the autobahn in Geppersdorf; incarceration in Parzymiechy, Gross-Rosen, and Dachau; receiving Red Cross packages in Dachau; a severe whipping in one camp; being moved frequently in trains; a death march; seeing his brother briefly in 1944 in Gross-Rosen; liberation in May 1945; living in Garmisch and Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. J. discusses the loss of his e...