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

  1. Hadassah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hadassah R., who was born in Ko?o around 1923. She recalls attending Polish school in Da?bie Miasto; the German invasion; posing as a Christian to return to Ko?o; atrocities committed against Jews, particularly the brutal beating of her brother; establishment of a killing center in nearby Che?mno, from which she escaped; posing as a non-Jew; and meeting other Jews hiding near Grabo?w. Mrs. R. describes ghettos in Ozorko?w and ?e?czyca; working in a typhus hospital; transfer to ?o?dz?; attempts to warn Rumkowski about the Che?mno killing center; her sense that people s...

  2. Emina N. and Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of sisters Emina N. and Miriam W., who were born in ?o?dz?, Poland. They describe their family of six siblings; anti-Semitic incidents in the 1930s; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; having to move to the ghetto; a variety of jobs there; and difficulties of life in the ghetto. They recall deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; Emina saving Miriam from selection; transfer to Birkenau; railroad transport to Harburg, a camp near Hamburg; removing brick rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; the birth of a baby in their barrack the night before liberation; liberation by the Brit...

  3. Nokhim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nokhim S., who was born in Mahili︠o︡ŭ, Belarus in 1923. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Jewish and Soviet holidays; his brother's military service in 1939; arrival of Polish refugees; German invasion in 1941; his brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings; his father serving on the Judenrat; his brother volunteering the two of them for a labor camp (he never saw his parents or sister again); slave labor as a blacksmith for two years; killings and hangings; transfer to Minsk, then Lublin; separation from his brother (he never saw...

  4. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Munka?cs, Hungary, in 1923. He describes the Hungarian annexation and the anti-Semitic legislation that ensued; the ghettoization of Munka?cs in 1943; his deportation for slave labor first to the Russian front, then to Austria; the horrible conditions of the death march to Mauthausen and the march from there to Gunskirchen; and the desolation surrounding his "liberation" by the Americans. He tells of his postwar return to Munka?cs, where he learned that his father and a brother had survived; his stay in a displaced persons camp in Germany; a...

  5. Alice L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice L., who was born in Brezova? pod Bradlom, Slovakia in 1926. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; Slovak independence in March 1939; anti-Jewish legislation and harassment; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); living with an aunt in another town, then with an uncle; illegally entering Hungary with two girls; brief arrest; traveling to Budapest; reunion with her aunt, uncle, brother, and mother several weeks later; German invasion of Hungary in March 1944; obtaining papers as non-Jews; illegally entering Slovakia in...

  6. Mark T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark T., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1919. He recounts emigration of two of his five siblings in the 1930s; ethnic tensions including antisemitism; Soviet occupation; being drafted into the Soviet air force in 1940; serving in Voronezh; returning home due to illness; German invasion in June 1941; help from an Ukrainian friend; deportation to Janikowo in 1942; working as the doctor's assistant thus avoiding hard labor; receiving extra food from Polish kitchen workers; escape to his hometown; incarceration and escaping twice again; hiding in a forest bunker with hi...

  7. Howard W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Howard W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. He recalls his family's strong German patriotism; their sense that nothing bad could happen to them in Germany; increased antisemitism following Hitler's ascent to power; Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; arrest; incarceration in Oranienburg; release due to intervention from his father's friend and a promise to leave Germany; traveling to Bratislava; detention in Patronka while awaiting a ship to Palestine; two months traveling on the Danube and Black Sea; severe weather; being shipwrecked on Kamilonisi; rescue b...

  8. Marcel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his father selling their stores in 1936 to emigrate to Palestine; one brother emigrating there; increasing influence of Hungarian fascists; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; his return after two months; he and his brothers being drafted in 1941; his brothers being sent to the Russian front (they did not return); a Hungarian Nazi, who was his father's friend, helping them avoid deportation; visiting his family in 1944 in the Bu...

  9. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in 1938; a priest who converted her family to ensure their safety; incarceration with her sister in the local jail for two nights for not wearing the star; hiding with a Christian family; her family's incarceration in Nova?ky; hiding with non-Jews; obtaining false papers; moving to Pres?ov, then Bratislava; joining her parents in Novaky; traveling with her sister to Trenc?in; her sister's return to Novaky; living in Bratislava under an ass...

  10. Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigrid Jean S., who was born in Dinkelsbu?hl, Germany in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school in 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her father's internment in Buchenwald; her oldest brother's emigration to Australia; her other brother's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; making a gift for her parents on Rosh ha-Shanah in 1943; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; digging tank traps in Kurzbach; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation in May...

  11. Yehoshua R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehoshua R., who was born in 1923, one of ten children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a yeshiva; German invasion of Jaworzno; forced labor; moving to Chrzano?w to support his sister and her eight children; being sent from a round-up to Bunzlau; slave labor there and in several other camps ending at Klettendorf; escaping with a friend; being caught on a train; incarceration in Myslowitz, then Birkenau; assignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chambers to open pyres; public hangings; losing his faith (he later returned to orthodoxy du...

  12. Irma M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma M., who was born in Forchheim, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Catholic school; her sense of isolation, despite kindness from nuns; wanting to be part of the pervasive Nazi youth culture; living with an aunt in Bamberg; attending a Jewish boarding school in Horburg; being forced to break the school windows and march through town to have rocks thrown at them during Kristallnacht; returning home; finding her home vandalized and her father gone (he was in Dachau); their non-Jewish maid and doctor assisting them; her fath...

  13. Gisela M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela M., who was born in Schivelbein, Germany (presently S?widwin, Poland) in 1925 one of two daughters of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. She describes harassment at school; witnessing her father being beaten; expulsion from school following Kristallnacht; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; non-Jewish friends supplying their food; moving to Berlin; working as a factory apprentice; losing her job because she was the daughter of a Jew; her father's arrest; her mother demonstrating daily with other wives of Jewish men; her father's release; forced relocat...

  14. Agnes S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes S., who was born in Budapest in 1925. She speaks of the German occupation of Budapest; of her work as a slave laborer in a mill in Budapest; deportations from the brick factory in which she and her mother were interned, but from which they were spared through the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg; their internment in the ghetto of Budapest in December, 1944 and liberation there in January 1945; the illegal departure of herself, her husband, and her son from communist Hungary in 1949 and their emigration to the United States in 1956. The physical and psychological...

  15. Ervin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin S., a non-Jew, who was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his family's poverty; his father's communist activities; their anti-Nazi activities; his father's enlistment in the Czech military; his father's arrest by the Gestapo; having to join the Hitler Youth, then the Wehrmacht; capture in Italy by United States troops in February 1945; incarceration as a POW in Livorno and Naples; release in 1947; prohibition from returning to Czechoslovakia because he had served in the Wehrmacht; illegally crossing the border; reunion with his family; and recei...

  16. Ruth A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth A., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family moving to Warsaw; German occupation in 1939; ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; escaping to Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski with her mother and sister; working for a farmer who hid her Jewish identity; learning her sister and aunt were deported to Treblinka and her mother shot on the way; working on another farm for two months; being identified as a Jew; returning to the Mie?dzyrzec ghetto; following her German friend's advice to volunteer as a Polish slave laborer in order to get to German...

  17. Dov H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1913, one of six children in an orthodox family. He recounts attending cheder, yeshivas in Khust and Galanta, then a Jewish gymnasium in Brno; night work in a factory to support himself; attending an agricultural school in Tábor to prepare for emigration to Palestine; participating in Hechalutz; graduation in 1932; military draft; continuing contact with Hechalutz; discharge in 1936; returning home briefly; working in Prague; training at a kibbutz in Plzeň; military recall in 1938; his posting in Košice; his ...

  18. Jack H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1929, one of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence and orthodoxy; his father and four siblings emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's return with his youngest brother in 1938; attending public school and a cheder; Hungarian occupation; German invasion; ghettoization in Vis?eu de Sus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his parents' selection for gassing; remaining with three brothers; interactions with Jews from many countries; their transfer to Do?rnhau, then a slave labor camp in Silesia; beatings and st...

  19. Pauline B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline B., who was born in Li︠u︡bomlʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the fifth of six daughters. She recounts attending Yiddish, then public school; antisemitic harassment; her mother's death when she was six; moving to her grandparents with an older sister; one aunt, who was like a mother to her, emigrating to Argentina; Soviet occupation; placement with her sister in an orphanage; evacuation by Soviet troops when the Germans invaded; being wounded en route; staying in Volgograd (Stalingrad) for a week; transfer to Siberia; living in an orphanage; moving with ...

  20. Nathan A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland, in 1930 and moved to Krako?w at the age of three. He tells of the deaths of his mother and grandmother in 1938; the outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation; and his dismissal from public school. He relates the establishment of the P?aszo?w camp on the site of the Jewish cemetery; his and his father's transport in March 1940 to Kras?nik, near Lublin, where they joined his older brother; their internment in the Be?z?yce ghetto; and ghetto life, which was characterized by round-ups, deportations and random violence. He de...