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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Mayer P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mayer P., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in approximately 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; one brother's escape to the Soviet Union; his father's death resulting from German mutilation; forced quarry labor; hiding his mother from round-ups; deportation with his sister to a labor camp; transfer to Gross Masselwitz, then Klettendorf; encountering his youngest brother; transfer to Faulbru?ck and Gra?ditz; slave labor in a Telefunken factory; his brother's hospitalization; bringing him food; transfer to Herzberg; his brother...

  2. Serge K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serge K., who was born in Saint Mande?, France in 1929. He recalls his family's secular life; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Marseille via Argenton-sur-Creuse, Orle?ans, and Cha?teauroux; German bombardment en route; attending high school; joining the Jewish scouts (EIF); arrest with his family in May 1943; imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in July 1943; separation from his father, mother and sister (he never saw them again); a prisoner advising him to say he was older; a privileged assignment indoors; hospitalization; a ...

  3. Trudy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy S., who was born in Pforzheim, Germany in 1924. She recalls a pleasant childhood; expulsion from school in 1938; seeing her father beaten on Kristallnacht; confiscation of his business; attending nursing school in Berlin in 1939; learning of her parents' and sister's deportation to France in 1940; and deportation to Jungfernhof, Latvia in December 1941. Mrs. S. recounts forced labor in the Ri?ga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and other camps; meeting her future husband, who gave her extra food and arranged her transfer with him and his parents; a female guard from...

  4. Max S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max S., who was born in Drahovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1924, one of ten children. He recounts leaving school after eighth grade to work; Hungarian occupation; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; local forced labor; his father's return in 1941; deportation with his parents and siblings, except for two sisters, to Kolomyi?a?, Horodenka, then Orinin; three weeks incarceration in a factory; removal for slave labor; staying in a ditch during a mass shooting; a Ukrainian woman helping him escape when the shooting was over...

  5. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Beli Manastir, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1929, the eldest of his mother's five children (His father was previously married to his mother's sister with whom he had three children). He recounts moving to Mukacheve before he was two; attending a Czech school and cheder; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah which he barely remembers; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1944; transport to Szombathely; encountering a German soldier at a railroad station who gave him a loaf of bread; another German soldier who saved his...

  6. Aron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Kolomyi?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1918. He recalls conflict with his Hasidic father over his Zionism; his father's death in 1930; the emigration of three sisters to the United States; antisemitic harassment; joining the Polish army; demobilization in Przemys?l; returning home; Soviet occupation; conscription into the Soviet army in May 1941; German invasion; marching through Chortkiv to Poltava; being wounded; eight months' recovery in a military hospital; working in the Ural mountains; re-mobilization; advancing to Berlin; not believi...

  7. Lisa B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa B., who was born in Striegau, Germany (presently Strzegom, Poland) in 1936. She recounts her parents were very assimilated; her father hiding after Kristallnacht to avoid arrest; obtaining papers for their emigration to Shanghai; their departure on January 1, 1939; attending an English school; her grandmother's and uncle's arrival; Japanese occupation after Pearl Harbor; ghettoization in 1943; various Jewish communities in Shanghai; food shortages and overcrowding; emigrating to the United States after the war; and learning of the genocide in Europe. Mrs. B. show...

  8. Leon P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon P., who was born in Pruzhany, Russia (ceded to Poland in 1919, presently Belarus) in 1914. He recalls he was a child music prodigy; traveling to Minsk seeking music instruction; living in Warsaw to study piano; returning home in 1924; his older sister's emigration to the United States in 1933; attending a music conservatory in Warsaw; his father's death in 1938; nomination for the international Chopin competition; increasing antisemitism; performing to support his mother and younger sister; German invasion; fleeing to Vilnius; futile attempts to bring his mother ...

  9. Meir B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1912, one of five brothers. He recalls attending public school, cheder, and a Jewish gymnasium; attending university in Warsaw; teaching at the gymnasium from which he graduated; German invasion in September 1939; briefly fleeing east with his family; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of the family business; contacts with Oskar Schindler who was involved with their business; ghettoization; deportations; forced labor outside the ghetto; transfer to Krako?w concent...

  10. Esther W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther W. who was born around 1921 in Tlumach, Poland (now Ukraine). She recalls her family's Zionist activities; Soviet occupation; German invasion; hiding during a round-up when her parents and two siblings were transported to another town where her father was killed; her mother's return; ghettoization; imprisonment in 1942; bribing their way out; transfer to Buchach; and escaping an aktion in which her mother and a sister were killed in June 1943. Mrs. W. recounts following her mother's instructions to escape; hiding in the forest and in the homes of Polish farmers...

  11. Frances B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances B., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1918. Mrs. B. tells of a family move to Korelitz; religious homelife; increasing antisemitism; Zionist youth group membership; attempts to emigrate to Palestine or South Africa; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; round-up of young men who were killed in Nowogro?dek; forced labor; her mother's death from beating; transfer with her family to Nowogro?dek; the murder of 4,000 on August 7, 1942; and her last meeting with her father. She describes hiding in a cesspool six days with her siste...

  12. Roman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Lemberg, Poland (L?viv, Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his assimilated family; graduating from gymnasium in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending technical school; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish killing and violence; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation; obtaining false papers; taking his mother to a non-Jewish family outside the ghetto; volunteering to work for Organisation Todt as a Pole; escaping with two Jews to Dnipropetrovs?k; encountering Romanian soldiers traveling to Odesa; hiding with a Polish woman afte...

  13. Soula M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Soula M., a Greek Evangelist, who was born in Katerine?, Greece in 1924. She recounts German invasion; her family hiding British soldiers in their house; their arrest in July 1942; beatings during interrogations; transfer to prison in Salonika, then Banjica, Serbia; severe beatings by Croatian guards; transfer to Birkenau; slave labor digging ditches; sharing stolen food with other prisoners; dreaming she should volunteer for transfer; volunteering for a labor camp; transfer to Eberswalde; escaping with friends during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr...

  14. Friedrich R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedrich R., a Romani, who was born in Breisgau, Germany in 1927. He recalls expulsion from school in 1938 due to racial laws; attending a school with Jewish children in Cologne for two years; deportation to work camps in Poland; slave labor in quarries and street building; starvation rations; transfer to an Organization Todt camp in Kielce; working with Jewish, Italian, and Russian forced laborers; sadistic guards; a death march through the Tyrol; liberation by United States troops; becoming ill from eating their rations; living in France; and returning to Germany. ...

  15. Bernard L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1922. He recalls his childhood in the large family of a prominent hat manufacturer; hiding in a small town in late 1939; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; and being taken with a cousin to a labor camp near Frankfurt an der Oder. He relates working as a railroad fireman; being given food by a German; transfer to a camp at Brieskow-Finkenheerd; his cousin's death from malnutrition; traveling under guard to Berlin to retrieve clothing and valuables from the Jewish Gemeinde; and transfer to Auschwitz in 1942. Mr. L. describes h...

  16. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's emigration to Paris; being sent to Poland to live with his grandparents; returning to Paris in the mid-1930s; no religious observances in his home; evacuation with other children to an OSE home in the Creuse; warm relations with the children and staff; a close friendship with a young man; traveling in a group to Casablanca via Marseille in spring 1942, then to the United States in a Portuguese ship; living briefly with a family in Yonkers, N.Y., then for five years with a family in Pittsburgh; c...

  17. Emerson B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emerson B., who served with the United States Army 411th Infantry Regiment, then the 3rd Infantry Division in World War II. He recounts landing in North Africa; being wounded in Italy; hospitalization; going through France to Germany; visiting Dachau for about four hours the day after its liberation; and observing from a distance a train filled with emaciated corpses and prisoners.

  18. Alessandra B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alessandra B., who was born to a non-Jewish father and a Jewish mother in Fiume, Italy (presently Rijeka, Croatia) in 1939, one of two sisters. She recounts never having met her father (he was a prisoner of war of the British in Africa); living in her maternal grandmother's home; her family's denouncement; their deportation to Risiera di San Sabba, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation with her mother and sister from her grandmother; being tattooed; assignment with her sister and cousin to a children's barrack; learning Czech and German; playing in the snow; ces...

  19. John R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1920. He recalls attending elementary and technical high school in ?o?dz?; active participation in Jewish socialist organizations; antisemitic incidents; participating in Deror, a Zionist socialist movement; training on a kibbutz in Be?dzin in 1939; German invasion; walking to ?o?dz?; reconstituting the kibbutz in Be?dzin to aid the Jewish community; meeting his future wife; Frumk?ah Plot?nitsk?ah's visit to begin to organize resistance; rescuing children smuggled from the Warsaw ghetto; the kibbutz organizing a children's ...

  20. Shalom M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom M., who was born in Z?epc?e, Yugoslavia (presently Bosnia and Hercegovina). He recalls military draft in 1941; being wounded and taken prisoner; transport to Stalag III A; sabotaging the work they were forced to do; escaping on a cargo train to Yugoslavia in April 1942; returning home; learning the Jewish community had been deported, with the exception of his parents (they were protected by a non-Jew); arrest and torture by Ustas?a, including former schoolmates; imprisonment in Travnik; transport to Jasenovac; slave labor; sadistic killings by Ustas?a guards; a...