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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Shoshana D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana D., who was born in Hajduböszörmény, Hungary in 1935, the youngest of five daughters. She recounts her family's affluence; her maternal grandparents' emigration to Palestine in 1936; attending Jewish, then public school; confiscation of her father's store; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; non-Jewish neighbors offering to take her and her sisters; her mother refusing, not wanting to be separated from them; their deportation to the Debrecen ghetto, then to Strasshof; being sent to Josefthal for agricultural slave labor; caring...

  2. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1919. She recalls her affluent, orthodox home; one sister's emigration to the United States in 1937; her non-Jewish boyfriend; being fired in 1942 because she was Jewish; her father's death; German occupation; refusing to leave her mother to hide with her boyfriend; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Dundangen three days later; working in the kitchen; supplying food to friends; escape with a male prisoner; their capture and imprisonment; benign condi...

  3. Gertrude G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. She recalls hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; expulsion from school; her father's arrest prior to Kristallnacht; public humiliation of her mother and grandmother on Kristallnacht; learning her father was in Dachau; his release, based upon a promise to leave Austria; their emigration to Italy; living in Milan with assistance from the Joint; attending a Jewish school; her father's internment as a political refugee; joining him, with her mother, in Cas...

  4. Paula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula K., who was born in K?odawa, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in 1939; German soldiers severely beating, then killing the rabbi and others; expulsion from their home; non-Jews providing food for her family; twenty months in a forced labor camp; being beaten by a guard; crocheting for civilian workers to earn extra food; a Polish woman who often assisted her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hiding injuries to avoid selection; an SS woman who gave her extra food; transfer to Czechoslovakia in late 1944; sabotaging their work in an airplane factory; a...

  5. Elimelech S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elimelech S., who was born in Żuromin, Poland in 1919. He recounts his father's death before his birth; his mother's remarriage; attending public school, cheder, then a technical school; antisemitic harassment; working in Warsaw beginning in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; returning home; deportation from Sierpc to Pomiechówek, then Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in November; escaping; joining his family in Warsaw; retrieving money in Żuromin; selling belongings in Mława; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; posing as a Polish smuggler to escape; smuggling food to h...

  6. Lisbeth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisbeth R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recalls her childhood; the German annnexation of Austria; and the circumstances under which she was chosen for a children's transport to England in February 1939. She describes her life in Norwich, England; receiving news from the rest of the family, still in Austria; and her emigration from Liverpool, with her aunt and uncle, to the United States in May 1940. She tells of life in Queens and the Bronx, New York and her education at Queens and Middlebury Colleges. Mrs. R. also recounts her hope that her parents c...

  7. Emanuel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel S., who was born in Solotvina, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1915, one of ten children. He recalls the observant Jewish community; his family's limited resources; attending cheder, Czech school and yeshiva, then high school in Prague in 1933; being joined by two brothers; attending engineering school in 1937; German occupation; antisemitic measures; working in a rural area; the outbreak of war; obtaining permission to emigrate to Palestine in October 1939 (his brothers had made arrangements through Betar); humiliations inflicted on Jews seek...

  8. Margit W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margit W., who was born in Zlatni?ky, Czechoslovakia in 1912. She recalls her family moving to Trenc?i?n; attending religious and technical schools; learning to sew; her marriage in 1934; her son's birth in 1937; anti-Jewish measures; her husband's forced transfer to a nearby town and eventual deportation (she never saw him again); forced labor as a seamstress in Nova?ky, where she could keep her son; and avoiding a transport through an influential acquaintance. She describes sending her son to her parents, who went into the mountains; fleeing to the mountains herself...

  9. Carl H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Carl H., who was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany in 1933. He recalls traveling to a Jewish school in Worms because Jews could not attend public school; confiscation of their home; deportation to Gurs, then Rivesaltes in southern France; reluctantly departing from his parents (they convinced him to leave) for a children's home in Saint-Raphae?l; corresponding with his parents and brother until they were deported; and transfer to another children's home, then to a farm family in Saint-Apollinaire-de-Rias for three years; being found by a cousin after the war; joining...

  10. Peretz H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, the fifth of six children. He recounts harassment as the only Jew in his public school class; his oldest brother's military draft in 1938; German invasion; learning his brother was taken as a Soviet prisoner of war; another brother leaving to find him; anti-Jewish abuse and restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death from starvation; his older two brothers escaping; smuggling food into the ghetto with his younger brother Zalman; escaping to live as non-Jews; singing Polish songs for food and money; several escapes...

  11. Shraga P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shraga P., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924, the second of four children. He recounts a sister's death in 1934; attending public school; his father's death; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; working at the family store in Kolumna; attending Hashomer camps; German invasion; random forced labor; ghettoization; his grandfather's death days later; joining a hachshara with his older brother in Marysin; starving people from the ghetto taking their crops; returning to the ghetto in January 1941; clandestine Hashomer meetings; being assigned to work in a public kitchen...

  12. Barbara R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barbara R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She recalls five older brothers; marriage in 1939; three brothers fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization in 1940; building bunkers in 1943 in which to hide; her brother's son being taken in a round-up; her husband smuggling weapons for the uprising, but not participating; deportation with her family to Majdanek; public hanging of a woman who tried to escape; their transfer to Radom; slave labor in a printing plant; transfer a year later to Auschwitz; separation from her family; a death march and train transport to Ravens...

  13. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in 1913 and drafted into the United States Army. He recalls training with the 65th Infantry Division in the United States; serving with the 45th Infantry Division in Europe; liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945; emaciated, dazed prisoners; corpses all over; shock, disbelief and anger; the United States troops shooting the German soldiers; speaking with Jewish prisoners in Yiddish; giving the prisoners their food, inadvertently causing their deaths; leaving four hours later; smelling the "odor of death" all the way to Munich; liberating escaped ...

  14. Priska L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Priska L., who was born in 1916 in Stropkov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia), the fourth of five children. She recounts moving to Zlaté Moravce; a wonderful childhood; her family's assimilated lifestyle; training as a teacher; a teaching position in 1936 in Pezinok, then in Čataj in 1938; termination of her position due to anti-Jewish laws; teaching at a private language academy in Bratislava; marriage in 1941; deportation of her parents and one sister in 1942 (they did not survive); her other sister posing as a non-Jew (she survived); arrest by Hlink...

  15. Hans R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, the oldest of four children. He recalls attending Hebrew school; its closure due to antisemitic laws; harassment by former playmates; his parents losing their jobs; attending a Jewish trade school; brief incarceration with his father and grandfather in Sachsenhausen in 1938; fleeing to the Netherlands in 1941; returning home at his father's request; working in the Jewish cemetery, then in a factory; deportation with his family in October 1942; jumping from the train at his father's urging (he never saw his family again...

  16. Annelies H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annelies H., who was born in a small town near Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. She recalls her father's arrest in 1933; his release after he sold his business; the family's move to Bodolz; fleeing with her mother and brother to Scheveningen, Netherlands; her father's death in March 1934 after he joined them; her brother's refusal to emigrate in 1938 and 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor at a fur factory; transfer with her mother and brother to Vught in 1943; her transfer to Amsterdam (she never saw her mother and brother again); assistance from...

  17. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925, one of five children. He recounts harassment by Hitler Youth; expulsion from school at age eleven due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school until age thirteen; his bar mitzvah; learning masonry; deportation of Polish Jews; working in a Krupp factory; deportation of his older brother and two uncles; round-up en route to work in March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Monowitz; seeing his younger brother once; hospitalization in Auschwitz for pneumonia; transfer to Jaworzno; exchanging places with a mi...

  18. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2558), Ms. H. recalls transfer from Malchow to Taucha; traveling after the war, including to Budapest and Cremona after the war; her uncle organizing a ship for their illegal emigration to Palestine in 1946; and sharing her story with her family. She shows photographs.

  19. Koppel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Koppel K., who was born in Bia?obrzegi, Poland in 1928 to an affluent, Hasidic family. He recalls attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; joyous holiday celebrations; German invasion in 1939; his father serving on the Judenrat; his round-up when a German was killed (they never saw him again); ghettoization; obtaining food from his father's non-Jewish associates and the Kommandant's sons; the Kommandant warning them of a deportation; the Kommandant separating him from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); slave labor locally; transfer to...

  20. Jakov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakov D., who recounts moving to Belgrade from Sarajevo in 1937; attending school; briefly fleeing when Belgrade was bombed in April 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents obtaining documents as non-Jews from Serbian friends; hiding most of the time; Serbian friends suggesting they leave due to pending deportations; traveling with his parents and sister to Niš; a Serb official providing them and two other Jewish families with an apartment, new identification documents, and food; moving to Donji Matejevac in 1944 to escape severe bombings; local peasants caring f...