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  1. Lilly F. and Helen K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in approximately 1899; and her daughter Lilly F., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. Lilly F. recounts her family's orthodoxy; participating in Agudat; Hungarian occupation in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; a non-Jewish friend taking her to Sighet to obtain food; deportation with her parents and siblings to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her father and brother; remaining with her mother and sister; slave labor breaking stones; brief separation from her mother; feigning illness at the suggest...

  2. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary in 1910. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his marriage; antisemitic laws beginning in 1938; draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; forced labor in Nagyva?rad (Oradea), Voronezh on the Soviet front, then Vienna; discharge for health reasons; his divorce; German occupation in 1944; selection for forced labor; transfer to Budapest; sabotaging German machinery; smuggling food into ghetto areas; transfer to Ferto?rakos; deportation to Mauthausen; liberation by United States troops; convalescing from typhus in Lin...

  3. Charles H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna; the Anschluss; an uncle who had emigrated to the United States sending them emigration papers; moving to Prague so they could leave from a neutral country; German occupation; deportation to the Łódź ghetto in 1940; his father being "taken away"; transfer to Poznań, Auschwitz, then Myslowice (Fürstengrube) in January 1941; assignment to an I. G. Farben coal mine; a German supervisor allowing his group to rest and providing extra food; shootings of every tenth pr...

  4. Semion G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Semion G., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1925, the third of four children. He recalls speaking Yiddish at home; attending Belorussian school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his oldest brother's military service; his sister's birth in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Kolodishchi; returning home; his father's enlistment in the Soviet army; ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; mass killings; hiding in bunkers; his oldest brother using false documents to obtain weapons; learning his father had been killed; a mass killing on November 7, ...

  5. Mary M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1913. She recalls attending school in ?o?dz? and university in Vienna; her assimilated, wealthy and cultured family background; her mother's death in 1934; cordial relations with non-Jews; her sense that events in Germany were distant despite contact with German refugees; and marriage on July 1, 1939. Mrs. M. recounts German invasion; learning from a co-worker that Germans were taking Jewish hostages; escaping to Warsaw with her husband and father; the walling-in of the ghetto; her job in a factory through which she had the u...

  6. Samuel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel W., who was born in Chorzów, Poland in 1927. He recalls his family's affluence; his brother's death in 1936; moving to Kraków in 1939; vacationing in Krynica-Wiés; returning home; German invasion the next day; moving east from Weiliczka to Zalishchyky; Soviet occupation; moving to Lʹviv; attending school; German invasion; returning to Kraków; moving to Wolbrom; his mother arranging a tutor for him and others; a round-up; selection with his mother; her insistence he join his father; her deportation with relatives to Belzec (he never saw them again); deportat...

  7. Ilona S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilona S., who was born in Maria-Theresiopel, Hungary (today Subotica, Yugoslavia), in 1909. Mrs. S. tells of her family's move to ?akovo in 1914; relocation to Osijek a few years later; marriage in 1929; the death of a brother; birth of her daughters in 1930 and 1933; her husband's reluctance to emigrate and leave his parents; the 1941 German invasion; and her husband's capture and internment in Osnabru?ck as a Yugoslav POW. She recalls seizure of the family's assets and apartment; deportation of her other brother to Jasenovac (where he died in 1945); hiding her daugh...

  8. John G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John. G., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1930. He recounts his large extended family; their assimilated life style and strong Hungarian identity; his family's move to Debrecen shortly after his birth; his sister's birth in 1931; their move to Budapest in 1933; attending a Hungarian school; his father's 1940 draft as an officer to the military reserves; a last visit to relatives in Miskolc; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his father losing his job; attending a Catholic gymnasium despite the laws because his grandfather had been a student there; German occupation in ...

  9. Helen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen B., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public school; summering in the country in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Wo?lka Domaszewska; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; Germans returning and plundering their store; her father's arrest and release; housing refugees in their home; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; Germans searching for her father and beating her mother in 1942; round-ups and random killings; ghettoization; hiding with a Pole, who turned them over ...

  10. Leon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon M., who was born in Ciechanowiec, Poland in 1924. He recalls moving to Bran?sk when he was nine; anti-Semitic incidents in public school; moving to Bia?ystok in 1937; apprenticing as a tailor; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a German officer who told him to "get out" of a round-up area; murders of Jewish hostages; ghettoization; transport with his family to Pruz?h?any in October 1941 and Bia?owiez?a in April 1942; forced labor; frequent killings; and transport to Auschwitz in January 1943. Mr. M. recounts his parents' last words to him; sorting the possession...

  11. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R., who was born in 1924 and drafted into the United States military. He recalls serving in the 20th Armored Division; landing in Le Havre and moving through Belgium and Holland into Germany; arriving at Dachau immediately after troops from his unit had liberated it; first seeing a boxcar filled with corpses; speaking Yiddish to a few of the prisoners; being overwhelmed by the condition of the prisoners, as were all his fellow soldiers; not being able to process what he saw for days; difficulty still conceiving what he witnessed; and his involvement in Holocaust...

  12. Jadwiga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jadwiga G., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1923, one of three children. Ms. G. recalls her family's affluence; attending Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; moving to Melgiew in summer 1941; her future husband joining them; visiting friends and relatives in the Lublin ghetto; obtaining authentic documents as non-Jews; round-ups of Jews from nearby villages in October 1942; returning to Lublin; her father leaving en route when he was robbed and lost hope (she never saw him again); his non-Jewish, former employer arranging ...

  13. Janka C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janka C., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to Vienna in 1921; their assimilated lifestyle; attending public school; anti-Jewish harassment; the Anschluss; immediately deciding to emigrate to Belgium; traveling to Cologne; living with a Jewish family for several months; arrest when attempting to illegally enter Belgium; imprisonment in Aachen; release a week later; entering Belgium on her third attempt, with assistance from a man she had met in prison; arriving in Antwerp via Liège and Brussels in Oct...

  14. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was raised in Budapest, Hungary. She recalls her paternal grandmother with whom she associates Jewish holidays and traditions; anti-Jewish measures when she was five years old; her father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; German invasion; moving into the ghetto in March 1944; separation from her mother during round-ups; her mother's escape from a brick factory and bribing a Hungarian to bring her to a Swedish safe house; living there with her mother; avoiding deportation with assistance from resistants; pervasive fear and hunger; and l...

  15. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1927. He recalls in great detail his life in a close, extended Hasidic family; attending Jewish school; German invasion; traveling with his uncle and mother to Krako?w (his father and older brother remained and perished); bombardments; traveling to Przemys?l; his friend's murder by a German soldier for stealing bread; smuggling themselves to the Soviet zone; living in Zvur; his bar mitzvah attended only by his uncle; evacuation by the Soviet Army to Korostyle?vka; moving to Kzyl-Orda; living with a Russian couple; attend...

  16. Cypora G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cypora G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. She recalls her family's extreme poverty; her mother's efforts to feed them; attending a Bund school; working from age ten to help support her family; her mother's death; studying theater on a scholarship; meeting her future husband; performing in many locations with a theater group; the emigration of three sisters; German invasion; her future husband having her smuggled to Bia?ystok; working in Yiddish theater; moving to Vilnius; traveling to Tashkent; living in Farghona; marriage; returning to...

  17. Richard S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard S., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. He recalls moving to Brussels in 1928; participating in socialist groups; repatriation to Be?ziers, France in 1940; returning to Brussels; registering as a Jew in 1941; support from socialist friends; his sister hiding with a Belgian family; destroying orders for the family to report to Malines; returning to Be?ziers in 1942; his parents' deportation from Brussels shortly thereafter; working as a resistance courier; a brief association with the Maquis; arrest and brutal interrogations in 1944; and transfer to Compie?g...

  18. Chaim C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim C., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1935. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's prominence in the Jewish community and presidency of Mizrahi; his father's arrest in 1940; hiding with his mother and older sister in his father's factory during a mass killing the following day; searching for him among the corpses on the street; his return a few days later; increased antisemitic restrictions and violence, including a public beating of his father; the remaining Jewish community caring for each other; liberation by Soviet troops; fleeing to Bucharest; emi...

  19. Adam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam B., who was born in 1922 in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?, Czechoslovakia. He recounts his mother's death prior to his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage; Slovak independence in 1939 resulting in anti-Jewish restrictions; daily forced labor; his sister's deportation in April 1942 (she did not survive); confiscation of their house; his family's exemption from deportation due to his father's work as an electrical engineer; paying a non-Jew to construct a bunker in the mountains for them; hiding there with three other families beginning in August 1944; partisans joining th...

  20. Jack Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack Z., who was born in Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Russia (Poland after World War I) in 1913. He recalls one sister's emigration; attending university in Warsaw; anti-Jewish violence; working in his uncle's factory; digging anti-tank ditches during German invasion; fleeing to his hometown; Soviet occupation; marriage; his daughter's birth; German invasion; formation of a Judenrat; mass killings of Jews; escaping from the ghetto in 1942; a non-Jew hiding and feeding him; returning to the ghetto; learning his wife, daughter, father, and sister had been killed; immediately ...