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  1. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls Hitler's warm reception during the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her parents sending her younger sister to relatives in Czechoslovakia; Nazis vandalizing their apartment during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Dachau; she and her mother moving in with relatives; emigration to Palestine with a Youth Aliyah group; a painful parting from her mother; living on a kibbutz; contacts with Henrietta Szold; visiting her parents and sister in the United States in 1947; serving in the Magen DavĚŁid ado...

  2. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1937. She recalls her parents' comfortable, bohemian life; her father's residency at the Jewish hospital; moving into the hospital with the families of other staff members in October 1941; friendship with two girls (Eva and Rita); the Gestapo presence; monthly deportations; food shortages; her parents' strained marriage; remaining underground during the Battle of Berlin; spending a summer recuperating in Switzerland; her father's death in 1947 after delaying surgery, which she believes was a form of suicide; living in the hos...

  3. Ada A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada A., who grew up in Krako?w, Poland. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; her father fleeing east; learning he was killed; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization with her mother and grandmother in March 1941; her grandmother's death; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w in March 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assisting a friend; transfer to Lichtewerden; slave labor in a textile factory; liberation by Sovie...

  4. Hanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls her family's affluent life; her brother and father reporting for military service before German invasion; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and food scarcity; learning her father and brother were alive and fleeing to the Soviet zone; using false papers to join them in Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; moving to Orsha; attending Russian school; fleeing east after the German invasion; her father working as a bookkeeper on a collective farm near the Urals; her brother's draft; moving to Ukraine near the war...

  5. Ilse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Grottkau, Germany (presently Grodko?w, Poland) in 1925. She recalls attending Catholic schools; street fights between the Socialists and Nazis; moving to Leobschu?tz due to antisemitism; anti-Jewish boycotts of the family business; antisemitism at school; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; her mother's breakdown; failing to recognize her father when he returned; her parents arranging her emigration to England with a children's transport; their instruct...

  6. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1923. She recalls her happy childhood in Bratislava; observing Jewish holidays; attending a German school; religious instruction by a Jewish teacher; German occupation in March 1939; harassment by Hitler Youth; transferring to business school; making corsets to support herself; antisemitic restrictions; avoiding round-ups when her home was quarantined because she had rubella; a warning of an imminent round-up; illegally traveling to Budapest in 1942; living with her uncle's family; denunciation as an illegal immigrant; deport...

  7. Raymond F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raymond F., who was born in Kazimierza Wielka, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls attending public school; antisemtic harassment; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat; forced labor; killings of Jews; bringing a message to the Miecho?w ghetto and food to Jews in S?omniki; the mayor warning his father all Jews were to be killed; the family hiding in several places with non-Jews; learning his mother had been shot; hearing a mass killing; escaping to Krako?w with his brother; entering the ghetto; volunteering for forced labor else...

  8. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Martynuv Stary, Poland (now Ukraine), one of twelve children. He recalls attending a Catholic school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; posing as a non-Jew and joining Ukrainian partisans in Bukachevtsy with his two brothers and a sister; killing a Jewish policeman in self defense; joining Soviet and Polish partisans; armed conflicts between partisan groups; moving to Stanis?awo?w; burying Jews shot in a mass killing; working on a farm; bringing his sisters and their children to work there; being saved from exposure because his nephe...

  9. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., a non-Jew, who was born in Passau, Germany in 1960. Ms. A. recounts not learning about World War II; winning an essay contest which required research on local war history; learning of the Nazi past and the existence of a camp in Passau; being sued for libel as a result of her research; assistance from a supreme court judge who later wrote the preface to her book; settling the suit upon his advice; local people openly admitting their Nazi pasts; local hostility; protesting large neo-Nazi meetings (David Irving was a featured speaker although it was illegal for...

  10. Sora M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sora M., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928. She recalls living near Brest-Litovsk; moving to Paris with her parents in 1930; antisemitic incidents; visiting Poland with her mother in 1937; outbreak of war in 1939; evacuation to Mers-les-Bains; living in an OSE home on the Riviera while attending school in Boulouris; German invasion; returning to Paris in September 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; seeing her father in Yonne (he escaped from Pithiviers); incarceration in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver with her mother on July 16, 1942; escaping; hiding with non-Jewish frien...

  11. Ernest E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest E., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1915. He describes his observant family of seven children; the family's kosher restaurant; education; their strong zionist leanings; working as an engineer; Hungarian occupation resulting in the loss of his job; and emigrating to Czernowitz in the Soviet zone. Mr. E. recalls his marriage; German invasion; ghettoization; transport with his wife to Transnistria; horrendous living conditions in Mogilev; meeting a Romanian officer whom he had known and who offered him a job as an engineer; building a bridge with sixty Jews, who ...

  12. Fiszel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fiszel S., who was born in Kras?nik, Poland in 1923 to a Hasidic family. He recalls attending yeshiva in Jano?w; a brother and three uncles emigrating to Bolivia; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his family for a year; transfer to Budzyn?, where his father and brother were shot; a privileged factory position; transfer to Mielec; obtaining extra rations from the Swiss; transfer to Wieliczka in 1944, then to Flossenbu?rg, Litome?r?ice, Mauthausen, and Gusen; assistance from the Red Cross shortly before liberation; liberation by United States troops; living in ...

  13. Marek S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marek S., who was born in 1912 in Kamionica Strymonylova, a small town near L?vov, Poland. He describes his early family life; the outbreak of the second world war; his army transfer from L?vov to the battle front; and his return home to occupation by the Russians. He tells of the deportation of many Jews to Siberia; the German occupation in 1941; his flight to L?vov, where he was captured by Ukrainians; and his work in the L?vov ghetto, where his sister also lived. He recounts being jailed for several days; his work as a camp gardener in Janowska Road, a camp within ...

  14. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., a Dutch Seventh-Day Adventist, who was born in approximately 1910. He recalls being taught great respect for Jews by his father, a minister; living in Paris in 1940; German invasion; moving to Lyon; joining Amities chre?tiennes, an underground organization to save Jews; organizing a network to assist Jews to escape to Switzerland; his arrest in 1942; torture and interrogation in front of Klaus Barbie; release for lack of proof; involving his friends and family in the network; his father's arrest in Holland for speaking against the Nazis; smuggling American pi...

  15. Boz?o S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boz?o S., who was born in approximately 1920. He recalls his arrest in Zagreb in spring 1941; slave labor in Danica; receiving food from the Zagreb Jewish community; transfer to Jadovno a few months later; being sent to Gospic? by a Ustas?a, a former schoolmate, with ten other prisoners (also former schoolmates) while everyone in Jadovno was being killed; their transfer to Jasenovac in August; volunteering as an electrician, a privileged job; being assigned to collect hundreds of corpses when nearby Krapje was liquidated; Ustas?a viciously killing those not already de...

  16. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia in 1922, the tenth of eleven children. She remembers one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws resulting in confiscation of her father's business; moving to Budapest, then Debrecen; returning to Seredne in 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory in Ungva?r (Uz?h?horod); deportation to Auschwitz in spring 1944; passing through a selection with her mother, sister, and other relatives; her sister, mother, and sister-in-law being taken in subsequent selections; pledging to remain...

  17. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in approximately 1918 in a small town near Uz?h?horod. She recounts her mother's widowhood from her first marriage, from which she had two sons; her mother's marriage to her father; his death when she was ten months old; her mother's third marriage; living in Velikaya Dobron?; difficult relations with her stepfather; placement in a Joint orphanage in Mukacheve when she was fourteen; returning home; Hungarian occupation; German occupation; deportation orders during Passover; a brief trip with her mother to Uz?h?horod, seeking an exemption but not...

  18. Rachel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel K., who was born in France in 1935 to Polish-Russian immigrants, the youngest of three daughters. She recounts her parents' isolation from French society; her mother's store in Aulnay-sous-Bois; being sent to summer camp the first two years of the war; her mother refusing to have them wear the star; being smuggled with her mother and sisters to the unoccupied zone in 1942 (her father refused to leave); receiving assistance and false papers from the Resistance through Edmond Michelet; her father joining them; living in a hotel in Brive, then in a remote farmhous...

  19. Martin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin P., who was born in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia in 1918, when his family evacuated during World War I. He recounts their return to Sasiv (then Poland) when he was three; attending public school and cheder, then gymnasium in Zolochiv for a year; apprenticeship as a sign painter; participating in a Zionist youth group; training for emigration to Palestine; his father's death in 1934; supporting his family; Soviet occupation; Soviet military draft; capture during German invasion; escape; returning to Sasiv; forced labor; incarceration in concentration camps in Sasiv...

  20. Gola A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape recording of Gola A., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921. She recalls her orthodox childhood; attending public school; membership in a Zionist organization; German invasion; round-ups and shootings; ghettoization with her family; hiding with her mother during round-ups; a mass killing in the Jewish cemetery; a non-Jew briefly hiding her brother's children; forced labor in a clothing factory; one brother's deportation; deportation with two brothers to P?asz?ow in September 1943 (she never saw her parents, eldest brother, and other relatives again); slave labor; transfer to Aus...