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  1. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liber...

  2. Yugoslav Voices from the Holocaust /

    Many aspects of the history of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia are told through the voices of those that survived it. This edited program includes excerpts of Jews rescued by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; a Serbian non-Jewish rescuer whose husband was shot for hiding Jews; survivors of concentration camps in Yugoslavia; those deported elsewhere; camp escapees; and partisans. The survivor and witness testimonies were recorded in the United States, Israel, and the former Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1996. They tell of the Sephardic Jewish community before the war, life under the Nazis, l...

  3. Galina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Galina K., who was born in Pyatigory, Ukraine in 1923. She recalls her family's move to Munus (Crimea) during the famine; returning to Pyatigory in 1935; celebrating Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; graduating from high school in June 1941; German invasion; encountering Germans while fleeing east with her parents; returning home; her father's draft into the Soviet army; Germans killing her brother and uncle in front of them; burying them with assistance from non-Jews; forced labor; imprisonment in Zhashkov in spring 1942; a forced march to Buki; slave...

  4. Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in a village in Slovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death; attending school in Pres?ov and synagogue in Tern?a; participating in Maccabi; working on a hachsharah; military draft in 1936; demobilization in 1939; a sister's deportation; deportation with his family to Sabinov, then Pres?ov, in May 1942; transfer to Z?ilina, then a ghetto in Poland; selection for slave labor (he never saw his family again); receiving food from non-Jews; escaping with two others; traveling ...

  5. Irene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene F., who was born in Drohobych, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1931, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; Soviet occupation in September 1939; moving to avoid deportation to Siberia; German invasion in 1941; an immediate pogrom; hiding with non-Jews for three days; her brother's illness and death; her father and sister obtaining jobs exempting them from deportation; her father trading goods for food; hiding with her mother during round-ups; organizing classes with other children; her father obtaining work papers for her as a kitchen...

  6. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Paliseul, Belgium in 1917, one of two sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; living with an aunt in Bastogne; attending school in Boullion (his neighbor was Léon Degrelle); living in Sugny; enlisting in the military in 1936; assignment to barracks in Liège; marriage in June 1939; German invasion; his wife fleeing to England; brief capture as a prisoner of war; returning to Antwerp; recapture; forced farm labor in Meldorf; release; joining his father in Bastogne; repairing radios to provide access to the BBC; hiding membe...

  7. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Kharkiv, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his parents fleeing due to the revolution; their divorce when he was about three; living with his mother and her affluent family in Rīga; spending a summer in 1927 at his father's business in Kremintsi, then moving with him to Paris; studying textile engineering in Roubaix; spending summers in Rīga; not being able to return to Paris when war broke out in 1939; working in Soviet textile factories in Rīga, then Bolderāja; German invasion in July 1941; returning to Rīga; anti-Jewish ...

  8. Kopel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kopel K., who was born in Lakhva, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; briefly living in Sinkevichy; returning to Lakhva in 1930; his father's successful businesses in Chalanyets where they spent their summers; attending Hebrew school; joining Betar and other youth groups; antisemitic vandalism of their home; Soviet occupation in September 1939; attending a Soviet school; confiscation of the family businesses; his father's arrest and deportation in 1940; German occupation in July 1941; formation of a Juden...

  9. Gennadi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gennadi S., who was born in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg) in 1929, the older of two children. He recounts his mother was Jewish and his father was not; the family moving to Kiev when he was six months old; drills in preparation for military invasion beginning in 1940; German invasion on June 22, 1941; a notice for all Jews to report on September 29; his father deciding en route to turn back; learning thousands of Jews had been shot at Babi Yar that day; remaining in their apartment; a neighbor reporting they were illegally hiding a Jew; officers taking his mo...

  10. Sigmund J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigmund J., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls working in the family bakery; attacks on Hasidic children in school; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Przemys?l, then L?viv in the Soviet zone; working in Donbass; returning to L?viv; an aborted attempt to return home; working in bakeries in Boryslav and Truskavet?s??; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to Chrzano?w; forced labor in Sosnowiec, Bautrupp-Seybusch, K?obuck, Annaberg, and Klettendorf; smuggling food with a friend; receiving food from a Czech c...

  11. Esther S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther S., who was born in 1913 in Chernikhov, which later became a Czech city and is now in Ukraine. She recalls growing up in an affluent and modern orthodox family of nine children; one brother who was in the Czech army; a younger brother who escaped to Yugoslavia after German occupation of the Sudeten; her family's ghettoization in Uz?h?horod; crowded conditions and lack of food; transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; traumatic separation from her mother; meeting two nieces and remaining with them; the pervasive smell of burning flesh; transfer with her nieces to Tor...

  12. Rubin J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rubin J., who was born in Sosnowiec in 1928. He recalls antisemitic violence as a child; reporting for forced labor in his brother's place in 1940; building the autobahn in Geppersdorf; incarceration in Parzymiechy, Gross-Rosen, and Dachau; receiving Red Cross packages in Dachau; a severe whipping in one camp; being moved frequently in trains; a death march; seeing his brother briefly in 1944 in Gross-Rosen; liberation in May 1945; living in Garmisch and Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. J. discusses the loss of his e...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...