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  1. Alex P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex P., who was born in Szerencs, Hungary, one of eight children. He speaks of his happy life before the war, when he ran his father's bakery. He recalls the rise of Nazism in Szerencs in the late 1930s and tells how, in 1938/1939, he was drafted into the Jewish slave labor brigade of the Hungarian army and separated from his pregnant wife, whom he never saw again. He talks of working in Galicia, Munkacs, and elsewhere in Poland; of his stay in a quarantine camp in Transnistria; and of accompanying his brigade to Budapest, where he was liberated in January, 1945. Mr....

  2. Kenneth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth F., who was born in Richtenberg, Germany in 1921. He recounts attending the local public school and religious school in Stralsund; non-Jewish friends not longer associating with him after they joined the Hitler Youth; the impact of the Nuremberg laws, including not being allowed to employ non-Jews; living with his aunt in Berlin in fall 1935 to attend a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; matriculation in 1938; masonry training in preparation for emigration; receiving permission to emigrate to Manchester, England as a trainee in 1939; working as a brick-layer trai...

  3. Leopold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold S., who was born in Hlohovec, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1904, one of five children. He recounts a brother's death at age two (he did not know him); going to Polgár with his brother and working there; visiting his sister who had moved to London and friends in Heidelberg with his swimming club; moving to Bratislava; marriage; anti-Jewish restrictions by the new Slovak state, including wearing the star (he shows his); his mother's death after his sister was deported; posing as a non-Jew in Levice; hiding with his wife in several locations...

  4. Leonard L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard L., who was born in 1922 in Japan to Russian parents, and served with the United States Army 82nd airborne division in World War II. He recounts meeting the Soviets in Ludwigslust; entering Wo?bbelin concentration camp in May 1945; "ambulatory corpses" milling around, including young children; piles of corpses; the pervasive, nauseating stench, which stays with him to the present time; speaking with survivors (he spoke Russian, German and French); survivors dying after giving them candy bars or other rich foods; German civilians feigning ignorance of the camp;...

  5. Maxi L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maxi L., who was born in Lyon, France in 1925, the oldest of fifteen children. He recounts his parents' Moroccan background; fleeing briefly during German invasion; his two-year apprenticeship in Villeurbanne; working in Lyon; being caught in a round-up in April 1943; internment in Montluc prison; a beating for trying to contact his family; transfer to Drancy in July; writing to his parents; deportation to Auschwitz in September; being selected (one of 100-120 of 1,200) for work; quarantine until October; remaining with French friends and Greeks who spoke French; tran...

  6. Walter B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter B., who was born in Coburg, Germany in 1911. He describes cordial relations with non-Jews until the Nazi period; arrest with his father and older brother in 1933; their release after three weeks; having to liquidate the family business and property; joining relatives in Berlin; both of his brothers emigrating to Palestine; increasing restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; forced labor; marriage in 1941; his parents' deportation; a factory supervisor warning him of an impending action to liquidate Jews; a non-Jewish friend advising him that one of the ...

  7. Sonja S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja S., who was born in Hamburg in 1927 to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. She recalls living in Duisburg; her mother's death; living with her maternal great-aunt in Hamburg; moving back with her father, brother and stepmother in Berlin in 1936; destruction of her father's store on Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Poland; seeing her father once at the border; his escape; her parents placing her and her brother in a Catholic orphanage (she had been baptized) to wait for a kindertransport to England; her parents' escape to Holland and Belgium; the outbr...

  8. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Krummau, Czechoslovakia in 1934 to a Jewish mother and German-Catholic father. Mrs. S. recounts her father's affluent family; being doted upon as the first grandchild; German annexation; fleeing to Budweis in September 1938; being joined by her maternal grandparents and uncle; attending Catholic school; the impact of curfews and wearing a star on her mother; her grandparents' and uncle's deportation in April 1942 (she never saw them again); her father leaving for forced labor in August 1944 due to his marriage to a Jew; her mother's deportati...

  9. Philip K. and Isabella L. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Philip K., whose first testimony was recorded in 1989. Mr. K. describes Jewish education, culture, and community in Kisva?rda; ghettoization by Hungarian troops in spring 1944, including thousands from surrounding areas; his recognition of danger in spite of others' Hungarian patriotism; deportation to Auschwitz; the entirely different conception of time in concentration camps; a rabbi who kept a mental Jewish calendar and helped him maintain kashruth; dealing with entirely new moral issues; the uncontrollable power of hunger; his desperation whe...

  10. Alice M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recollects a strong Jewish influence in her childhood; the enthusiastic welcome for German troops in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; an uncle in Venezuela who arranged for their family to go to Trinidad; SS men coming to their home in the middle of the night on Kristallnacht, kicking her father down the stairs and arresting him; her mother arranging for his release; their departure on November 20th; and her confusion and fright. Mrs. M. tells of travel to Amsterdam, then to Trinidad; help received from the s...

  11. Rena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena S., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland in 1929. She recalls a comfortable life; visiting grandparents in Kalisz and ?o?dz?; German invasion in September 1939; walking to ?o?dz?; returning home shortly thereafter; confiscation of their home; living with grandparents in Kalisz; confiscation of their home; returning to her parents; ghettoization; her younger sister's selection in 1942 (she never saw her again); rail transport to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with relatives; forced factory labor; hospitalization for typhus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; s...

  12. Keith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Col. Keith S., who served in the United States Army Infantry during World War II. He recalls induction in July 1941; posting overseas in October 1943; participating in campaigns including the Battle of the Bulge; his assignment to seek and assist Allied prisoners of war; entering Buchenwald shortly after its liberation; unexpectedly finding civilian inmates in debilitated condition; stacks of bodies; total lack of sanitation; the relatively better condition of military prisoners; completing his assignment to assist Allied war prisoners; and leaving with his unit after...

  13. Sarna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarna S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1909. She recalls participating in Zionist activities; marriage; her son's birth in 1937; hearing of the deportation of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938; choosing not to emigrate to Uruguay (her husband had family there) without her father; German invasion; her husband fleeing to Italy and Uruguay; fleeing to Tarno?w with her son, father, and brother in December 1941; her brother's deportation to Auschwitz (they received a letter stating he died from pneumonia in June 1942); hiding her father in a cellar during round-ups (h...

  14. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1914. He recalls his parents' grocery business; their separation in 1931 (his father moved to Romania); celebrating religious holidays; attending business school; his belief that Nazi antisemitism would pass; Stuttgart's liberal atmosphere; exemption from wearing the yellow star due to his mother's Romanian citizenship; losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; destruction of his mother's store during Kristallnacht; moving with his mother and sister into Jewish housing; working in a Jewish center processing emigration app...

  15. Sylvia J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia J., who was born Brooklyn, New York. She recalls joining the United States Army in March 1943; being set to Europe after the war; stationing at Frankfurt in August 1945; obtaining a job with UNRRA; working at Landsberg displaced persons camp orgainizing food distribution; trying to understand the survivors' struggles to restore their lives; a Purim and Passover celebration; minimal interaction with Germans; resigning from UNRRA in November 1946; and returning to the United States.

  16. Amalie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalie S., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1922, one of three daughters. She recounts her family moving to Stanislav after Hitler's ascent to power; attending a Jewish gymnasium; summer visits to grandparents in Dilyatyn; her sister's emigration to Palestine; Soviet occupation; Hungarian invasion followed by German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and release; hiding her father during a round-up; a mass killing including her mother and sister; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's job at the Judenrat; public hanging of every ...

  17. David W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David W., who was born in Chzarno?w, Poland in 1921. He describes a barber's apprenticeship; antisemitism beginning in 1935; German invasion; fleeing east; digging graves for a mass killing in Trzebinia; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor in Libia?z? in 1940; transfer with his brother to Bobrek in 1941; their transport to Sosnowiec, then Blechhammer, in May 1942; switching places to avoid separation from his brother; their transfer to Brande; transfer to a work camp in Sudetenland; improved conditions; working as a barber in an adjacent POW camp; learning of the Chzar...

  18. Marie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie B., who was born in Kuchava, Czechoslovakia in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts her father's death when she was three; attending school in Kuz?mino and Mukachevo; Hungarian occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation with her family to the Munka?cs ghetto during Passover 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother upon arrival; transfer with her sisters and aunt to Birkenau; sorting deportees' possessions in Canada Kommando, which provided them with extra food and a close view of the gas chambers and crematoria;...

  19. Arnold C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold C., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1933. He recalls German invasion on June 22, 1941; separation from his father while fleeing; traveling to Jonava with his mother and sister; brief incarceration in the Seventh and Ninth Forts in Kovno; reunion with his father; ghettoization; his father acquiring a false work certificate; a selection in October 1941, followed by mass killings in the Ninth Fort; transfer with his family to a labor camp in 1943; his father hiding him during the "children's aktion"; working to avoid deportation; his mother's and sister's remo...

  20. Shalom K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shalom K., who was born in Opoczno, Poland in 1918, an only child. He recounts two older siblings who died prior to his birth; moving to Łódź; his father's strong Zionism; attending a Yavneh school, then one conducted in Polish; participating in Bene ʻAḳiva; antisemitic harassment; singing in the synagogue and in performances by Itzhak Katzenelson's theater company; German invasion preventing his emigration to Palestine; fleeting east with his father; round-up with other Jews in Mszczonów; Germans killing Jews by randomly shooting into the crowd; their return to Ł...