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  1. Klara and Dori L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara L., who was born in Banila, Bukovina in 1909 and her son Dori L., who is an interviewer for the first two hours of this testimony and is interviewed with his mother during the third hour. Mrs. L. describes the rich cultural world of her childhood; her family's flight during World War I and their eventual relocation in Czernowitz; her marriage and the birth of her son; and her pampered lifestyle while living as a married woman in her parents' home. She tells of the Russian occupation and the changes it effected; the anti-Jewish actions following the retreat of th...

  2. Hanna D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna D., who was born in northern Bohemia in 1928 and moved to Prague in 1938. Mrs. D.'s mother was Jewish and her father was a German Catholic, and Mrs. D. was raised as a Catholic. She describes her family's move to Prague when her father was dismissed from his civil service job for refusing to divorce his Jewish wife; her education; mistreatment by a Nazi teacher (though most Czechs were kind to her); her vivid recollections of incidents of abuse and abandonment of Jews from the rise of Nazism through the deportations; and her forced labor with other "half-castes"...

  3. Malka G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka G., who was born in Poland in 1929 and lived in B?edzin. She recalls fleeing the German invasion; returning to Be?dzin after a few days; burning of the synagogue; Jews from surrounding communities being assembled in Be?dzin for deportation; the Jewish Committee assigning her to forced labor; and transfer to Sosnowiec in 1942, then to a woolen goods factory in Gru?nberg. Mrs. G. recounts beatings, killings, selections and receiving food from non-Jews; a death march in January 1945 to Christianstadt, then Helmbrechts; Germans shooting those who attempted escape or...

  4. Eric S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; his father's large, extended family; his death in 1929; living with his maternal grandparents in Crailsheim in 1932; his bar mitzvah in 1934; his grandmother's death; beatings by an antisemitic teacher; the Nuremberg laws negative impact on the family business; their move to Stuttgart in 1936, thinking it would be better in a large city; being sent to boarding school in England in November 1936; several family visits through summer 1938; an American industria...

  5. Michele C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michele C., who was born in Paris, France in 1932. She recalls a happy childhood in an assimilated, affluent family; moving to La Celle-Saint-Cloud; her father's military draft in 1939; visiting him in Arcachon in May 1940; German invasion; living with her grandparents, brother, and governess in Juan-les-Pins; joining her parents in Saint-Etienne a year later; her parents placing her and her brother in a boarding house for children due to the presence of many Germans; weekend visits with their parents; vacationing in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon with their governess; her gra...

  6. Monsignor John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Monsignor John W., who was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1905. He tells of his parents' emigration from Russian Poland in the 1890s; graduate education in Switzerland and summers in Poland in 1928-1930; serving as a U.S. Army chaplain during the war; and his ministry in the Twentieth Armored Division, which captured Munich. He vividly recalls their entry into Dachau; learning of the deaths of some 1,000 Polish priests there; visiting the crematoria where victims were still being burned; viewing mutilated bodies of kapos and guard dogs massacred by the freed prisone...

  7. Leon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon F., who was born in Berez?h?any, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Ukraine) in 1908. Mr. F. recalls hiding with his family when the town was burned in World War I; antisemitic harassment; attending yeshiva in Stanis?awo?w; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; attending medical school in Prague and theological school in Frankfurt; working as a gynecologist in Warsaw; his father's death in 1938; German invasion; draft into the Polish military; finding his unit had been destroyed in Min?sk Mazowiecki; escaping to the Soviet occupied zone; imprisonment as a spy; draft into t...

  8. Fira Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fira Z., who was born in Shpola, Ukraine in 1925. She recalls observing Jewish holidays; attending Ukrainian school; joining Komsomol; German occupation; her family's evacuation attempt; returning when Germans overtook them; forced labor; her father's non-Jewish friend arranging to hide her brother with relatives (he survived); selections and round-ups; her father's arrest and incarceration in a labor camp near Zvenigorodka; a German policeman warning her about an upcoming mass killing; fleeing to Zlatopolʹ with her mother; obtaining a false birth certificate; escapin...

  9. Margaret L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret L., who was born in Tren?ci?n, Czechoslovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1905. She recalls moving to Vienna in 1914; her father's death shortly thereafter; attending high school and business school; participating in a 1920 work/study program in Holland; returning to Vienna to help support her family; marriage in 1924; emigration to Budapest, Hungary; her daughter's birth in 1931; and her mother's and sister's emigration to London after the Anschluss. Mrs. L. recounts hearing rumors of concentration camps; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrict...

  10. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., whose family moved to Belgium when he was one. He recalls their socialist leanings; enlisting in the Belgian army; posting to France; traveling to Rouen to escape capture; reunion with his parents in Vichy and brother in Toulouse; their return to Brussels; joining the Resistance in 1941; warning Jews not to go for foreign labor (deportation); actions against Germans; hiding Jewish children; orders to report to Malines with his family; hiding; his parents' attempt to reach Switzerland; his brother's escape to England; arrest; imprisonment in St. Gilles; help f...

  11. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, in 1921. She tells of her family's move to Kon?skie, Poland; the outbreak of war in 1939 while she was nearby in Przedbo?rz; fleeing with her boyfriend to Ostro?w Lubelski in the Soviet zone; his return; and her marriage to a local artist/musician. Mrs. S. recalls the German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's murder in an Aktion; working as a housekeeper for German soldiers; hiding during a round-up in which her in-laws were taken; being forewarned of Aktions by a German soldier; and escaping with false papers to Zdolbu...

  12. Ernst W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernst W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910, an only child. He recalls attending school until 1924; his father losing his business during the hyperinflation; harassment by and street fights with Nazis; joining the Zionist group Hechalutz; agricultural training in Neuendorf to prepare for emigration, seeing no future in Germany as a Jew; his girlfriend's emigration to the United States; his emigration to Palestine in 1937; getting his parents out in 1939; his father's death a year later; his marriage; his son's birth in 1940; learning of the camps and exterminati...

  13. Gabrielle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabrielle S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933. She recounts her father's family pharmacy; emigration to Amsterdam in 1938, intending to flee to Argentina; German invasion; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; disappearances of teachers and students after round-ups; learning two of her grandparents in Germany committed suicide rather than being deported; notice for deportation to Westerbork; giving her teddy bear to a non-Jewish friend (she returned it after the war); vermin, poor sanitar...

  14. David W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David W., who was born in Poland in 1927. He recalls attending public school for five years; a boycott of Jewish stores and harassment of Jews in school; his father's death in the spring of 1939; German invasion; deportation to a labor camp; recovering from typhus; and transfer to Auschwitz. He recounts two years in Birkenau; seeing piles of corpses; cruel kapos; meeting a man who was castrated there; emotional numbness; volunteering in order to leave Birkenau; clearing bombed buildings in Warsaw after the ghetto uprising; transport to Dachau, then Mu?hldorf; and libe...

  15. Betty L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty L., who was born in Kozovo, Galicia (presently Ukrainian S.S.R.) in 1910. She describes her orthodox family life; German occupation; collaboration with the Nazis by some local Ukrainians; ghettoization; her mother's death; deportation of her two young children and mother-in-law (she never saw them again); hiding with her husband and other relatives; aid received from Poles and Ukrainians; working for Germans using false papers; and the murders of her father and sister. Mrs. L. tells of liberation by Soviet troops in April 1945; her son's birth in the Landsberg d...

  16. Adam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russia) in 1905. He recounts growing up in ?o?dz?; his family identifying themselves with Polish, not Jewish culture; his brother's execution and his father's imprisonment during the Russian Revolution; obtaining a degree in electrical engineering; retuning to Warsaw; employment by the government beginning in 1931; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; evacuation with his wife and daughter to Romania due to his employment status; volunteering for the Polish military in France; separation from his family; German invasio...

  17. Gusta K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gusta K., who was born in Ra?da?ut?ii, Romania in 1932, one of two sisters. Ms. K. recounts deportation with her family by Romanians to Podil?s?kyi? when she was eight; confiscation of all their valuables, including clothing; transfer to the Bershad ghetto; selling candy to support her family; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; traveling to Bulgaria; boarding a ship for Palestine with her sister; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for three months; arrival in Palestine; marriage in 1950; her son's birth in 1953; emigration to the United Sta...

  18. Sylvia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia K., who was born in Smorgon?, Belarus (then Poland) and raised in Oshmyany. She recalls teaching kindergarten in Vilna; returning to Oshmyany; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; the mass murder of Jewish men and boys, including her husband; ghettoization; her mother's deportation; transfer in 1943 with her sister, aunt and their children to several labor camps, then to Palemonas; a round-up of all children, including her daughter; transfer to the Kovno ghetto, then Stutthof; forced labor at several camps; sharing her clothes with her sister; and libera...

  19. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Simleul-Silvaniei, Romania in 1928, the ninth of twelve children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; attending cheder and public school; Hungarian occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; working for a non-Jewish furniture maker to learn the trade; his older brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion in 1944; a round-up; giving his father's watch to a family friend; incarceration in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; privileged work in a kitchen; contact with his sisters; throwing them food a...

  20. Leon J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917. He recalls serving in the Polish army; German invasion; capture; forced labor as a POW; return to Poland in April 1940; ghettoization; obtaining a privileged position; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in August 1944 (his two brothers remained behind); transfer to Braunschweig days later; slave labor in a car factory; train transport to Ravensbru?ck in February 1945, then to Ludwigslust in April; liberation by United States troops on May 2; living in a displaced persons camp; learning his brothers had survived; m...