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  1. Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls celebrating Easter and Christmas; moving to Kiel in 1926; antisemitic abuse in school; moving to Frankfurt in 1931; Nazi demonstrations; leaving school in March 1933; her parents changing her name to the more "Aryan"-sounding "Dora"; traveling to Switzerland in April 1933; moving to Manchester; assistance from the Jewish community, her first contact with other Jews; attending nursing school in London in 1938; the school's evacuation to Wales in September 1940; and emigration to the United States in 1940. ...

  2. Lilly F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of seven children of a rebbe. She recounts her mother's death in 1937; her older sister's emigration to the United States; her father's futile emigration efforts, including a trip to Portugal; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; working in a factory to help support her family; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return nine months later; German invasion; deportation to Irshava, then the Munkács ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father and...

  3. Mikhail B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikhail B., who was born in Tulʹchin, Ukraine in 1927. He recalls a happy childhood; his observant home; German invasion; the draft of most men into the Soviet military; his father staying to dismantle factory machinery; arrival of German troops; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to Peciora about a month later; mass shootings of young men; starvation and beatings; his younger brother and father dying; escaping with friends at night to obtain food for his mother and sister; being caught; being locked up and beaten in Brat︠s︡lav, then Vyshkove; surviv...

  4. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Chop, Czechoslovakia in 1925 to a family of nine children. She recalls growing up in Uz?h?horod; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her father's arrest for assisting relatives escaping from Slovakia; German occupation in 1944; refusing to leave her family when non-Jews offered to provide false papers and hide her; forced relocation to a lumber yard; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and brothers upon arrival; twice going through selections as a replacement for her younger, weaker sister; their transfer to Stutthof; working at a...

  5. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. He describes his sister's deportation; building railroads in a Hungarian labor camp in Transylvania in 1944; evacuation of German troops as the Soviet army advanced; escaping with his friend to Budapest with assistance from a Hungarian guard; reunion with his mother in the Budapest ghetto; collapse of the Horthy regime; worsening conditions; learning of his division's evacuation to Budapest; and rejoining his labor battalion. He recalls escaping with help from the underground; acquiring false documents and shelter f...

  6. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1925, one of seven children. He recalls attending cheder; German invasion in 1939; forced labor in Płaszów and Wieliczka; his family fleeing to Będzin during a round-up in 1942; returning to Wolbrom, then going back to Będzin; living with cousins; transport with four brothers and his sister to Sosnowiec, then Brande; his cousin helping him get a privileged job in the kitchen; transfer to Graeditz; slave labor in a munitions factory; becoming ill; his cousin's death; receiving extra food from German bakers; transfer to Gr...

  7. Juliette H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juliette H., who was born in Oran, Algeria in 1925, one of eight children. She describes the vibrant Jewish community; cordial relations with the Arabs; her family's Jewish holiday celebrations; antisemitism during lycee? entrance exams; receiving a scholarship; antisemitic policies after formation of the Vichy government; food shortages; expulsion of Jewish students from schools; non-Jewish teachers offering them private lessons; her father's loss of his government job; liberation by United States troops in December 1942; hosting Allied troops; her younger brother's ...

  8. Alexander A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Otwock; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; moving to the Warsaw ghetto; his father's job as policeman; studying with a private tutor; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his grandfather's death from starvation; his father placing his sister in a workshop to save her from deportation (he never saw her again); his father removing him and his mother from the Umschlagplatz several times after they had been rounded-up for deportation; his father weeping after ro...

  9. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. He recalls not understanding why he had to change schools after the Anschluss; his family's illegal emigration to Brussels; extended family following; fleeing to Arras, France during German invasion in 1940; arrest by the French due to their German accents; release by the Germans; returning to Brussels; deportation with his parents to Malines in August 1942, then eastward; removal from the train of men aged eighteen to forty-five, including him and his father (they never saw his mother again); slave labo...

  10. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children in an orthodox family. She recalls fleeing toward Krako?w when Germany invaded in 1939; living there briefly with relatives; returning home; moving in with relatives (their house and business had been pillaged); her parents' deportation in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated; discovering her sister and brother had been deported; her deportation to Sosnowiec, then Neusalz; slave labor in a thread factory; a death march; obtaining food for herself and a friend; briefly staying in Gross-Rose...

  11. Ivan I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivan I., who was born in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1929. He recounts cordial relations in an ethnically and religiously diverse community; his family's conversion to Christianity; their German affinity (his parents and grandfather attended German medical schools); his father's military service; German invasion in April 1941; his paternal grandparents' suicide; his aunt from Hungarian-occupied Novi Sad bringing him and his sister to live with her (he never saw his parents again); attending gymnasium using his baptismal papers; a massacre of Jews and S...

  12. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-717), Mr. P. recounts a forced march to Siedlce, then Ostro?e?ka in 1939; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to ?osice with his sister and brother-in-law en route to Soviet-occupied territory; working as a Soviet policeman after the war; deserting in April 1945; traveling to Lublin; obtaining false papers from an official; and traveling west to Katowice, then Wroc?aw.

  13. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. Ms. G. recounts her father's parents were Jewish, but he had been baptized, and her mother was a German Christian; their divorce in 1935; joining the Bund Deutscher Ma?del (BDM); her father's arrest in 1938 for marrying a non-Jewish German; his release and emigration to Bolivia in 1940; her paternal grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt (she never saw her again); expulsion from the BDM and school in 1942 due to the Nuremberg laws; mandatory domestic work for a year; assignment to a lab...

  14. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...

  15. Hana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana K., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielke, Poland in 1926 to a family of eight children. She recalls her father's death in 1930; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; deportation of two of her brothers; escaping during a round-up by Jewish police; forced factory work in the ghetto; obtaining a job for her mother to protect her from deportation; hiding with a sister during the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with her sisters to a shoe factory (she never saw her mother and brothers again); forced labor in Ludwigsdorf; liberation; marriage; traveling with her husb...

  16. Jaire J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaire J., who was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls attending university; his Hungarian patriotism; working as a textile engineer; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1938; brief draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions in 1940 and 1941; being recalled in 1942; serving in Kiev and on the Russian front doing menial and dangerous labor; a humane supervisor; escaping with a large group in 1944; entering Majdanek shortly after its liberation; realizing the immense Jewish destruction; being sent to a forced labor camp in Siberia; release in 1946...

  17. Willi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willi E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany in 1927. He remembers traveling and performing prior to Hitler's ascent to power; racial laws requiring them to live in barracks in 1937-1938; persecution of Jews; deportation of young Romani men; his deportation to a prison camp in Bia?ystok; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in Brzesc Litewski (Brest); deportation to Auschwitz in 1943 (his mother and two siblings were gassed); slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops in 1945; searching for relatives; marriage; and postwar h...

  18. Rudy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy F., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1922, the older of two children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their affluence; attending a Czech, then a Hebrew school; belonging to Betar; his parents' many charitable acts; Hungarian occupation in 1938; antisemitism among his peers; the brutality of the Hungarian field police; draft with his uncle into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; assignments in Szombathely, Uz?h?horod, and other locations; working for Organisation Todt; transfer to Gunskirchen, then Mauthausen; death march...

  19. Maurice M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his confusion at the arrival of Jews expelled from Germany; German invasion; deportation to a labor camp in November 1939; his mother arranging his escape to Tarno?w by bribing a German; living with his brother and sister in Niepo?omice; an emotional meeting with his mother outside the ghetto with assistance from a German (he never saw her again); digging mass graves and burying corpses in Wieliczka; transfer to P?aszo?w; working for a cable factory; joining his brother in the Krako?w ghetto with assistan...

  20. Heinz K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz K., who was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He describes growing up in Thessalonike?; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; his parents' assignment as translators (he and his family spoke German); a death march and train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; looking for his mother and sister en route (he did not find them); transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; separation from his father; hospitalization; and liberation by United States troops.