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  1. Maurice D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice D., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland in 1924. He describes his Orthodox family; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother to Warsaw; returning to Nowe Miasto; slave labor in the ghetto and in a camp in East Prussia; deportation with his family to Birkenau via Plonsk in November 1942; separation from his parents and sisters upon arrival; transfer with his brother to Auschwitz; working the night shift in the Canada Kommando; transfer with his brother to I.G. Farben in Buna/Monowitz in 1943; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; buildi...

  2. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. She recounts her mother was British; having three older siblings; attending private school until her mother's death in 1934; participating in the Zionist youth groups Mizrachi and Maccabi; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family, an aunt, uncle, and their two children; a non-Jewish farmer sheltering them for three weeks; staying in Lille six weeks; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; obtaining visas to Venezuela; emigration to Havana via Spain; and arrival in the United States in September 1941. Ms. ...

  3. Aharon A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon A., a prize-winning, internationally recognized author, who was born in Zhadova, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1932, the only child of an affluent family. He recounts the family move to Chernivt︠s︡i shortly after his birth; their assimilated life style; his gentle, loving, and privileged childhood until age eight; speaking German and Yiddish; Soviet occupation; fear of exile to Siberia; German invasion; hearing gun shots from his bed in their country home; hiding in nearby fields; reuniting with his father who told him his mother and grandmother had been kille...

  4. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1926, one of eleven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); remaining with her sisters; transfer to a farm; slave labor with two sisters digging anti-tank trenches; another sister working for a German soldier and sharing extra food with them; a death march; escaping with her sisters and two o...

  5. Henry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in 1920 in Nowy Korczyn, Poland. He recalls his religious home; ubiquitous antisemitism; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion; immediate round-up and shooting of 200 young men; public hangings; anti-Jewish regulations; forced transfer to the Sosnowiec ghetto in November 1942; deportation to Reigersfeld; slave labor, starvation, frequent beatings leading to many suicides; his decision to commit suicide after one year; and transfer to Auschwitz and Blechhammer, before he could implement his plan. Mr. F. describes encountering hi...

  6. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Hebrew gymnasium in Ungva?r with two sisters and a brother; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; German invasion in 1944; orders for forced relocation to Ungva?r; a neighbor hiding her and one sister; deciding to join their family; ghettoization in a brick factory for six weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; her older sister sending her child with her mother, not knowing it was to the gas chamber; remaining with her two sisters; not recognizing each o...

  7. Leopold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold S., who was born in Facimiech, Poland in 1920, the fourth of six children. He recounts living with an aunt in Kraków for two years, then with an uncle in Skawina to attend school; his family's move to Kraków; apprenticing as a barber and in a factory; assisting in his father's store; winning a scholarship to art school in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and three brothers to Kaunas, then Soviet-occupied Lʹviv; finding jobs; their deportation by Soviets in spring 1940 to Arkhangelʹsk; forced labor; receiving one letter from his mother and siste...

  8. Mordka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordka K., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland, in 1921. Mr. K. tells of his childhood in a religious home; local Jews' disbelief of conditions in Germany related by Zbaszyn? deportees; fleeing to ?o?dz? during the German invasion; return home; being rounded-up and imprisoned at Sieradz in November 1939; release; and telling his family of his decision to escape to the Soviet zone. He recounts abuse by Germans while crossing the border at Ma?kinia; going to Bia?ystok; living with other refugees in Volkovysk; arrest in spring 1940; deportation to a Siberian labor camp...

  9. Paul K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul K., a non-Jew, who was born in Ans, Belgium in 1921. He recalls a happy childhood; moving to Liège with his family in 1938; working for an insurance firm; German invasion; distributing Resistance leaflets in 1942; forming a group aiming to escape to England; traveling from Arlon to Chalon-sur-Saône; imprisonment in Dijon; a two-month sentence; transfer to another prison; refusing to "volunteer" for work in Germany; transfer to St. Gilles, then Forest; deportation to Dachau in February 1943; forming friendships; hospitalization for typhus; a prisoner physician t...

  10. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1920. He recalls German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish measures; volunteering to meet his family's labor quota; deportation to Geppersdorf; building the Reichsautobahn for over a year; transfer to Brande where he found his brother; transfer to an I.G. Farben camp where his brother died; transfer to Marksta?dt, where an engineer provided extra food; working in an ammunition factory in Sudetenland, then another camp where civilian workers provided extra food; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts the arrival of women...

  11. Lea Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea Z., who was born in Karlovac, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1932. She recounts her family's affluence; visiting Zagreb; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest as a hostage by the Ustaša; bringing him food; his transfer to Zagreb (he was executed in retaliation for a partisan attack, but her mother did not tell her); her landlord's mother-in-law taking her to Kranj; her mother's arrival three weeks later, then her grandmother's; hearing that Germans were coming; fleeing to Trieste; receiving permission to live in Concordia; attending an Italian ...

  12. Franka N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franka N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, one of seven children. She recalls her large extended family; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Paris; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's death from starvation; deportation of siblings and her mother; public hangings of escapees; the agony of mothers when their children were taken from them; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 with a sister, cousin, and her cousin's baby; deportation with her sister two weeks later; slave labor in an airplane factory; a death march to Bergen-Bels...

  13. Michel T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel T., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, an only child. He recounts moving to his aunt's home in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) when he was seven; his bar mitzvah; attending high school; being accused of sabotage after Hitler's ascent to power in 1933; fleeing to Bordeaux; visiting his family in Poland in 1937; moving to Vienna; Austrians warmly welcoming the Germans during the Anschluss; anti-Jewish violence; fleeing with his fiance?e in late October 1938; interrogation by the Gestapo in Saarbru?cken; release by the Gestapo and their assistance crossi...

  14. Nandor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nandor G., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1924. Mr. G. recounts attending cheder; leaving school due to Jewish quotas; training as a stone-cutter; working birefly in Budapest; Hungarian occupation in 1941; ghettoization; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; railroad work in Szeged; witnessing transports of Jews in cattle cars; a World War I war veteran in his group obtaining permission from the city Kommandant to remain as Soviet troops approached; liberation by the Soviets in September 1944; returning to Subotica; learning his family and almo...

  15. Avraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. He recounts his family's farm; attending public school and cheder, locally, then in Irshava; bar mitzvah; attending yeshiva in Uz︠h︡horod; learning tailoring in Bergovo (Berehove); Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1938; joining the Communist Party; arrest; being sent home; returning to Budapest; his sister joining him; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jew helping him escape from a labor detail; returning home, then back to Budapest three weeks later; draft into a Hungarian sla...

  16. Alberto I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alberto I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, one of ten children. He recounts three brothers and a sister emigrating to Congo; the early deaths of two younger siblings; cordial relations with local Greeks; attending a Catholic school; participating in fascist activities; enactment of Italian anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from the Fascist party and school; attending a Jewish school; destruction of their house in an Allied bombing; German occupation in 1943; a deportation order for all Jews; the Turkish consul saving Jews with Turkish citizenship;...

  17. Esther F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther F., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1923. She describes a happy childhood in a family of seven children; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; separation from her mother and sisters during a selection; learning of their murders in a mass killing from her brother, who escaped from the mass grave; transfer to a labor camp with her father and brothers; her fiancé joining her; sharing extra food with fellow prisoners; requesting her father's transfer to the ghetto hospital when he was ill; transfer to Stutthof; separation from her fath...

  18. Kurt B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt B., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1923. He recalls antisemitic incidents in public school in 1935; transferring to a Jewish school; assistance from his father's business partner; loss of the family business after Kristallnacht; forced relocation to Mu?lheim; arrest of his father and brother in 1939 (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); moving to Berlin and Frankfurt posing as a non-Jew with false papers; arrest in Leipzig; transfer to Klingelpuetz prison; forced labor in Koeln/Deutz; deportation to Auschwitz; finding ...

  19. Klara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara K., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, one of three children. She recounts her family's long history in Mukacheve; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in 1944; her non-Jewish boyfriend's offer to hide her; declining so she could stay with her family; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; separation with her mother, aunt, and cousin from her father and brothers (one brother survived); a fellow prisoner giving birth (the infant was killed); a kapo protecting her and her mother; transf...

  20. Akiva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Akiva K., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1929. He describes his affluent family; antisemitic incidents; moving to Warsaw shortly before German invasion; returning to Katowice; his father traveling to the Soviet-occupied zone; living with his grandmother in Wolbrom; his bar mitzvah; moving to Sosnowiec; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; staying in a village with his father; returning to his mother in Sosnowiec; being protected from deportation by a doctor who lived with his mother; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker; obtaining false papers; a futile escape attempt...