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  1. Bella C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bella C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She describes her family's prewar life; German occupation; serious injuries from being beaten by a German while trying to protect her mother; fleeing with her father and her younger sister to Bia?ystok to obtain medical attention (she lost an eye); meeting her future husband; traveling with her father and future husband to Omsk; marriage; birth of her daughter; working as a waitress; her husband's return to Omsk after a year of service in the Soviet army; returning to Poland; learning her mother and sisters had been ki...

  2. Karl P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl P., who was born in Grodziec, Poland in 1917. He recalls working in the family business; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; volunteering for a labor camp in February 1940 to meet his family's quota; deportation to Jeles?nia; sharing packages from home with fellow prisoners; volunteering for transfer to K?obuck in 1941; visiting his sister with assistance from a German; the German helping him to avoid punishment and obtain an easier job; assistance from a Polish guard; losing contact with his parents in 1942 (he never saw them agai...

  3. Edward S. and Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edward S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 and is accompanied by his friend Frank S. He describes his education in Warsaw, moving to Bia?ystok and L?vov; aspiring to be a poet and writer; participation in a literary circle in L?vov which included Frank S.; escape from liquidation of the L?vov ghetto; hiding on Frank S.' balcony; pretending to be a German Jew to acquire a job; escape from the ghetto dressed as a German soldier; running and hiding; and being caught and sent to Buchenwald. He relates his experiences in Buchenwald from 1943 until liberation in Apri...

  4. Aladar M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aladar M., who was born in Ti?rgu-La?pus?, Romania in 1927. He describes Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in 1944; deportation with his parents and three brothers to Dej; living for three weeks in a forest camp; separation from his parents and youngest brother upon arrival in Birkenau (he never saw them again); transfer with his oldest brother to Longwy-Thil to build a factory; his indifference upon learning of D-Day; harsh conditions working in a salt mine in Kochendorf in the fall of 1944; transport with his brother to Dachau...

  5. Manfred M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manfred M., who was born in Marxheim, Germany in 1919, one of two children. He recounts living with his grandparents; moving to Ho?chst an der Nidder in 1933; the erosion of his friendships with non-Jews; being stoned; expulsion from school in 1935 (he was the only Jewish student); working in a shoe factory; receiving an affidavit from relatives in the United States; emigrating to the United States via Hamburg in 1936; meeting his future wife in 1937 (also a German-Jewish e?migre?); working hard to have his parents, sister, and grandparents join him in 1938, following...

  6. Schifre Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Schifre Z., who was born in Dolhinow, near Vilna, Poland, in 1929. Using vivid and poetic language, and taking care to name the Polish non-Jews who helped her and her family, Mrs. Z. describes her prewar childhood; the German occupation of her town; forced labor; the suffering of her brother at the hands of the Nazis; the liquidation and burning of her town while she hid in a nearby village, and what she saw when she returned; and hiding with her family, first in the attics of the house and barn of sympathetic non-Jews, and later, when this became unsafe, in the fores...

  7. Maria G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria G., who was born in Zhornishche, Ukraine in 1928. She recalls her family's move to Kiev in 1934 due to the famine; attending a Ukrainian school; German invasion in 1941; her father's draft; German occupation in September; the order for all Jews to assemble on Melnikov Square on September 29; losing her mother and younger siblings en route to Babi Yar; watching the shooting of all Jews; her terror and fear; moving out of line with her neighbor's daughter; pretending to be Ukrainian sisters, with assistance from a Ukrainian translator; hiding with their Ukrainian ...

  8. Thomas F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), in 1934, the oldest of three children. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; many non-Jewish friends in their building; Passover celebrations with about two hundred relatives; beatings by Hlinka guards during a visit to his grandparents in 1939; harassment by Hlinka guards and others; forced relocation to another apartment in approximately 1940; exemption from deportation obtained by his father's non-Jewish friend; round-up in September 1944; his mother marking the required forms tha...

  9. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L., who was born in Vienna in 1925. She recalls with fondness her childhood in Vienna; the change in the situation of the Jews beginning in the spring of 1938; being sent to Holland in November, 1938, by her parents, who later perished; her placement in two different foster families; the arrival of her brother in Holland at the end of 1938; and going into hiding in 1942 with the help of a cousin and his non-Jewish girlfriend. She describes living as a Dutch non-Jew by means of false papers; aid from non-Jews, including the Dutch police; and the day to day difficu...

  10. Michel V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel V., a non-Jew, who was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1916, one of three brothers. He recounts moving to Lier; encountering veterans of World War I; attending school; working in Anderlecht; marriage in 1936; his son's birth; serving in the military; an influx of Jewish refugees; becoming a policeman in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; arresting Communists, Rexists, and those identified as enemy aliens in Brussels; attempting to re-join his military regiment; Belgian capitulation to Germany; capture by the Germans in Antwerp; returning home; joining the undergrou...

  11. Edith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Babenhausen, Germany in 1918. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment prior to Hitler; helping victims of Nazi violence; Nazis frequently vandalizing the family business starting in 1931; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933; emigration of several siblings to the United States; her father's severe beating by Nazis; receiving affidavits from her siblings to emigrate to the United States; traveling to Stuttgart with her parents in July 1933; emigration to the United States with her father in October; her mother...

  12. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1926, one of six children. She recounts being raised in Oradea; her family's orthodoxy; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; help from non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selection with two sisters; humiliation, deprivation, and beatings; working near the crematoria; realizing her family's fate; selection for specious medical experiments; hospitalization; surgery; sepa...

  13. Maurice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Jaros?aw, Poland in 1912. He recalls antisemitism in school; his dental practice in Krako?w; marriage in 1937; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother to the Soviet-occupied zone; hiding to avoid deportation to Siberia; working as a dentist; German invasion; hiding to avoid forced labor; living in L?viv with his brother and uncle; returning to Krako?w; living in the ghetto with his wife and her family; forced labor; sending his wife to Warsaw since she was not well (he never saw her again); incarceration in P?aszo?w; losing his fa...

  14. Arnold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold K., who was born in 1923. He recounts enlisting in the United States military when he was nineteen; serving in the Eighth Air Force; visiting Dachau a month after its liberation, having no knowledge of the Holocaust; a pervasive stench; piles of clothing and shoes; and reciting the Kaddish. Mr. K. notes it was many years later that he fully understood what he had seen.

  15. Paul M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Berlin, Germany to Polish immigrants in 1922. He recalls involvement in Zionist organizations; attending a Jewish school; the decision of some relatives to emigrate in 1933; a beating by Hitler Youth in 1934; his parents' decision to leave following a Gestapo interrogation in 1936; their journey to Palestine via Austria and Trieste (his parents had money smuggled to them in Italy); their emigration to the United States in 1938; attending high school; cessation of communications from family in Europe after 1939; being drafted in 1942; encounter...

  16. Gys L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the ant...

  17. Alfred C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his grandfather was a cantor and his father an opera singer; his father's dismissal from his job in 1933 due to Nazi anti-Jewish laws; their resulting poverty; assistance from the Jewish community; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; obtaining documents for two from relatives in the United States; his father's and brother's emigration in June 1938; his father and brother obtaining visas for him and his mother; traveling to Hamburg on Kris...

  18. Edith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, the older of two children of Polish émigrés. She recounts attending Jewish summer camp; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to France; living on a non-Jewish family's farm; attending school; traveling to Toulouse; incarceration in Claremont-Ferrand; escaping approximately six weeks later after her father bribed a French guard; walking to Paris; returning to Brussels; expulsion from school; being sent with her brother to a summer camp in Uccle; returning; hiding with her parents; their arranging ...

  19. Andre?e H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre?e H., a non-Jewish rescuer, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. She recalls the important influence of her father's love of children; completing normal school in 1942; internships in schools in Brussels' Jewish quarter; noticing children "disappearing"; horror upon learning of German round-ups and deportations; asking relatives to hide Jewish children; being contacted by and joining a resistance group which hid Jewish children (Comite? de de?fense des juifs); approaching Jewish parents to suggest that their children be hidden; bringing the children to be ...

  20. Andre? B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre B., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1925. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1929; joining a Jewish socialist youth group; attending public school; fleeing with his family toward France during the German invasion; encountering German forces; returning home; Resistance activities; his father's orders to report for forced labor (he never saw him again); deportation with his mother and sister to Malines; three days later their deportation by passenger train; orders to leave the train at Cosel (he never saw his mother or sister again); transfer to K...