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  1. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  2. Nat G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nat G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1896. He describes Vilna; education in Jewish and technical schools; training as a mechanic; serving three years in the Russian army in World War I in an auto battalion; Polish occupation of Vilna in 1920; marriage in 1936; the prosperous family business; and the birth of his twin children. Mr. G. recalls ghettoization; mass murders; hiding during a round-up; discovery and deportation with his stepson to Narwa; work as a mechanic; unsuccessful attempts to save his stepson; extreme conditions of deprivation; transfer a year late...

  3. Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to...

  4. Alexander K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander K., who was born in Sighet, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Romania) in 1909. He recalls his family's prominent printing business; their affluence; attending a Hungarian gymnasium, then Romanian, when Sighet became part of Romania after World War I; his bar mitzvah; marriage in 1941; his son's birth; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visits home; bringing food to fellow prisoners; escape; providing friends with false papers; German occupation in 1944; deportation of his wife, son, mother, and sisters (all were killed except one sister); hosp...

  5. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1923 and lived in Za?bkowice. She describes moving to Sosnowiec at age four; her family's affluent lifestyle; education in Catholic and Jewish schools; increasing antisemitism, including boycotts and school quotas; exclusion of her Jewish group from a Polish independence parade; an influx of Jewish German refugees; German invasion; balking at wearing an arm band; ghettoization in Srodula (suburb of Sosnowiec); forced labor outside the ghetto; avoiding labor camps due to her boyfriend's influence; liquidation of the ghetto ...

  6. Rochelle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rochelle S., who was born in Paris, France in 1931. She recounts her parents' emigration from Poland in 1930; their poverty; her sister's birth in 1938; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; hospitalization and a forty-day quarantine for scarlet fever in 1942; cessation of her family's visits; a non-Jewish neighbor visiting; being released to the neighbor, who told her that her family left France; hiding with the neighbor; placement in a convent school; learning Catholic prayers and receiving solace from them; conversion to Catholicism; her neighbor taking he...

  7. Barry I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry I., who was born in Munka?cz, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1913, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy and Czech patriotism; serving in the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; conscription into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; working near the Polish border; transfer to Khust; volunteering to be punished in place of a friend (hanging by his hands and feet); traveling to Budapest for surgery; assistance from a nun who arranged a visit from his girlfriend; returning to Khust; forced labor diggin...

  8. Boris P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris P., who was born in Slutsk, Belarus in 1929, the second of four sons. He recalls his father's Communist Party membership; attending Jewish, Belorussian, and Russian schools; visiting relatives in Lyakhovichi; German invasion in June 1941; his father's mobilization (he never saw him again); his older brother's escape; public shootings of Jews; a policeman warning them of a mass killing; hiding with his father's non-Jewish friend; ghettoization; a mass killing including his grandmother; the policeman placing his family in a barrack for non-Jewish workers; one youn...

  9. Alan Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alan Z., who was born in Ko?o, Poland, in 1921. He describes the outbreak of the war and the resulting anti-Jewish legislation; the beginnings of extermination in nearby Che?mno in 1941; his escape to the village of Warta; the liquidation of Ko?o; and his flight, with his uncle, to the ?o?dz? ghetto, where he had the privileged job of vegetable gardener and had contact with high ghetto officials, including H?ayim Rumkowski. Mr. Z. relates his transport to Cze?stochowa, where he worked in the HASAG labor camp; his sudden transfer to Buchenwald, and two weeks later, to ...

  10. George M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George M. who was born in Ko?slin, Germany (now Koszalin, Poland) in 1914. He recalls the small number of Jews in the town; non-Jewish classmates defending him from an antisemitic schoolmate; the first appearance of brown shirts around 1927; increasing antisemitism; being beaten on the street; the family's move to Berlin in 1933; a boycott against Jewish stores; joining the Jewish scouts through which he met Herbert and Marianne Baum; joining a Zionist organization; his arrest in March 1935; imprisonment in Moabit; frequent beatings during interrogations; his refusal ...

  11. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1915. He recalls attending technical school in Brno; active participation in a Zionist organization; attending officer's training school; demotion due to anti-Jewish laws; transfer to a forced labor camp; release to perform his "vital" job; marriage in 1942; assisting his family avoid deportations due to his influential job; his company arranging for him to work in Nitra when they could not keep him off deportation lists; contacts with a Polish Jew who made a great deal of money in the black market and gave it t...

  12. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1923, the oldest of eight children, two of whom died before the war. He recounts his father's trade as a barrel maker; attending a Czech school; extreme poverty; moving to Secǒvce; their improved situation; attending a Slovak school; working with his father from age thirteen; building a machine to improve their process; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's military draft; visiting him in Uz︠h︡horod; his release several ...

  13. Julian M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julian M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitism in Polish schools he attended, particularly gymnasium; his father's prewar death; disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; German invasion; increasing restrictions and persecution; fleeing with his family to Nowy Wis?nicz; his capture; a forced labor camp in Krako?w; transfer to the ghetto; learning all Jews in Nowy Wis?nicz had been liquidated including his family; and his aunt's and cousins' deportation (he lived with them). He describes factory work; obtaining chemicals for p...

  14. Lenka M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lenka M., who was born in Porúbka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, one of four children. She recalls her parents sending her to Uz︠h︡horod to avoid deportation; working as a hairdresser for nine months; joining her family in an Uz︠h︡horod brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with her two sisters; one sister's selection (she never saw her again); public executions; transfer with her sister to Canada Kommando; assistance from a Jewish Slovak kapo; a severe beating by ...

  15. Susan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in 1920, the youngest of four children. She recalls childhood in an affluent, traditional family in Warsaw; attending private school; her parents' disbelief that the events in Germany would affect them; German invasion in September 1939; her brother and fiance? fleeing to L'viv in the Soviet zone; illegally traveling to L'viv with her sister in December 1939; marriage in 1940; fleeing to Vilna with her husband; obtaining a Japanese transit visa from the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara; traveling to Moscow, then Japan, in January 1941; obtaining...

  16. Matthew T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Matthew T., who was born in 1920, and grew up in ?omz?a, Poland. He details Jewish life; his education; antisemitism; his mother's death when he was twelve; his father's remarriage; German invasion; a twenty day confinement in an open field; return to ?omz?a; and Soviet occupation. Mr. T. recounts painting posters and translating for the Soviets; joining the Komsomol; working in Baranavichy and Jedwabne; fleeing the German invasion; working in Ukraine, Tashkent, Leninpol, Dzhambul and Kuibyshev (now Samara); and using his artistic talent in several places to promote t...

  17. Tatiana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tatiana B., who was born in Fiume, Italy (Rijeka, Croatia) in 1937 to a Jewish mother and Catholic father. She recounts living near her maternal grandmother, aunts, and uncles; being baptized (her younger sister and mother were too, as protection); her father's departure (he was in the Navy); a neighbor turning them (her mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, and cousin) into the Germans in April 1944; brief incarceration in Risiera di San Sabba; deportation to Auschwitz; her grandmother's disappearance; placement in a children's barrack with her sister and cousin; visits...

  18. Larry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry L., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1925. He recalls his family's move to Kaunas in 1934 due to antisemitism; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; their non-Jewish porter saving them from round-ups; ghettoization; forced labor with his father outside the ghetto; smuggling in food; young Zionists organizing resistance; a mass killing in October 1942; transfer with his parents and brother to Kauen-Schanzen in 1943; train transport to Dachau in fall 1944 (his mother and girlfriend were removed with the women and children); transfer to Kaufering the next day...

  19. Murray B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Murray B., who was born in Vselub, Byelorussian in 1912. He recalls his large family; attending Yeshiva (his parents wanted him to become a rabbi); the June 1941 German invasion; escape (he never saw his family again) to Nowogro?dek, then a nearby village, then the woods; hearing the shooting of Jews in a mass killing; hiding alone in the forest from December 1941 to March 1942; aid received from farmers; thinking he was the last remaining Jew; smuggling himself into the Nowogro?dek ghetto on a farmer's advice; round-ups; mass killings; and forced labor. Mr. B. descri...

  20. Ben G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1928 to a family of eight children. He recalls the warmth of family life and the large Jewish community, particularly at holidays; Hungarian occupation; forced service of all men in labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization in 1944; separation from his family upon arrival at Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; frequent public hangings; slave labor building bunkers; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Flossenbu?srg in February; witnessing cannibalism; brutal treatment of Je...