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  1. Tamar B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tamar B., who was born in Dessau, Germany in 1923. She recounts attending school in Leipzig; her parents' divorce; her father's compulsory move to Vienna in 1936 because he was an Austrian citizen; moving to Berlin; attending a Jewish boarding school in Potsdam; Kristallnacht; her mother's arrest; living with a guardian; attending a Jewish school, then a Zionist camp in Havelberg; learning her father had arrived in Palestine; forced factory labor in Freisen; visiting an uncle in Wannsee (he gave her valuables); her younger sister joining her; their deportation to Ausc...

  2. Richard H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard H., who was born in 1911 in Kandel, Germany. He relates his father's World War I German military service; observes that there was no antisemitism in Kandel (they were one of two Jewish families); and discusses anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of his family's business and car; arrest with his father and brother on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; hunger, cold and beatings; his father's release after eight weeks due to his German military service; his own release after twelve weeks providing he leave Germany; and living in Karlsruhe with his family. ...

  3. William K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Tarno?w (Wojewo?dztwo Ma?opolskie, Poland), Poland in 1922, one of five children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-635), Mr. K. recounts writing poetry as a boy; working at his mother's candy store; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1936; a Pole reneging on his agreement to hide their younger sister because she "looked too Jewish"; contemplating a group suicide; slave labor in the Madritsch factory in P?aszo?w; a severe beating in Mauthausen for refusing sexual advances by a kapo; observing c...

  4. Marie A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marie A., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1914. She recalls teacher training in Brussels; working against fascism through Communist organizations; marriage to a fellow organizer; hiding organization members including Maurice Thorez; her daughter's birth in 1938; Resistance activities; arrest in May 1943; imprisonment in St. Gilles; transfer to Germany in October; imprisonment in Essen and Mesum; trial in Essen resulting in a four-year prison sentence; transfer to prison in Kreuzburg and Jauer; and escape with two friends with assistance from a Polish civilian. She...

  5. Sophie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. She recounts her family history; antisemitic incidents at school; her family's efforts to emigrate to the United States after German annexation; violence and terror during Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Dachau; emigration, with her younger brother, to the United States in 1938; her father's release; and her parents' arrival in 1939. Mrs. S. discusses the importance of an aunt in the United States to her family's ability to emigrate; the deaths of extended family members during the Holocaust; ...

  6. Julius S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Julius S., who was born in Tluste (presently Tovste), a small town in Eastern Galicia, in 1918. He relates his childhood memories of Tluste; the Russian occupation in 1939; and the German occupation of Tluste in 1941, while he was in nearby L?vov. He recalls the murder of Jews in the villages surrounding Tluste by peasants; the initial protection of Tluste's Jews by priests; and the 1941 massacre of the Jews of Zaleszczyki. He recounts the beginning of transports from his area in summer 1942; his work in a labor camp in Lisowce; and the capture and murder of Tluste's Jews, incl...

  7. Rudolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He describes moving to his maternal grandparents' in Wiesbaden during World War I when his father was drafted as a physician; his return to Berlin in 1918; his secular, liberal upbringing; attending university in Berlin; and the beginning of Nazi activity, including the burning of the Reichstag and Hitler's election. He recounts his activity as an anti-Nazi; questioning by storm troopers on an "anti-Jewish day"; leaving Germany for medical school in Genoa, Italy; his family's forced departure from Berlin to Prague; ...

  8. Alex H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex H., who was born in Strzemieszyce, near Be?dzin, Poland, in 1923. He describes the antisemitism he experienced as a schoolboy; the German occupation of his town and the formation of a ghetto there; and his work as a forced laborer while he lived in the ghetto. He speaks of his deportation in 1943 to the slave labor camp of Blechhammer, where he worked in an I.G. Farben factory, and recounts in detail how he "organized" to get a little extra bread for his brother and himself. He tells of the death march from Blechhammer in December, 1944, during which his brother ...

  9. Helen C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close-knit family; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her father's death from starvation; forced labor at a munitions factory; marriage at age seventeen; assistance from David Gertler, a Jewish ghetto official; being caught in a round-up; escaping from the truck with her husband; refusing privileges to avoid separation from her mother and siblings; their deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; separation from her mother, brother, and ...

  10. Nathan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan S., who was born in Nizhni Vorota, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1918. He recounts working as a barber; serving in the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; serving in Esztergom; transfer to a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Koma?rno; forced labor felling trees; returning home in September 1941; learning his older brothers had been drafted into slave labor battalions; traveling to Budapest; slave labor building tank barricades; escaping with a group of fellow prisoners; assistance from local farmers; hiding in a forest; liberation by Soviet troops; r...

  11. Israel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, the eldest of two children. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1936; his uncles paying for him to attend a Jewish gymnasium; finding ways to help support his family, including singing in the main synagogue choir; summer vacations with his grandmother in Malech; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing his star and sending him to her brothers in Warsaw, hoping he would survive; learning they had left; joining his grandmother and other relatives in Soviet-oc...

  12. Anna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna G., who was born in Varkovychi, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her parents' Zionism; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Dubrovno in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; her father's flight, thinking only men would be targeted; ghettoization; slave labor; a survivor of Babi Yar sharing her story; learning her father had been killed; her mother arranging for her to hide with Czech non-Jews; obtaining false papers; her rescuer hiding her mother, brother, cousins, and others in a bunker when their town was liquidated; her mother and br...

  13. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. She recalls a happy childhood; living with aunts in Alzey; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending business college; working in Cologne; her father's arrest in 1933 as a Social Democrat; moving to Mainz after his release; her fiance's emigration to the United States in 1938; difficulties leaving Germany after Kristallnacht; obtaining passage on the St. Louis to Havana in May 1939; refusal by the Cuban government to allow debarkation of any passengers; futile attempts to obtain landing rights by the Joint; forced return ...

  14. Hedi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedi S., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1904. She recalls her sheltered life as the only child of a prosperous, assimilated family; attending a Jewish elementary school; traveling with her parents; marriage and divorce; and cordial relations with non-Jews. Mrs. S. recalls the anti-Jewish boycott in Berlin; her father's death in 1935; deciding to emigrate for her son's sake; obtaining a visa through American relatives; being searched when leaving in 1937; and learning of her former parents-in-law's suicide. She describes several jobs after arriving in New York; her ...

  15. Jacob E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob E., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1922. He recalls his large, extended family who were bakers; his rebellious adolescence; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; ghettoization; a mass killing of the Jewish intelligentsia; smuggling food into the ghetto; forced labor in Tyszowce in 1941 (he lost his hearing there); his father risking his life to bring him home; factory work with his uncle; receiving help from some Germans; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942 (he never saw his parents and sisters again); arranging to work with his bro...

  16. Ben A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben A., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921, one of six children. He recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; working in Hlybokaye; returning to Vilna; an influx of Polish-Jewish refugees; fleeing to Minsk when Germany invaded; returning to Vilna; forced labor; his father's arrest (they later learned he was shot); ghettoization; hiding with his mother and siblings during round-ups; conflicts between the ghetto underground and the Judenrat; learning his mother and some siblings were killed in Ponary while he was working; partisans bringing people to the woo...

  17. Zoltan J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan J., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1922. He describes his large extended family and long history in the area; their affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; expulsion from school; reinstatement due to his father's connections; his and his father's exclusion from slave labor battalions due to their business; ghettoization; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with his father, uncle, and brother (his other relatives did not survive); their transfer to Warsaw four weeks later; c...

  18. Fredrika L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fredrika L., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1917. She recalls attending pharmacy school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage; paying large sums in 1942 for false papers to travel to Switzerland via Belgium; the Gestapo arresting her husband en route to Switzerland (she never saw him again), but releasing her; returning to warn her parents not to take that train (they had already left and were detained and deported); hiding in many places, often with her brother; a Belgian family who took them in; contemplating suicide, but deciding against i...

  19. Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, one of ten children. She recounts German invasion; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; separation from her parents and youngest siblings during a round-up (she never saw them again); deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto with her sisters; starvation; forced labor; voluntary transfer to an ammunition factory with one sister; separation from her sister; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; failing health; being placed on a pile of corpses; a friend removing and feeding her; transfer to Burgau; finding one sister; their transfer to a...

  20. Peter W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter W, who was born in Krako?w, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1913, one of four children. He recounts his father's death in 1916; moving to Kielce; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; returning at his mother's request; moving with his mother and sister to Starachowice; working as a tailor; one brother's deportation (he never saw him again); his other brother joining the underground (he was killed); marriage; his son's birth; his family's deportation (he never saw them again); slave lab...