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  1. Anni H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anni H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, the youngest of five children. She recounts her father was not Jewish and her mother was a non-practicing Jew; her father's service in World War I; her family not considering themselves Jewish until antisemitic laws and restrictions forced them to do so; her school's dissolution in March 1938; having to wear the yellow star and add "Sarah" to her name; working as a photographer's apprentice and a housekeeper as a non-Jew; baptism with her siblings in December 1941; deportation of her brother and his daughter in 1942; s...

  2. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italian...

  3. Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Hausberge an der Porta, Germany in 1919, one of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to a small town in Hessen, then to Hannover; increasing antisemitism after 1933; apprenticing as a seamstress in Dortmund; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; living briefly in Munich; Allied bombings; her family's unsuccessful effort to obtain emigration papers in Stuttgart; their deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; forced labor; frequent round-ups; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); a friend preventing her from committing suici...

  4. Hilda T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda T. who was born in Iglo?, Czechoslovakia (presently Spis?ska Nova? Ves, Slovakia) in 1904. She recalls her mother's death when she was five; studying in Brno; her family's move to Vienna; good relations with non-Jews prior to 1934; participating in Sportklub Hakoah; meeting her husband there; hiding a union leader after the Nazis came to power; her husband's arrest on Kristallnacht; his release providing he left Austria within two weeks; the union leader obtaining Swedish visas for them; and emigration to Sweden, then the United States via Norway. Mrs T. describ...

  5. Eva N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva N., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1923. She recounts her middle-class family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; visits to her maternal grandparents in Hegyalja; attending gymnasium with her younger brother; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in June 1943; moving to her husband's home in Nyi?regyha?za; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Berehovo; her father's appointment to the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; ...

  6. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1926, the youngest of six children. He recounts his sister's death; cordial relations with non-Jews; summering with relatives in Veliouna; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; taking art courses; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing to Veivis; returning home via Rumšiškės; Lithuanian collaborators taking his uncle and a brother; ghettoization; round-ups; one brother working at the airport; his father's death from a heart attack in December 1941; employment painting signs for the Judenrat; leaving the ...

  7. Mennerem W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mennerem W., who was born in Paris in 1923 to Polish immigrants. He recalls his family's poverty; speaking Yiddish at home; lack of religious observance; attending French and Jewish schools; the absence of antisemitism; remaining in Paris with his mother and three sisters after German invasion; his father and brothers-in-law fleeing; participation in a Bund youth group; his mother joining his father in the unoccupied zone; joining his parents in Montauban; moving to Nice; meeting a friend who had been in Drancy; deciding not to register as Jews; planning an escape to ...

  8. Hans L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans L., who was born in Stralsund, Germany in 1926 to a Christian mother and Jewish father. He recounts his father's service in World War I; his family's assimilation (they celebrated Easter and Christmas); moving to Potsdam in 1936 due to antisemitism, hoping to be anonymous there; relatives who were Nazis, including his maternal aunt; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a Jewish school; observing the destruction in Berlin after Kristallnacht; his mother's refusal to divorce his father despite official pressure; being assigned to work in a Borsig munitions fact...

  9. Leslie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leslie S., who was born in Ma?te?szalka, Hungary in 1927. He recounts his orthodox family life; childhood antisemitic harassment; inability to continue his education due to the Jewish quota; German invasion in March 1944; implementation of anti-Jewish policies; ghettoization; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); transport to Birkenau; selection for work; transfer to Auschwitz; forced labor; evacuation to Mauthausen in January 1945; loss of toes due to frost bite; hiding in the camp hospital with assistance from a fellow prisoner; liberation by United Sta...

  10. Ben-Zion H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben-Zion H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, one of five children. He recounts his father carrying him across the street during a German bombing; ghettoization; he and a sister sneaking through holes in the wall to get food; another sister, who was a nurse, hiding him in the hospital during a round-up; his family's deportation; escaping; an elderly Polish woman hiding him and other children; selling newspapers and cigarettes; observing the ghetto uprising; his sister taking him to Kraków to hide with her; returning to Warsaw when she did not come home one ni...

  11. Ida G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida G., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. She recalls her parents placing her with a French family in Deux-Se?vres in 1940; warm relations with her foster mother; visiting her parents before her mother's arrest on July 16, 1942 (she never saw her again); arrest on January 30, 1944; interrogation by French police in Melle; her foster mother's unsuccessful efforts to free her using false papers; transfer to Niort, then Drancy; deportation to Birkenau in February 1944; working in a munitions factory; transfer to Auschwitz in October 1944; public hanging of the women...

  12. Sara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara S., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1922, one of ten children. She recalls her father was a Ger Hasid; attending public and a Beth Jacob school; some of her brothers' military service; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and two siblings to Sandomierz; staying in Da?browa Go?rnicza; reunion with her father and two siblings in Krako?w; moving to Stopnica, her mother's hometown; her youngest brother going to Krako?w (she never saw him again); taking in a friend and her family; her father secretly acting as a shochet; deportation with a brother and sis...

  13. Anna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna P., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine)in 1926. She recalls antisemitic discrimination; visiting her grandparents in Sambir; German invasion in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; escaping a mass killing in April 1943; incarceration; her uncle arranging her release; returning to the ghetto; her uncle hiding her with a Ukrainian farmer (she never saw her parents or brother again); leaving the farm; hiding in a forest with others; escaping capture with one girl; returning to the farm; from afar, obse...

  14. Nikola R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nikola R., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He recounts his father serving in World War I, his capture by the Soviets, then enlisting in the Soviet military (he never saw him again); attending school in Valpovo, then Osijek; attending university in Zagreb beginning in 1929; participating in Jewish academic and left-wing groups; military service in 1933; working as a teacher in Cetinje; draft in February 1941; Italian occupation; retreating to Nikšić; smuggling himself to Osijek via Sarajevo; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Djakovo, then a Serb vill...

  15. Saul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul S., who was born in Bielitz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1918. He recalls his family's poverty; celebrating Jewish holidays; active participation in Hanoar Ha'Tsioni; becoming a group leader; his father's death; pervasive antisemitism which increased after Hitler's ascent to power; attending secular school; being unable to attend university because of poverty and Jewish quotas; emigrating alone to the United States in September 1938 under his grandfather's sponsorship (he never saw his mother and sisters again); living with an aunt in Brooklyn...

  16. Ralph G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1903. He recalls being one of the few Jews at law school in Oklahoma; military service beginning in 1941; joining the staff at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials in November 1946; visiting refugee camps near Nuremberg; prosecuting the industrialist, Friedrich Flick and Hitler's Reich Press Chief, Otto Dietrich; the unprecedented argument in Dietrich's trial that Nazi propaganda was a military weapon; interaction with chief prosecutor Telford Taylor; housing Rezso? Kasztner in their villa; visiting Vienna and Salzburg with him...

  17. Betsy H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betsy H., who was born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands, in 1917, the oldest of four children. Mrs. H. tells of working in a Jewish home for deprived children; her indifference regarding German events; German invasion; living with a Jewish family in Amsterdam; the last contact with her family (they were all deported); hiding in Rijnsburg; meeting her future husband who was hiding to avoid forced labor; joining a resistance group; carrying messages under a false name throughout the country; and witnessing the daily heroism of ordinary people. She describes her arrest with the...

  18. Betty D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty D., who was born in Bodrogkeresztu?r, Hungary in 1927. She recalls pleasant experiences in an observant home; attending Hungarian schools; friendships with non-Jews; disbelief in the horror stories of Polish refugees; unexpected change in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; transfer to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother and brother; efforts to always remain with her sister; work in the Canada Kommando; the emotional trauma of being beaten; her sister's efforts to protect her; and the public hangin...

  19. Jacqueline M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline M., a Catholic, who was born in Tournai, Belgium in 1923, one of two children. She recounts her parents' leftist activities; the family move to Charleroi; attending school in Roux; moving to Brussels; attending high school and university; studying medicine; German invasion in May 1940; her father's mobilization and capture; his return one year later; a Jewish classmate wearing the yellow star; her family hiding Resistants and Allied soldiers; accompanying some of them to Paris; delivering Resistance letters; her family hiding the Resistance leader Georges L...

  20. Henriette K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henriette K., who was born in Nove? Za?mky, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls growing up in a prosperous family; her close relationship with her father; Hungarian occupation; anti-Semitic incidents including the vandalizing of their home; the family's move to Budapest in 1940; her father's employment by a Swiss company; her sister's marriage and emigration to Palestine; their busy social life in 1942 and 1943; and German occupation in March 1944. Mrs. K. recollects her engagement to a Hungarian soldier who obtained false papers for her family; her father's refusal t...