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  1. Judith P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith P., who was born in Nagyrozva?gy, Hungary in 1925, the oldest of seven children. She recalls her affluent home; antisemitic laws; her father's conscription for forced labor; visiting him in a nearby camp; his release; refusing a Hungarian friend's offer of her papers in order to stay with her family; their deportation to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in April 1944, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from all her family except two sisters; sorting possessions of those gassed; finding her relatives' clothing; throwing jewelry and cash in latrines; difficult re...

  2. Doris U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris U., who was born in Tomaszo?w Lubelski, Poland in 1920. She recalls the warmth of family observances of Sabbath and holidays; her mother's death in 1933; her father's remarriage; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; her father's humiliation when forced to cut his beard; hiding; discovery; the Germans fleeing; Soviet occupation; fleeing to Rava-Ru?ska; deportation to a forced labor camp in Siberia; her grandfather's death due to hunger; attempts at maintaining religious observance; moving to Bii?sk; marriage; her son's birth; assistance from Russian ...

  3. Ilse W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse W., who was born in Rotenburg, Germany in 1927. She recalls anti-Jewish harassment; her older brother attending a Jewish boarding school in Kassel; moving to Frankfurt in 1936 hoping it would be safer if they were in a bigger city; attending Jewish school (the Philanthropin) with her brother; increasing isolation; a former maid who smuggled food to them; and difficulty comprehending their changing situation. Mrs. W. recounts Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and incarceration in Buchenwald; his release and emigration to Holland; leaving for England in June 1939 ...

  4. Imre K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Imre K., a Nobel prize laureate in literature, who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. He recounts his family background; their assimilated, Hungarian life style; his parents' divorce when he was five; being sent to an a boys boarding school; his parents' remarriages about six years later; dividing his time between his parents; compulsory religious education in school; segregation of the Jewish students in gymnasium; German invasion in March 1944; his father's death in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald when he was c...

  5. Sherry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sherry G., who was born in Utena, Lithuania in 1926. She recounts her father's emigration to the United States six months after her birth (he planned to bring her and her mother later); her mother's death when she was three and a half; living with her maternal aunt in Kaunas; being smuggled to Pastavy (then Poland) to live with her paternal family; attending school; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; close relations with her young cousins; being smuggled back to Kaunas when her father sent for her in 1938 or 1939; traveling through Germany with her aunt's frien...

  6. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Koniecpol, Poland in 1915. He speaks of prewar family life; moving as a boy to the larger town of Częstochowa; his family's flight after the German occupation in 1939; and their return a short time later to the beginning of ghettoization. He relates his and his brother's flight to Russian occupied territory and his return to Częstochowa in 1941 to be with his parents. He discusses life in the ghetto; the liquidation of the Częstochowa ghetto; his selection for slave labor in factories in the remaining "small ghetto"; his unsuccessful attemp...

  7. Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Parkan (today S?tu?rovo), Czechoslovakia, in 1926. Mr. S. recalls his father's imprisonment as a "Hungarian master spy" in 1937; his release when Parkan was ceded to Hungary; his parents' separation in 1940; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; returning to Parkan with his mother in March 1944; smuggling food into the ghetto; losing his exemption (as the son of a Hungarian hero) from forced labor in August 1944; railroad construction in Transylvania; work as the commandant's wagon driver; a brutal sergeant whom he helped unmask after the war; and...

  8. Dori L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. Dori L., who was born in Czernowitz in 1937. Charting his awareness of change through childhood memories, Dr. L. describes his religious education; the German occupation in 1941; and his brief stay in the Czernowitz ghetto. He tells of his deportation, with his parents, to Transnistria; camping near Mogilev; and living in a labor camp built in a quarry near the Bug River. He relates his unsuccessful attempt to convince his parents to let him return to Czernowitz; his parents' disagreement regarding the trustworthiness of the Germans; being spared from the liquidat...

  9. Edita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her large extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; a round-up to Dunajská Streda in 1944; entrusting their possessions to non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; a women from her hometown, who had been there some time, advising her and her sister to separate from their parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); she and her sister being tattooed with consecutive numbers; remaining with her sister, aunt, an...

  10. Elvira F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elvira F., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918. She recalls attending an Italian school; working in a bookstore; marriage in 1943; her brother escaping to the partisans; she and her husband hiding with a non-Jew; escaping to their hosts' parents' home in a village; fleeing to Kozanē, then Polikástanon; assistance from ELAS; helping them, but not participating in military incursions; posing as non-Jews using false papers; her husband's arrest and one month imprisonment (the Germans didn't know he was Jewish); liberation; returning to Thessalonikē; learning...

  11. Fred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1909. One of nine children, he recalls his father owned a tailor shop which employed twenty-two workers; attending school; learning tailoring from his father; antisemitism; marriage at age twenty-seven; enlisting in the Polish army reserves; and the German invasion. Mr. B. recounts ghettoization; forced labor assembling army uniforms; the round-up of elderly and children, including his two-year-old son; learning they had all been gassed; receiving food and information from a German officer they had known before the war; depor...

  12. Philip W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip W., who was born in 1922 in Wadowice, Poland, one of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending school for two years in Skawina; antisemitic harassment; participating in Zionist organizations; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his family to Skawina, Krako?w, Lubaczo?w, then Rava-Rus?ka; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; three days in prison; deportation to Sosnowiec in April 1941; transfer to Gogolin; slave labor building the Reichsautobahn; receiving packages from his parents for six months; transfer to Gross Masselwitz; praying d...

  13. Meta N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meta N., who was born in Oberdorf, a small town near Stuttgart, Germany in 1915, and who became deaf at the age of two. Mrs. N. discusses the emigration of her brothers to the United States before 1941; daily life in Oberdorf between 1937 and 1941; and her deportation by cattle car to Ri?ga/Jungfernhof, Latvia, in November, 1941. She tells how she succeeded in hiding her deafness from guards and officials, once escaping a selection of deaf and other handicapped people, and how, knowing she was deaf, other prisoners helped her. She recalls the move from Jungfernhof to ...

  14. Harry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry B., who enlisted in the United States military in 1942. He recounts training as a surgical technician; being stationed in Wales and Scotland; moving to Germany; observing corpses in striped uniforms at the Weimar railroad station; encountering the stench of Buchenwald prior to arrival; the medics entering first; corpses everywhere; establishing a hospital in the SS barracks; prisoner deaths due to eating; compelling local residents to visit Buchenwald (they denied knowledge of Buchenwald in spite of the pervasive odor and bodies outside of the camp); witnessing ...

  15. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in 1923 and drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts deployment to North Africa, then Italy; training in a medical laboratory; moving through to France to Germany; entering Dachau after lits liberation; observing malnourished and sick prisoners; corpses stacked "like wood"; testing prisoners for typhus, and leaving after a short time. He shows photographs taken at Dachau.

  16. George M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. He recalls enrollment in a music conservatory at age five; attending a Jewish school; threatened deportation beginning in 1941 because his father was not Hungarian; hiding during round-ups with assistance from friends and relatives; German occupation in March 1944; his father's deportation; his mother placing him and his brother in a children's home under Swiss protection; receiving a postcard from her in December saying she was being deported; evacuation of the home; being sent to the ghetto; a non-Jewish aunt bri...

  17. Fred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recalls attending Jewish school; non-Jewish neighbors being prohibited from playing with him; his father's and brother's expulsion to Poland; glass-strewn streets following Kristallnacht; registration for a kindertransport (he never went); joining his father and brother in Chrzano?w in April 1939; fleeing during German invasion; returning to Chrzano?w when overtaken by Germans; antisemitic measures including forced labor; his brother being taken in a round-up; hiding during round-ups; working for his father's friend...

  18. Grigoriĭ D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grigoriĭ D., who was born in Sunai, Belarus in 1922. He recalls living in a rural area; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school in Grozovo; attending the Polytechnic in Minsk; his father's arrest in 1938 as a spy because he had siblings in western nations (he was executed); his sister's medical practice in Lenino; German invasion in June 1941 while he was in Slutsk; joining his mother, sister, and brother in Lenino; obtaining a Soviet machine gun; giving it to partisans; solidarity in the ghetto; escaping with his brother with assistance from non-Jews...

  19. Thomas W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas W., who was born in Prague in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He recalls his parents' total assimilation; moving to Hamburg; his parents' divorce in 1934; their return to Prague; studying English literature and linguistics; teaching at a Swiss boarding school; returning to Czechoslovakia; German occupation; futile efforts to emigrate through Poland; obtaining a refugee fellowship at Harvard University; receiving exit documents; parting from his mother; traveling on a train full of German soldiers; arriving in Holland; crossing to England; leaving for the...

  20. Frank F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank F., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his mother's death when he was four; attending a state high school; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending school in Montreux in 1936, then in Antwerp and Brussels; visiting home in summer 1937; fleeing immediately upon learning he would be drafted; visiting his brother in London; German invasion when he was in Brussels; futile efforts to flee to France; observing the evacuation at Dunkerque; returning to Brussels; obt...