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  1. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (currently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. He recalls antisemitic street violence; the destruction during Kristallnacht; his father's six week incarceration in Buchenwald; his emigration to Cuba upon release; embarking in Hamburg with his mother and sister on the St. Louis to join his father; Cuba denying landing permission; returning to Antwerp; traveling to France; living by himself in an OSE children's home in Montmorency; joining his mother and sister in Laval after German invasion; embarking for Cuba; a week on Ellis Island en ...

  2. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1936. She describes her close-knit, extended family; moving to Budapest; her father's conscription for forced labor; being sent to her grandparents in Transylvania; returning to Budapest; hiding with neighbors; and capture with her mother when they attempted to escape using false papers. Mrs. K. recounts transfer to a brickyard; separation from her mother while marching to Germany (she never saw her again); another woman caring for her; feeling isolated in Ravensbru?ck because no one spoke Hungarian and she was the only child; ...

  3. Zezette L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zezette L., who was born in Belgium in 1929. She describes the German invasion and her surprise at being sent by her parents to hide in a Catholic convent; her attempts to fit in by imitating the other girls during her stay of a year and a half; and leaving the convent on April 1943 for a visit to her parents, during which the three of them were discovered on Easter Sunday, arrested, and immediately deported to Malines. She tells of the train journey to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; and her mother's selection for gassing. She details her solitary, mute and i...

  4. Rose A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose A., who was born into a large, Orthodox family in a small village in the Carpathians in 1916. She describes life on the mill/farm which was her home; the invasion of the Carpathians in 1939; acts of open antisemitism; and her deportation to Poland in 1941. Mrs. A. recalls her life with the Jews in Poland; smuggling herself back into Czechoslovakia; and the resumption of life with her family until the German occupation in 1944. She tells of her deportation (after Passover 1944) to the ghetto/brick factory in Beregovo; her transport to and arrival in Auschwitz, whe...

  6. Esther I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther I., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, shortly after her parents had emigrated from Poland. She recalls her father's death in 1928; moving to Krako?w with her mother and sister to be near family; the warmth of Jewish holidays within a close and large, extended family; remaining with relatives for two years when her mother returned to the United States to retain her naturalized citizenship status; returning to the United States in 1936 due to her mother's fear of the German situation; maintaining contact with family in Poland until 1942; learning after ...

  7. Peter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936. He recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; frequent military parades; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Latvia in November 1941; their privileged status because his father headed a team of skilled mechanics needed by the German army; living in and near the Ri?ga ghetto; transfer in February 1943 to the Eastern front; his father rescuing a German officer in a partisan attack; imprisonment in Ri?ga from October 1943 to January 1944; being smuggled into Germany, probably by the officer his father had saved...

  8. Max B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1914. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-94). Additional topics discussed include prewar antisemitism in Poland; his draft into the Polish army after the outbreak of war; ghettoization; volunteering with his younger brother when H?ayim Rumkowski asked for laborers; working as electricians in a labor camp; the importance of remaining with his brother; relatively good conditions; transfer and separation from his brother upon arrival in Auschwitz; transfer to Monowitz; the death march to ...

  9. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Graz, Austria in 1917. She recalls her family's return to Prague due to antisemitism in Graz; an idyllic childhood; becoming a nurse; a Czech physician's warning to leave before March 15, 1938; her sister's departure for England; her mother's refusal to leave for Yugoslavia; German invasion on March 15; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to the Jewish section; terror and reprisals following Heydrich's assassination; and transport in July 1942, with her mother, to Terezi?n. Mrs. K. relates constant hunger; frequent illnesses; work in the hospital;...

  10. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in approximately 1919. He recalls German invasion; being sent away for forced labor; returning to find no Jews; traveling to Warsaw; finding his parents and siblings; escaping with his brother to P?on?sk; being joined by his mother, another brother, and sister; their deportation; staying in Strzegowo-Osada, then M?awa; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in December 1942; their assignment sorting clothing of murdered Jews; living with the Sonderkommando, including Leyb Langfus and Zalman Gradowski, whose diaries were found an...

  11. Rene?e G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e G., who was born in ?osice, Poland, in 1932. She describes the German occupation of ?osice, its ghettoization, and the liquidation of the ghetto; her arrest along with her older brother; and their transfer to the "small ghetto", where she worked as a forced laborer. She also describes her escape from the ghetto with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend of her father; and life in hiding, first in the home of the Polish policeman who had arrested her and her brother, and later in the barn of a Polish farm family. Here, she and her family hid in a pit under a man...

  12. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in ?osice, Poland in 1896. He recalls entry into the family business; World War I; successful business affairs; marriage in 1927; the births of three children; acquiring and hiding gold; the German invasion; brief Soviet occupation and return of the Germans; continuing his business until 1941; ghettoization; hiding with family members in the attic during deportations; the capture of his older son and daughter; sending his brother-in-law's family to hide with a farmer in Konstantinow; bribing a Polish policeman to take his wife and younger son th...

  13. Halina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She describes her loving family; the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to S?omniki in 1940; returning to Krako?w; living with her family in a village to avoid ghettoization; returning with her family to S?omniki; entering a labor camp to join her older brother and sister as advised by her parents (she never saw them again); deportation to the Krako?w ghetto; her brother advising her to volunteer to move to P?aszo?w; transfer to Schindler's factory; Schindler arranging an easier job for her; visiting her brothe...

  14. Irene M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene M., who was born in Jano?w, Poland (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her family's move to Zimna Voda; attending a Jewish school in L?viv; joining Deror; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; hiding with one brother during deportations in August 1942 (she never saw her parents again); acquiring false birth certificates for them both; their flight to Krako?w, then Krosno, posing as non-Jews; refusing to follow relatives' advice to enter a labor camp; finding employment in a German...

  15. E. F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of E. F., who was born in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. She recalls her family observing Jewish holidays; frequent family outings; schoolmates who joined the Hlinka guard shunning her and other Jews beginning in 1938; empathy from teachers and evangelical students; expulsion from school in 1940; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; exclusion from deportation in 1942 due to her broken arm (most of her friends were deported); hiding in a friend's attic during subsequent deportations; evangelical youth movements providing...

  16. Agnes B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes B., a Romani, one of nine children. She recalls her brother's deportation from Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in 1938; being sent with her husband and many family members to Hohenbruch; forced labor; a severe beating after attempting to escape; relatives and friends being beaten to death; liberation by Soviet troops; her child's birth; learning her husband had been sterilized after her child was conceived; and moving to Berlin, Schwerin, Celle, and then Munich. Mrs. B. notes she could not endure those conditions again (she would kill herself rather than try to surviv...

  17. Fred O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred O., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1909. He describes his family life; growing up in an anti-Semitic environment; medical school in Montpellier, France and the pleasure of being away from the atmosphere in Poland; being compelled to repeat his medical education in Warsaw; and the stress involved with the return to Poland. He recalls the German invasion; working as a doctor in the Warsaw ghetto; the pervasive lice and resulting typhus epidemic; extreme hunger; returning to Hrubieszo?w; treating a Gestapo agent, then watching him shoot children and old peop...

  18. Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recalls encountering "genteel" antisemitism before 1933; moving to Amsterdam immediately after Hitler's election; getting his parents and younger brother to Holland (his mother died prior to German invasion, his father in a concentration camp, and his brother emigrated to the United States); joining the Dutch military; escaping with a friend in 1941; traveling to Geneva via Lyon and Lons-le-Saunier; imprisonment; release after intervention by the Dutch consul; traveling to England using false papers via Marseille, B...

  19. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939...

  20. Lucien A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucien A., who was born in Paris, France in 1930. He recalls his family leaving Paris with relatives in early 1940; living in Pau for a year; his grandfather's death; moving to Italian-occupied Nice when Germans came to Pau; his bar mitzvah in their home; hiding after German occupation in 1943; being sent with his cousins to Cha?tillon-sur-Indre; living under false papers with a non-Jewish woman (she knew he was Jewish); attending school; the principal and a teacher denying there were Jewish children (there were others) when confronted by the Germans; visiting his cou...