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  1. Mira K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mira K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916, one of eight children. She recalls being the only unmarried child; German invasion; her fiance? fleeing (she never saw him again); ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish, former customers; losing relatives during round-ups, including children; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from all the family except one niece; being shot; transfer to Oederan ten weeks later; forced labor in a munitions factory; hospitalization; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; difficultly recovering; tr...

  2. Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working...

  3. Rose T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose T., who was born in Poland and raised in an orthodox family. She recalls attending high school in Lublin; returning home for the summer in 1939; German invasion; deportation with her family to a farm; her younger sister's escape (she never saw her again); her father's and her younger siblings' escape with assistance from the camp Kommandant (she learned later they were denounced and killed); escaping from Che?m to Lublin; acquiring false papers with assistance from a Polish family; deportation as a non-Jewish slave laborer to Germany; her denouncement and impriso...

  4. Frederick T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frederick T., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. Mr. T. recalls his family moving to Benes?ov, then Prague; their assimilated lifestyle; his mother's death in 1932; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from gymnasium in 1939; his father obtaining false papers for him; working as a non-Jew on a farm for a year (the owners knew he was Jewish); returning to Prague when he was exposed; forced labor in another location beginning in October 1941; transfer to Theresienstadt in March 1943; reunion with his father; learning a great deal from him during their vi...

  5. Eric N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric N., who was born in Holešov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910. He recalls a pogrom in 1918; his family fleeing to Vienna; his father's death in 1928; attending medical school; two years of Czech military service beginning in 1936; assignments in Prague and Brno; demobilization after the Munich agreement; marriage; living in Brno; German occupation; his brother's deportation; deportation with his mother. sister, and wife to Theresienstadt in April 1942; his privileged position as a doctor; his sister's voluntary deportation (he never saw her again); his son's b...

  6. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in London, England in 1910, the youngest of six children. He recounts moving to Rotterdam in 1911; his mother's death in 1912; his father's marriage to an American non-Jew; working from age twelve; moving to London in 1930; working as a hairdresser; joining his future father-in-law in business; marriage in 1935; moving in with his wife's grandmother in Holland; German invasion in May 1940; his son's birth; trying to obtain exit documents; their deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; efforts to be released as British citizens; his father's arr...

  7. Meir G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1929, an only child. He recounts attending a secular Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's arrest by Lithuanians (they released him because he was a Lithuanian army veteran); ghettoization; attending a vocational school; deportation to Stutthof, then Landsberg in July 1944; separation from his father; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor; a friend arranging to have his number removed from a selection list; a death march and train transfer to Mauthausen; observing cannibalism; a death march ...

  8. Darlene A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Darlene A., who was born in Dyatlovo, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus) in 1931. She recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; a round-up of 120 prominent Jewish men (they never returned); ghettoization; hiding with her mother, stepfather, and relatives during round-ups; escaping with her mother in August 1942; hiding in a forest; assistance from non-Jews; entering another ghetto; escaping two months later; living with partisans in the forests; joining her stepfather on an estate in a partisan-controlled area in late 1942; hiding in a bunker du...

  9. Sulia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sulia R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland in 1924. She describes her affluent family; their move to Vilna when she was four years old; returning to Nowogro?dek; her father's Zionist beliefs; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization and public executions; forced labor cleaning rubble and digging ditches; obtaining an easier job with assistance from a German official; escaping mass killings with her family in 1942; housing "visitors from the forest" to make contact with the partisans; beatings and interrogations after an escape attempt; esca...

  10. Otto L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto L., who was born in Djakovo, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915, the youngest of five children. He recalls his family's affluence; working in Osijeck; arrest by Ustaša in July 1941; imprisonment; train transport to Gospić, another town, then to Jasenovac; slave labor constructing the camp; frequent shootings by Ustaša; transfer to Krapje to work as a lumberjack; return to Jasenovac after about six months; volunteering for the shoe workshop; transfer to Stara Gradiska; improved conditions during a Red Cross visit; his brother-in-law assisting him when he had typ...

  11. Helena M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911, the fifth of six children. Ms. M. recalls her large extended and assimilated family's affluence; her father and one brother dying; one sister's emigration to the United States; studying psychology; working in a children's clinic with Adolf Berman; German invasion; ghettoization; working for CENTOS, an agency for orphans, which received funding from the Joint; contacts with Adam Czerniako?w; working with Janusz Korczak, Stefania Wilczyn?ska, and other staff at Korczak's orphanage; deportations beginning in June 1942; o...

  12. Philip K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip K., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary, in 1924. In this vivid and reflective testimony, Mr. K. describes prewar orthodox Jewish life; participation in a Zionist organization; lifelong conflict, starting in childhood, with his father over Jewish beliefs and practices; and official and extralegal antisemitism. He tells of volunteering as an interpreter in Auschwitz; trying to save inmates by mistranslating their statements; transport to an underground aircraft factory being built by the Organisation Todt at Hussigny, France; sabotage; transport to Hochdorf, then...

  13. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1930. She recalls her parents' non-Kosher butcher business; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; working on a farm with her parents and siblings; her parents arranging for her to stay on the farm; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; her father and brother escaping to the farm; her sister's deportation; her mother remaining in the ghetto, sorting clothes and possessions of deported Jews; her mother arranging for her to hide with a Polish woman; persuading the woman also to hide her brother; liberat...

  14. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1925. She recalls attending secular, Jewish, and Catholic schools; her father's emigration to the United States, one of his brothers to Mexico, and the other to Paris; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school in Oradea; returning to Satu Mare; working as a tutor; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; avoiding selections in order to stay with her mother; their separation in October (she never saw her again); transfer to Hai...

  15. Olga H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga H. (called Esther by her family), who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1918, the youngest of nine children. She recalls her orthodox family life in Seredne; attending Catholic school; transfer with some of her family to Uz?h?horod in April 1944; transport to Auschwitz; a selection after which she never saw her family again; being told her family was "burning;" not recognizing herself after being shaved; a sustaining relationship with a friend from her town; aid from a friend when she could not stand at appell; and transfer to Gelsenkirchen. She recounts volunteering...

  16. Ada G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family's relative affluence; a large extended family; attending Polish school; cordial relations with many non-Jewish friends; an anti-Jewish boycott of businesses; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; fleeing to Skaryzew with her family; returning; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish neighbor giving them food; ghettoization; round-up with her brother and sister for forced labor in a munitions factory; living in barracks at the factory (she never saw her parents or ...

  17. Hana V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana V., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1928, one of three children. She recounts German occupation; her father's escape to Italian-occupied Mostar; eviction from their home by Ustaša; truck transport elsewhere, then return to a prison in Sarajevo; deportation to Djakovo; the Osijeck Jewish community arranging her release to a Jewish family in Podravska Slatina; her father sending her false papers; joining him and her siblings in Mostar; transfer to Rab Island during Italian withdrawal; Italian capitulation; partisans placing them in a village; escaping to a...

  18. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Berlin in 1922. She describes her childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, including particularly vivid memories of the day Hitler came to power, Kristallnacht, and her brother's bar mitzvah, which took place in the chapel of a Jewish old age home because all the synagogues had been destroyed. She also discusses her journey to England with a children's transport in 1939 and her life in England, where she remained for several years. She speaks of her sense of Jewishness, which she acquired in school rather than in her non-observant home, and of the ...

  19. Irvin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irvin D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (Chervonoarmeisk since 1940) in 1937. He tells of the German bombardment on September 1, 1939; ghettoization in April 1942; seeing the elderly shot and some buried alive; escaping with his family; being hidden by a Ukrainian couple with eighteen other Jewish couples; leaving in May 1943 after suspicions were aroused due to the large amount of food purchased; being hidden by a woman beneath a stable in Lv?ov for a year; and coming out of hiding a month after liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts being wounded by a gre...

  20. Henry Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry Y., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. He recalls studying in ?o?dz?; German invasion; cessation of his studies; his mother sending him to ?e?czyca for food; deportation in 1940 to Danzig; slave labor on railroads; local women throwing them food; a severe beating from which he still suffers after effects; assistance from fellow prisoners and a German supervisor; transfer to Palemonas, then Kaiserwald; slave labor in an airplane factory; transfer to Stutthof; recognizing a cousin; bringing him food; transfer to Bochum Verein; f...