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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Leib B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leib B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. He recalls attending public school; studying at the Bobowa Yeshiva from 1937 to 1939; returning home when war was imminent; German invasion; two brothers and one sister escaping through Hungary and Romania to Israel; ghettoization in 1941; deportation to Tarnów, then Brzesko; joining an aunt in a town near Bochnia; learning his parents had died from typhus; returning to the Kraków ghetto with his youngest brothers; moving to Bochnia; deportation with two brothers and a sister in 1943 to Trezbin...

  2. Shulamit L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shulamit L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's poverty; attending public school; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in expulsion from school; participating in a Zionist youth group; her father's remarriage; Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to the United States; her emigration with other children via Trieste to Palestine in 1940; receiving a postcard from her mother in Theresienstadt; living with a family in Jerusalem, then at a children's village; learning after the war...

  3. Martin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1928, the older of two children. He recounts his mother was born in the United States but grew up in Poland; German invasion; expulsion from their home; living near the Jewish cemetery; working with his mother in a coat factory; celebrating his bar mitzvah in secret; hiding with his father during a round-up, and observing a mass killing at the cemetery; moving to the ghetto; building hiding places; hiding during several round-ups; his mother's selection for deportation; the factory owner removing her and registering her fo...

  4. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  5. William S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, the elder of two sons. He recounts his family moving to Prague when he was four years old; their relative affluence; summer vacations with grandparents in Bratislava and other locations; his and his brother's b'nai mitzvah; Passover celebrations in their home with extended family; attending a German gymnasium; German invasion on March 15, 1939; his father leaving for Hungary, due to his Hungarian citizenship, intending to send for them; having to vacate their apartment; deportation to...

  6. Michael S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1934, one of two children. He recalls vacations in Zakopane; German invasion; fleeing to Kielce; returning home; public hangings of Jews; escaping deportation through a friend of the head of the Judenrat; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; fearing separation from his parents; his mother hiding him in her workplace during the day; his mother approaching a Polish prostitute and asking her to find them a hiding place; hearing she had found them a place; escaping with his parents and sister with assistance from a Germa...

  7. Barbara Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barbara Z., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her father was not Jewish; her parents were both dentists; their divorce when she was twelve; her maternal grandfather living with them; her mother's Danish friend urging her mother to send her to Denmark due to Hitler's ascent to power; arrival in Copenhagen in 1936; attending a Catholic school; her mother's arrival a year later (her grandfather had died); their sham marriages so they could remain; German invasion; non-Jews arranging their transport in a small fishing boat to Sweden (the ...

  8. Irena K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena K., who was born in Velykyĭ Bereznyĭ, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1918, one of seven children. She recalls attending a Czech school; Hungarian occupation; three brothers moving to Budapest; ghettozation with her parents and sister in Uz︠h︡horod; one brother joining them; their deportation to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her family with her sister; working in the hospital; defying regulations by allowing visitors; Dr. Gisella Perl giving her life-saving medication when she was ill; her cousin giving birth; the immediate "disappearance" o...

  9. Leonard B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. He recalls his father's high position in a German company and his mother's as a school principal; living with his grandparents due to his parents' work situations; attending a private school; German invasion; closure of all schools; moving with his parents and grandparents to the ghetto area; an uncle being summoned by the Gestapo (they never saw him again); his aunt working in the hospital; his mother arranging a tutor for him in their home; hospitalization three times; his aunt saving him from a hospital deportatio...

  10. Milton L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Milton L., who was born in Ulanów, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls working in the family bakery business; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; two brothers emigrating to the United States in 1939; German invasion followed by Soviet occupation; leaving with the Soviet forces; traveling to Młodów; two brothers and his sister returning home; deportation by the Soviets to Siberia in fall 1940; working with his brothers cutting trees; moving with his mother and brothers to Samarqand two years later; separation from his family whe...

  11. Pauline B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pauline B., who was born in Li︠u︡bomlʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, the fifth of six daughters. She recounts attending Yiddish, then public school; antisemitic harassment; her mother's death when she was six; moving to her grandparents with an older sister; one aunt, who was like a mother to her, emigrating to Argentina; Soviet occupation; placement with her sister in an orphanage; evacuation by Soviet troops when the Germans invaded; being wounded en route; staying in Volgograd (Stalingrad) for a week; transfer to Siberia; living in an orphanage; moving with ...

  12. Roman F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1933, the youngest of three children. He recalls German invasion; ghettoization in 1941; transfer to Płaszów in 1943; slave labor in factories; his brother arranging for him, their parents, and sister to be on Schindler's list; public execution of his brother; transfer with his family to Gross-Rosen, then Brünnlitz; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau with five other children and seven parents, including his father, cousin, and future brother-in-law; separation from his father (he never saw him again); assignment to a cleaning...

  13. Stanley M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley M., who was born in 1926 and enlisted in the United States military at age eighteen. He recalls having no awareness of what a concentration camp was or the systematic killing of Jews prior to entering Mauthausen with the 65th Infantry Division; having two sets of dog tags so he could not be identified as a Jew in case of capture; keeping the former prisoners in Mauthausen so they would not leave and overeat; their disbelief that he was a Jewish solider; obtaining contact information from the prisoners to inform relatives in the United States that they were ali...

  14. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Beli Manastir, Yugoslavia (presently Croatia) in 1929, the eldest of his mother's five children (His father was previously married to his mother's sister with whom he had three children). He recounts moving to Mukacheve before he was two; attending a Czech school and cheder; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah which he barely remembers; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1944; transport to Szombathely; encountering a German soldier at a railroad station who gave him a loaf of bread; another German soldier who saved his...

  15. Aleida A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleida A., a professor at the University of Konstanz, who was born in Germany, one of five children. She recounts her parents were both pastors; frequent family conversations about World War II and the Holocaust despite a "conspiracy of silence" in Germany during the 1950s; her parents' anti-Nazi perspective and activities, including hiding Jewish friends; her mother counseling Jewish teenagers in the 1930s who were converting, were able to emigrate and with whom her mother maintained lifelong contacts; attending a school with a strong anti-Nazi legacy; relations betw...

  16. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school and his family's eviction from their apartment; attending a trade school in Frankfurt; destruction of the family business and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his father's return from Dachau three weeks later; futile efforts to emigrate; deportation with his family to Rīga in November 1941; slave labor on a farm with 500 others for two years; public hanging of a man for tradin...

  17. Nathan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan L., who was born in Łańcut, Poland in 1934, the younger of two brothers. He recounts living in bunkers in the woods with his family, including grandparents, aunts, and uncles; often running and hiding in cemeteries; his uncle carrying him when he could not run through high snow; assistance from some non-Jews; his grandparents giving up; his mother not returning when she went for food (he never saw her again); liberation six month later; returning to Łańcut; living with his aunt, then in an orphanage for a few months; living in Rzeszów with his brother, fathe...

  18. Felix P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix P., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the third of three sons. He recounts his mother's baptism, and having him and his brothers baptized thinking it would ease their lives; their affluence; becoming bilingual due to his English nanny; German occupation; expulsion from university; his father's and brother's exclusion from practicing law; non-Jewish friends assisting them to emigrate; his older brother's and parents' emigration to France, and his to Czechoslovakia; his other brother remaining to complete medical school (he perished in Buchenwald); living with frie...

  19. Claire G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire G., who was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1923, the oldest of four daughters. She recalls a wonderful childhood in an affluent home; her family's orthodoxy; her paternal uncle and his children emigrating to Palestine in 1933; excitement, as a child, at seeing Hitler parade in her town; the sudden loss of non-Jewish friends due to the rise of Nazism; having to transfer to Jewish school; correspondence with a cousin in the United States to improve her English; writing of her desire to emigrate; her uncle obtaining papers for her; traveling with her mother to St...

  20. Lucie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie W., who was born in Bad Berleburg, Germany in 1924. This is a follow-up to her previous testimony recorded in 1980. She describes visiting Bad Berleburg for a series of events organized by the local residents to document and memorialize the Jews of the city, survivors, and those who were murdered during the Nazi period. She also relates her experience in Röddenau, her mother's birthplace (she had visited her grandmother there as a child on her grandmother's birthday). She was invited by the present population, who memorialized her maternal family's residence a...