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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Isidore K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isidore K., who was born in Zamość, Poland in 1934, an only child. He recalls staying in a cellar with his family during the German invasion on September 14, 1939; Soviet occupation on September 26; leaving with the Soviets when Zamość was returned to the Germans a few weeks later; living in Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ through the winter; moving to Pinsk; deportation with his parents, grandparents, and other relatives to Siberia because they were not Soviet citizens; his father logging wood; moving fourteen months later to Ghijduwon; his grandmother's death en route; mo...

  2. Ben L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Hebrew-speaking school and a Tarbut school; the arrival of many Polish refugees after the onset of war; delivering food to some of the refugees, including Menachem Begin; Soviet occupation; his brother's participation in the Irgun; his father's non-Jewish associate encouraging them to flee; hiding in the associate's cellar outside Vilna for a few weeks; returning home; fleeing with his family to his paternal grandparents' home in Belaru...

  3. Gennadi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gennadi S., who was born in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg) in 1929, the older of two children. He recounts his mother was Jewish and his father was not; the family moving to Kiev when he was six months old; drills in preparation for military invasion beginning in 1940; German invasion on June 22, 1941; a notice for all Jews to report on September 29; his father deciding en route to turn back; learning thousands of Jews had been shot at Babi Yar that day; remaining in their apartment; a neighbor reporting they were illegally hiding a Jew; officers taking his mo...

  4. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R., a historian and research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Mr. R. discusses his decision in the 1970s to research the economic history of Vichy; writing his doctoral dissertation on that topic, and incorporating the study of antisemitism and collaboration; initial difficulties obtaining access to the archival material and publishing his book; changes in attitudes resulting from the trials of French collaborators in the 1980s, questions posed by those born after the war, and the changing demographic of French Jewry; open discussion...

  5. Annette W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annette W., a historian and research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, who was born in France in 1948, one of four children of Holocaust survivors. Ms. W. recounts her mother surviving in hiding and her father in Nice and Switzerland; the deportation and/or deaths of three of their parents and some of their siblings; her early Maoist sympathies; teaching in China from 1974 to 1976, which changed her mind; learning Yiddish at Columbia University in the early 1980s in order to do research on her grandfather, which led to her interest in Frenc...

  6. Tony K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tony K., a professor of history at University of Southampton, who was born in Manchester in 1960. Mr. K. recalls involvement in the anti-racist movement; attending University of Sheffield; interest in the Holocaust resulting from Jewish student politics and faculty mentors; studying in the United States in the early 1980s; his doctoral dissertation at Sheffield on antisemitism in Britain during World War II which resulted in his first book; Bill Williams influencing him in oral history; a one-year position at the Manchester Jewish Museum resulting in rescuing archival...

  7. Michèle G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michèle G., who was born in Domfront, France in 1939, the youngest of three children. She recounts that her family lived in Paris; her father's military draft prior to her birth; her family traveling to Domfront, thinking war was imminent, thus her birth there; their return to Paris; learning her father was a prisoner of war; his return in 1941; evacuation with her siblings by the Croix-Rouge française in March 1942; staying with family friends, then placement with a Catholic family with seven children in Isserpent; her brother's placement elsewhere that summer; ful...

  8. 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...

  9. Berry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Berry N., who was born in Kastoria, Greece, the older of two daughters. She recounts her mother's death; her father's remarriage; the births of four half-siblings; attending a Jewish school, then secular gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; benign Italian occupation; German occupation beginning in 1943; separation from the non-Jewish population; not going when her father encouraged her to flee to the partisans with a younger brother; round-up with some fifty relatives and others to a school in March 1944; encouragement from her friend Dora; deportation to Thess...

  10. Salomon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon K., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1926, one of four children. He recounts a happy childhood; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau; an older man compelling him to separate from his family; pointless slave labor moving stones; volunteering as a machinist; a privileged position as a mason; a French-Jewish prisoner helping him; remaining with him throughout his experience, to which he attributes his survival; seeing two of his sisters from a distance; transfer three months later to Warsaw; clearing rubble; improved foo...

  11. Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Újfehértó, Hungary in 1926, the eighth of sixteen children in a Hasidic family. She recounts her grandfather's affluence; his obtaining papers for them to emigrate to the United States; not going because an uncle believed they had "everything here"; her brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; forced relocation with her family to Nyírbátor, then the Simapuszta ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with a friend when she was separated from her family; selection with other Hungarian women, including her friend, for slav...

  12. Nelly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nelly G., who was born in Berlin in 1930, an only child. She recounts that her mother was Czech and her father Hungarian; their orthodoxy; her mother's siblings joining them; her aunt caring for her while her mother worked; visiting both sets of grandparents with her mother when she was five; her aunt's marriage and birth of her cousin, whom she considered her sister; attending a religious school; increasing antisemitism and anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's trip to the United States in 1938 to visit his siblings and arrange for her and her mother to join him; he...

  13. Irene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary in 1934, the oldest of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; beautiful memories of Sabbath and holiday observances, despite their minimal lifestyle; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in 1944; round-up with her grandmother, siblings, and mother in June; deportation to the Debrecen ghetto, then to Strasshof; lack of sanitation and food; transfer to a camp in Vienna; caring for her siblings while her mother...

  14. Isaac K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac K., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the middle child of five. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his bar mitzvah shortly thereafter, which was sad due to the occupation; his father losing his business permit; learning cantorial and opera singing; German invasion in spring 1944; his arrest as a hostage in place of his father; his father obtaining his release after two weeks; ghettoization at a brick factory; a severe beating which left him unable to process information for some time; dep...

  15. Rolf F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1916. He recounts his father was a German industrialist and his mother the daughter of a Jew who had converted in 1908 (she was baptized and raised as a Christian); half siblings from his father's previous two marriages, the first to a non-Jew, the second to his mother's sister (both wives had died); not knowing he was legally Jewish until his expulsion from school in 1933; attending technical school in Mittweida because he was barred from university; draft into a forced labor battalion; returning to school after his release...

  16. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in 1917 and served in the military police of the British army during World War II. He recounts the Normandy landing, moving through Belgium and Holland, and entering Germany; volunteering to enter Bergen-Belsen; observing thousands of bodies and prisoners wandering aimlessly; assisting to organize burial of the dead, whose decomposing bodies could be smelled over a mile away; compelling local Germans to assist; convincing survivors he was Jewish by speaking Yiddish with them; moving everyone to a nearby tank training facility; burning the conc...

  17. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Hajduböszörmény, Hungary in 1931, the fifth of seven children. She recalls antisemitic harassment in school; ghettoization in 1944; draft of her father and two older brothers into a slave labor battalion; transfer with her family to a brick factory in Debrecen, then to Strasshof; slave labor shoveling snow and coal; her mother bringing them extra food; fasting on Yom Kippur; a forced march to Mauthausen; piles of corpses and starvation; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; escaping with others to fi...

  18. Helen R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Rozwadów, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. She recalls living with a loving, extended family; attending Polish and Jewish schools; German invasion; expulsion of all the Jews across the San River to Soviet territory; living with relatives in Z︠H︡ovkva for nine months; deportation with her immediate and extended family to Siberia; briefly living in a barrack, then with a family; her father organizing her brother's clandestine bar mitzvah; transfer to another barrack; one aunt's death; forced labor; meager rations; receiving Pass...

  19. Leona K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leona K., who was born in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, Poland in 1926, one of five children. She recalls her large and close extended family; antisemitic policies at school; German invasion; she and her family visiting her married sister in Warsaw; ghettoization; their return to Nowe Miasto; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto as a maid for a German family; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in November 1942; remaining with two sisters and cousins when separated from her family; slave labor digging ditches in bitter cold; carrying the dead back to camp; learning of t...

  20. Mordechai M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mordechai M., who was born in Jabłonna, Poland in 1931, the older of two brothers. He recalls attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment in school; his father's draft into the Polish military; German invasion in 1939; his father's return; ghettoization in Legionowo; his mother obtaining food outside the ghetto from Poles she knew; her escape after she was caught and beaten; his grandfather's and uncle's deaths during an epidemic; his father persuading a non-Jewish physician to operate on his mother, which saved her life; creating an attic hiding place;...