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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  3. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., a non-Jew, who was born in Cephalonia, Greece in 1929, the second of four children. She recounts the benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion in 1944; the murder of a large group of Italian soldiers by Germans; troops entering her village on April 23, 1944; separation of the men from the women and children, including her father and older brother; burning of the village; fleeing with her mother and younger siblings to her father's sister in Samos; her mother visiting her father and brother in jail; learning all the men had been executed on May 1; su...

  4. John G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John. G., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1930. He recounts his large extended family; their assimilated life style and strong Hungarian identity; his family's move to Debrecen shortly after his birth; his sister's birth in 1931; their move to Budapest in 1933; attending a Hungarian school; his father's 1940 draft as an officer to the military reserves; a last visit to relatives in Miskolc; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his father losing his job; attending a Catholic gymnasium despite the laws because his grandfather had been a student there; German occupation in ...

  10. Those who were there

    This edited program serves to introduce and promote the goals of the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. It was first shown at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in 1983 to encourage survivors to come forward and give their testimony.

  11. Survivors among us

    This edited program contains excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Hartford, Connecticut area, organized around the themes of "Early Memories," "The Camps," and "Resistance."

  13. About the Holocaust

    This documentary, narrated by the child of a survivor and including testimony excerpts, introduces the secondary school student to the Holocaust. Originally produced for an inner-city school system and currently distributed by the Anti-Defamation League, this edited program has had a favorable response from both teachers and students, particularly at the ninth grade level.

  14. Leon S. edited testimony

    Leon S., a Jew from Poland, tells his story with painful deliberation. He describes the liquidation of the Jews of his town, during which he witnessed the murder of this grandmother, and his experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt. Mr. S. relates that he became religious in the camps and still uses the tefillin and prayer book he removed from the huge piles of religious objects which he found in Theresienstadt after he was liberated. He is grateful that he was able to retain his faith and humanity in spite of al...

  16. Flight from destiny

    A documentary based on interviews with survivors of the SS St. Louis and Shanghai.

  17. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

  19. Helen K. edited testimony

    Helen K., a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, and Auschwitz relates her wartime experiences and describes her postwar reunion with her husband, whom she had married in the ghetto at the age of sixteen. She emphasizes her determination to survive as an act of defiance against Hitler, a decision she reached when her younger brother died in her arms in the cattle car en route to Majdanek. The theme of resistance, both passive and active, recurs throughout her testimony. Ms. K. concludes on a pessimistic note, wondering whether "it was worth it" in view of the continuing suffering and in...