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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Forever yesterday

    A New York area Emmy award-winning documentary based on survivor testimonies, produced by WNEW-TV in cooperation with the Holocaust Survivors Film Project.

  2. Edith P. edited testimony

    Edith P., a survivor from eastern Czechoslovakia, relates her wartime experiences in an emotionally powerful and unusually poetic way. She tells of her family's evacuation to a brick factory, their train journey to Auschwitz, and their separation upon arrival. She describes her life in Auschwitz and later in Salzwedel, where she worked as a cook for the SS. Ms. P. recounts the joy of liberation by American soldiers and concludes by expressing her distress at her own, and the world's complacency while suffering and inhumanity continue.

  3. Paul D. edited testimony

    Illustrating his recollections with photographs, Paul D., a child survivor from Humenné, Slovakia, describes an early childhood full of love and warmth in spite of the death of his father when he was three years old. With evident pride in his own resourcefulness and that of the adults who cared for him, he relates his wartime experiences of flight, hiding, and living "on the Aryan side" in the manner of an adventure story, though it is told against the backdrop of the disappearances and deaths of family members - grandfather, favorite cousin, beloved stepfather - until only he and his mot...

  4. Forever Yesterday

  5. Untitled edited testimony

  6. Testimony excerpts - bystander and two survivors

    An edited program with excerpts from three testimonies. John S., a Jesuit priest, who during the war was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Košice, now Slovakia, vividly describes two personal encounters with the suffering and horrors of the Holocaust and laments his inability to intervene or protest on behalf of the victims. Leon S., a Jew from Poland, describes the liquidation of the Jews of his town, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed. He speaks of his experiences in slave labor and concentration camps and tells how he was able to retain his faith and humanity ...

  7. Renee H. edited testimony

    From the point of view of the child that she was at the time, Renee H., a survivor of Bergen-Belsen from Bratislava, Slovakia relates her wartime experiences. She tells how, in German-occupied Bratislava, she served as the "ears" of her deaf parents and younger sister, alerting them to impending round-ups of Jews. She speaks of her vain attempts to find shelter for her sister and herself after the deportation of her parents, and her voluntary surrender to the police in the hopes of being reunited with her parents in Auschwitz. She describes the life that she and her sister led in Bergen-Bel...

  8. Rabbi Baruch G. edited testimony

    Rabbi Baruch G., a survivor from Mława, Poland, tells of his childhood and youth. Recollections of the joyous Passovers of his childhood call to mind his feelings of loneliness at his son's bar mitzvah, at which there was no one present from his side of the family, since all had perished in the Holocaust. Rabbi G. chronicles the breakdown and destruction of his closely-knit extended family and his own personal deterioration as he experienced the degradations of numerous concentration and slave labor camps. He describes the process of his recovery and relates his insights into its limitatio...

  10. Seeing

    Survivors and witnesses describe their experiences during the Holocaust period. This edited program includes a Jesuit priest who was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia; a Jewish woman who was a young girl in Locise, Poland; another who was deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek; a Jewish male survivor of Skarżysko-Kamienna; and a woman survivor of Auschwitz.

  11. Future imperfect

    In this edited program, survivors reflect on the effects of their Holocaust experiences upon their lives and those of their children.

  12. Rachel G. edited testimony

    Rachel G., a child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. She tells of her leave taking from her parents, and lovingly recalls the kindness of the priest, nuns, and childless couple who helped her survive in hiding. She also recounts her postwar reunion and experiences with her mother.

  13. Menachem S. edited testimony

    Menachem S., a child survivor relates his vivid memories of Kraków, the German occupation, and moving to the ghetto and to Płaszów concentration camp. He tells of being smuggled out of the camp and surviving as a street child from ages four to seven, with the aid of several Polish women. He reflects upon his postwar reunion with his parents, the psychological effects of his experiences, and the possible effects on his own children and the next generation.

  14. Parallel paths

    This edited program follows the path of the Anne Frank: the family move from Germany to Holland; German invasion; going into hiding; arrest and deportation to Westerbork, Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen; and Anne Frank's death in Bergen-Belsen. It is seen through the eyes of survivors, witnesses, and rescuers who had experiences similar to Anne Frank's.

  15. Everything else is history

    in this edited program, Holocaust survivors describe specific memories, reflect upon how and why they remember particular incidents, and the impact of these memories on their present lives.

  16. Elie Wiesel Lecture

  19. Temoignages Pour Memoire

  20. Living with the Memory (Hebrew)