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  1. Sally H. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Sally H., whose first testimony was recorded in 1979. She notes the painful nature of digging up memories for the first testimony; continuing to see vivid mental pictures of her painful incidents in the ghetto; being hidden briefly by a Polish neighbor; being chosen not to enter a deportation train and her sisters going with her at her mother's urging; feeling as though "it" was happening to someone else in Skarz?ysko; being kept alive there through her sisters' efforts; random shootings of every tenth person when there was an escape; returning h...

  2. Julius J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. He describes German occupation; immediate anti-Jewish acts; his parents sending him and his sister to Warsaw thinking it would be safer; returning to ?o?dz? due to homesickness; ghettoization; forced labor, starvation and round-ups; deportation of the sick, elderly, and children in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated in 1944; their capture; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. Mr. J. recalls separation from all his family except his brother; forced labor; his brother's continuous efforts to save him; their t...

  3. Lea I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea I., who was born in Mszczono?w, Poland. She recalls compulsory relocation of all Jews to Warsaw; deportation to Majdanek; the hanging of an eight-year-old girl; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then to a forced labor camp near Prague; constant hunger; a soldier who threw her bread; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Mszczono?w; learning none of her family had survived; moving to ?o?dz?; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to Israel, then to the United States two years later. Mrs. I. notes her strong belief in God and observance of the Jewish dietary laws.

  4. John R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army; moving from England through France to Germany; having no prior knowledge of concentration camps; arriving in Buchenwald shortly after its liberation; initial shock at the conditions; emaciated, lethargic prisoners; piles of corpses; several prisoners dying in front of him; the contrast between the prisoner and SS barracks; and taking pictures so he would not forget what he had seen. Mr. R. notes the lack of interest of those to whom he described his visit; ceasing to d...

  5. Rachel N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel N., who was born in Tomaso?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1914. She recalls anti-Jewish quotas preventing her from attending university in Warsaw; studying nursing in ?o?dz?; working for the district doctor in Brzeziny; German invasion; being forced to establish a separate Jewish hospital; ghettoization; marriage; public hangings of food smugglers; her husband's round-up (she never saw him again); clandestinely visiting her parents and sister in Tomasz?ow Mazowiecki; persuading a German soldier not to kill her father; returning to Brzeziny (she never saw her family ag...

  6. Rosa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa K., who was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1932. Ms. K. recalls her non-observant upbringing; her intellectual, politically active parents; a German Jewish boy temporarily left in the family's care when his parents fled Germany in 1939 (he eventually was deported); the Nazi invasion in May 1940; her parents' unsuccessful attempt to leave Holland; increasing anti-Semitic restrictions; the disappearance of many friends; and her parents' decision to go into hiding during an Aktion in late 1942. She tells of separation from her family; hiding with a succession of fam...

  7. Rosa G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosa G., who was born in Lakhva, Poland in 1924. She recalls celebrating Jewish holidays; improved living standards after Soviet occupation in 1939; joining Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; Germans shooting her father; fleeing east with her brother; returning home after being stopped at the border (her brother escaped); ghettoization with her mother and sister; help from non-Jewish friends; escaping to Lenin (she never saw her mother and sister again); staying with her uncle; ghettoization; the young people singing and dancing; receiving food from non-Jewish fr...

  8. Isaac N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He recounts participation in Po?alei Zion including organizing summer camps and meeting his future wife; German invasion; a futile attempt to escape to Warsaw; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; contact with H?ayim Rumkowski while establishing a soup kitchen; his belief that Rumkowski prolonged the ghetto's existence; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother's selection for death; transfer with his father and brother to Dachau, then Kaufering; his father's death; transfer to Utting, then b...

  9. Ivy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivy B., who was born in Australia in 1919. She speaks of studying child development psychology in London in 1946; working from 1947 onward at the Anna Freud Centre with children liberated from concentration camps; Anna Freud's staff; and the organization of the Centre. Mrs. B. relates stories of the children undergoing individual psychological treatment; the effects of concentration camps on children; their hoarding of food and food fights; language difficulties; sleep disturbances and night horrors; individual fears related to their experiences; the effect of separat...

  10. Krystyna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Krystyna B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932, the youngest of eight children. Ms. B. recounts her parents' orthodoxy; vacations in Otwock; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her brothers financially supporting them by building hiding places for others; one brother surrendering himself and family because his young children might expose others in hiding; her brother Rafael's marriage in 1941; deportation with his wife; his escape and return; his construction and provisioning a bunker connected to the sewer system; retreating to the bunker on...

  11. Max A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max A., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1915. He recalls marriage; his son's birth; German invasion; joining Polish forces in the east to fight the invasion; returning home after defeat; joining the Polish underground (AK); leaving with his wife and son for S?omniki when ghettoization was imminent; increased involvement in the AK; separation from his wife and child (he never saw them again); incarceration in P?aszo?w; retaining diamonds, gold, and money; bribing people for an easy job; contacts with the Joint; escaping with three other prisoners; rejoining his AK g...

  12. Felicia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Che?m, Poland about 1920. She recalls Polish restrictions on Jews; her parents' decision and attempts to emigrate; moving to Warsaw in 1938; her father's departure for Bolivia in April 1939; German bombing of Warsaw on September 1; returning to Che?m with her mother; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat, for which she worked; and transports of Jews to Sobibor and Majdanek. Mrs. H. describes hiding during the final liquidation; separation from her mother; traveling to Zakopane, then Krako?w; obtaining false papers using the name of a Poli...

  13. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1922, the oldest of seven children. She recounts moving to Janowiec in 1925; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; brief hospitalization in Warsaw; caring for her family when her mother was ill; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; forced labor; deportation to Zwolen?; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; a Polish civilian worker giving her food and bringing messages from her fathe...

  14. Sara E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara E., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1923 to a family of nine children. She recounts membership in Hashomer Haztair; brief German invasion; a mass killing of 500 Jews; Soviet occupation; marriage in May 1941; German invasion in June; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; her son's birth in July 1942; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; witnessing her husband's murder by a German officer; her son's death while in the bunker; learning her remaining family was murdered; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in October 1943; slave labor in a weapons factory; conn...

  15. Hana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana A., who was born in Vilna (then Russia) in 1915. She recalls her marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband being taken away (she never saw him again); a Polish neighbor who gave her food for her daughter; mass killings in Ponary, which included her mother and some siblings; a round-up of children, including her three-year-old daughter (she never saw her again); deportation with her sister and niece to Kaiserwald, then six months later to Dundangen; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberat...

  16. Hetty E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hetty E., who was born in England in 1913. She recalls moving to Paris with her mother in 1920; their orthodox observance; her mother's death; German invasion; visiting a cousin in Reims; interrogation by a German soldier because she was a British citizen; returning to Paris; hiding in her apartment with assistance from the concierge; arrest as a British citizen rather than as a Jew; deportation to Drancy in January 1944; forced labor and deportations; transfer to Vittel as a British citizen; living with other British citizens in hotels surrounded by barbed wire; libe...

  17. Yaakov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov M., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, one of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Polish school, then a Katzenelson school and summer camp; antisemitic harassment of orthodox Jews; volunteering in a civil defense corps during the German invasion; forced labor; a German assisting his father receive payment for his store merchandise; ghettoization; receiving food from the same German; attending a school and a haschshara in Marysin; slave labor in a shoe factory, then a printing factory; receiving extra food from the manager when a s...

  18. Julius O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius O., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary in 1920. Mr. O. relates his happy childhood in a family of seven children; his first experience with antisemitism through a Polish priest's speech in 1938, after which their lives changed; three months in a Hungarian labor battalion; deportation with his family; arrival at Birkenau on June 2, 1944; his and a brother's selection for a work group and his family's for gassing; transfer to Auschwitz after eight days; being tattooed; and the dehumanizing conditions. He describes being selected with other strong men and isolated...

  19. Juraj A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Juraj A., who was born in Kladno, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1937. He recounts baptism of his entire family; an uncle in the United States sending them tickets to travel there in 1938; not going due to his father's illness; his death in 1941; his mother's remarriage; living in Rybárpole; his grandfather's privileged position as a factory owner; fleeing to Černová; moving to Velk̕á Bytča in summer 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the yellow star; living briefly with his stepfather's parents; hiding in mountain villages, including Štrba, Ružo...

  20. Abe H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe H., who was born in Opole Lubelski, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. Mr. H. recounts the family's move to ?o?dz? when he was six; attending school until he began his apprenticeship as a tailor; the extreme poverty; his father's death in 1938; rumors of war; mobilization; German invasion; and restrictions on Jews. He describes ghettoization; extreme food shortages; organization of the ghetto under H?ayim Rumkowski; his sister opening a tailor shop in which he worked; deportations; transports of German, Czech, and Belgian Jews into the ghetto; deportation of h...