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  1. Leonid N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonid N., who was born in Z?H?ytomyr, Soviet Union (presently Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls a famine beginning in 1933 and his mother's resulting death in 1934; his father's remarriage; his father's imprisonment in 1940 for illegally selling shoes; German invasion in June 1941; orders to evacuate for the military draft; participating in military operations in many locations until the end of the war; antisemitism in the Soviet military; reunion with his father in 1946 (he survived in Siberia); military discharge in 1947; returning to Z?H?ytomyr; learning from the woman...

  2. Paul D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul D., who was born in Hlohovec, Hungary (today Czechoslovakia), in 1913. Mr. D. tells of attending high school and university in Vienna; his father's death when he was nine; returning to the family farm to care for his siblings after his mother's death in 1931; Hungarian occupation in 1939; being arrested by Hungarians, along with seventy others, in Dunajska? Streda in 1943; internment in Kistarcsa and later Garany; and release months later. He recalls visiting his sister in Budapest on the day of the German occupation; detention again in Kistarcsa; deportation to ...

  3. Leon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon L., who was born in Paris, France to Russian émigrés in 1911, one of two children. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1914; restrictions as enemy aliens during World War I; her sister's birth in 1915; his bar mitzvah; his father's communist activities; brief apprenticeship as an upholsterer; attending classes to become a clerk; joining a communist youth group in 1927; working as a salesman; his father's arrest and exile to Paris as a communist in 1931; German invasion in 1940; briefly fleeing with his mother to France; contact with the resistance; o...

  4. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Novaya Mysh?, Russia in 1913, one of six children. She recounts her father's service in World War I; his imprisonment as a POW in Germany for five years; attending school in Baranavichy, then Catholic nursing school in Warsaw; working in Warsaw after graduation; marriage in 1938; a visit home in 1939 (she never saw her family again); raising her husband's stepson; German invasion; ghettoization; becoming pregnant; her son's premature birth in June 1942; being released from a round-up by an SS man; hiding during round-ups; a former teacher from ...

  5. Klara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary in 1924. She describes growing up in an assimilated family; cordial relations with non-Jews; moving to Budapest in 1932; her father's death in 1936; her mother housing illegal Czech refugees; anti-Jewish laws resulting in having to change schools; learning the fur trade; German occupation in 1944; assignment working for the SS; forced relocation; living in German military quarters with her mother; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her brother; her cousin's death from typhoid; moving to Vienna in 1946; living in a German...

  6. Wili G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wili G., who was born in Olomuoc, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1914, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; attending the local German gymnasium; completing engineering studies in Belgium; draft into the Czech military; German occupation; military discharge at the end of 1938; one brother's emigration to Palestine; moving to Prague with his grandmother; participating in Maccabi; teaching at a Zionist school; joining a hachsharah; marriage to a woman he met there in October 1941; joining his parents in Olomouc; a no...

  7. Lore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-728), Mrs. P. recounts putting children to work at AEG to save them; a public hanging of attempted escapees; a cousin being shot after going mad from starvation; and participating in a war crimes trial in Du?sseldorf. She shows documents.

  8. Fred F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1932. He describes his parents' knitting business; the Anschluss; frequent arrests of his father; fleeing with his parents to Cologne in 1938; failed attempts to enter Belgium; traveling with his mother to Antwerp in January 1939, posing as Belgians; his father's arrival later; German invasion; their flight to De Panne, then Ostende; returning to Antwerp; their eight-month detention in Opoeteren; his father's arrest in 1941; returning to Antwerp with his mother; their move to Brussels; his mother arranging his placement in a...

  9. Sara O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara O., who was born in Włodawa, Poland in 1924, one of three sisters. She recounts German invasion; round-up of her father and grandfather with others as hostages; German withdrawal weeks later; brief Soviet occupation; German return; formation of a Judenrat; forced agricultural labor; observing the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941; arrival of Jews from other towns; her father's arrest; paying for his release; witnessing the shooting of a rabbi; round-ups and deportations; her family hiding in a bunker while she and her sister reported to work; being...

  10. Walter F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He recalls his close family; deciding to leave Austria immediately after the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment by brown-shirted boys; traveling to Italy with a cousin; working in Albanian oil fields; moving to Tirana before receiving their visas; a brief reunion with his father (he was waiting to leave for England to join his wife); emigration to the United States; enlisting in the army; and visiting his parents in London when he was stationed in England. He discusses his desire to forget everything prior to emigrati...

  11. Shevah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shevah W., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1935, the youngest of three children. He recalls a wonderful childhood in a large extended family; family picnics in Truskavet?s??; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; hiding with his family in their basement during a pogrom by Ukrainians, during which his maternal grandmother was killed; later hiding with Ukranians and Poles in several locations; ghettoization; his father building a false wall in his workshop; hiding there for seven months with his family, an aunt, and cousin; a Ukrainian woma...

  12. Suzi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzi W., who was born in 1928 in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic), an only child. She recounts a very happy childhood until age ten; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a friend warning her father to flee; moving to Brno; her parents' arrests; living with an aunt; her aunt's arrest and suicide; living with another aunt; attending a Jewish school; participating in Tehelet Lavan, including their summer camp in 1940; her parents' release; deportation with them to Theresienstadt in January...

  13. Greta Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1913. Mrs. Z. recalls the German occupation in 1940; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; round-up of her parents and brother in 1942 (they never returned); and deportation with her husband and two daughters to Westerbork in September 1943. She describes the family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in early 1944; daily routine in the camp, including her exemption from work because she was a woman with children; and visits by her husband (he was in a different barrack). She tells of the family's evacuation in April 19...

  14. Celina L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918. She describes growing up in an affluent family in Siedlce; her younger sister's death in 1937; graduating from gymnasium; working as a legal assistant; German invasion in September 1939; the destruction of their home in a German bombardment during which her mother was killed; her father's imprisonment; bribing a guard to effect his escape; fleeing with her father to Siemiatycze, then Stolbt?s?y (Stou?btsy) in the Soviet zone; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; being hidden by a German during a round-up; her...

  15. Shari B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shari B., who was born in Kos?ice, Slovakia, circa 1928. Mrs. B. describes antisemitism and awareness of her Judaism; the German occupation; her inadequate awareness of the events of the war; being smuggled, with her sisters, out of her town and living with a former Jewish maid; and her and her sister's flight to Bratislava, where they hid for several months and where she met her future husband. She tells of the arrest of her sister; her own arrest and weeklong interrogation; her obsessive fear of dying by German hands; and her transfer to a transit camp in Sered,? wh...

  16. Stephen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen B., who was born in Berettyo?u?jfalu, Hungary in 1927. He recalls being raised with his sister in Debrecen; joyous family holiday celebrations; attending a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; forced labor cleaning bombing rubble; transfer to a brickyard a month later; deportation with his mother and sister to Strasshof (his father was in a slave labor battalion), then a labor camp in Vienna; contacts with Allied POWs; an Austrian foreman giving him extra food; observing Yom Kippur; disappearance of the guards; trave...

  18. Miriam J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam J., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1918. She recounts her mother's death when she was three; her father's remarriage; her sister's death; one brother moving to Russia; marriage; Soviet occupation; her son's birth and hospitalization; her husband's military service (he was killed); German invasion; ghettoization; a beating for attempting to smuggle potatoes; her son's murder; escaping from a round-up; a Jewish policeman hiding her; murder of her father, stepmother, and brother; transfer to Kaunas concentration camp, then to Stutthof; slave la...

  19. Minna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Minna B., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1914. She recounts marriage in 1933; her son's birth; German invasion; deportation of her husband; ghettoization with her son and mother in Podhajce; hiding with her son during "aktions"; the Judenrat and Jewish police rounding-up people for forced labor; being forced to cover a mass grave of murdered Jews; fleeing to the woods during an "aktion" (she never saw her son and mother again); encountering her neighbor, Oscar F.; hiding in bunkers with Oscar F. and other Jews; receiving food and encouragment from Jehovah's Witne...

  20. Leopold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold K., who was born in Peremyshli?a?ny, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's history as famous klezmer musicians; attending a multi-ethnic school; studies in L'viv; friendships with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; German invasion; escape east; returning home after Germans overtook them; formation of the ghetto and Judenrat; working in a hospital; a mass killing which included his father; building a bunker under their house; hiding in an outhouse, which still haunts him, and in the bunker; receiving food from non-Jewish friends; reluctance to escape from the ghett...