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  1. André C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of André C., a non-Jew, who was born in Liège, Belgium in 1921. He recalls his parents were both teachers; his academic success; housing German refugees, from whom he learned the personal results of antisemitic policies; entering medical school in 1938; conscription with all other medical students; retreating with the Belgian military to Le Mans, Nantes, and Les Sables-d'Olonne; capture by the Germans; release; returning to Liège; resuming medical school in September 1940; joining the Resistance; his engagement; arrest in August 1942; violent interrogations leading to...

  2. Laszlo T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laszlo T., who was born in Budapest in 1915. He describes his early childhood in the Jewish section of Budapest; post World War I antisemitism in Hungary; his interest in Zionism; his entry into medical school in June 1932; and prejudice in medical school. He recounts working as a physician in a Jewish hospital in 1938-1939; working in the central hospital of Budapest until April 1942; and the deportation and death of his brother. He recalls his work as a conscript in a hospital in Sopron (O?denburg) from April 1942 until June 1944; and the fate of Sopron's Jewish com...

  3. Lieselotte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lieselotte W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920, an only child. She recounts her father's World War I service; an idyllic childhood; identifying themselves as Germans, not Jews; the family movie business; her father being warned to leave in August 1933; traveling to Crikvenica, Yugoslavia; moving to Zagreb; expulsion from Yugoslavia in 1934; joining an uncle in Budapest; an expulsion from Hungary six months later; moving to Milan; her father's poor health; expulsion notice in 1938; her mother arranging through a friend for her to go to London; working in a chil...

  4. Rose Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose Z., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1923. She recounts attending Polish Gymnasium; antisemitic incidents; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German occupation; ghettoization in November 1939; smuggling food into the ghetto posing as a non-Jew; obtaining false papers; organizing illegal studies for the children; traveling to Warsaw as a courier for the Jewish underground; the ghetto's liquidation in October 1942; fleeing to Warsaw with her brother using false papers; contacting Tossia Altman, an underground leader; posing as a non-Jew, working at a shoe facto...

  5. Soli G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Soli G., who was born in Šilutė, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts moving to Kaunas in 1933; enjoying his large extended family; attending a local school; antisemitic harrassment; transfer to a Jewish school; Warsaw refugees living with them after outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation in June 1940; a social relationship with the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara and his wife; his family obtaining documents from him to emigrate; German invasion in June 1941 preventing their departure; briefly fleeing to Jonava; hiding with a farmer; wi...

  6. Baruch S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch S., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. He recalls his family's roots in Vilna; attending cheder and a Lubavitch synagogue, where his father was cantor; attending a Jewish gymnasium; preparing for his bar mitzvah for a year (he gave several readings and talks due to his father's position); transfer to a Polish gymnasium; attending summer camp where Abba Kovner lectured; Soviet occupation, then Lithuanian control in 1939; return to Soviet control in 1940; enrolling in a technical school; German invasion; hi...

  7. William P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. William P., who was born in Prague in 1906. Dr. P. describes his family's background; its move to Vienna in 1910, where he lived until 1938; and his education there. He recounts his involvement in Zionism; the rejection of his offer to Adolf Eichmann to transport Viennese Jews to Palestine; and his involvement in the illegal transport of Jews into Palestine. He relates the mechanics of these transports; British efforts to halt the smuggling; his repeated arrests by the British; and his moves to Greece, Italy, Portugal, Mozambique, and the United States. He recalls...

  8. Lola J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola J., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926. She recalls her father's death in 1935; German invasion; ghettoization; one brother's escape to the Soviet zone; forced labor in a HASAG factory; mass deportations which included her sisters and mother; conversion of the ghetto to a camp; receiving extra food from one German; encouraging each other by singing; sharing extra food with her remaining sister; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; reunion with another sister in Feldafing displaced persons camp, then with her brother; marriage; and emigration to ...

  9. Arno S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arno S., who was born in Berlin in 1920, the youngest of four children. He recalls moving to a village where his father built a chemical factory; learning in 1932 that his father was Jewish (his mother was not); seeing a boycott of Jewish stores in 1933; attending gymnasium in Eberswald; his brother beating a student who made antisemitic remarks to them; his close relationship with his Latin teacher; his father moving to Vienna where he had a girlfriend; observing antisemitic signs while on a bicycle trip with his sister in 1935; auctioning their house in 1937 when th...

  10. Alice K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice K., who was born in Paris, France in 1930. She recalls her father's draft in September 1939; being sent to the coast with her school when Germany invaded; her mother retrieving her three months later; living in Brittany with her mother and younger, developmentally disabled sister; returning to Paris; her uncles staying with them for protection due to her mother's status as a POW wife; being sent to several places, including a convent in Auxerres, where she found solace in Catholicism; her mother leaving Paris to escape a round-up in 1942; hiding with her sister,...

  11. Paul B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul B., a non-Jew, who was born in Ougre?e, Belgium, in 1921. He recalls his father's death in 1926; his mother's remarriage; becoming a shoemaker; active participation with the Young Socialists (JS); joining the Resistance; arrest with others in his network; imprisonment in Huy; two days in Breendonk; transfer to Mauthausen; trying to help a former teacher; transfer a week later to Gusen; soccer games between nationality groups; prisoner musical performances; increasing debilitation; help from a priest who perished and for whom he sought recognition after the war; t...

  12. Lajzer F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lajzer F. who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1923, the oldest of four children. He recalls moving to Charleroi when he was six; belonging to Zionist youth groups; moving to Brussels in 1936; German invasion; his father registering them as Jews as demanded; forced labor with his brothers in France for Organisation Todt; hospitalization in Boulogne; learning his parents and sister had been deported (they did not return); escape (his brothers followed); hiding together; joining a left-wing Resistance group; killing a traitor who denounced Jews; arrest in April 1944; tortu...

  13. Claire H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Claire H., who was born in Grossheubach, Germany in 1925. She recalls her mother's belief the Jews were safe in Germany which resulted in her refusal to emigrate; vandalizing of their home on Kristallnacht; brief imprisonment with her family in Miltenberg; her father's incarceration in Dachau; her mother's refusal to allow the children to emigrate; working in Frankfurt; forced labor with her sister at a munitions factory in Berlin beginning in 1941; their parents' deportation to Poland in 1942; receiving packages from their non-Jewish neighbors; sending a package to t...

  14. Toby K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toby K., who was born in Vis?eu de Sus, Romania in 1922, one of eight children. She recalls her family's move to Oradea; her father working as a cantor; Hungarian occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with two sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); having to dispose of infants born in her barrack; transfer with her sisters to a slave labor camp; a privileged kitchen job; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; one sister being beaten, resulting in permanent loss of vision; liberation; transfer to ...

  15. George E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George E., who was born in Sasiv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; mass killings; incarceration with his father at a work camp; slave labor; escaping the camp liquidation in 1943 (his father was killed); hiding in the woods with other escapees; receiving food from a peasant woman; constructing a bunker; escaping from a peasant who tried to kill him; burning the peasant's house; taking more Jews into the bunker; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; obtaining Soviet military documents to protect him...

  16. Helena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena S., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Snina, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. She recalls her family's poverty, working for a Jewish woman from age nine to seventeen; deportation of the Jews, including her employer who gave her extra food; marriage; moving to another village; deportation by Germans to Humenné, then to Dubnica in the summer; separation from the men; their assignment to forced labor; the women being confined to barracks; starvation; escaping with others during the winter; a one-month walk back to Snina; kind people assisting them en...

  17. Arie T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arie T., who was born in Švenčionėliai, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1926, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts attending Yiddish school; anti-Jewish violence; Soviet occupation; his brothers' fleeing to the Soviet Union; German invasion; his father's murder in a mass killing; round-up with his mother, aunt, and uncle to the Polygon; his mother pushing him to join another child being taken away (everyone else was killed in a mass shooting); living with relatives in the Švenčionys ghetto; a visit by Abba Kovner; contact with Yitzhak Arad; transfer to the...

  18. Leah P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leah P., who was born in Rafalivka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1918, one of five children. She recounts the deaths of her father and one brother; another brother's emigration to Argentina; attending an ORT school in Kovelʹ for three years; returning home; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; marriage in 1939; Soviet occupation; her son's birth in 1940; German invasion; fleeing to the forest with her son; a local German hiding them; returning home; ghettoization; a Ukrainian guard helping her mother, son, and sister esca...

  19. Sam T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam T., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1927, the third of nine children. He recounts living in Berehove; his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expropriation of his father's business; going to Budapest in order to work and send money home to his family; his older brother joining him; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew through a Zionist organization; smuggling food into and a few Jews out of the ghetto; hiding in a bunker durin...

  20. Malka N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka N., who was born in Sandomierz, Poland in 1930, the second youngest of seven children. She recounts attending public school, followed by Jewish school in the afternoon; one brother emigrating to Paris; another brother's draft into the Polish army; German invasion; her father's arrest and beating; hiding in their basement during a round-up in October 1942; discovery; she and her mother avoiding detection; a Polish soldier finding and taking them to a labor camp; her mother's release to the ghetto; visiting her; being taken for execution; escaping under fire; retu...