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Bornstein, Jack Friendships and Discrimination
[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches and the video and sound are sometimes not synchronized throughout the segment.]...
Fayerman, Severin From Auschwitz to Buchenwald to Freedom
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman was sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Weinreich, Frieda From Auschwitz to the Parschnitz Slave Labor Camp
Frieda Weinreich woke up after the train stopped. They had reached the Auschwitz concentration camp [Annotator's Note:...
Acevedo, Anthony From Bad Orb to Berga
Anthony Acevedo was picked to be part of a group of 350 Jewish and other undesirables being sent to Berga in the Ulster...
Knobler, Paula From Slave Labor to Liberation
Paula Knobler was lucky that she worked at a camp not in the German territory [Annotator's Note: the camp was in...
Steinfeld, Manfred General Gavin and Occupation Duty
Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...
Komito, Joseph German Invasion
Joseph Komito was born in the small town of Mielec, Poland. In 1939 [Annotator's Note: September 1939], the Germans...
Geldner, Mala German Invasion and Occupation
Mala [Annotator's Note: née Gerstner] Geldner came from Chrzanów, Poland. The war started in 1939 [Annotator's Note:...
Chandler, Howard German Invasion of Poland and Ghetto Life
Howard Chandler went to visit his relatives about 40 kilometers away after the 1939 school year ended. [Annotator's...
Bodis-Wollner, Ivan German Liberation to Bergen-Belsen
Ivan Bodis-Wollner remembers when he was playing with an older child who was the son of a local lawyer. The child's...
Komito, Joseph German Occupation
Joseph Komito had a sister who became involved in the resistance. She obtained papers showing her to be a German...
Goodkin, Vera German Occupation
In March 1939, Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] witnessed German troops entering her town in Czechoslovakia...
Fisch, Robert German Occupation
Robert Fisch witnessed the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. The rationale for the move was that the...
Kleiner, Leona German Occupation
Leona Kleiner [Annotator's Note: born Leona Rubenetzka; unsure of spelling of maiden name] Kleiner was born in Nowe...
Riggsby, Norman German Occupation and Nuremburg
Norman Riggsby worked as an MP [Annotator’s Note: military policeman] and as a judge. When they not on motorcycle...
White, Alexander German Occupation and Resettlement of Polish Jews
Although there was a Gestapo presence in their town, Alexander White's father felt it was safe for his family to return...
Somogyi, Peter German Oppression
Peter Somogyi saw his father taken away within a week of 19 March 1944 [Annotator's Note: the day Germany occupied...
Kahn, Eric German Persecution of Jews
Although Eric Kahn's family was not surprised when his father was arrested, they were concerned because they knew what...
Miksa, Robert Germany and Czechoslovakia
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion passed right through the Siegfried Lines...
Hihn, Stewart Germany and Dachau
Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] spent most of the war with...
Alexander, Joseph Germany and Then America
After making it into Germany [Annotator's Note: after being liberated from the Landsberg subcamp of Dachau...
Szafran, Daniel Germany, Leaving Europe and Hitchhiking with German Soldiers
After having been liberated from Auschwitz, [Annotator’s Note: Auschwitz II-Birkenau; Brzesinka, Poland] Daniel Szafran...
Szafran, Daniel Ghetto and Regrets
Daniel Szafran and his family had been living in a ghetto in Stryków, Poland for close to a year. They had planted a...
Zoltz, Hana Ghetto Life and Auschwitz
Hana Zoltz was born in Lodz, Poland in 1928. Her father died of hunger in the ghetto. He was only 41 years old. The...
Langsam, Dora Ghettos and Nazi Selection
Dora Langsam was assigned to a ghetto in her town [Annotator's Note: name uncertain but it was near Łódź, Poland] and...
Rubin, Mark Given Up to the Gestapo
Mark Rubin says his father Karl was one of the smartest people he's ever known. In 1942, Karl was 31 and in business...
Nossbaum, Anneliese Grandmothers
Annaliese Nossbaum was in Theresienstadt [Annotator’s Note: Theresienstadt; transit camp and ghetto; Terezin, Czech...
Knobler, Paula Growing up with Evil
Paula Knobler has bitter memories of her youth in Poland. Anti-Semitism was displayed toward her. In school, boys threw...
Braitman, Simon Gunskirchen and Liberation
As the Russians were nearing Auschwitz in 1945, Simon Braitman and 765 others were sent to Mauthuasen [Annotator's Note...
Stern, Herbert Hanover and Salzwedel
Herbert Stern and his units [Annotator's Note: atthis time Stern was commanding the 909th Field Artillery Battalion and...
de Marcken, Christian Harboring Fugitives and Feelings Toward the Axis
The children of the family did not always know, Christian de Marcken clarified, about their parents' sheltering of...
Baron, Judith Hell at Bergen-Belsen
Judith Baron was imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen. It was absolutely hell. When they first arrived, they slept in tents. It...
Armstrong, Henry Helping Gunskirchen Inmates
[Annotator's Note: Henry Armstrong served in the Army on a forward observer team in Battery B, 607th Field Artillery...
Cohn, Marthe Her Sister and Fiancé Executed by Germans
Part of Martha Cohn's family successfully crossed from occupied France into unoccupied France from Saint-Secondin,...
Braitman, Simon High School and US Army
Simon Braitman went to Rochester [Annotator's Note: Rochester, New York] and entered high school right away. He...
Fayerman, Severin His Family Reunites
[Annotator's Note: After liberation from a concentration camp, Severin Fayerman went to a United Nations displaced...

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