Sam F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Dokshit?s?y, Belarus. (then Poland) in 1913. He recalls his family; attending yeshiva; work in his uncle's bakery at age fourteen; his sister's emigration to Palestine; attempts to join her; membership in a Vilna zionist organization; conflicts between Lithuania and Poland in Vilna; a pogrom; his escape to Il?i?a?; service in the Polish army; and the German invasion. He recalls a mass killing in March 1942; hiding; ghettoization; another mass killing; escape to the woods; hiding with a farmer, then in the forests for six months; joining the partisans with the farmer's help; bombing German trains in Vileyka; helping Jews in Baranovichi; two and a half years with the partisans; antisemitic treatment by partisans; and joining the Soviet army in Minsk in June 1944. He relates working as a translator in Berlin; discharge in 1946; attempts to contact his mother in Palestine; meeting his wife; their escape to Berlin; life in displaced persons camps; his daughter's birth; emigration to Palestine in 1949; his second daughter's birth; service in the Israeli army in the 1956 Sinai campaign; and emigration to the United States in 1959. Mr. F. contrasts oppression in the ghetto to activity with the partisans.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)