Mike R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0659
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Mike R., who was born in Pogost-Zagorodskiy, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls that his family was the wealthiest one in town; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying Russian in school; deportation with his family to Siberia in 1941 as capitalists; harsh conditions during the one-month train journey; incarceration in a primitive labor camp; their transfer five and a half months later to Asia; obtaining more food because there was more vegetation; enlisting in the Soviet military when he was eighteen; serving on the frontline in Poland; being hidden by Poles when his unit was surrounded by Germans; being wounded in action; recovering in a military hospital in L?viv; learning his family was in Ukraine and that all their relatives had been killed in their hometown; joining his family; traveling with them to Poland, then illegally to Germany; working for the Joint; and their emigration to the United States.

Extent and Medium

4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • R., Mike, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
  • Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Personal narratives.
  • Family.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Pogost-Zagorodskiy (Belarus)
  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Lสนviv (Ukraine)
  • Germany.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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