Steven L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Steven L., who was born near Pinsk, Belarus in the early 1930s. He recounts his mother's death when he was very young; a close relationship with his maternal grandparents; meeting non-Jewish farmers while peddling with his grandfather; Nazi invasion in summer 1941; ghettoization; working for a non-Jewish farmer to supply food for his family; hiding during round-ups (his family was taken); escaping to the forest with another family; finding another Jewish family; assistance from a shepherd he knew; building bunkers; the deaths of one family from illness; the birth of a child who was killed so the crying would not expose them; joining Jewish partisans after the winter; military actions against German units; liberation by Soviet troops; living in an orphanage in Pinsk; running away to seek family members; moving to ?o?dz?, then Germany, with other survivors; living in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States to join his sister. Mr. L. discusses the importance to his survival of having worked with his grandfather; slowly learning to trust non-Jews again after the war; and previously not sharing his experiences.

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