Lisa R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1244
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Lisa R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland (presently Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1930, one of four children. She recounts her family's affluence; attending private school and summer camp; Soviet occupation; German invasion in July 1941; a mass killing of fifty Jews; a round-up for a mass shooting that included her sister in December 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; her mother receiving bread from their former maid; a mass shooting in May 1943 that included her mother; a group, including her brother, digging an escape tunnel; her brother leading the group out of the tunnel (he was killed); escaping with her father and sister; meeting partisans when hiding in the forest; staying with them until liberation by Soviet troops; living in a displaced persons camp in Italy for three years; moving to a kibbutz in Rome; and emigration with her father and sister to the United States, with assistance from HIAS. Ms. R. discusses pervasive painful memories and sharing her experiences with her children.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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., Lisa, -- 1930-

Corporate Bodies

  • HIAS (Agency)

Subjects

  • Sisters.
  • Forced labor.
  • Fathers and daughters.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Navahrudak.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Partisans.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Child survivors.
  • Forests.
  • Bunkers.
  • Hiding.
  • Mass killings.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Nowogródek ghetto.
  • Nowogródek (Poland)
  • Rome (Italy)
  • Navahrudak (Belarus)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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