Irvin D. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1333
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Irvin D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (Chervonoarmeisk since 1940) in 1937. He tells of the German bombardment on September 1, 1939; ghettoization in April 1942; seeing the elderly shot and some buried alive; escaping with his family; being hidden by a Ukrainian couple with eighteen other Jewish couples; leaving in May 1943 after suspicions were aroused due to the large amount of food purchased; being hidden by a woman beneath a stable in Lv?ov for a year; and coming out of hiding a month after liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts being wounded by a grenade; recovering in a hospital; returning to Radzivilov; moving to Krako?w in June 1945 to escape pogroms; six months later traveling to Berlin, then Munich; living in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1947. He shows slides of his 1987 trip to Ukraine and his reunion with the women who had hidden his family.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Shirley D. Holocaust testimony [mother] (HVT-1627), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • D., Irvin, -- 1937-

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Family.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Radzivilov.
  • Child survivors.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Mass killings.

Places

  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Lwów (Poland)
  • Lv́ov (Ukraine)
  • Radzivilov (Poland)
  • Radzivilov ghetto.
  • Poland.
  • Chervonoarmiĭsʹk (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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