Abe M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Abe M., who was born in Chortkiv, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1923. He recalls membership in a Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; Ukrainian collaboration in rounding-up and shooting Jews; anti-Jewish regulations which resulted in impoverishment, hunger, and isolation; formation of the Judenrat; with assistance from non-Jews, hiding and finding jobs to avoid round-ups; ghettoization in April 1942; rumors of mass killings; his family's Judenrat exemption from deportation; hiding during "aktions"; his father and sister disappearing; and disbelief upon hearing deportees were gassed. Mr. M. recounts conditions in the reduced ghetto; forced labor; transfer with his mother in January 1943 to work on farms in Svidova, then Ulashkovtsy; Ukrainian underground activities; dreaming his father foretold he would survive; narrowly avoiding capture during round-ups and mass shootings in late 1943; hiding with others in a cave; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; traveling to Chortkiv; fleeing from German counterattacks to Kopychynt?s?i and Pidvolochy?sk; and returning with his mother to Chortkiv.

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