Shalom Y. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shalom Y., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recalls moving to Raci??; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing to P?o?sk, then G?bin; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing a round-up with assistance from the mayor and an ex-employee; staying with relatives in P?o?sk, then moving to Warsaw; escaping to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok in January 1940; joining relatives in Rivne, then Ashmi?a?ny; moving to Smarhon?; German invasion; fleeing to Kurenet?s?; contacts with escaped Soviet POWs and forming a resistance group; escaping with his brother to a forest during a round-up in fall 1942 (he never saw his parents again); building a bunker for the winter; forming a Jewish partisan group in April 1943; Soviet assistance and orders to blow up trains, attack Germans, etc.; executing German prisoners; liberation in July 1944; traveling to Minsk; conscription with his brother into the Soviet military; transfer to the Polish army; first learning of gas chambers; briefly returning home; protecting other Jews from violent attacks; advancing to Dresden in May 1945; discharge; traveling to Kraków, then Graz displaced persons camp via Prague and Budapest; illegal emigration to Palestine via Italy and Port Said (his brother remained in Paris); and emigration to the United States in 1978. Mr. Y. notes he, his brother, and relatives in Israel are the sole survivors of his large extended family. He shows photographs.

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