Dov L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1807
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Dov L., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1925. He recalls his family's Zionist commitment; attending Hebrew school with his twin sister; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; joining the underground; his family's deportation in October 1943; hiding with underground fighters in bunkers; escaping to partisans in the forest on March 9, 1944; relying on Z?egota for food; moving with partisans to Vilna to join Soviet troops; the killings of German collaborators after liberation in 1944; serving in the NKVD, discovering Nazi collaborators; traveling to Kovno; learning his entire family had perished; returning to Vilna; fleeing to Chernivt?s?i; using false papers traveling to Przemys?l and Rzeszo?w; traveling to Bucharest, Hungary, and Italy; and illegal emigration to Palestine on August 29, 1945. He discusses many aspects of resistance in the ghetto and partisans; living on a kibbutz; studying history and sociology; and his books about Holocaust and Jews in Eastern Europe.

Extent and Medium

5 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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • L., Dov, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota".
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
  • Forced labor.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Resistance.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forests.
  • Bunkers.
  • Zionist organizations.
  • Partisans.
  • Revenge.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Lithuania.
  • Przemyśl (Poland)
  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Kovno (Lithuania)
  • Rzeszów (Poland)
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Bucharest (Romania)
  • Vilna (Poland)
  • Kovno ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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