Yakov E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school; becoming a pro-Stalin Communist (he believes he was brainwashed); returning to Poland after the war; pervasive antisemitism; joining Gordonyah again; traveling with his group to Broumov, Vienna, Salzburg, then Milan; Zalman Shazar and Moshe Sharet leading the remaining journey to Israel; joining his uncle; his mother and brothers joining him in 1947; and difficulties getting along with native Israelis.

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