Nachman T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nachman T., who was born in Goworowo, Russia (presently Poland) in 1910. He recalls attending a Jewish school; learning to be a tailor; participating in the Bund; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing with his three brothers to Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; his mother's flight with an uncle; his whole family working in Orishche; being warned of Germans approaching; traveling to Kui?byshev, then to Kazakhstan; working on a collective farm; a brief trip to Alma-Ata; returning to the farm; working with coal from 1943 to 1946; returning to Poland; marriage; living in Wroc?aw; the births of two children; his brothers' and mother's emigration to Israel and the United States; and emigrating with his family to the United States in 1967, joining his mother and brother.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Nachman, -- 1910-
Corporate Bodies
- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.
Subjects
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jewish refugees.
- Brothers.
Places
- Goworowo (Poland)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Russia.
- Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Orishche (Ukraine)
- Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat