Jack K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2365
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Novogrudok, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1929. He recalls a close relationship with his extended family; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1935; attending a Tarbut school; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; being sent to his grandparents in Korelichi; returning home; finding their house and possessions destroyed; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing of about fifty men; forced labor; ghettoization including those from surrounding towns; a mass shooting of all Jews except skilled workers; living with his family in the labor camp; frequent escapes to join nearby partisans; his escape in December 1942; getting lost; returning to camp; amputation of his toes due to frostbite; his family hiding him; a mass shooting including his mother, sister, and aunt; a group building an escape tunnel; his father's transfer (he never saw him again); escape through the tunnel in fall 1943; joining the Bielski partisans in the Naliboki forest; reunion with a cousin there; living with the family group; and liberation in July 1944.

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

  • Bielski, Tuvia.
  • K., Jack, -- 1929-

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Navahrudak.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Family.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Faith.
  • Escapes.
  • Fathers and sons.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Child survivors.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mass killings.
  • Partisans.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Navahrudak (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Minsk (Belarus)
  • Naliboki Forest (Belarus)
  • Korelichi (Belarus)
  • England.
  • Israel.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Poznań (Poland)
  • Nowogródek ghetto.
  • Nowogródek (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Munich (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Nowogródek (Poland)
  • Novogrudok (Belarus)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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