Irwin L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Irwin L., who was born in Borislav, Poland in 1925. He recalls his extended family's prewar life; brief German invasion, followed by Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; fleeing with his father and brother to Dnipropetrovs?k, then to Rostov, Stalingrad, Astrakhan?, and Ferganskai?a? oblast?; working in a small village; hunger and disease; his father's death in 1942; his brother being drafted into the Soviet army in 1944; learning of his mother's and sister's deaths; and returning to Poland in 1946. Mr. L. describes living in a kibbutz in Szczecin, then in Bielawa Dolna; receiving assistance from Berih?ah to flee to Vienna in 1946; living in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp; traveling to Mirano, Milan, and a displaced persons camp in Turin; applying for a visa to the United States in Bari in 1948; attending an ORT school; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. L. discusses early memories of his family; their inability to imagine that women and children would be killed under German occupation; his comparison of Soviet and German occupation; and relations with his children.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)