Irving D. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2896
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Irving D., who was born in Russia in 1912. He recounts the family's move to Vilna in 1913; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic incidents in 1929; moving to ?o?dz? to learn the textile industry; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; returning to ?o?dz? with his brother; their escape to Soviet occupied areas, Ma?kinia, then Baranavichy; registering to join his parents in Vilna which resulted in arrest as an anti-communist; incarceration in a forced labor camp through 1940; moving to Tashkent; volunteering for the Soviet military in 1941; his discharge after being wounded near Moscow; learning his sister, her children, and his parents had been killed; losing his belief in God; living in ?o?dz? in 1946; experiencing antisemitism; and emigrating to the United States. Mr. D. notes this testimony will tell his children his entire history for the first time. He shows family photographs.

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

  • D., Irving, -- 1912-

Corporate Bodies

  • World Hashomer Hatzair.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Faith.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Places

  • Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • Baranavichy (Belarus)
  • Białystok (Poland)
  • Małkinia (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Vilna (Poland)
  • Russia.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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