Boris M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Boris M., who was born in Litin, Ukraine in 1931. He recalls German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; a mass killing in December; his family's exemption because his father was a skilled laborer; his father sending him to hide with a non-Jewish former customer; hiding in a hole and with another non-Jew during round-ups; one of the non-Jews who hid him bringing him, his parents, and sister to the Zhmerynka ghetto in summer 1943; assisting Soviet forces; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; moving to Vinnyt?s?i?a?; Soviet military service from 1951 to 1954; antisemitic discrimination; completing his education as an engineer; commemorating events at Litin in 1991 at the mass graves of the Jews; and emigration to the United States in 1991.
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
- M., Boris, -- 1931-
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Zhmerynka.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Zhmerynka ghetto.
- Litin (Ukraine)
- Ukraine.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat