Ben-Zion B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ben-Zion B., who was born in Domache?vo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924, the younger of two children. He recounts his father's death when he less than three; a close extended family; relatives emigrating to the United States; his mother's remarriage; the births of a brother and sister; attending cheder and Polish public school; antisemitic teachers; visits from his American uncle; his sister's marriage; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; visiting his sister in Kosiv; German invasion in June 1941; witnessing a mass killing; forced labor; smuggling food to his family; non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food; visiting an aunt in the Brest ghetto; hiding with his family in a bunker; their decision to commit suicide (his stepfather succeeded, the rest became ill); leaving the bunker after a week (his mother insisted); learning his mother and siblings were killed; escaping to a forest; his sense of isolation; finding other Jews and joining them; stealing weapons; acceptance into the Voroshilov partisans after burning a dairy in his hometown; many military operations; executions of German prisoners; assisting a Jewish boy; liberation in July 1944 by Soviet troops; liberating Brest; enlisting in the Soviet military in Kobryn; learning of concentration camps; liberating Lublin and Warsaw; and advancing to Berlin.

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