Noah K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Noah K., who was born in Slonim, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1909, one of five children. He recounts participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending Polish gymnasium in Baranavichy; completing medical school in Vilnius; antisemitic harassment by Polish students; marriage; studying a year in Warsaw; working in Vilnius hospitals; starting private practice in Skidelʹ in 1936; his son's birth; moving to Slonim; Soviet occupation; his daughter's birth; his son's illness; his wife and son going to a sanatorium in Crimea; attending a conference in Minsk in mid-June 1941; traveling to Baranavichy; German invasion; returning home; losing contact with his wife; refusing membership on the Slonim Judenrat; a mass killing of Jews; treating those who escaped; he and his family legally remaining outside the ghetto since he was a doctor; compulsory relocation to the ghetto; Germans burning the ghetto in June 1942; entrusting valuables to a Pole who did not return them; hiding with his daughter's non-Jewish caretaker; capture; and a German hospital employee protecting him from execution.

9 videocassettes