Eliezer L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3308
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Eliezer L., who was born in Dyatlovo, Russia (presently Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) in 1908, one of three brothers. He recounts living in Baranavichy; German occupation during World War I; working with the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution; his father's death in 1920; participating in Hechalutz; marriage in 1930; the births of two children; Soviet occupation in 1939; banishment by the Soviets to Valozhyn; frequent secret visits to his family; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Minsk; arrest; posing as a non-Jew when Jews were separated; forced labor; escaping to Baranavichy; reunion with his wife and children in the ghetto; forced labor as a mechanic; contacts with the Judenrat; a mass killing of 3,000 Jews in March 1942; helping to organize resistance; hospitalization for a broken leg; hiding with his family in a bunker; escaping to the forest partisans; an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve his wife and children from the ghetto (he never saw them again); forming a Jewish partisan unit; destroying rail lines; assistance from farmers; killing collaborators; and his demotion in rank for reciting his Zionist poem.

Extent and Medium

20 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

  • Fefer, Itzik, -- 1900-1952. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84029206
  • Mikhoėls, Solomon Mikhaĭlovich, -- 1890-1948. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85175227
  • Nister, -- 1884-1950. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50043102
  • Kovner, Abba, -- 1918-1987. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099581
  • L., Eliezer, -- 1908-
  • Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡, -- 1891-1967. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030508
  • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, -- 1915-1981. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84190302
  • Ben-Gurion, David, -- 1886-1973. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007677
  • Meir, Golda, -- 1898-1978. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013594

Corporate Bodies

  • Evreĭskiĭ antifashistskiĭ komitet v SSSR. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82134397
  • Mifleget poʻale Erets-Yiśraʼel. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84111305
  • Hechalutz (Organization) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83071409
  • World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers--Po'alei Zion. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91005862

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Baranavichy.
  • Forced labor. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
  • Jewish ghettos. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
  • World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119555
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
  • Video tapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
  • Men. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
  • Bunkers.
  • Partisans.
  • Escapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
  • Husband and wife. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Children -- Death. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023430
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
  • Jewish councils. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113904
  • Mass killings.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  • Revenge. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460
  • Wife -- Death.
  • Soviet occupation.

Places

  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165
  • Baranowicze ghetto.
  • Bucharest (Romania) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018848
  • Dzi︠a︡tlava (Belarus) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99275473
  • Baranavichy (Belarus) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81118927
  • Valozhyn (Belarus) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93029468
  • Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85109249
  • Russia. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203
  • Lublin (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089257
  • Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808
  • Moscow (Russia) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156
  • Vilnius (Lithuania) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208
  • Munich (Germany) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670
  • Basel (Switzerland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79062979
  • Milan (Italy) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80060867

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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