Shlomo V. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shlomo V., who was born in Yahilʹnytsya, Poland (presently Ukraine), in approximately 1927, the oldest of three children. He recounts completing public school; briefly joining Gordonia (he was not a Zionist); attending university in Lʹviv; antisemitic harassment, particularly by Endecja members; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; staying with an uncle in Zolochiv; Germans and Ukrainians forcing him and other Jews to bury hundreds of those killed by the retreating Soviets; Germans shooting the burial workers; escaping from the pit at night with four others; hiding in his uncle's cellar; working for farmers in Voronyaki, posing as a non-Jew; returning to Yahilʹnytsya; arrest; a severe beating; escaping at night; re-arrest; his father obtaining his release through non-Jewish business connections; working for the Judenrat; transfer to the tobacco factory his father managed; making false papers; round-ups, deportations, and mass killings; living in the factory with his family as aranged by the German factory manager who, with his mistress, protected them from deportations; visiting the Yahilʹnytsya camp; obtaining a gun from a guard; his family escaping a round-up through the sewers; his escape to the forest; their return; hiding his mother, sister, and cousin during a round-up, then escaping with his father and brother into the sewers; and all of them returning with assistance from the manager.

9 videocassettes