Shmuel B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3520
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Shmuel B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1918, one of two sons. He recalls his parents moving to Łódź in 1933; studying at university; antisemitic harassment; a close friendship with Yitzhak Zuckerman, who recruited him as an officer in Deror; joining his parents to head Deror in Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east with friends in October; crossing the border at Małkinia to Slonim in the Soviet-occupied zone; teaching in Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; sending packages to his family; visiting a friend in Kobryn; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Minsk to enlist in the Soviet military; arrest as a German spy; arrival of Germans; his assignment registering Jews since he spoke German; ghettoization; obtaining permission to return to Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; random killings of Jews; ghettoization; escaping with a group to the forests; joining partisans led by a Soviet army veteran; hearing shots from the mass killing in Dzi︠a︡rėchyn; welcoming escapees, including his future wife and Dr. Yekhiel Atlas; and Atlas forming his own group to revenge the killing of his family.

Extent and Medium

7 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

  • B., Shmuel, -- 1918-
  • Atlas, Yekhiel.
  • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, -- 1915-1981.
  • Lubetkin, Zivia.

Corporate Bodies

  • Deror (Organization : Poland)

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forests.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Partisans.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Dzi︠a︡rėchyn.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Husband and wife.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Revenge.

Places

  • Slonim (Belarus)
  • Małkinia (Poland)
  • Kobryn (Belarus)
  • Dzi︠a︡rėchyn (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Dzi︠a︡rėchyn ghetto.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Minsk ghetto.
  • Hrodna (Belarus)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Minsk (Belarus)
  • Kazloŭshchyna (Hrodzenskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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