Moshe R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Moshe R., who was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recounts his relatively affluent family; attending a Jewish school, then engineering school in Vilnius in 1939; participating in Hechalutz; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; round-up of his father and brother for work (they never returned); ghettoization; his cousin Yitzhak Arad living with them; forced labor sorting weapons; a German soldier encouraging his group to escape; escaping with Arad and others to the Glubokoye ghetto; Arad's sister arranging their return to the Švenčionys ghetto; rejoining his mother, brother, and sister; deportation to Švenčionėliai, then the Vilna ghetto; joining the Jewish police in order to pass partisans into and out of the ghetto; escaping with a group to the forests; joining Fëdor Markov's Voroshilov partisan unit; leading raids on Belorussian collaborators and German soldiers; ambushing a German unit; and interrogating the officer, then killing him and the other German prisoners.

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