Gad R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3637
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Gad R., who was born in 1919 in Ignatovka, Poland (presently Ukraine), the second of seven brothers. He recounts his father's orthodoxy and leadership of the Jewish community; attending cheder, public school, then a yeshiva in Lut︠s︡ʹk in 1932; returning home after his older brother emigrated to Palestine in 1935; participating in Betar; Soviet occupation; completing high school in Lʹviv; working as a clerk in Ignatovka; his father's death; German invasion; looting by local Ukrainians; a non-Jewish acquaintance warning him of worse to come; taking his younger brother's place for one week of forced labor; a Polish non-Jew assisting them obtain food; expulsion by Ukrainian police to Sofiïvka, during which they shot his mother; hiding during a mass shooting (his brothers were all killed); forming a partisan group with a non-Jewish communist; escaping to the forest; his group executing a Ukrainian collaborator; joining Soviet soldiers; blowing up railroad tracks; building bunkers; and battles with Germans and Ukrainians.

Extent and Medium

9 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

  • Kovpak, S. A. -- (Sydir Artemovych), -- 1887-1967.
  • Kovner, Abba, -- 1918-1987.
  • R., Gad, -- 1919-

Corporate Bodies

  • Beriḥah (Organization)
  • Betar.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Mass killings.
  • Forests.
  • Bunkers.
  • Partisans.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Public opinion -- Israel.
  • Nightmares.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
  • Faith.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Revenge.
  • Escapes.

Places

  • Lut︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Sofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  • Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  • Poland.
  • Ignatovka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Bucharest (Romania)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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