Piotr R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3304), Mr. R. recounts is mother giving him the family photographs to save; his German supervisor hiding him after the October 1942 mass killing and instructing him how to act as a non-Jew; marriage in 1949; the births of his children; attending a survivor conference in Warsaw in 1996; and his attempts to locate and honor the German who saved him. Mr. R. notes that only two of his five siblings survived. He shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
3 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.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Piotr, -- 1923-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Mass killings.
- Soviet occupation
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Pinsk.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
Places
- Mokraya Dubrova (Belarus)
- Drahichyn (Belarus)
- Poland.
- Pinsk ghetto.
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Pinsk (Belarus)
- Lahishyn (Belarus)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat