Shlomo K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3798
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Shlomo K., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending a Bund school; joining Hashomer Hatzair, in spite of his family's and school's Bundist beliefs; completing school in 1939; joining a Hashomer hachsharah in Kalisz; German invasion; fleeing with his group to Łódź, Warsaw, then returning home; Soviet occupation; attending a Jewish technical school; clandestine Hashomer activities led by Abba Kovner; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and killings; ghettoization; forced labor with his father unloading bags of cement, then on a farm; purchasing extra food; his mother's assignment to a glove factory, which initially exempted them from deportation; joining and living with the Jewish partisans (FPO); visiting his family daily; making Molotov cocktails and hiding smuggled weapons; Yiżḣak Wittenberg, head of the partisans, surrendering to prevent reprisals; and being chosen for a partisan group to escape to the forests.

Extent and Medium

8 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

  • K., Shlomo, -- 1921-
  • Kovner, Abba, -- 1918-1987.
  • Wittenberg, Yiżḣak, -- 1907-1943.
  • Glazman, Josef, -- approximately 1908-1943.
  • Markov, Fëdor Grigorʹevich, -- 1913-1958.
  • Grossman, Haika, -- 1919-1996.

Corporate Bodies

  • Beriḥah (Organization)
  • Nekamah (Resistance group)
  • Voroshilov (Resistance group)
  • Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.
  • Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Revenge.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Partisans.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forests.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Kalisz (Poland)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Pastavy (Belarus)
  • Graz (Austria)
  • Pontebba (Italy)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Milan (Italy)
  • Poland.
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Vilna ghetto.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Marseille (France)
  • Bari (Italy)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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