Itzchak Y. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Itzchak Y., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1926, the younger by sixteen years of two children. He recalls attending a Taḥkemoni school; his family's orthodoxy; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending summer camp in Płatkownica in 1938; antisemitic harassment by children; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; witnessing the main synagogue set on fire with hundreds of Jews inside; ghettoization; working at several jobs; his sister, who was blond, trading possessions outside the ghetto for food; hiding with his family during a mass deportation in February 1943; separation from them; learning his sister, her two children, and his mother had been deported; public hanging of a Jew who had resisted; witnessing the revenge killing of a Jew who had revealed other Jews during the deportation; and separation from his father during liquidation of the ghetto.
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
- Y., Itzchak, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029526
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029142
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068600
- Neubrandenburg (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068599
- Majdanek (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065728
- Blizyn (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003102428
- Birkenau (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
- Ludwigslust (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043554
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
- Video tapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
- Men. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
- Jewish ghettos. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
- Jews -- Poland -- BiaŁystok.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
- Jewish children in the Holocaust. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Forced labor. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Child survivors.
- Cannibalism. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019617
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
Places
- Poland. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
- Marseille (France) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108882
- Graz (Austria) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79064653
- Białystok ghetto.
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165
- Płatkownica (Poland)
- Białystok (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81132523
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93033475
- Warsaw (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat