Elka F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3845
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Elka F., who was born in Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. She recalls meeting her future husband in 1932; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish harassment; forced labor; surviving a selection in October with her future husband and their families (almost all other Jews were killed); ghettoization with approximately 600 survivors; Magalif (head of the Judenrat) giving them permission to wed; marriage in February; Magalif discouraging people from escaping so the elderly and children would not be killed; hiding with her husband and father-in-law during the ghetto's liquidation (her family perished); and their escape to the forest.

Extent and Medium

17 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

  • Zorin, Shalom, 1902-1974.
  • Bielski, Tuvia.
  • F., Elka, -- 1920-2009.

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.

Subjects

  • Soviet occupation.
  • Hiding.
  • Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Forests.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Partisans.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Bunkers.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
  • Jewish councils.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Husband and wife.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡ ghetto.
  • Bari (Italy)
  • Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡ (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Naliboki Forest (Belarus)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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