Shlomo L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shlomo L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1930, the older of two children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; participation in Betar; Soviet occupation; his father's workers testifying to protect their his from deportation as bourgeoisie; attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hearing mass shootings from the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; his father's round-up in a mass killing of intelligentsia; public hangings; trading valuables for necessities; raising chickens and rabbits; playing soccer; attending concerts and shows; a selection and mass killing on October 28, 1941, in which none of his family were taken; attending carpentry school in 1942, then assignment to a carpentry workshop due to family connections; disappearance of his grandmother, sister, and cousin in 1944 when he and his mother were at work; rumors they had been killed at the Ninth Fort; deportation with his mother, grandfather, aunt, and uncle to Stutthof in summer 1944; separation from his mother and aunt; and transfer to Kaufering, then Landsberg.

22 videocassettes