Yehuda B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yehuda B., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's affluence; summers with his family in Birštonas and Panemunė; attending Lithuanian school; participating in Betar; Soviet occupation in 1940; attending a Soviet camp in Palanga in 1941; German invasion; separation of the Jewish and non-Jewish children; confinement of the Jews in a synagogue; abuse and beatings by Lithuanians; return to Kaunus with the other Jewish children; his parents taking a boy whose parents had fled east; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; trading family possessions for food; clandestine participation in Betar; transfer with his family to the small ghetto in October 1941; he and his parents being led by Lithuanians to the Ninth Fort; being buried under corpses in a mass shooting; observing his mother covered in blood (both parents were killed); escaping from the mass grave; assistance from nearby villagers; smuggling himself into the ghetto; informing his brothers and grandmother of his experiences; their disbelief; escaping; hiding with his uncle's non-Jewish friend, then with a Lithuanian family in Muniškiai; and letters from his brother convincing him to return to the ghetto.

15 videocassettes