Dov E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dov E., who was born in 1925 in Vasil'kovtsy, Poland (presently Ukraine). He recounts living in Husi︠a︡tyn; his mother's death; his father's remarriage; the birth of a half-brother; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; participating in Gordonyah; spending holidays with his grandmother; Soviet occupation; fleeing to cousins in Kopychynt︠s︡i; returning home; attending a Soviet school; German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village; living with his grandfather in Vasil'kovtsy; returning home; slave labor clearing roads and in a warehouse; working in Probezhna; round-up and deportation of the women, including his step mother; being warned to leave the city; moving to the Kopychynt︠s︡i ghetto; building a bunker in which to hide during round-ups; witnessing a cousin's murder when fleeing from Ukrainian police; hiding briefly with non-Jews in a nearby village; transfer to the Chortkiv ghetto; forced labor on a farm; escaping with his family; and separation from his younger brother and mother.
Extent and Medium
14 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
- E., Dov, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp)
- World ORT Union.
- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
- Schlachtensee (Displaced persons camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- Draft -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Refugee camps.
- Revenge.
- Bunkers.
- Soviet occupation.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Chortkiv.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Kopychynt︠s︡i.
- Mothers and sons.
- Fathers and sons.
- Family.
- Brothers.
Places
- Probezhna (Ukraine)
- Chortkiv (Ukraine)
- Chabarovka (Ukarine)
- Kaluga (Kaluzhskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Legnica (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Kopychynt︠s︡i ghetto.
- Poland.
- Vasil'kovtsy (Ukraine)
- Husi︠a︡tyn (Ukraine)
- Kopychynt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Chortkov ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat