Abe B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4349
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on May 1, 1941; assistance from the Jewish community and the Joint; ghettoization after Japanese invasion; continuing to study with the Mir Yeshiva; and joining relatives in the United States after the war. Richard F. discusses his experiences in Shanghai at the end of the testimony.

Extent and Medium

3 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Richard F. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-4351) Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • B., Abe, -- 1922?-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jewish refugees.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Jews -- China -- Shanghai.
  • Soviet occupation.

Places

  • Brest (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Mir (Belarus)
  • Biała Podlaska (Poland)
  • Kėdainiai (Lithuania)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Moscow (Russia)
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Vladivostok (Russia)
  • Shanghai (China)
  • Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
  • Hongkew ghetto (Shanghai, China)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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