Oral history interview with Ya'akov Geler
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Geler in Israel on June 8, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Geler, Ya'akov, 1924-
- Ya'akov Geler
Corporate Bodies
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jews--Belarus--Kletsk.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Kletsk.
- Cyprus.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Guerrillas--Belarus.
- Jewish police officers--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Massacres--Belarus--Kletsk.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Mass murder--Belarus--Kletsk.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Escapes.
- Jewish soldiers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish councils--Belarus--Kletsk.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Kletsk (Belarus)
- Baranavichy (Belarus)
Genre
- Oral History
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