Murray B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Murray B., who was born in Vselub, Byelorussian in 1912. He recalls his large family; attending Yeshiva (his parents wanted him to become a rabbi); the June 1941 German invasion; escape (he never saw his family again) to Nowogro?dek, then a nearby village, then the woods; hearing the shooting of Jews in a mass killing; hiding alone in the forest from December 1941 to March 1942; aid received from farmers; thinking he was the last remaining Jew; smuggling himself into the Nowogro?dek ghetto on a farmer's advice; round-ups; mass killings; and forced labor. Mr. B. describes escaping with others to the forests; joining Tuviah Bielski's Jewish partisans; two years of sabotage and battles with Germans; difficulties obtaining supplies, caring for children, and with wild animals; joining Soviet forces in 1944; moving to Nowogro?dek, then Lublin; contacts with the Joint and organizers of the illegal Palestine immigration; travel to Italy en route to Palestine; marrying a woman he had met in the partisans; and emigration to join his brother in Springfield, Massachusetts. He discusses adjustment difficulties; building a new family; postwar Polish pogroms; and his quest for an answer to why these events occurred, particularly the murder of more than one million children.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)