Dov L. Holocaust testimony
Streszczenie
Videotape testimony of Dov L., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1925. He recalls his family's Zionist commitment; attending Hebrew school with his twin sister; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; joining the underground; his family's deportation in October 1943; hiding with underground fighters in bunkers; escaping to partisans in the forest on March 9, 1944; relying on Z?egota for food; moving with partisans to Vilna to join Soviet troops; the killings of German collaborators after liberation in 1944; serving in the NKVD, discovering Nazi collaborators; traveling to Kovno; learning his entire family had perished; returning to Vilna; fleeing to Chernivt?s?i; using false papers traveling to Przemys?l and Rzeszo?w; traveling to Bucharest, Hungary, and Italy; and illegal emigration to Palestine on August 29, 1945. He discusses many aspects of resistance in the ghetto and partisans; living on a kibbutz; studying history and sociology; and his books about Holocaust and Jews in Eastern Europe.
Rozmiary i nośnik
5 videocassettes
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Osoby
- L., Dov, -- 1925-
Ciała zbiorowe
- Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota".
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Tematy
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- Forced labor.
- Soviet occupation.
- Resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forests.
- Bunkers.
- Zionist organizations.
- Partisans.
- Revenge.
- Postwar experiences.
Miejsca
- Lithuania.
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Kovno (Lithuania)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Vilna (Poland)
- Kovno ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat