Lev A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Perei︠a︡slav, Ukraine in 1915. He recalls attending Ukrainian school, then a technical school in Kiev; working as an electrician; moving to Crimea with his family during the famine in 1933; marriage; returning to Kiev in 1937; draft into the Soviet Army; serving in Kiev, then Z︠H︡itomir; discharge in October 1940; returning to Kiev; German invasion; evacuation east of his pregnant wife and mother; military recall; serving in Pryluky and Kharkiv; capture by Germans in 1942; forced labor as a POW in Khorol, posing as a non-Jewish Ukrainian; and escaping with a non-Jewish friend during a forced march in September. Mr. A. recounts hiding with assistance from Ukrainian peasants; acquiring false papers; fleeing to Pryluki; joining partisans in Losinovka; military activities, particularly bombing of trains, as a partisan leader in several forests and in Chernihiv; joining with Soviet forces; being wounded in September 1943; one-year hospitalization in Tambov; and reunion with his family in Kiev in 1944. Mr. A. notes working in one factory for thirty-seven years; many good neighbors; and his family's intent to emigrate to Israel.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- A., Lev, -- 1915-
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Famines -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
- Escapes.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Draft -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forests.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Partisans.
Places
- Z︠H︡ytomyr (Ukraine)
- Pryluky (Ukraine)
- Crimea (Ukraine)
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Chernihiv (Ukraine)
- Tambov (Russia)
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)
- Losinovka (Ukraine)
- Khorol (Ukraine)
- Perei︠a︡slav-Khmelʹnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
- Ukraine.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat