Eliezer L. Holocaust testimony

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HVT 3308
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angielski
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Videotape testimony of Eliezer L., who was born in Dyatlovo, Russia (presently Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) in 1908, one of three brothers. He recounts living in Baranavichy; German occupation during World War I; working with the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution; his father's death in 1920; participating in Hechalutz; marriage in 1930; the births of two children; Soviet occupation in 1939; banishment by the Soviets to Valozhyn; frequent secret visits to his family; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Minsk; arrest; posing as a non-Jew when Jews were separated; forced labor; escaping to Baranavichy; reunion with his wife and children in the ghetto; forced labor as a mechanic; contacts with the Judenrat; a mass killing of 3,000 Jews in March 1942; helping to organize resistance; hospitalization for a broken leg; hiding with his family in a bunker; escaping to the forest partisans; an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve his wife and children from the ghetto (he never saw them again); forming a Jewish partisan unit; destroying rail lines; assistance from farmers; killing collaborators; and his demotion in rank for reciting his Zionist poem.

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20 videocassettes

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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

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

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