Shlomo Y. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shlomo Y., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. He recounts working in Hrodna; returning to Vilnius in 1937; brief Soviet occupation; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings at Ponary (he worked nearby and observed the piles of corpses, including his sister, her husband, and infant); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; sneaking out to avoid round-ups and to buy food; arrest by a German; two friends being killed when they protested his arrest; a Jewish official securing his release; arrest by ghetto police for smuggling; release; contact with Yiżḣak Wittenberg; escaping with his wife and others; joining the partisans; destroying rail and phone lines; interrogating German prisoners; liberating Vilnius with Soviet troops; searching for collaborators; fleeing with his wife to a displaced persons camp in Austria; traveling to Innsbruck, then Rome; boarding an illegal ship for Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; escape; and serving in the Israeli army.

4 videocassettes