Moshe R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moshe R., who was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania in 1923, the oldest of five children. He recounts his relatively affluent family; attending a Jewish school, then engineering school in Vilnius in 1939; participating in Hechalutz; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; round-up of his father and brother for work (they never returned); ghettoization; his cousin Yitzhak Arad living with them; forced labor sorting weapons; a German soldier encouraging his group to escape; escaping with Arad and others to the Glubokoye ghetto; Arad's sister arranging their return to the Švenčionys ghetto; rejoining his mother, brother, and sister; deportation to Švenčionėliai, then the Vilna ghetto; joining the Jewish police in order to pass partisans into and out of the ghetto; escaping with a group to the forests; joining Fëdor Markov's Voroshilov partisan unit; leading raids on Belorussian collaborators and German soldiers; ambushing a German unit; and interrogating the officer, then killing him and the other German prisoners.
Extent and Medium
10 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Moshe, -- 1923-
- Arad, Yitzhak, -- 1926-
- Markov, Fëdor Grigorʹevich, -- 1913-1958.
- Kovner, Abba, -- 1918-1987.
- Bogen, Alexander.
- Gens, Jacob, -- 1903-1943.
Corporate Bodies
- Palmaḥ.
- Haganah (Organization)
- Voroshilov (Resistance group)
- Hechalutz (Organization)
- Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Subjects
- Revenge.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Soviet occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- Hiding.
- Forests.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Švenčionys.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Hlybokaye.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Kielce (Poland)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Nonantola (Italy)
- Vilna ghetto.
- Švenčionys ghetto.
- Glubokoye ghetto.
- Saratov (Russia)
- Ashmi︠a︡ny (Belarus)
- Švenčionėliai (Lithunania)
- Hlybokaye (Belarus)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Švenčionys (Lithuania)
- Poland.
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Santa Maria di Leuca, Cape (Italy)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat