Moshe R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3566
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Alexander B. Holocaust testimony colleague, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

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