Avivit K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3575
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Avivit K., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1932, one of three children. She recounts her family's Zionism; speaking Hebrew at home; a trip to Palestine in 1935 with her mother and sister; her family delaying emigration to care for her developmentally disabled brother; Soviet occupation; her father's arrest and release; German invasion; her father's and uncle's arrest by Lithuanians (they were killed); ghettoization; forced labor with her sister; Lithuanians giving her food; a public hanging; her mother hiding her sister with non-Jews (she returned shortly thereafter); she and her sister going to work with her mother during the children's round-up in November 1943 (her brother was deported); forced labor in a leather and shoe factory; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to other camps; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Białystok, then Łódź; joining a Dror kibbutz; moving to Landsberg displaced persons camp; her mother's and sister's emigration to Israel; traveling to Milan; and emigration to Israel in 1948. Ms. K. discusses her guilt over her brother's death.

Extent and Medium

3 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. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes. It cannot be used for commercial purposes.

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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