Zvi O. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bucharest; his mother's remarriage; joining Hashomer Hatzair; running away due to conflicts with his stepfather; traveling to Burgas to prepare for illegal emigration to Palestine; boarding an "aliyah" ship in 1947; interception by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; entering Palestine; living on a kibbutz; marriage; attending medical school; military service, including the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars; and emigration to the United States in 1979. Dr. O. discusses feeling subhuman due to his war experiences; these feelings diminishing after officer training; and his children's lack of interest in his experiences, except his youngest. He shows photographs and documents.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- O., Zvi, -- 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Men.
- Family.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967 -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar effects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Israel-Arab War, 1973 -- Personal narratives.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Romania.
- Burdujeni (Romania)
- Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyī (Ukraine)
- Dorohoi (Romania)
- Tropovo (Ukraine)
- Luchinets (Ukraine)
- Cyprus.
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Burgas (Bulgaria)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat