Efraim F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Efraim F., who was born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Tarbut school, then gymnasium in Rivne; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, Betar, and Mizrachi; Soviet occupation; interrogation by the NKVD due to his Zionist activities; German invasion; fleeing to Koret︠s︡ʹ; forced labor for the German army; returning to Rivne; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a non-Jewish friend hiring him to tutor her children and giving him her husband's birth certificate; hiding in her attic during a mass killing in November 1941; living briefly with her relatives in a nearby village, then returning; her brother-in-law obtaining Polish identification papers for him; a brief encounter with his father; visiting his family in Dubrovitsa; visiting the ghetto in Rivne; Moshe Bergman, head of the Judenrat, suggesting he move to Kovelʹ; working as a translator at a train station; and traveling back and forth to Kiev to avoid capture.
Extent and Medium
7 videocassettes
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People
- F., Efraim, -- 1922-
- Bergman, Moshe.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
- Betar.
- Mizrachi.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish councils.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Refugee camps.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Soviet occupation.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Kovelʹ (Ukraine)
- Koret︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine)
- Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Odesa (Ukraine)
- Mykolaïv (Mykolaïvsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Crimea (Ukraine)
- Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poznań (Poland)
- Lut︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
- Sumy (Ukraine)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
- Rivne ghetto.
- Rothschild Hospital (Vienna, Austria : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
- Dubrovitsa (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat