Abe B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on May 1, 1941; assistance from the Jewish community and the Joint; ghettoization after Japanese invasion; continuing to study with the Mir Yeshiva; and joining relatives in the United States after the war. Richard F. discusses his experiences in Shanghai at the end of the testimony.

3 videocassettes