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Nachman T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1911) interviewed by Razyl Kalifowicz-Waletsky,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1911

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Nachman T., who was born in Goworowo, Russia (presently Poland) in 1910. He recalls attending a Jewish school; learning to be a tailor; participating in the Bund; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing with his three brothers to Soviet-occupied Białystok; his mother's flight with an uncle; his whole family working in Orishche; being warned of Germans approaching; traveling to Kuĭbyshev, then to Kazakhstan; working on a collective farm; a brief trip to Alma-Ata; returning to the farm; working with coal from 1943 to 1946; returning to Poland; marriage; living in Wrocław; the births of two children; his brothers' and mother's emigration to Israel and the United States; and emigrating with his family to the United States in 1967, joining his mother and brother.
Author/Creator: T., Nachman, 1910-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
Interview Date: January 8, 1992.
Locale: Russia
Goworowo (Poland)
Białystok (Poland)
Orishche (Ukraine)
Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
Wrocław (Poland)
Cite As: Nachman T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1911). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kalifowicz-Waletsky, Rayzl, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Yiddish.

Physical Details

Language: Yiddish
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 57 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Soviet occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Brothers. Russia. Goworowo (Poland) Białystok (Poland) Orishche (Ukraine) Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) Wrocław (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) T., Nachman,--1910- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296322
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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