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Boris M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3142) interviewed by Dina Altshuler and Zelda Kaplan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3142

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Boris M., who was born in Litin, Ukraine in 1931. He recalls German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; a mass killing in December; his family's exemption because his father was a skilled laborer; his father sending him to hide with a non-Jewish former customer; hiding in a hole and with another non-Jew during round-ups; one of the non-Jews who hid him bringing him, his parents, and sister to the Zhmerynka ghetto in summer 1943; assisting Soviet forces; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; moving to Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; Soviet military service from 1951 to 1954; antisemitic discrimination; completing his education as an engineer; commemorating events at Litin in 1991 at the mass graves of the Jews; and emigration to the United States in 1991.
Author/Creator: M., Boris, 1931-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1993
Interview Date: October 1, 1993.
Locale: Ukraine
Z︠H︡merynka
Litin (Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Cite As: Boris M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3142). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kaplan, Zelda, interviewer.
Altshuler, Dina, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Russian.

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Mass killings.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Z︠H︡merynka. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Ukraine. Litin (Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) M., Boris,--1931-

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/4297154
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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