- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Khmelʹnik, Ukraine in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recounts relatives emigrating to the United States and Palestine, including a great-grandmother who returned in 1929 and lived with them; attending school in a nearby village; his father's military draft in 1939; an influx of Jewish refugees; his father's return in 1940; attending a camp in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Kiev; returning home; his father's remobilization in July; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing in August; hiding with his family during a mass killing on January 9, 1942; ghettoization; another mass killing later in January; hiding with Ukrainian friends every night; hiding during another mass killing by Hungarian soldiers on June 12, 1942 (his brother was killed); rejoining his mother in the ghetto; his mother obtaining "Ukrainian" papers; escaping with her and an uncle to the Zhmerynka ghetto in December or January; expulsion from the ghetto when his mother smuggled food; living in another Romanian occupied town; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; returning to Khmelʹnik; learning his father had perished; his mother's remarriage; graduation from aviation school in Kiev in 1954; working in Alma-Ata; marriage; his daughter's birth; working as an engineer in Lʹviv; and emigration to Israel in 1992.
- Author/Creator
- G., Israel, 1930-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- May 15, 1995.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Khmelʹnik
Z︠H︡merynka
Transnistria (Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
Soviet Union
Khmilʹnyk (Vinnytsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Israel G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3648). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ruskin, Taube, interviewer.
Altshuler, Dina, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Russian.
