- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irvin D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (Chervonoarmeisk since 1940) in 1937. He tells of the German bombardment on September 1, 1939; ghettoization in April 1942; seeing the elderly shot and some buried alive; escaping with his family; being hidden by a Ukrainian couple with eighteen other Jewish couples; leaving in May 1943 after suspicions were aroused due to the large amount of food purchased; being hidden by a woman beneath a stable in Lv́ov for a year; and coming out of hiding a month after liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts being wounded by a grenade; recovering in a hospital; returning to Radzivilov; moving to Kraków in June 1945 to escape pogroms; six months later traveling to Berlin, then Munich; living in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1947. He shows slides of his 1987 trip to Ukraine and his reunion with the women who had hidden his family.
- Author/Creator
- D., Irvin, 1937-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
- Interview Date
- October 31, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Chervonoarmiĭsʹk (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
- Cite As
- Irvin D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1333). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Needle, Susan W., interviewer.
Shulkin, Amy Tanich, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Shirley D. Holocaust testimony [mother] (HVT-1627), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony, Yale University Library.
