- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Meir V., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1926. He details his pleasant childhood in a cultured home; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's essential job which saved their lives; ghettoization; mass killings in Ponary; frequent aktions; smuggling food; participation with his younger sister in organized cultural and educational activities; hiding with his father during the ghetto's liquidation in September 1943; discovery; separation from his family; and deportation. Mr. V. describes escaping from the train; hiding in several places; living in the Keilis factory near Vilna; deportation to Kaiserwald in 1944; slave labor at Dundangen; transport to Stutthof, Buchenwald and Gelsenkirchen; working in a steel factory; receiving food from a German worker; allied bombing which destroyed the factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then Theresienstadt; and liberation by Soviet troops. He recounts reunion with his mother and sister in Łódź; learning his father had been killed; going west with assistance from Briḥah; living in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; and emigration to the United States. Mr. V. reflects on his emotional states during particular times; plays recordings of partisan songs; and shows his art work.
- Author/Creator
- V., Meir, 1926-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 10, 1992.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Vilnius
Poland
Łódź (Poland)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Meir V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1892). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Universtiy Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Katz, Helen, interviewer.
- Notes
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Written corrections and clarifications and additional written materials are available in the repository.
Associated material: Judith G. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-1879), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
