- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irwin L., who was born in Borislav, Poland in 1925. He recalls his extended family's prewar life; brief German invasion, followed by Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; fleeing with his father and brother to Dnipropetrovsʹk, then to Rostov, Stalingrad, Astrakhanʹ, and Ferganskai︠a︡ oblastʹ; working in a small village; hunger and disease; his father's death in 1942; his brother being drafted into the Soviet army in 1944; learning of his mother's and sister's deaths; and returning to Poland in 1946. Mr. L. describes living in a kibbutz in Szczecin, then in Bielawa Dolna; receiving assistance from Beriḥah to flee to Vienna in 1946; living in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp; traveling to Mirano, Milan, and a displaced persons camp in Turin; applying for a visa to the United States in Bari in 1948; attending an ORT school; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. L. discusses early memories of his family; their inability to imagine that women and children would be killed under German occupation; his comparison of Soviet and German occupation; and relations with his children.
- Author/Creator
- L., Irwin, 1925-2019.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- December 14, 1994.
- Locale
- Bielawa Dolna (Poland)
Poland
Boryslav (Ukraine)
Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine)
Rostov (Russia)
Volgograd (Russia)
Astrakhanʹ (Russia)
Ferganskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Uzbekistan)
Szczecin (Poland)
Milan (Italy)
Turin (Italy)
Bari (Italy)
Mirano (Italy)
- Cite As
- Irwin L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2755). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Millen, Susan, interviewer.
Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
