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Ralph B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-801)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-801

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1915. He recalls his family's involvement in the textile and leather industries; antisemitic incidents; a futile attempt to emigrate in 1938; German invasion; fleeing to Vilnius; returning after Soviet occupation of Białystok; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings and burnings; ghettoization in August; marriage; working outside of the ghetto, thus obtaining additional food; both altruistic and self-serving members of the Judenrat; an unsuccessful uprising at the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; selection to clean the ghetto rubble (his wife and daughter remained with him); his daughter's death; deportation to Lublin via Treblinka; help from others when he had typhus; and transfer to Auschwitz in July 1944. Mr B. discusses his special affinity for Białystok and shows the Białystok memorial book.
    Author/Creator
    B., Ralph, 1915-
    Published
    Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
    Interview Date
    November 9, 1986.
    Locale
    Poland
    Białystok
    Białystok (Poland)
    Vilnius (Lithuania)
    Cite As
    Ralph B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-801). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    Related publication: Der Bialistoker yizker bukh / [redaktsye-kolegye, Y. Shmuleṿiṭsh, Isak Ribaloṿsḳi, Shemu'el A. Ḳroniḳ , Y. Shmuleṿiṭsh, redaḳṭor]. -- Nyu Yorḳ : Aroysgebn fun dem Byalisṭoḳer Tsenṭer, c1982.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 19 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Soviet occupation.
    Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
    Resistance.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1108251
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:27:00
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