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Ralph B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-801)

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

Overview

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.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Białystok. Jewish councils. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Białystok. Children--Death. Forced labor. Poland. Białystok (Poland) Vilnius (Lithuania) Oral histories (document genres) B., Ralph,--1915- Treblinka (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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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