- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Steven L., who was born near Pinsk, Belarus in the early 1930s. He recounts his mother's death when he was very young; a close relationship with his maternal grandparents; meeting non-Jewish farmers while peddling with his grandfather; Nazi invasion in summer 1941; ghettoization; working for a non-Jewish farmer to supply food for his family; hiding during round-ups (his family was taken); escaping to the forest with another family; finding another Jewish family; assistance from a shepherd he knew; building bunkers; the deaths of one family from illness; the birth of a child who was killed so the crying would not expose them; joining Jewish partisans after the winter; military actions against German units; liberation by Soviet troops; living in an orphanage in Pinsk; running away to seek family members; moving to Łódź, then Germany, with other survivors; living in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States to join his sister. Mr. L. discusses the importance to his survival of having worked with his grandfather; slowly learning to trust non-Jews again after the war; and previously not sharing his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- L., Steven.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1991
- Interview Date
- June 2, 1991.
- Locale
- Belarus
Pinsk (Belarus)
Łódź (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
- Cite As
- Steven L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-873). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Glick, Ira, interviewer.
Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.
