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Mike R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-659) interviewed by Sondra Kraff and Elizabeth Jacob,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-659

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Mike R., who was born in Pogost-Zagorodskiy, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls that his family was the wealthiest one in town; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying Russian in school; deportation with his family to Siberia in 1941 as capitalists; harsh conditions during the one-month train journey; incarceration in a primitive labor camp; their transfer five and a half months later to Asia; obtaining more food because there was more vegetation; enlisting in the Soviet military when he was eighteen; serving on the frontline in Poland; being hidden by Poles when his unit was surrounded by Germans; being wounded in action; recovering in a military hospital in Lʹviv; learning his family was in Ukraine and that all their relatives had been killed in their hometown; joining his family; traveling with them to Poland, then illegally to Germany; working for the Joint; and their emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: R., Mike, 1925-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
Interview Date: February 2, 1986.
Locale: Soviet Union
Poland
Pogost-Zagorodskiy (Belarus)
Siberia (Russia)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Germany
Cite As: Mike R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-659). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kraff, Sondra, interviewer.
Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.

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., 5 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Soviet occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union. Forced labor--Soviet Union--History--20th century. Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Personal narratives. Family. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Poland. Pogost-Zagorodskiy (Belarus) Siberia (Russia) Lʹviv (Ukraine) Germany. Oral histories (document genres) R., Mike,--1925- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

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/4282299
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4282299

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