- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Larry L., who was born in Rīga, Latvia in 1925. He recalls his family's move to Kaunas in 1934 due to antisemitism; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; their non-Jewish porter saving them from round-ups; ghettoization; forced labor with his father outside the ghetto; smuggling in food; young Zionists organizing resistance; a mass killing in October 1942; transfer with his parents and brother to Kauen-Schanzen in 1943; train transport to Dachau in fall 1944 (his mother and girlfriend were removed with the women and children); transfer to Kaufering the next day; a prisoner doctor operating on his brother; receiving Red Cross packages once; he and his father receiving punishment whippings; being cared for by his brother; abandonment by guards during a forced march; liberation by United States troops; remaining with the 442nd, a Japanese American regiment, as their interpreter; working for several army units, then for the Joint in Berlin; marriage to his girlfriend in Berlin; their subsequent divorce; and his remarriage. Mr. L. discusses the importance to his survival of his father's encouragement; details of camp life; and his continuing hostility to Germans and Germany.
- Author/Creator
- L., Larry, 1925-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1988
- Interview Date
- January 31, 1988.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Rīga (Latvia)
Latvia
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Berlin (Germany)
- Cite As
- Larry L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1139). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Greenlees, Bernadette, interviewer.
Brown, Cindy, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Roman L. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-1259), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
