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Joseph L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1661) interviewed by Ira Glick and Louis Rosenblum,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1661

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Joseph L., who was born in Baranavichy, Belarus in 1935. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; the appointment of friends to the Judenrat; transfer of his father to Koldychevo as head physician; his mother's transfer there; remaining in the ghetto with his grandmother; round-ups; being brought to Koldychevo by his mother; his father's privileged position; contact with Fritz Jörn, the camp commander, who was executed after the war; witnessing gassings of prisoners, public hangings, and a mass killing; his father smuggling medicine to partisans with help from local farmers; escaping with his parents in 1943 with help from a German guard; his father serving as a physician to a partisan unit (his cousin was Tuvia Bielski); and liberation by Soviet troops in spring 1944. Mr. L. recounts traveling to Lublin; entering Majdanek shortly after its liberation; traveling to Rome via Prague, Budapest, and Arad; living there two years; emigration to Palestine in July 1947; the Arab-Israeli War; his father's death in 1956; and emigration to the United States in 1963. He discusses his surreal position in Koldychevo; the irony of being saved by Germans; becoming a physician; and the inability of Israelis to understand survivors.
    Author/Creator
    L., Joseph, 1935-
    Published
    Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990
    Interview Date
    January 14, 1990.
    Locale
    Belarus
    Baranavichy
    Baranavichy (Belarus)
    Lublin (Poland)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Arad (Romania)
    Rome (Italy)
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Joseph L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1661). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Glick, Ira, interviewer.
    Rosenblum, Louis, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 26 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Soviet occupation.
    Mass killings.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4284008
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
    This page:
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