- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Dov L., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1925. He recalls his family's Zionist commitment; attending Hebrew school with his twin sister; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; forced labor; joining the underground; his family's deportation in October 1943; hiding with underground fighters in bunkers; escaping to partisans in the forest on March 9, 1944; relying on Żegota for food; moving with partisans to Vilna to join Soviet troops; the killings of German collaborators after liberation in 1944; serving in the NKVD, discovering Nazi collaborators; traveling to Kovno; learning his entire family had perished; returning to Vilna; fleeing to Chernivt︠s︡i; using false papers traveling to Przemyśl and Rzeszów; traveling to Bucharest, Hungary, and Italy; and illegal emigration to Palestine on August 29, 1945. He discusses many aspects of resistance in the ghetto and partisans; living on a kibbutz; studying history and sociology; and his books about Holocaust and Jews in Eastern Europe.
- Author/Creator
- L., Dov, 1925-
- Published
- Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 13, 1985, and December 15, 1985.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Przemyśl (Poland)
Bucharest (Romania)
Palestine
Rzeszów (Poland)
- Cite As
- Dov L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1807). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Amit, Yoram, interviewer.
Dobkin, Amit, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Related publication: Fighting back : Lithuanian Jewry's armed resistance to the Nazis, 1941-1945 / Dov Levin. Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Dina Cohen, foreword by Yehuda Bauer. -- New York : Holmes & Meier, c1985.
Related publication: Baltic Jews under the Soviets, 1940-1946 / Dov Levin. -- Jerusalem : Centre for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, c1994.
