Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yakov E., who was born in Poland in approximately 1930, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's Zionism (an uncle had emigrated to Israel); antisemitic harassment; belonging to Gordonyah; his father's importance in the town; Soviet occupation; leaving on an evacuation train to Kazakhstan in 1941, the only Jewish family to do so (his father was not with them); stopping a few days in Saratov en route; difficulties being accepted by other Jews in Kazakhstan; knowing nothing about the Holocaust; receiving a package from relatives in Israel; attending school; becoming a pro-Stalin Communist (he believes he was brainwashed); returning to Poland after the war; pervasive antisemitism; joining Gordonyah again; traveling with his group to Broumov, Vienna, Salzburg, then Milan; Zalman Shazar and Moshe Sharet leading the remaining journey to Israel; joining his uncle; his mother and brothers joining him in 1947; and difficulties getting along with native Israelis.
- Published
- Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1985-1986
- Interview Date
- November 20, 1985 and February 16, 1986.
- Locale
- Poland
Saratov (Russia)
Kazakhstan
Broumov (Královéhradecký kraj, Czech Republic)
Vienna (Austria)
Salzburg (Austria)
Milan (Italy) - Cite As
- Yakov E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1810). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (2 hr., 6 min. and 1 hr., 1 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Soviet occupation.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews--Migration. Jewish refugees. Poland. Saratov (Russia) Kazakhstan. Broumov (Královéhradecký kraj, Czech Republic) Vienna (Austria) Salzburg (Austria) Milan (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) E., Yakov,--1930?- Shazar, Zalman,--1889-1974. Sharett, Moshe,--1894-1965. Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4284338
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:40:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4284338
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