Abraham L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2004) interviewed by Jaschael Pery

Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Sinyavka, Russia (presently Belarus) in 1918, the youngest of three children. He recalls attending cheder and a Polish school; learning carpentry at age fourteen; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; Soviet occupation in 1939; draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; Soviet retreat; hiding in a forest; transfer to a munitions factory where he worked as a carpenter; moving to Tashkent; traveling to Baranovichy after the war; learning of the extermination of Jews, including his own family; living in Szczecin; not returning to his town due to antisemitic violence; living on a kibbutz; moving to Ulm; entering Italy illegally; brief imprisonment; living in Ladispoli while waiting to illegally emigrate to Palestine; boarding a ship; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; moving to Israel after statehood in 1948; serving in the Israel-Arab War; marriage in 1960, and emigration to the United States. Mr. L. discusses not sharing his story with his children. He shows photographs.