- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Issac M., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1912. He recalls living in Lida, Belarus; participating in Maccabi; working in his family's fur business; marriage in 1939; ghettoization; escaping with his wife from a mass shooting to a forest on May 8, 1942 (fifty relatives including his two children were killed); being hidden by hunters who had done business with his family; obtaining a gun from them; trying to help others escape; joining partisans who were escaped Soviet POWs; assisting women and children in the Bielski brigade; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; joining the Soviet military; liberating Warsaw and Łódź; reunion with his wife in Lublin; traveling to Italy with other survivors; living on a kibbutz for four years; and emigration to join relatives in the United States. Mr. M. notes a book which documents his participation in the partisans; recently receiving a medal from Israel; and his refusal to accept reparations, not wanting money “for his blood.” He shows books and photographs.
- Author/Creator
- M., Isaac, 1912-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 14, 1992.
- Locale
- Belarus
Lida
Germany
Leipzig (Germany)
Lida (Belarus)
Warsaw (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
- Cite As
- Isaac M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2535). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: The Jewish resistance : the history of the Jewish partisans in Lithuania and White Russia during the Nazi occupation, 1940-1945 / Lester Eckman and Chaim Lazar. -- New York : Shengold Publishers, c1977.
