LEADER 04661cpd a2200661 a 4500001 4290269 005 20180529114703.0 008 980731s1983 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233784 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV01-A66 035 4290269 035 HVT-3051 035 |9FLW4458YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155308 090 |bHVT-3051 100 1 G., Berl, |d1919- 245 10 Berl G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3051) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Jean Gerber, |fNovember 16, 1983. 260 Vancouver, B.C. : |bVancouver Holocaust Centre Society, |c1983. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 40 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Berl G., who was born in Vilkija, Lithuania in 1919. He recounts moving to Kaunas; his younger brother's death; belonging to Betar; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė; returning to Kaunas; mass killings by Lithuanians; ghettoization; forced labor at the airport; a mass killing on October 28, 1941 which included his parents; remaining with his brother and sister-in-law; their assignment to a work brigade outside the ghetto; organizing resistance with assistance from the Judenrat and Jewish police; escaping with a small group; capture; imprisonment; assignment to the Ninth Fort to unearth and burn bodies from mass killings; escaping to the ghetto on Christmas Eve; hiding with a friend; escaping to partisans in the forest; learning his brother had just been killed; he and his sister-in-law executing his brother's betrayers; liberation in July; liberating Vilnius; marriage in 1945; learning his family of eighty-five had all been killed; and emigration to Canada in 1949. Mr. G. discusses thinking about escape as a coping mechanism in the Ninth Fort and seldom sharing his experiences since they are so hard to believe, but speaking with those who are interested, including his children. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Berl G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3051). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 G., Berl, |d1919- 610 20 Betar. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81012060 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zKaunas. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance |zLithuania. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 651 0 Lithuania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573 651 0 Vilkija (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013079479 651 0 Kaunas (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100 651 0 Ukmergė (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004044056 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Mass killings. 691 4 Kovno ghetto. 700 1 Gerber, Jean, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4669448 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3051) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/086348gg1g 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/ 927 oclc 928 AC04082002