- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Chaim F., who was born in Trochenbrod, Poland (presently Sofiïvka, Ukraine) in 1909, one of six children. He recounts his father's emigration to Argentina and subsequent death; his mother supporting them; receiving money twice a year from his mother's two brothers in the United States; working with his uncle, then on his own from age seventeen; marriage at twenty; the births of five children; draft into the Polish military in 1931; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings by Ukrainians, including his mother, sisters, and their children; fleeing to the forests; working with Poles; learning his son had been killed; soliciting help to bury him with required quorum of ten Jewish men; fleeing in 1942 when Ukrainians approached again; hiding with Polish neighbors; learning his wife and children had been killed; hiding with several Polish neighbors, rotating from house to house; fleeing to another location, fearing Ukrainians; staying with partisans while his injuries healed; learning a few others from his town had survived; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Trochenbrod; marriage in 1947; emigration to the United States in 1949 to join relatives; and the births of four daughters. Mr. F. notes he is the sole survivor of his family and shows a book about Trochenbrod.
- Author/Creator
- F., Chaim, 1909-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1990
- Interview Date
- November 29, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Poland
Sofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Chaim F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3145). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Satenstein, Leon, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Yiddish.
