Lev A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3265) interviewed by B.M. Zabarko and Star Yelizovecki

Videotape testimony of Lev A., who was born in Perei︠a︡slav, Ukraine in 1915. He recalls attending Ukrainian school, then a technical school in Kiev; working as an electrician; moving to Crimea with his family during the famine in 1933; marriage; returning to Kiev in 1937; draft into the Soviet Army; serving in Kiev, then Z︠H︡itomir; discharge in October 1940; returning to Kiev; German invasion; evacuation east of his pregnant wife and mother; military recall; serving in Pryluky and Kharkiv; capture by Germans in 1942; forced labor as a POW in Khorol, posing as a non-Jewish Ukrainian; and escaping with a non-Jewish friend during a forced march in September. Mr. A. recounts hiding with assistance from Ukrainian peasants; acquiring false papers; fleeing to Pryluki; joining partisans in Losinovka; military activities, particularly bombing of trains, as a partisan leader in several forests and in Chernihiv; joining with Soviet forces; being wounded in September 1943; one-year hospitalization in Tambov; and reunion with his family in Kiev in 1944. Mr. A. notes working in one factory for thirty-seven years; many good neighbors; and his family's intent to emigrate to Israel.