- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923, one of six children. He recounts living in Mokraya Dubrova; attending school in Lahishyn and Pinsk; his family moving to Pinsk in 1938; German invasion; Soviet occupation; one brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; brief evacuation with two brothers; a mass shooting in which two brothers were murdered; ghettoization; his German supervisor's offer to help him; liquidation of the ghetto in October 1942 (his remaining family was killed); his supervisor giving him false papers; traveling to Kiev in a train for Germans; briefly staying in Rivne; finding a job and living quarters; avoiding work assignments to Germany; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; and reunion with one brother who had been in the Soviet military. Mr. R. discusses difficulties resulting from his false papers (he was officially designated Jewish again in 1956); opposition from Soviets in acknowledging his German rescuers; sharing his experience with his children and grandchildren; recurring dreams of his murdered family; and his yearly trip to his family home after twenty years of not being able to summon the courage to go there.
- Author/Creator
- R., Piotr, 1923-
- Published
- Kiev, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- August 15, 1994.
- Locale
- Belarus
Pinsk
Poland
Drahichyn (Belarus)
Mokraya Dubrova (Belarus)
Lahishyn (Belarus)
Pinsk (Belarus)
Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Piotr R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3304). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zabarko, B. M., interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Piotr R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3736), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
This testimony is in Russian.
