LEADER 05329cpd a2200649 a 4500001 4291901 005 20180529114707.0 008 980731s1995 ctu rus d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234222 035 HVT-3593 035 |9FLW6105YL 035 4291901 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702156694 090 |bHVT-3593 100 1 K., Girsh, |d1914- 245 10 Girsh K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3593) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Irina Trampolski and Ina Gurary, |fJuly 31, 1995. 260 Minsk, Belarus : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr., 30 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Girsh K., who was born in Minsk, Russia in 1914, the fourth of seven children. He recounts his family moving to Moscow in 1916 to avoid the German invasion; returning to Minsk in 1918; hardships under German and Polish invasions; attending a Jewish school; Soviet elimination of Jewish cultural and religious institutions in the 1930s; training as an engineer in Moscow; working in a shoe factory in Minsk; his brothers serving in the military; German occupation; ghettoization with his parents and sisters; round-up of all Jewish men; a mass shooting of all professionals in a nearby village (he did not reveal he was an engineer); transfer to prison in Minsk; release back to the ghetto; incarceration in Shirokaya Street camp; sadistic public executions by Lithuanian guards; slave labor repairing machinery; transfer to Maly Trostinec; assistance from fellow prisoners; several assignments including repairing sewing machines; failed escape attempts with assistance from non-Jews; sabotaging the sewing machines; transfer back to Shirokaya Street; setting a fire with others in an escape effort; return to Maly Trostinec; torture after another failed escape; fellow prisoners assisting his recovery; escaping with a group in June 1944 as Soviet troops approached; assistance from local peasants; arrival of Soviet forces; volunteering to join them; arrest with another Jew because they had no identity papers; a forced march with thousands of other prisoners considered collaborators; assistance from a soldier escaping with his Jewish friend; hospitalization; returning to Minsk; employment in a shoe factory; marriage; the births of two children; their deaths in a 1968 accident; and his wife's death two years later. Mr. K. notes all his immediate family were killed in the war, except one brother. He shows photographs. 546 This testimony is in Russian. 524 Girsh K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3593). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 K., Girsh, |d1914- 610 20 Maly Trostinec (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003022071 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 World War, 1914-1918 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119555 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zBelarus |zMinsk. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 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 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, Soviet. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119635 651 0 Russia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 651 0 Minsk (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79116460 651 0 Moscow (Russia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Minsk ghetto. 691 4 Shirokaya Street (Minsk, Belarus : Concentration camp) 700 1 Gurary, Ina, |einterviewer. 700 1 Trampolski, Irina, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4671160 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3593) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3n20c4sn1f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/