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Asja T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3595) interviewed by Irina Trampolski and Vitali Zaika,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3595

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Asja T., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1917, one of six children. She recalls attending Russian school; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; her son's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; her father being caught in a round-up in August 1941 (he was killed); her mother being killed in March 1942; obtaining false papers a year later from a non-Jewish neighbor; escaping with her son; briefly staying with her brother's non-Jewish girlfriend; leaving because she did not want to endanger her rescuers; wandering from place to place, begging for over a year; working for a Polish land owner in Surynty; arrest;ddeportation with her son to Germany for forced labor; liberation by United States troops; staying in Switzerland for four months; returning to Minsk; learning her sister and children had been killed; reunion with her youngest brother (other brothers perished as Soviet soldiers); and her younger sister's survival (her brother's girlfriend hid her). Mrs. T. notes the deaths of most of her extended family during the war. She shows photographs and documents.
    Author/Creator
    T., Asja, 1917-
    Published
    Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
    Interview Date
    August 1, 1995.
    Locale
    Belarus
    Minsk
    Minsk (Belarus)
    Surynty (Belarus)
    Germany
    Switzerland
    Cite As
    Asja T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3595). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Trampolski, Irina, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Copies
    2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (59 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Hiding.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4291908
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4291908

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