- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abraham L. who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1914. Mr. L recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; serving in the Polish military; marriage; German invasion; escaping to Prilesnoye (Manevichi); his son's birth in 1942; ghettoization; escaping into the woods from a mass killing in September; contact with partisans; acquiring a rifle; training units due to his military experience; assistance from some pacifist farmers; digging a bunker; mining rail and communication lines; battles with Germans and Ukrainians; antisemitism among the partisans; receiving supplies from the Soviets; searching for relatives after the war (he found no one); living in Lublin, then Rome; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. L. notes pervasive memories and shows photographs and a book about the partisans.
- Author/Creator
- L., Abraham, 1914-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- December 18, 1984.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Rome (Italy)
Brest (Belarus)
Russia
Prylisne (Ukraine)
Lublin (Poland)
- Cite As
- Abraham L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-460). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related publication: Jewish partisans : a documentary of Jewish resistance in the Soviet Union during World War II / edited, and with an introduction by Jack Nusan Porter ; translated from the Hebrew by the Magal Translation Institute, Ltd., based on original Russian, Polish, and Yiddish sources. -- Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1982-
