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Anne M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1377) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1377

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Anne M., who was born in Lida, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1929, one of three children. She recounts her father's draft into the Polish army; Soviet occupation; her father's return; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; her father working in a brewery; the German director allowing the family to live on the brewery premises; hiding during a round-up with assistance from the director; learning most of the town's Jews were murdered in a mass shooting including many relatives; a surviving cousin joining them; hiding, then escaping another round-up a year later; joining a Jewish partisan group; reunion with her sister, then her brother and father (they had escaped from a transport); living in the the Naliboki forest for two years with the Bielski partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; fleeing German soldiers killing many of their group; returning to Lida; learning that none of her father's family survived; living in the Linz displaced persons camp for four years; contact with relatives in the United States; emigration to join them in November 1949; marriage in 1952; and sharing her experiences with her children.
Author/Creator: M., Anne, 1929-
Published: Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
Interview Date: May 17, 1989.
Locale: Belarus
Lida
Poland
Lida (Belarus)
Naliboki Forest (Belarus)
Cite As: Anne M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1377). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Soviet occupation.
Partisans.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Forests.
Mass killings.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Belarus--Lida. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. Refugee camps. Poland. Lida (Belarus) Naliboki Forest (Belarus) Oral histories (document genres) M., Anne,--1929- Bielski, Tuvia.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295034
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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