LEADER 08441cpd a2200973 a 4500001 4296209 005 20180604133222.0 008 980731i19891990ctu heb d 035 HVT-1844 035 4296209 035 |9FLX0481YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005113774 090 |bHVT-1844 100 1 C., Aharon, |d1921- 245 10 Aharon C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1844) |h[videorecording] / |cInterviewed by Anita Tarsi, Levana Frank, and Nathan Beyrak, |f1989 and 1990. 260 Ramat Aviv, Israel : |bBeth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, |c1989, 1990. 300 videorecordings (40 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Aharon C., who was born in Opoczno, Poland in 1921, one of seven children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then Tarbut school; participating in Gordonyah; antisemitic violence; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; two brothers' conscription; German invasion; one brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; Germans taking community leaders for ransom, including his father; the community paying the ransom; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; ghettoization; working in the family bakery; volunteering in a soup kitchen; his assignment to bury corpses from a killing; hiding with his brother and uncle during a round-up; capture by Poles; securing their release with a bribe; hiding in a cemetery (a Polish friend brought him food); returning to his parents in the ghetto; transfer with his family to the Ujazd ghetto; escaping from a deportation train with encouragement from his father; Poles offering him shelter, then robbing him; traveling to Warsaw; returning to Opoczno to retrieve buried money to purchase false papers; assistance from Polish family friends; returning to Warsaw; obtaining false papers; arrest; interrogation and beating by the Gestapo; transfer to the ghetto; forced labor sorting Jewish belongings; escaping; hiding with a Jewish family; contact with Eliezer Geller; joining the Jewish resistance (ZOB); arms training; and participating in missions, including arresting collaborators. 520 8 Mr. C. recalls the ghetto uprising; escaping with a group through the sewers to a forest; David Nowodworski organizing them; obtaining supplies from friendly Poles; other ghetto fighters joining them; receiving weapons from the Polish Communist Party (PPR); moving to another forest; joining Armia Ludova partisans; skirmishes with the right wing Armia Krajowa (AK); a Soviet air drop of weapons and supplies; blowing up German trains; his unit's dissolution; many casualties from German attacks; liberation by Soviet troops; interrogating German POWs; joining the Soviet militia in Mińsk Mazowiecki; guarding Jewish refugees; traveling with the Soviet Army to Praga; returning to Mińsk Mazowiecki; meeting Abba Kovner in Lublin; interrogating AK members; traveling to Warsaw; meetings with Yitzhak Zuckerman and Marek Edelman; discussions of revenge; returning to Mińsk Mazowiecki; marriage; briefly returning to Opoczno; joining a group emigrating to Palestine; receiving documents as Greek Jews; traveling through Poland to Slovakia, then boarding a Red Cross train to Romania; living three months each in a kibbutz in Alba Iulia, then Bucharest; illegal emigration by ship from Constanța to Palestine; interdiction by the British; release; reunion with his brother; his wife's uncle hosting a Jewish wedding by a rabbi for them; working as a baker; being drafted into the Haganah; and serving in the 1948 Arab-Israel War and 1956 Sinai Campaign. Mr. C. provides many details of his experiences. He shows photographs. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Aharon C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1844). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 C., Aharon, |d1921- 600 10 Geller, Eliezer, |d1916- 600 10 Nowodworski, David. 600 10 Kovner, Abba, |d1918-1987. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099581 600 10 Zuckerman, Yitzhak, |d1915-1981. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84190302 600 10 Edelman, Marek, |d1919-2009. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84099601 610 20 Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006708 610 20 Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84160693 610 20 Polska Partia Robotnicza. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80155873 610 10 Poland. |bArmia Ludowa. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50070314 610 10 Poland. |bPolskie Siły Zbrojne. |bArmia Krajowa. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149707 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 Haganah (Organization) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80020612 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 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zOpoczno. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zUjazd (Województwo Świętokrzyskie) 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068706 650 0 Sinai Campaign, 1956. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122784 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Opoczno (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85033997 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |xHistory |yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145297 651 0 Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92031234 651 0 Praga (Warsaw, Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88221500 651 0 Lublin (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089257 651 0 Alba Iulia (Romania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80131891 651 0 Bucharest (Romania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018848 651 0 Constanța (Romania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089327 651 0 Palestine |xEmigration and immigration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Bunkers. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Opoczno ghetto. 691 4 Ujazd ghetto. 691 4 Warsaw ghetto. 693 24 ZOB. 700 1 Beyrak, Nathan, |einterviewer. 700 1 Tarsi, Anita, |einterviewer. 700 1 Frank, Levana, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4675642 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1844) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/s46h12vh6c 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/