Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Nachman T., who was born in Goworowo, Russia (presently Poland) in 1910. He recalls attending a Jewish school; learning to be a tailor; participating in the Bund; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing with his three brothers to Soviet-occupied Białystok; his mother's flight with an uncle; his whole family working in Orishche; being warned of Germans approaching; traveling to Kuĭbyshev, then to Kazakhstan; working on a collective farm; a brief trip to Alma-Ata; returning to the farm; working with coal from 1943 to 1946; returning to Poland; marriage; living in Wrocław; the births of two children; his brothers' and mother's emigration to Israel and the United States; and emigrating with his family to the United States in 1967, joining his mother and brother.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- January 8, 1992.
- Locale
- Russia
Goworowo (Poland)
Białystok (Poland)
Orishche (Ukraine)
Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
Wrocław (Poland) - Cite As
- Nachman T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1911). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Yiddish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 57 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Brothers. Russia. Goworowo (Poland) Białystok (Poland) Orishche (Ukraine) Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) Wrocław (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) T., Nachman,--1910- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.
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/4296322
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296322
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