LEADER 07534cpd a2200889 a 4500001 4297468 005 20180530115143.0 008 980731s1992 ctu heb d 035 HVT-3374 035 4297468 035 |9FLX1760YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005125744 090 |bHVT-3374 100 1 B., Alexander, |d1916-2010. 245 10 Alexander B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3374) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Nathan Beyrak and Anita Tarsi, |fJune 26 and July 3, 1992. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (9 hr., 21 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Alexander B., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania), in 1916. He recounts his friendship with Abraham Sutzkever; studying art; German invasion; fleeing east with his wife; German troops overtaking them; traveling back to Vilnius for nine months via Lyubashevo, Svirʹ and other villages; witnessing round-ups of local Jews; entering the Vilna ghetto; helping to smuggle food into the ghetto; joining an uncle in Švenčionys; ghettoization; working as a shoemaker, and a translator for the Judenrat; transfer back to the Vilna ghetto when the Švenčionys ghetto was liquidated; joining the Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (FPO); meetings with Yitzhak Wittenberg and Abba Kovner; escaping with Moshe Shutan to join partisans in the Naroch forest; forming a Jewish unit, Nekama (Vengeance) under Soviet General Fydor Markov; Markov sending him with Yitzhak Arad and Yashike Gertman to bring more fighters from the ghetto; meetings with Kovner, Abraham Chwojnik, Chyena Borowska, Sonia Madeysker, and Judenrat officials Jakob Gens and Salk Dessler; discussions of rationales for escaping to the forest or remaining in the ghetto to fight; and bringing others to the forest, including his wife. 520 8 Mr. B. recalls tensions between Soviet and Jewish partisans; Soviet commanders disbanding Jewish units; obtaining weapons in villages; battles with German and Lithuanian soldiers; constructing an airstrip for supply drops from the Soviets; joining the Voroshilov brigade; liberation by Soviet troops; encounters with antisemitic Soviet officers; working at a cultural center in Vileyka; returning to Vilnius; completing his art degree; moving to Łódź; Polish officials confiscating his drawings (they were later returned); and emigration with his wife to Israel in 1951. Mr. B. discusses sketching as much as he could during the war; burying much of his work in the forest (he never found them); his art work as a historical record; redrawing and painting previous works in Israel; organizing a partisan conference in 1956; an exhibit of his art by the Polish Ministry of Culture; and donating much of his work to Yad Vashem and Lohamei ha-Ghettaot, some of which has been published. He shows some of his drawings. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Alexander B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3374). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 544 |dAssociated Material: Mor L. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-3387),Fortunoff Video Archive for HolocaustTestimonies, Yale University Library. 540 This testimony cannot be used in Germany without prior permission of the donor. 500 Related publication: a Related publications: ha-Mered / [A. Bogen ; nusaḥ Yidish, E. Pines, Y. Ts. Shargal ; nusaḥ Angli, Y.M. Lasḳ, R. Flants]. Hadpasah 2. murḥevet / ʻa. y. Bet loḥame ha-geṭaʼot. -- [Loḥame ha-Geṭaʼot] : Bet loḥame ha-geṭaʼot, c1989. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 B., Alexander, |d1916-2010. 600 10 Sutzkever, Abraham, |d1913-2010. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82113156 600 10 Kovner, Abba, |d1918-1987. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099581 600 10 Wittenberg, Yiżḣak, |d1907-1943. 600 10 Markov, Fëdor Grigorʹevich, |d1913-1958. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015014354 600 10 Arad, Yitzhak, |d1926- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79126362 600 10 Gens, Jacob, |d1903-1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002059114 600 10 Dessler, Salk. 600 10 Chwojnik, Abraham. 600 10 Madejsker, Sonia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93032778 600 10 Borowska, Chyena. 610 20 Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003112377 610 20 Voroshilov (Resistance group) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015050360 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 Husband and wife. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zLithuania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119762 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061521 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zŠvenčionys. 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zVilnius. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122393 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 651 0 Russia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 651 0 Lyubashëvo (Belarus) 651 0 Svir (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88004579 651 0 Švenčionys (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85117419 651 0 Vileĭka (Minskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78059142 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 656 7 Artists. |2lcsh |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008276 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Švenčionys ghetto. 691 4 Vilna ghetto. 693 24 Fareynigte Partizaner Organizatsye. 690 4 Voroshilov brigade. 700 1 Beyrak, Nathan, |einterviewer. 700 1 Tarsi, Anita, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676928 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3374) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/dj58c9r88w 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/