Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Shlomo Y., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, one of three children. He recounts working in Hrodna; returning to Vilnius in 1937; brief Soviet occupation; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings at Ponary (he worked nearby and observed the piles of corpses, including his sister, her husband, and infant); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; sneaking out to avoid round-ups and to buy food; arrest by a German; two friends being killed when they protested his arrest; a Jewish official securing his release; arrest by ghetto police for smuggling; release; contact with Yiżḣak Wittenberg; escaping with his wife and others; joining the partisans; destroying rail and phone lines; interrogating German prisoners; liberating Vilnius with Soviet troops; searching for collaborators; fleeing with his wife to a displaced persons camp in Austria; traveling to Innsbruck, then Rome; boarding an illegal ship for Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; escape; and serving in the Israeli army.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- June 26, 1992 and July 10, 1992.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Vilnius
Russia
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Hrodna (Belarus)
Rome (Italy)
Innsbruck (Austria)
Cyprus
Palestine - Cite As
- Shlomo Y. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3432). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (3 hr., 4 min., 1 hr., 4 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Mass killings.
Partisans.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944. Escapes. Husband and wife. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Refugee camps. Russia. Vilnius (Lithuania) Hrodna (Belarus) Rome (Italy) Innsbruck (Austria) Cyprus. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) Y., Shlomo,--1917- Wittenberg, Yiżḣak,--1907-1943.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297507
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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