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Avraham S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3494) interviewed by Anita Tarsi,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3494

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Avraham S., who was born in Jēkabpils, Latvia in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; attending university in Rīga in 1939; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; forced labor clearing rubble; hearing rumors Jēkabpils's Jews had been murdered; his landlord, a Latvian priest, saving his life by hiding him during a round-up; ghettoization; daily slave labor; several mass killings; the arrival of Jews from Germany and Austria; transfer to Kaiserwald, then to Dundangen; slave labor building the camp; daily deaths; escaping with a friend; hiding in a barn; the owner caring for them for eleven months; liberation by Soviet troops; and returning to Rīga.
Author/Creator: S., Avraham, 1921-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
Interview Date: November 13, 1992.
Locale: Latvia
Rīga
Jēkabpils (Latvia)
Rīga (Latvia)
Cite As: Avraham S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3494). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tarsi, Anita, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Related publication: So it was indeed! / Abraham Shpungin. -- Tel Yitshak : Maśu'ah, c1994.

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 54 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Soviet occupation.
Mass killings.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Latvia--Rīga. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Escapes. Latvia. Jēkabpils (Latvia) Rīga (Latvia) Oral histories (document genres) S., Avraham,--1921- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp) Dondangen (Concentration camp)

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/4297673
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:45:00
This page:: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4297673

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