LEADER 04723cpd a2200613 a 4500001 4298248 005 20180530115142.0 008 980731s1993 ctu rus d 035 HVT-3555 035 4298248 035 |9FLX2542YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005122304 090 |bHVT-3555 100 1 O., Leonid, |d1929- 245 10 Leonid O. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3555) |h[videorecording], |fJuly 2, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Leonid O., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1929, one of four children. He recounts attending school; his brother volunteering for the Soviet army (he never returned); his sister and father traveling to Moscow; German invasion; briefly fleeing during bombings; not knowing he was Jewish until defined as such by the Germans; round-ups and executions; ghettoization; forced labor in a carpentry shop; the arrival of German Jews in 1942; contact with the partisans; bringing Jews to the forest to the partisans led by Shalom Zorin in the forest; building hiding places for others in exchange for food; hiding during round-ups and random shootings; public hanging of his mother, sister, and other relatives in 1943; escaping from a round-up; joining Zorin's partisans; participating in raids on Germans; Polish partisans killing Jews; enlisting in a Soviet intelligence unit; capturing a German officer; being wounded six times, the last in Rostock; his sense of taking revenge; hospitalization in Hrodna; transfer to Minsk; reunion with his father and sister; serving in the Soviet Navy until 1949; marriage; arrest on charges of “Zionism”; imprisonment for two years; one son's emigration to Israel; and joining him a year later. Mr. O. discusses details of ghetto life; sadistic killings; partisan life; and receiving two Soviet medals for his military service. He shows photographs. 546 This testimony is in Russian. 524 Leonid O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3555). 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 O., Leonid, |d1929- 600 10 Zorin, Shalom, |d1902-1974. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015020617 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 Identification (Religion) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zBelarus |zMinsk. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zBelarus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113904 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Soviet. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 651 0 Belarus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91128701 651 0 Minsk (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79116460 651 0 Rostock (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018417 651 0 Hrodna (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81059012 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 691 4 Minsk ghetto. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677723 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3555) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/1r6n00zr3j 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/