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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Leonid O. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3555)
h| [videorecording],
f| July 2, 1993.
a| Tel Aviv, Israel :
b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
c| 1993.
a| 1 videorecording (3 hr.) :
b| col.
a| 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.
a| This testimony is in Russian.
a| Leonid O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3555). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Zorin, Shalom,
d| 1902-1974.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015020617
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Identification (Religion)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Belarus
z| Minsk.
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Underground movements
z| Belarus.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113904
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Jewish resistance.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Participation, Soviet.
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Participation, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460
a| Revenge.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
a| Belarus.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91128701
a| Minsk (Belarus)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79116460
a| Rostock (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018417
a| Hrodna (Belarus)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81059012
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Antisemitism
y| Postwar.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3555)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/1r6n00zr3j
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/