LEADER 05115cpd a2200661 a 4500001 4298306 005 20180604132623.0 008 980731s1993 ctu rus d 035 HVT-3576 035 4298306 035 |9FLX2601YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005126477 090 |bHVT-3576 100 1 G., Chaim, |d1926- 245 10 Chaim G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3576) |h[videorecording], |fOctober 29 and November 9, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 2 videorecordings (5 hr., 54 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Chaim G., who was born in Lithuania in 1926, one of two sons. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school from age three; speaking Yiddish at home; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1936; antisemitic violence in 1938; his bar mitzvah at his grandmother's house; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; confiscation of their home; visiting Kaunas; German invasion (his mother was in Panevėžys); mass killings of Jews by Lithuanians; arrest with his father; their release (the others were all shot); ghettoization; falsifying his birth date to be older so he could work; slave labor at the airport to obtain work papers; a mass killing in October 1941; killing of children and the elderly; deportation with his father to Landsberg; slave labor, starvation and lice infestation; working with his father until he died; a severe beating for taking extra potatoes; others hiding him while he recovered; transfer to Dachau; escaping with others from an evacuation march; receiving food from United States troops; traveling to Munich; returning to Kaunas seeking relatives; traveling to Vilnius, then to Panevėžys; learning his family had all been killed there; finding human remains at a mass grave; erecting a monument; and emigration to Israel. Mr. G. discusses reopening “wounds” when speaking with camp and ghetto survivors; many of the killers living with impunity; and conveying his story so younger generations will know the truth. He shows photographs and documents. 546 This testimony is in Russian. 524 Chaim G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3576). 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 G., Chaim, |d1926- 610 20 World Hashomer Hatzair. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78023533 610 20 Landsberg (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002116039 610 20 Dachau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065344 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Bar mitzvah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zKaunas. 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 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 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Lithuania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573 651 0 Kaunas (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 651 0 Panevėžys (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83221108 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Kovno ghetto. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677784 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3576) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3n20c4sn04 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/