- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Iosif D., who was born in Gorodno, Poland (presently Haradnaya, Belarus) in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recalls attending cheder and Polish school; holiday and Sabbath observances; his father's death; working to help support his family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in summer 1941; fleeing to Turov; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; peasants informing them in September 1942 of pits being dug nearby; escaping to a forest; a mass shooting including his sister and mother; encountering his brother; assistance from local non-Jews; living with partisans; recovering from typhus in a village; moving with the partisans to Ukraine in 1944; enlisting in the Soviet military; battles in and liberation of Pinsk, Stolin, Rīga, Warsaw, Szczecin, and Berlin; learning his brother had been killed; discharge in March 1947; returning to Pinsk; working in a factory; marriage in 1950; and the births of two sons. Mr. D. notes sharing his story with his children; annual visits to a monument at the mass grave site; testifying against a collaborator in 1971; and his granddaughters studying in Israel.
- Author/Creator
- D., Iosif, 1924-
- Published
- Pinsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- August 4, 1995.
- Locale
- Belarus
Soviet Union
Poland
Haradnai︠a︡ (Belarus)
Turov (Belarus)
Pinsk (Belarus)
Berlin (Germany)
Warsaw (Poland)
Szczecin (Poland)
Rīga (Latvia)
Stolin (Belarus)
- Cite As
- Iosif D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3606). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Shulʹman, Arkadiĭ, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Russian.
