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Sheima L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3616) interviewed by Ina Gurary,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3616

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    Overview

    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Sheima L., who was born in Grodno, Russia (now Hrodna, Belarus) in 1912. He recalls moving to Kirovohrad when World War I began; his father's death; a pogrom; returning to Grodno (then in Poland); the deaths of two sisters; living in an orphanage with another sister; attending a Jewish boarding school; military draft; German invasion; serving in Vilnius; capture by Soviets; returning to Skidelʹ seeking his wife and daughter; their return together to Grodno; Soviet occupation; recall into the military; German invasion; capture; escape to Grodno in August 1941; ghettoization; mass killings and public hangings; escape from a round-up; return to the ghetto; slave labor in a factory; deportation to the Białystok ghetto; return to Grodno; sensing his wife and daughter had been killed in a round-up when he had escaped; transfer to prison in Białystok; slave labor disinterring and burning bodies from German mass killings; saving a friend by telling a guard she was his sister; escaping; encountering Soviet troops; and serving in the Soviet military. Mr. L. notes a book was published with his story ("The Brenners from Bialystok," in The Black Book).
    Author/Creator
    L., Sheima, 1912-
    Published
    Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
    Interview Date
    August 8, 1995.
    Locale
    Poland
    Soviet Union
    Belarus
    Hrodna
    Białystok
    Russia
    Hrodna (Belarus)
    Kropyvnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
    Vilnius (Lithuania)
    Skidzelʹ (Belarus)
    Cite As
    Sheima L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3616). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Gurary, Ina, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Russian.
    Related publication: The Black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 / prepared under the editorship of Ilya Ehrenburg & Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by John Glad and James S. Levine. New York : Holocaust Publications : Distributed by Schocken Books, c1981.

    Physical Details

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Soviet occupation.
    Mass killings.
    Wife Death.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298448
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:32:00
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