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David P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3626)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3626

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of David P., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1924. He recalls attending a Hebrew gymnasium; participating in a Socialist-Zionist youth group; Soviet occupation; transformation of his school from Hebrew to Yiddish; joining a clandestine Zionist group; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east with his family; capture by Lithuanians; imprisonment in Šiauliai; separation from his family; forced labor digging ditches, which he later learned were mass graves where his father was killed; release; ghettoization; living with his mother and sister; working in a factory; brief hospitalization; horrific responses to round-ups when family members were taken; a public hanging; separation from his family when he was deported to Dachau; transfer to Utting; a local German giving him food; sleeping next to and sharing food with a former neighbor; transfer back to Dachau; a death march; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; reunion with his mother and sister (they later joined his aunt in Paris); living in a displaced persons camp; becoming a leader of a group of orphans with his future wife; their illegal emigration with the orphans to Palestine; interdiction by the British; and brief internment on Cyprus. Mr. P. discusses a recent trip to Lithuania with his son.
    Author/Creator
    P., David, 1924-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
    Interview Date
    November 23, December 7, and December 20, 1993.
    Locale
    Lithuania
    Šiauliai
    Šiauliai (Lithuania)
    Cyprus
    Palestine
    Cite As
    David P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3626). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    3 videorecordings (7 hr.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Soviet occupation.
    Zionist organizations.
    Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298478
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4298478

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