a| (OCoLC)ocn702235646

a| HVT-3627

9| FLX2779YL

a| 4298482

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)702159254

b| HVT-3627

a| Z., Eleazar, d| 1925-

a| Eleazar Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3627) h| [videorecording], f| November 11, 1993 and December 7, 1993.

a| Tel Aviv, Israel : b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, c| 1993.

a| 2 videorecordings (3 hr., 46 min.) : b| col.

a| Videotape testimony of Eleazar Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, one of four brothers. He recalls attending gymnasium; one brother's death; participating in clandestine communist organizations; Soviet occupation in 1940; Lithuanian violence and killing of Jews prior to German invasion on June 24, 1941; mass killings in surrounding former forts; ghettoization in August; his father's death in January 1942 resulting from a German beating; forced labor; joining a Jewish underground movement led by Haim Yelin; connecting with partisans outside the ghetto; public hangings; organizing escapes of arrested partisans; forming schools; connections with YIVO; burying documents; escaping to join partisans in the forests in 1943; fighting with Soviet forces against retreating Germans; learning his immediate family had all been killed; working as an archivist for thirty-three years from summer 1944 (he completed his studies in Vilnius and Moscow); marriage to a survivor; his daughter's emigration to Israel in 1973; and joining her in 1988. Mr. Z. recounts many names of Kovno Jews and specific episodes. He shows photographs and documents.

a| This testimony is in Russian.

a| Eleazar Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3627). 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| Z., Eleazar, d| 1925-

a| Yelin, Haim, d| 1912-1944. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97027400

a| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122376

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| World War, 1939-1945 x| Children. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359

a| Jewish children in the Holocaust. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877

a| Jewish ghettos. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077

a| Jews z| Lithuania z| Kaunas.

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Jewish resistance z| Lithuania.

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Underground movements z| Lithuania. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119762

a| Escapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Atrocities. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285

a| Lithuania. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573

a| Kaunas (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100

a| Vilnius (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208

a| Moscow (Russia) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Child survivors.

a| Soviet occupation.

a| Partisans

a| Postwar experiences.

a| Forests.

a| Kovno ghetto.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4677969

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3627) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/599z02z621

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/