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Itzhak D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3640)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3640

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Itzhak D., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1916, one of five children. He recounts participating in Hashomer Hatzair with Abba Kovner; Soviet occupation; working with the writer Szmerke Kaczerginski; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; forced labor in a military fuel depot outside the ghetto; selling stolen fuel to purchase food; escaping; hiding with a German guard who had befriended him in the fuel depot; sneaking back into the ghetto; hiding with his family during the liquidation; capture; transfer to a Gestapo prison; slave labor clearing trees with his father; observing mass graves; being forced to disinter corpses in Ponary for burning; the trauma of finding the bodies of his mother, sister, and friend; a group effort to build a tunnel; escaping through the tunnel; assistance from local villagers; and joining a Soviet partisan group.
Author/Creator: D., Itzhak, 1916-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
Interview Date: March 10, 1994.
Locale: Lithuania
Vilnius
Poland
Russia
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Cite As: Itzhak D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3640). 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. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 36 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Soviet occupation.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Partisans.
Mass killings.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Forced labor. Escapes. Fathers and sons. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Russia. Vilnius (Lithuania) Oral histories (document genres) D., Itzhak,--1916- Kaczerginski, Szmerke,--1908-1954. Kovner, Abba,--1918-1987. World Hashomer Hatzair.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298539
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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