- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3304), Mr. R. recounts is mother giving him the family photographs to save; his German supervisor hiding him after the October 1942 mass killing and instructing him how to act as a non-Jew; marriage in 1949; the births of his children; attending a survivor conference in Warsaw in 1996; and his attempts to locate and honor the German who saved him. Mr. R. notes that only two of his five siblings survived. He shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- R., Piotr, 1923-
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelsohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1997
- Interview Date
- March 13, 1997.
- Locale
- Belarus
Pinsk
Poland
Drahichyn (Belarus)
Mokraya Dubrova (Belarus)
Lahishyn (Belarus)
Pinsk (Belarus)
Kiev (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Piotr R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3736). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lipphardt, Anna, interviewer.
Heger, Dieter, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in German.
This testimony is difficult to understand. The witness speaks in a mixture of German and Yiddish.
Related material: Piotr R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3304), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
