- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z︠H︡uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgonʹ, and Oshmi︠a︡ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi︠a︡ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an engraver for almost three years; liberation by United States troops; moving to the Soviet zone; draft into the Soviet military; fleeing to his hometown in November 1945; finding only four Jewish survivors; traveling to Oshmi︠a︡ny; smuggling himself to Linz displaced persons camp in Austria; working for Beriḥah assisting in smuggling Jews to Palestine; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. K. discusses hunger in the camps and dreams of bread and milk; the importance to his survival of willpower, wishing for revenge, and instinct; sharing his experiences with his children despite his own difficulty believing them; nightmares; and pervasive memories. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- K., Larry, 1925-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- November 4, 1990.
- Locale
- Belarus
Ashmi︠a︡ny
Poland
Z︠H︡uprany (Belarus)
Smorgonʹ (Belarus)
Salos (Luthuania)
Ashmi︠a︡ny (Belarus)
- Cite As
- Larry K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1734). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blumenthal, Norman, interviewer.
Rosenstock, Sandra, interviewer.
