- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jeshajahu P., who was born in Stepanʹ, Poland in 1927. In this very detailed testimony, he recalls antisemitic violence; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish regulations; humiliating forced labor; exchanging possessions for food with local farmers; ghettoization in late 1941; leaving valuables with a Polish friend; his father arranging for him to work outside the ghetto; smuggling extra food to his family; his father's and brother's disappearances; having to return to the ghetto; rumors of liquidation; escaping with his mother and sister; hiding with Polish farmers and in forests; connecting with Jews with assistance from Polish partisans; placing his sister with a Polish family; his mother's death from cold and hunger; retrieving his sister when it was warmer; avoiding Ukrainian groups who killed Jews; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Malynsk; traveling to Katowice, Bytom, and Kraków; anti-Jewish violence; assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; traveling to Germany and Italy with a group organizing illegal emigration to Palestine; British interception of their ship; nine-months incarceration in Cyprus; arriving in Palestine in March 1947; and his twenty-year military career. Mr. P. shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- P., Jeshajahu, 1927-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- December 18, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Stepanʹ (Ukraine)
Poland
Malynsk (Ukraine)
Katowice (Poland)
Bytom (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Cyprus
Palestine
- Cite As
- Jeshajahu P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1740). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gurewitsch, Brana, interviewer.
