LEADER 06608cpd a2200769 a 4500001 4585644 005 20180530115142.0 008 980731s1998 ctu heb d 035 4585644 035 HVT-4007 035 |9FNC3001YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005122891 090 |bHVT-4007 100 1 E., Shalom, |d1933- 245 10 Shalom E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4007) |h[videorecording], |fJune 25, June 29, and July 19, 1998. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1998. 300 3 videorecordings (8 hr., 26 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Shalom E., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, the eldest of two children. He recounts attending a Hebrew school; holiday visits to his grandfather, a rabbi in Viduklė; Soviet occupation; transfer to a Yiddish school; German invasion in June 1941; staying in a bunker for three days; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in August; his father's appointment to the Aeltestenrat, which saved many Jews, as ghetto historian; attending school; a large round-up in fall 1941 from which they were freed; the next morning hearing and seeing mass shootings in the distance at the Ninth Fort and corpses at the round-up area; his father's deportation to Rīga in February 1942; receiving letters from him through Lithuanian and Latvian friends; his mother smuggling food into the ghetto from her workplace; joining a Zionist group guarding community gardens; public hanging of a friend for smuggling; singing in a choir; his mother's involvement in the ghetto underground, through which he met its leader, Chaim Yellin; his mother taking his sister to hide with Lithuanians; and attending an ORT school. 520 8 Mr. E. recalls hiding during the round-up of children; his mother arranging for him to be smuggled out of the ghetto and hidden with a Lithuanian family in April 1944; being moved to a farm in Liepynai in June; the farmer sending him to hide in the forest; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Marijampolė; returning to Kaunas with help from a Soviet officer; living with a Jewish couple for a year; finding personal belongings in the ashes of the ghetto; living in an orphanage for six months; hearing from his father; leaving to join him with a Beriḥah group; capture by Soviets in Vilnius; interrogation by the NKVD; escaping; the Jewish community hiding him, then arranging his travel to join his father in Munich in March 1946; emigration to Israel two weeks later; joining his aunt; and celebrating his bar mitzvah three weeks after his arrival. Mr. E. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences; his father's reluctance to share his experiences; difficulty confirming his mother's and sister's deaths; and writing his memoir over the last twenty-three years. He shows photographs and sings ghetto songs. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 500 Related publications: Crossing the river / Shalom Eilati ; translated from Hebrew by Vern Lenz. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008. 500 Related publications: La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar / Shalom Elati. Yerushalayim : Yad ṿa-shem : Karmel, c1999. 500 Additional written materials are available in the repository. 524 Shalom E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4007). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 E., Shalom, |d1933- 600 10 Yelin, Haim, |d1912-1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97027400 610 20 World ORT Union. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50067782 610 20 Beriḥah (Organization) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073740 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Bar mitzvah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zKaunas. 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vSongs and music. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105742 650 0 Orphanages. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095748 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Lithuania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573 651 0 Kaunas (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100 651 0 Viduklė (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003107354 651 0 Liepynai (Lithuania) 651 0 Marijampolė (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90702800 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 651 0 Palestine |xEmigration and immigration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Kovno ghetto. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4975817 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4007) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/0r9m32n720 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/