a| 4585644

a| HVT-4007

9| FNC3001YL

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)1005122891

b| HVT-4007

a| E., Shalom, d| 1933-

a| Shalom E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4007) h| [videorecording], f| June 25, June 29, and July 19, 1998.

a| Tel Aviv, Israel : b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, c| 1998.

a| 3 videorecordings (8 hr., 26 min.) : b| col.

a| 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.

a| 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.

a| This testimony is in Hebrew.

a| Related publications: Crossing the river / Shalom Eilati ; translated from Hebrew by Vern Lenz. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

a| Related publications: La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar / Shalom Elati. Yerushalayim : Yad ṿa-shem : Karmel, c1999.

a| Additional written materials are available in the repository.

a| Shalom E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4007). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

e| 2 copies: b| 3/4 in. dub; b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.

a| E., Shalom, d| 1933-

a| Yelin, Haim, d| 1912-1944. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97027400

a| World ORT Union. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50067782

a| Beriḥah (Organization) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073740

a| Holocaust survivors. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527

a| Video tapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214

a| Men. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510

a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) v| Personal narratives. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518

a| World War, 1939-1945 v| Personal narratives, Jewish. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Children. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359

a| Jewish children in the Holocaust. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877

a| Bar mitzvah. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761

a| Jews z| Lithuania z| Kaunas.

a| Jewish ghettos. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Atrocities. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| Jewish councils. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271

a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) v| Songs and music. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105742

a| Orphanages. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095748

a| Escapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783

a| Lithuania. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573

a| Kaunas (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100

a| Viduklė (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003107354

a| Liepynai (Lithuania)

a| Marijampolė (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90702800

a| Vilnius (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208

a| Munich (Germany) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670

a| Palestine x| Emigration and immigration. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Child survivors.

a| Mass killings.

a| Hiding.

a| Aid by non-Jews.

a| Soviet occupation.

a| Postwar experiences.

a| Postwar effects.

a| Kovno ghetto.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4975817

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.4007) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/0r9m32n720

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/