Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in a Polish village near Iwye (presently Iŭe, Belarus), one of five children. He recalls attending the Tarbut school in Iwye (only five out of sixty classmates survived); Soviet occupation; his bar mitzvah in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization in Iwye; a mass shooting of 2,500 Jews; his father bribing a guard to let them go to Lida; brief imprisonment; release to the Lida ghetto; slave labor on the railroad; his mother arranging his and his brothers' escape to the partisans; joining Tuvia Bielski's brigade; fleeing German attacks; living with his brothers in the forests near their native town from July 1943 to May 1944; assistance from a few non-Jews (he is still in touch with one farmer); observing Germans retreat; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Iwye; his brothers' draft into the Soviet military; reunion with an uncle; traveling to Łódź, then with Beriḥah to Kraków, Bratislava, and Austria; living in Bindermichl displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; traveling to Rome; and emigrating to the United States to join relatives in 1947. Mr. K. is emotional as he tells his story.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2001
- Interview Date
- August 29, 2001.
- Locale
- Belarus
Iŭe
Lida
Poland
Iŭe (Belarus)
Łódź (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Rome (Italy)
Lida (Belarus) - Cite As
- Joseph K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4147). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Partisans.
Mass killings.
Soviet occupation. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Belarus--Iŭe. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Jews--Belarus--Lida. Forced labor. Escapes. Brothers. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Refugee camps. Poland. Iŭe (Belarus) Łódź (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Bratislava (Slovakia) Rome (Italy) Lida (Belarus) Oral histories (document genres) K., Joseph,--1926- Bielski, Tuvia. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Beriḥah (Organization)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4847618
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4847618
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