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Chaim H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4185)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4185

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Chaim H., who was born in Radziwillow, Poland (presently Radyvyliv, Ukraine) in 1927, one of three children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; his family's move to Brody in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; returning home; his father's round-up by Ukrainian SS; observing a mass shooting of Jewish men, including his father; his grandfather's death resulting from being beaten by a German; escaping into the fields during a round-up; hiding with his family; forced labor for Organisation Todt building an airport; ghettoization; escaping; living and working with Ukrainian families as a non-Jew; traveling to Piaksi, then another town; joining a partisan group, then the Soviet Army; attending a driving school in the Soviet Union; learning his brother had survived; a brief reunion with him before his brother's draft into the Soviet military; moving to a Gordonyah kibbutz in Bytom; assisting with illegal emigration to Bari via Bratislava and Vienna; living in Barletta; illegal emigration to Palestine by ship; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; escape; the Palmaḥ smuggling him into Palestine; serving in the Israel-Arab war; and marriage. Mr. H. discussess his brother's emigration to Israel in 1957; losing his faith due to his experiences, but returning to it after his son was killed in the Yom Kippur war; and a recent visit to the Ukraine.
    Author/Creator
    H., Chaim, 1927-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2000
    Interview Date
    November 16, 2000.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Brody
    Poland
    Radyvyliv (Ukraine)
    Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
    Piaski (Lublin, Poland)
    Bytom (Poland)
    Bratislava (Slovakia)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Bari (Italy)
    Barletta (Italy)
    Cyprus
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Chaim H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4185). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (4 hr.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Soviet occupation.
    Mass killings.
    Hiding.
    Partisans.
    Postwar experiences.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Faith. Jewish ghettos. Brothers. Jews--Ukraine--Brody. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Poland. Radyvyliv (Ukraine) Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) Piaski (Lublin, Poland) Bytom (Poland) Bratislava (Slovakia) Vienna (Austria) Bari (Italy) Barletta (Italy) Cyprus. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) H., Chaim,--1927- Organisation Todt (Germany) Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) Palmaḥ.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4921389
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4921389

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