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Robert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-105) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-105

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Vilna in 1935. He discusses family life before the war; the Russian occupation in 1939; and his father's refusal to accept Soviet citizenship, for which the family was exiled to Siberia. He relates the journey to Siberia and his family's internment in an exclusively Jewish camp within the Gulag system. He tells of his transfer to Kotlas, then Arkhangelʹsk and of his family's flight from there to a small village near Kirov where they stayed until the liberation. Returning to Poland after the war, they were taken to a displaced persons camp in Bavaria, where they remained from 1945 until 1949. Mr. S. speaks of the active cultural life of the camp; emigration to Boston; and the need to remember the Holocaust.
Author/Creator: S., Robert, 1935-
Published: Boston, Mass. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Interview Date: July 23, 1980.
Locale: Poland
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Siberia (Russia)
Kotlas (Russia)
Arkhangelʹsk (Russia)
Kirov (Kirovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Soviet Union
Cite As: Robert S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-105). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
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--Children. Poland. Oral histories (document genres) Vilnius (Lithuania) Siberia (Russia) Kotlas (Russia) Arkhangelʹsk (Russia) Kirov (Kirovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Soviet Union. Refugee camps. S., Robert,--1935-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616936
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:29:00
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