- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Dr. Dori L., who was born in Czernowitz in 1937. Charting his awareness of change through childhood memories, Dr. L. describes his religious education; the German occupation in 1941; and his brief stay in the Czernowitz ghetto. He tells of his deportation, with his parents, to Transnistria; camping near Mogilev; and living in a labor camp built in a quarry near the Bug River. He relates his unsuccessful attempt to convince his parents to let him return to Czernowitz; his parents' disagreement regarding the trustworthiness of the Germans; being spared from the liquidation of the camp; and the relative freedom of living in the deserted camp. Dr. L. recalls the march to Obodovka, where they were housed with Jewish townspeople; his father's disappearance during a raid there; and liberation by the Russians. Postwar topics of discussion include his return, with his mother, to Czernowitz, where they were reunited with his grandparents; his education and life in Romania; his emigration to Israel in 1950; and his decision to become a psychoanalyst. One of the co-founders of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, which preceded the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, Dr. L. presents his views concerning the method and uses of videotape testimony.
- Author/Creator
- L., Dori, 1937-
- Published
- Northridge, Calif. : Child Survivor Archive at California State University, Northridge, 1985
- Interview Date
- June 1, 1985.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Chernivt︠s︡i.
Romania
Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Transnistria (Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
Obodovka (Ukraine)
Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Dori L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-593). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moskovitz, Sarah, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Dori L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-46) and Klara and Dori L. Holocaust testimony [with mother] (HVT-777), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
