- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on May 1, 1941; assistance from the Jewish community and the Joint; ghettoization after Japanese invasion; continuing to study with the Mir Yeshiva; and joining relatives in the United States after the war. Richard F. discusses his experiences in Shanghai at the end of the testimony.
- Author/Creator
- B., Abe, 1922?-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- July 16, 1980.
- Locale
- China
Shanghai
Poland
Brest (Belarus)
Biała Podlaska (Poland)
Mir (Belarus)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Kėdainiai (Lithuania)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Moscow (Russia)
Vladivostok (Russia)
Shanghai (China)
Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- Cite As
- Abe B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4349). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Richard F. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-4351) Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
