LEADER 05705cpd a2200733 a 4500001 9365025 005 20180529114216.0 008 100616s2010 ctu eng d 035 HVT-4431 035 9365025 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005105181 090 |bHVT-4431 100 1 L., Ben, |d1928- 245 10 Ben L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4431) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Susan Millen and Rachel Wizner, |fApril 26, 2010. 260 New Haven, Conn. : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c2010. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending a Hebrew-speaking school and a Tarbut school; the arrival of many Polish refugees after the onset of war; delivering food to some of the refugees, including Menachem Begin; Soviet occupation; his brother's participation in the Irgun; his father's non-Jewish associate encouraging them to flee; hiding in the associate's cellar outside Vilna for a few weeks; returning home; fleeing with his family to his paternal grandparents' home in Belarus; his sister's return to Vilna; smuggling himself into the ghetto for visits; his mother's return to the ghetto, while his father remained hiding in the forest; leaving with his sister and her boyfriend to join his brother in the partisans (his parents remained in the ghetto); learning his brother had been killed prior to their arrival; the arrival of Abba Kovner and his group; serving as a courier between partisan units; the arrival of Soviet troops; fighting Germans in the streets; learning his parents had been beaten to death by Poles after the war when returning to Vilna from hiding in a forest; leaving to emigrate to Israel per Kovner's decision; traveling to Lida, Chernivt︠s︡i, then Odesa; imprisonment by Soviet authorities for several months; traveling to Milan; joining an Irgun group; transfer to Naples; and emigration to Israel in May 1948, then to the United States in 1967. Mr. L. shows photographs. 500 Photographs are available in the respository. 500 Related publication: Until our last breath : a Holocaust story of love and partisan resistance / Michael Bart and Laurel Corona. -- New York : St. Martin's Press, c 2008. 524 Ben L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4431). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |bDV Cam master; |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 L., Ben, |d1928- 600 10 Begin, Menachem, |d1913-1992. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79085130 600 10 Kovner, Abba, |d1918-1987. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099581 610 20 Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81124462 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zVilnius. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122393 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Brothers. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223 650 0 Brothers and sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017225 650 0 Prisons |zSoviet Union. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109678 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 651 0 Lida (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84023773 651 0 Odesa (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139057 651 0 Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82045086 651 0 Milan (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80060867 651 0 Naples (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79015689 651 0 Israel. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003285 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 691 4 Vilna ghetto. 700 1 Millen, Susan, |einterviewer. 700 1 Wizner, Rachel, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b9722121 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4431) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/hh6c24qv2f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/