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Irving R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1100) interviewed by Sara Moss Herz and Dana L. Kline,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1100

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Irving R., who was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, in 1920. He tells of his family's move from Rīga to Moscow before World War I; their return in the mid-1920s; antisemitism in prewar Latvia; German occupation in 1941; arrest by a Latvian Volksdeutsche who was a childhood friend; the Rumbuli massacres; forced labor; and life in the small ghetto. He describes his transfer to Kaiserwald in 1943; transport in 1944 to Stutthof, then Buchenwald, where he was forced to perform meaningless labor; producing ammunition at Bochum; escaping during a death march back to Buchenwald; recuperation in a Bavarian hospital; and arrival in the United States in 1947. Mr. R. recites lyrics of camp inmates' songs; reflects on revelations about the wartime and postwar activities of Barbie, Demjanjuk and Waldheim; and explains the role of children and grandchildren in preserving survivors' memories of the Holocaust.
Author/Creator: R., Irving, 1920-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
Interview Date: June 28, 1988.
Locale: Latvia
Rīga
Soviet Union
Moscow (Russia)
Rīga (Latvia)
Bochum (Germany)
Cite As: Irving R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1100). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Kline, Dana L., 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 (2 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Survivor-child relations.
Mass killings.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camps--Songs and music. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Latvia--Rīga. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music. War criminals. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Soviet Union. Moscow (Russia) Rīga (Latvia) Bochum (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. R., Irving,--1920- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

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/982274
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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