- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Dokshit︠s︡y, Belarus. (then Poland) in 1913. He recalls his family; attending yeshiva; work in his uncle's bakery at age fourteen; his sister's emigration to Palestine; attempts to join her; membership in a Vilna zionist organization; conflicts between Lithuania and Poland in Vilna; a pogrom; his escape to Ilʹi︠a︡; service in the Polish army; and the German invasion. He recalls a mass killing in March 1942; hiding; ghettoization; another mass killing; escape to the woods; hiding with a farmer, then in the forests for six months; joining the partisans with the farmer's help; bombing German trains in Vileyka; helping Jews in Baranovichi; two and a half years with the partisans; antisemitic treatment by partisans; and joining the Soviet army in Minsk in June 1944. He relates working as a translator in Berlin; discharge in 1946; attempts to contact his mother in Palestine; meeting his wife; their escape to Berlin; life in displaced persons camps; his daughter's birth; emigration to Palestine in 1949; his second daughter's birth; service in the Israeli army in the 1956 Sinai campaign; and emigration to the United States in 1959. Mr. F. contrasts oppression in the ghetto to activity with the partisans.
- Author/Creator
- F., Sam, 1913-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- May 5, 1985.
- Locale
- Belarus
Ilʹi︠a︡.
Soviet Union
Berlin (Germany)
Minsk (Belarus)
Baranavichy (Belarus)
Vileĭka (Minskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
Dokshytsy (Belarus)
Israel
Ilʹi︠a︡ (Byelorussian S.S.R.)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Poland
- Cite As
- Sam F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-582). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Landau, Emanuel, interviewer.
Neuman, Susanna, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Additional unpublished material written by donor available in repository.
