Overview
- Interview Summary
- Shmuel Rozin discusses events that occurred in and around the Kovno Ghetto on April 5th, 1944; the Children’s Action; how he was hiding with a group of approximately ten partisans, among them were Abrasha Levin, Isaac Silverman, and Brinke Kozak; how Chaim Yellin took on the responsibility of finding transportation and ammunition for the group; how a woman warned the group to leave and suggested they hide with a Lithuanian family; how Yellin sent him in disguise to find three guns; and Yellin’s devotion to saving as many people as possible from the Kovno Ghetto by hiding them in the local forest.
- Interviewee
- Shmuel Rozin
- Date
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acquired:
1999
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shmuel Rozin
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
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Administrative Notes
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- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview with with Shmuel Rozin in 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives transfered the interview to the Oral History branch in January 2011.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:20:23
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Consists of two documents, described as follows: .1 Certificate: issued in Lithuania as proof of membership in Partisan movement against Nazi occupation; handwritten in black ink, black ink inscription on left side with circular black ink stamp, black ink stamp with handwritten entries in upper left, two blue ink spots at top left and top right; circa July 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian .2 Affidavit: Affidavit of good moral character issued during period of donor's participation as fighter partisan; issued in Lithuania; handwritten in blue ink, black ink inscription along left side with triangular blue ink stamp; circa 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian. Oral history interview with Shmuel Rozin, not dated, 1 sound cassette (60 minutes)
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Document
Consists of two documents, described as follows: 1. Certificate: issued in Lithuania as proof of membership in Partisan movement against Nazi occupation; handwritten in black ink, black ink inscription on left side with circular black ink stamp, black ink stamp with handwritten entries in upper left, two blue ink spots at top left and top right; circa July 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian. 2. Affidavit of good moral character issued during period of donor's participation as fighter partisan issued in Lithuania; handwritten in blue ink. Black ink inscription along left side with triangular blue ink stamp; circa 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian.
