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Oral history interview with Yehoshua Lior

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.94 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0094

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    Oral history interview with Yehoshua Lior

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    Interview Summary
    Yehoshua Lior, born in 1923 in Lachva (Lakhva), Belarus, describes Lachva and the Jewish community there; life under Soviet rule from 1939 to 1941; the Wehrmacht entering the city on June 8, 1941 and how they took all men fourteen years and older to work; the creation of the ghetto on Passover eve in 1942; his current mission to publicize the Lachva ghetto so that others will know about it; the resistance movement in the ghetto and its young leader, Yitzhak Rochzyn; the revolt during the night of September 2-3, 1942; his escape and encounters with partisans who were not willing to accept him and shot some escapees; the death of his family in the ghetto; joining the Red Army and moving through several countries after the war, including Cyprus; testifying at war crime trials; and immigrating to Palestine in 1947.
    Interviewee
    Yehoshua Lior
    Date
    interview:  1991 April 19
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yehoshua Lior in Israel on April 19, 1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:14:55
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