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Oral history interview with Baruch Shub

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.149 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0149

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    Oral history interview with Baruch Shub

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Baruch Shub, born in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 24, 1923, describes his family, who were Lubovitch; attending Cheder; the youth movements in school; attending a scout camp, where Aba Kovner was one of the leaders; the outbreak of war in September 1939; life under the Russian occupation; the entry of the Lithuanian Army; the Jewish community helping refugees; the typhoid epidemic in Vilnius; being caught by the Germans and taken to work unloading trains; the atmosphere in the ghetto, the Judenrat, and the Jewish police; planning to join the partisans, obtaining money and weapons, and contacting the partisans; arriving in the Rudniki forest and looking for partisans; the organization of groups in the forest; his unit being responsible for sabotaging trains; the bombardment and the siege of the forest; volunteering to join a Russian unit at the front and traveling through Eastern Europe after the German surrender; ending up in October 1945 in Bari, Italy at Camp Dror; his nine-day boat ride to Palestine in 1946; and his difficulties entering Israeli society.
    Interviewee
    Baruch Shub
    Date
    interview:  1993 November 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Guerrillas--Belarus. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish councils--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish partisans (Holocaust) Jewish police officers--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish refugees. Jewish youth--Lithuania--Societies and clubs. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Mass murder--Lithuania--Vilnius. Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944. Railroad trains--Belarus. Sabotage--Belarus. Scouts (Youth organization members)--Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Lithuania--Vilnius. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania. Men--Personal narratives.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Baruch Shub in Israel on November 5, 1993, 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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