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Oral history interview with Tzvi Isers

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.258 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0258

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    Oral history interview with Tzvi Isers

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tzvi Isers, born in 1923 in the town of Lenin, Belarus, discusses his childhood years and family life; being two years old when his father was murdered by Russian bandits; his love of learning and studying in a synagogue and Polish schools; being in the pioneer youth movement; his sister immigrating to Palestine in 1931; joining the Komsomol youth movement; life under Soviet rule; German rule; being taken away for forced labor; anti-Jewish edicts; becoming a member of a small resistance group of ten to twelve men in a camp of approximately 600 men; hearing about the mass murder of Jews in Lenin in August 1942; joining partisans comprised of Russian prisoners; the sabotage of German trains heading east to the Russian fronts; arriving in liberated territories; becoming part of the Red Army; being chosen as part of special forces unit in the Red Army; becoming involved in different military operations near the Baltic Sea in the fall of 1944; being wounded during combat; his hospitalization until April 1945; traveling to Moscow, Russia; going to Minsk, Belarus; enrolling in Minsk law school; his marriage; and post-war friendships established with former partisans.
    Interviewee
    Tzvi Isers
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 16
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Isers, Tzvi, 1923-
    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Tzvi Isers in Israel on November 16, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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 08:15:49
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