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Oral history interview with Chanoch Vilenchik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.306 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0306

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    Oral history interview with Chanoch Vilenchik

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    Interview Summary
    Chanoch Vilenchik, born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1920, describes being the oldest of five children; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; working in a leather store; his active participation in Hashomer Hatzair (Abba Kovner was his group's leader); Lithuanian independence; fleeing briefly to relatives in Lida, Belarus and Maladzechna, Belarus; returning home; the German invasion; the killing of Jews; fleeing to Ashmiany, Belarus; returning when he was caught; ghettoization; forced labor in a dairy factory; smuggling food; obtaining a pistol; participating in the organized resistance; contacts with Yitzhak Wittenberg; hiding in a bunker with his family for two months; their discovery; escaping to the forest; joining the partisans; battles with Germans and the Armia Krajowa; executing captured German soldiers; cooperating with Soviet partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; assignment to locate war criminals in Kaliningrad, Russia; returning home; his marriage; the births of his two daughters; immigrating to Israel in 1957; and how revenge was one of his motivations in the partisans and postwar period.
    Interviewee
    Chanoch Vilenchik
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    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 Chanoch Vilenchik in Israel on November 8, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:16:06
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