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Oral history interview with Samuel Rozin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.368 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0368

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    Oral history interview with Samuel Rozin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Samuel Rozin, born in Kovno, Poland (Kaunas, Lithuania) in 1926, describes being the youngest of five children; his family being traditional, but not very religious; his father, who owned a merchandise transport business and had earned a medal for heroism as a volunteer firefighter; Jabotinsky’s speech in 1938 in Kovno; studying art; the Russian occupation and the change in atmosphere; learning to speak Russian; the war starting and his family going to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and returning to Kovno; being transported to the Slobodka ghetto in 1941; his father dying of a heart attack; family members being killed in the Ninth Fort; remaining in the Kovno ghetto until the spring of 1944; getting a rifle and joining the partisans; being trained by Haim Yelin, in Michl Pasternak’s basement; the partisans in the forest; escaping in small groups to join the partisans in the forest; his escape failing and returning to the ghetto; leaving the ghetto again and finding Belarussian partisans in the Rudnicki Forest; his first battle; life with the partisans; sabotaging trains by placing bombs on the tracks; the partisans being surrounded by the Germans and being wounded and surviving by hiding near a river; recovering at the partisan base; being hospitalized for a month and a half; going to Vilna; and wanting to study art but being conscripted into the Russian Army for five years in the engineering corps.
    Interviewee
    Samuel Rozin
    Date
    interview:  2000 March 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    9 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Samuel Rozin on March 2, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:16:27
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