Alexander M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3302) [videorecording] / interviewed by B. M. Zabarko, August 14, 1994.

Sharhorod, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 06 min.) : col.

Russian

This testimony is in Russian.

Videotape testimony of Alexander M., who was born in 1929. He recalls a happy, comfortable childhood in Sharhorod; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; antisemitic measures; his mother's death; his arrest; convincing the Germans he was not Jewish; forced labor cooking and cleaning for German troops; billeting of German soldiers in his family's home; one German providing them with food; occupation by Romanian troops; their refusal to murder Jews on German orders; ghettoization; overcrowding; starvation; hiding to avoid forced labor; deportation to Odesa; escaping and returning to Sharhorod; buying a radio for partisans from Romanian troops; trading on the black market; brutal Ukrainian police; ignorance of outside events; the war's end; his father's return from the military; studying in Chernivt︠s︡i; marriage in 1949; and the births of two children. Mr. M. discusses frequent encounters with partisans and his brother's emigration to Israel.

June 01, 2002

Alexander M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3302). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Alexander M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3302). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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