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Author/Creator:S., Miriam, 1921-
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Title:Miriam S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2467) [videorecording] / interviewed by Lawrence L. Langer, September 19, 1991.
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Published/Created:Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (58 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2467)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Miriam S., who was born in Homelʹ, Belarus in 1921. She describes the family moves to Viešintos and Panevėžys; attending university in Kaunas; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation; German invasion; being hidden by a non-Jew during Lithuanian killings of Jews; ghettoization; slave labor digging ditches; avoiding a large selection in October 1941; learning of mass killings in the Ninth Fort; marriage; her husband trading their possessions for food outside the ghetto; a round-up of children; escaping with her husband; being hidden with a group of Jews by a farmer for nine months; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her sister; learning her parents had been killed; traveling to Milan in 1945 with assistance from the Jewish brigade; her son's birth; and emigrating to the United States in June 1950. Mrs. S. discusses the importance of help from non-Jews; reluctance to share her experiences with her children; the impact on her children and grandchildren of her overprotectiveness; and frequent trips to Lithuania to visit her sister.
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Cite as:Miriam S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2467). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Miriam, 1921-
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
Jewish ghettos.
Forced labor.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Husband and wife.
Escapes.
Milan (Italy)
Belarus.
Homelʹ (Belarus)
Viešintos (Lithuania)
Panevėžys (Lithuania)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Soviet occupation.
Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mass killings.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Kovno ghetto.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287565