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Author/Creator:W., Boris.
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Title:Boris W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3049) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ernest Forrai, October 26, 1983.
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Published/Created:Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1983.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 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.3049)
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 Boris W., who was born in Lwów, Poland. He recounts living in Zalozhtsy; friendly relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation in 1939; housing a Soviet official; German invasion in June 1941; hiding during round-ups of Jewish men; briefly working for the German Army; hiding with his wife in a bunker located in the nearby forest; discovery by two Ukrainian boys; hiding with local acquaintances; discovery; transfer to a concentration camp from which he soon escaped; hiding with his father and wife; being joined by two brothers; liberation by Soviet troops; his brothers' and father's deaths during the German counterattack; antisemitism while working for the Soviet military; returning to Lwów; working for a railroad company; moving to Kraków; and emigration to Israel in 1959 resulting from an accusation of illegally dealing in a foreign currency, then emigration to Canada.
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Cite as:Boris W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3049). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:W., Boris.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Fathers and sons.
Husband and wife.
Brothers.
Forced labor.
Escapes.
Zalozhtsy (Ukraine)
Poland.
Israel.
Kraków (Poland)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Forests.
Soviet occupation.
Antisemitism--Postwar.
Postwar experiences.
L'viv (Ukraine)
L'vov (Ukraine)
Lwów (Poland)
Lemberg (Poland)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Forrai, Ernest, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290264