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Author/Creator:G., Semion, 1925-
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Title:Semion G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3613) [videorecording] / interviewed by Irina Trampolski and Ina Gurary, August 7, 1995.
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Published/Created:Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (4 hr., 25 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.3613)
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:This testimony is in Russian.
2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Semion G., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1925, the third of four children. He recalls speaking Yiddish at home; attending Belorussian school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his oldest brother's military service; his sister's birth in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Kolodishchi; returning home; his father's enlistment in the Soviet army; ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; mass killings; hiding in bunkers; his oldest brother using false documents to obtain weapons; learning his father had been killed; a mass killing on November 7, 1941; escaping with his brothers; joining partisans with his oldest brother (his middle brother joined a Jewish unit); many battles including ambushing a German garrison in Shatsk in 1942, for which he received a medal; becoming a unit commander; German blockades; learning his middle brother was killed in 1943; moving from Karelichy to the Bialowieza and Ruzhanʹska forests and Białystok; hostilities with Polish and Ukrainian partisans; joining the Soviet military; and his oldest brother's combat death in January 1945. He discusses non-Jewish partisans not caring he was Jewish; fighting to revenge his murdered family; becoming desensitized to killing; sharing his experiences with his children; persistent nightmares; and emotional reunions with partisan colleagues. He shows photographs.
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Cite as:Semion G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3613). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:G., Semion, 1925-
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
Brothers.
Escapes.
Revenge.
Nightmares.
Belarus.
Minsk (Belarus)
Kolodishchi (Belarus)
Shatsk (Belarus)
Karelichy (Belarus)
Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus)
Ruzhanʹska Pushcha (Belarus)
Białystok (Poland)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
False papers
Aid by non-Jews.
Mass killings.
Hiding.
Bunkers
Forests.
Partisans.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Minsk ghetto.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Gurary, Ina, interviewer.
Trampolski, Irina, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298442