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• Author/Creator:G., Jacob, 1922?-
  
• Title:Jacob G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1814) [videorecording] / interviewed by Nathan Beyrak and Amit Dobkin, February 26, March 18, April 12, and June 2, 1986.
  
• Published/Created:Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1986.
  
• Physical Description:4 videorecordings (2 hr., 7 min.; 2 hr., 13 min.; 3 hr., 9 min.; and 2 hr., 4 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1814)
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• Notes:Related material: Daniel R. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-1834), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  This testimony is in Hebrew.
  4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in P'yanovichi, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, the youngest of thirteen children. He recalls German invasion; a non-Jewish friend warning him to leave and providing false papers for him and two friends; traveling to Białystok; meeting his future wife; moving to Minsk; studying engineering; obtaining a Soviet passport; living in Uzda; German invasion in 1941; working as a mechanic; a mass killing of Jews; a brother and sister being killed while escaping; transfer to the Minsk ghetto in March 1942; a mass shooting of Jews; joining a partisan group; hiding weapons; smuggling children out of the ghetto; escaping with his future wife to the Jewish partisans in a forest; blowing up trains, raiding collaborators' farms; skirmishing with German military; killing all Germans after they burned members of his unit alive; his wife remaining in the forest camp; working with Daniel R.; joining the Soviet military; being wounded; joining his wife after military discharge; joining other former partisans in a kibbutz; seeking survivors in P'yanovichi, then Łódź; assisting an older Jew who was being attacked by non-Jews; their daughter's birth in 1946; smuggling themselves to Germany, intending to emigrate to Palestine; living in Berchtesgaden and Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camps; helping to organize routes for illegal emigration to Palestine; his wife and daughter emigrating; joining them about a year later; recruitment for the Haganah; being injured in the 1948 war; and moving to Jaffa after the war. Mr. G. discusses native Israelis' reluctance to acknowledge survivor or partisan experiences; lack of understanding that persists to the present; never discussing the revenge taken after the war; one brother and one sister joining him in Israel; sharing his story with his two daughters and grandchildren; and his love of and commitment to Israel.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Jacob G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1814). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:G., Jacob, 1922?-
  Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp)
  Haganah (Organization)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
  Husband and wife.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
  Revenge.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet.
  Refugee camps.
  Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion.
  Public opinion--Israel.
  Poland.
  P'yanovichi (Ukraine)
  Białystok (Poland)
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Uzda (Belarus)
  Łódź (Poland)
  Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Mass killings.
  Forests.
  Postwar experiences.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Minsk ghetto.
  Berchtesgaden (Berchtesgaden : Refugee camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Beyrak, Nathan, interviewer.
  Dobkin, Amit, interviewer.