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• Author/Creator:L., Peter, 1923-
  
• Title:Peter L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3272) [videorecording] / interviewed by B. M. Zabarko and Izabela Davydovna Slucka, August 4, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Kharkiv, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 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.3272)
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• Notes:Associated material: Lidia G. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-3270), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  This testimony is in Russian.
  3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Peter L., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1923 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. He recalls his father's three-year imprisonment as a Trotskyite beginning in 1937; German occupation in fall 1941; inability to evacuate due to injuries; his mother obtaining a Ukrainian passport for him; his father not allowing him, his mother, and brother to join the ghettoization in a tractor factory in December 1941; his father's escape on January 2, 1942; hiding him in their apartment; hiding his future wife and her mother for a month; his future wife bringing his father a passport; fleeing to Kirovohrad with his family; brief incarceration with his mother and brother in Novaya Vodolaga; returning to Kharkiv; liberation in February 1943; serving in the Soviet army; discharge in February 1946; expulsion from medical school following his father's arrest in 1951; marriage; exile in Kazakhstan; and returning to Kharkiv. Mr. L. discusses his reluctance to share his experiences even with close friends, fearing punishment as a collaborator since he lived in Nazi occupied territory; sharing his experiences with his son; his Jewish identity; the importance of luck and his passport to his survival; and his gratitude to and love for his wife.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Peter L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3272). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:L., Peter, 1923-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Interfaith marriage.
  Brothers.
  Fathers and sons.
  Mothers and sons.
  Draft--Soviet Union.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet.
  Identification (Religion)
  Ukraine.
  Kharkiv (Ukraine)
  Kazakhstan.
  Novaya Vodolaga (Ukraine)
  Kropyvnytsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Hiding.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Kirovohrad (Ukraine)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Zabarko, B. M., interviewer.
  Slucka, Izabela Davydovna, interviewer.