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• Author/Creator:G., Tatyana, 1918-
  
• Title:Tatyana G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3594) [videorecording] / interviewed by Arkadiĭ Shulʹman and Vitali Zaika, July 31, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 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.3594)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Russian.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Tatyana G., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1918, the fourth of five children. She describes her family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a polytechnic institute; working as a chemist; participating in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; a mass killing including some relatives; warning of an impending mass killing; escaping at her mother's insistence; a former non-Jewish neighbor reluctantly keeping her overnight; hearing machine guns and thinking they were killing her mother, sisters, and other relatives; contemplating suicide; her uncle's German acquaintance bringing her to him in the ghetto; working as a courier for the resistance under Michael Gebelev; hiding during round-ups; Soviet POWs killing their German guards and escaping in April 1943; her uncle and family being killed; working in a factory until June 30, 1944 (the ghetto had been liquidated); transfer to a camp in Poland; group prayers on Yom Kippur; evacuation to Bergen-Belsen; severe beatings; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; repatriation; living with a non-Jewish neighbor; hospitalization until 1951; and official antisemitism under Stalin. Ms. G. discusses nightmares, loneliness, and poor health resulting from her experiences.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Tatyana G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3594). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:G., Tatyana, 1918-
  Gebelev, Michael.
  Leninski kamunistychny sai͡uz moladzi Belarusi.
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
  Prisoners of war--Belarus.
  Forced labor.
  Nightmares.
  Belarus.
  Minsk (Belarus)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Mass killings.
  Hiding.
  Mutual aid.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Postwar effects.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Postwar experiences.
  Minsk ghetto.
  Komsomol.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Shulʹman, Arkadiĭ, interviewer.