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• Author/Creator:T., Asja, 1917-
  
• Title:Asja T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3595) [videorecording] / interviewed by Irina Trampolski and Vitali Zaika, August 1, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (59 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.3595)
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• Notes:2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Asja T., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1917, one of six children. She recalls attending Russian school; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; her son's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; her father being caught in a round-up in August 1941 (he was killed); her mother being killed in March 1942; obtaining false papers a year later from a non-Jewish neighbor; escaping with her son; briefly staying with her brother's non-Jewish girlfriend; leaving because she did not want to endanger her rescuers; wandering from place to place, begging for over a year; working for a Polish land owner in Surynty; arrest;ddeportation with her son to Germany for forced labor; liberation by United States troops; staying in Switzerland for four months; returning to Minsk; learning her sister and children had been killed; reunion with her youngest brother (other brothers perished as Soviet soldiers); and her younger sister's survival (her brother's girlfriend hid her). Mrs. T. notes the deaths of most of her extended family during the war. She shows photographs and documents.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Asja T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3595). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:T., Asja, 1917-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
  Mothers and sons.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  Forced labor.
  Belarus.
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Surynty (Belarus)
  Germany.
  Switzerland.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Minsk ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Trampolski, Irina, interviewer.