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• Author/Creator:M., Iakov, 1928-
  
• Title:Iakov M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3599) [videorecording] / interviewed by Irina Trampolski, August 2, 1997.
  
• Published/Created:Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1997.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 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.3599)
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• Notes:This testimony is in Russian.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Iakov M., who was born in Vitsebsk, Belarus in 1928. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Russian school; some religious observances; his father's death in April 1941; German invasion in June; one sister's evacuation with her medical school; fleeing with his mother, younger sister, and neighbors to Shumilino; ghettoization; sneaking out for food; his mother ordering him to escape in November; returning the next day; learning all were murdered in a mass killing; a non-Jew in Pyatnitsa hiding him and advising him of hiding and survival strategies; going from village to village; warning Jews in Byeshankovichy; a woman hiding him in Strelka; joining partisans in fall 1942; battles in Rasony, Klyastitsy, and Sirotino; delivering messages to other detachments; crossing the front in Vyerkhnyadzvinsk in 1944; joining the Soviet military; assignments in Latvia, Japan, and China; discharge in 1951; returning to Vitsebsk; and moving to Minsk. He discusses his surviving sister who lives in the United States; a joyous reunion with many who helped save him when visiting Pyatnitsa in 1960; informing a foundation of his rescuers, who then received financial assistance; maintaining the mass grave in Shumilino; nightmares of running from Germans; attending annual partisan reunions; his children's disinterest in his experiences; and his belief that films should not portray Jews solely as victims, but also as fighters.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Iakov M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3599). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:M., Iakov, 1928-
  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.
  Jewish ghettos.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  Escapes.
  Nightmares.
  Belarus.
  Vitsebsk (Belarus)
  Shumilino (Belarus)
  Strelka (Belarus)
  Rasony (Belarus)
  Klyastitsy (Belarus)
  Sirotino (Belarus)
  Byeshankovichy (Belarus)
  Pyatnitsa (Belarus)
  Verkhni︠a︡dzvinski rai︠o︡n (Belarus)
  Minsk (Belarus)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Hiding.
  Mass killings.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Partisans.
  Forests.
  Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Trampolski, Irina, interviewer.