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• Author/Creator:L., Hanan, 1924-
  
• Title:Hanan L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2838) [videorecording] / interviewed by Rosalie Wollner and Paul Goodman, December 6, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 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.2838)
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• Notes:This testimony is in Yiddish.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Hanan L., who was born in Traby, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recalls a happy childhood; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; forced relocation to Iŭe; forced labor; ghettoization; a selection for a mass shooting (he and his family were chosen for work); his father obtaining shepherds clothing for him and then he and a friend smuggling themselves to Nikolaev to a non-Jew friendly to Jews; hiding with him; stealing a gun to join the partisans; returning for their families; learning they had been deported (none survived); returning to the partisans, wanting revenge; growth of the unit (it became the Stalin brigade); building bunkers in the forest; destroying rail and communications lines; battles with Germans and their collaborators; evacuation to Moscow, then Minsk after he was wounded; not returning from his leave; traveling to Lublin; joining a group emigrating to Palestine; their illegal trip to Italy; boarding a ship; interdiction by the British; and a hunger strike resulting in their landing in Palestine. Mr. L. discusses his education and career; marriage; the births of two children; involvement in a organization of former partisans; medals awarded by the Soviet Union; traveling in a delegation of partisans to the Soviet Union in 1994; visiting his former home; lecturing to young people there; erecting a monument on the mass grave; and emigration to the United States three years ago. He shows photographs and reads his poetry.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Hanan L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2838). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:L., Hanan, 1924-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Belarus--Iŭe.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  Revenge.
  Poetry.
  Forced labor.
  Traby (Belarus)
  Poland.
  Moscow (Russia)
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Lublin (Poland)
  Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  Italy.
  Israel.
  Iŭe (Belarus)
  Nikolaev (Nikolaevskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Soviet occupation.
  Mass killings.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Mutual aid.
  Partisans.
  Bunkers.
  Forests.
  Postwar experiences.
  Iwje ghetto.
  Iwje (Poland)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Wollner, Rosalie, interviewer.