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• Author/Creator:S., Vera, 1928-
  
• Title:Vera S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3617) [videorecording] / interviewed by Arkadiĭ Shulʹman, August 8, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Minsk, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 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.3617)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Smirnova, Vera. Interview 30334. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  This testimony is in Russian.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Vera S., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1928. She recounts attending Russian school; German invasion; no prior knowledge of atrocities elsewhere; ghettoization; mass killings; smuggling herself out to trade possessions for food (she did not "look Jewish"); assistance from non-Jewish friends; being caught outside the ghetto during a round-up; finding her mother and brother had survived by hiding in a shed, but her other relatives were gone; arrival of Jews from Germany; escaping with her mother and brother in 1943; joining the partisans; her mother and brother staying in a village; being arrested while scouting; imprisonment and torture in Minsk as a non-Jew (she still retains her false name); deportation to Auschwitz two months later; hospitalization; being saved by a doctor who hid her from the Germans; the death march in January; arrival at Ravensbrück; transfer to Neustadt-Glewe after ten weeks; and liberation on May 2. Ms. S. discusses conditions in the ghetto and the loss of her childhood.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Vera S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3617). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Vera, 1928-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Belarusian.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  Death marches.
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Belarus.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Mass killings.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Hospitals in concentration camps.
  Mutual aid.
  Minsk ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Shulʹman, Arkadiĭ, interviewer.