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• Author/Creator:P., Arkadi︠i︡, 1923-
  
• Title:Arkadi︠i︡ P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3619) [videorecording] / interviewed by Arkadiĭ Shulʹman, August 11, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Mahili︠o︡ŭ, Belarus : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 55 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.3619)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Arkadi︠i︡ P., who was born in Chashniki, Belarus in 1923. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school; earning teachers' certification; teaching third grade; visiting Minsk in June 1941; German invasion; riding trains with German soldiers to Barysaŭ; walking to Lukomlʹ; staying with an aunt for three days; returning to Chashniki; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor in a peat factory; a non-Jewish woman who offered to help him; hiding with his mother and sister during a mass killing in February 1942; his mother forcing him out a window when they were discovered; assistance from a non-Jew; staying with non-Jews in Lukomlʹ; reunion with his aunt (her family had been killed); he and a friend finding partisans in the woods; learning his sister had escaped only to be killed elsewhere in a mass shooting; many assignments blowing up German installations; joining the Soviet military in November 1942; moving up the ranks; and leaving the military in 1946. Mr. P. notes he settled in Mahili︠o︡ŭ where he worked as a teacher, a school head, then for a bank, and his sense that pre-war Chashniki was an ideal place.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Arkadi︠i︡ P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3619). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:P., Arkadi︠i︡, 1923-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Belarus.
  Chashniki (Belarus)
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Barysaŭ (Belarus)
  Lukomlʹ (Vitsebskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
  Mahili︠o︡ŭ (Belarus)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Mass killings.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Mutual aid.
  Hiding.
  Postwar experiences.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Shulʹman, Arkadiĭ, interviewer.