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• Author/Creator:Z., Eleazar, 1925-
  
• Title:Eleazar Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3627) [videorecording], November 11, 1993 and December 7, 1993.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993.
  
• Physical Description:2 videorecordings (3 hr., 46 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.3627)
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• Notes:This testimony is in Russian.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Eleazar Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, one of four brothers. He recalls attending gymnasium; one brother's death; participating in clandestine communist organizations; Soviet occupation in 1940; Lithuanian violence and killing of Jews prior to German invasion on June 24, 1941; mass killings in surrounding former forts; ghettoization in August; his father's death in January 1942 resulting from a German beating; forced labor; joining a Jewish underground movement led by Haim Yelin; connecting with partisans outside the ghetto; public hangings; organizing escapes of arrested partisans; forming schools; connections with YIVO; burying documents; escaping to join partisans in the forests in 1943; fighting with Soviet forces against retreating Germans; learning his immediate family had all been killed; working as an archivist for thirty-three years from summer 1944 (he completed his studies in Vilnius and Moscow); marriage to a survivor; his daughter's emigration to Israel in 1973; and joining her in 1988. Mr. Z. recounts many names of Kovno Jews and specific episodes. He shows photographs and documents.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Eleazar Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3627). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Eleazar, 1925-
  Yelin, Haim, 1912-1944.
  Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
  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.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Lithuania.
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Vilnius (Lithuania)
  Moscow (Russia)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Soviet occupation.
  Partisans
  Postwar experiences.
  Forests.
  Kovno ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)