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• Author/Creator:E., Shalom, 1933-
  
• Title:Shalom E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4007) [videorecording], June 25, June 29, and July 19, 1998.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1998.
  
• Physical Description:3 videorecordings (8 hr., 26 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.4007)
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• Notes:Related publications: Crossing the river / Shalom Eilati ; translated from Hebrew by Vern Lenz. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
  Related publications: La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar / Shalom Elati. Yerushalayim : Yad ṿa-shem : Karmel, c1999.
  Additional written materials are available in the repository.
  This testimony is in Hebrew.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Shalom E., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, the eldest of two children. He recounts attending a Hebrew school; holiday visits to his grandfather, a rabbi in Viduklė; Soviet occupation; transfer to a Yiddish school; German invasion in June 1941; staying in a bunker for three days; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in August; his father's appointment to the Aeltestenrat, which saved many Jews, as ghetto historian; attending school; a large round-up in fall 1941 from which they were freed; the next morning hearing and seeing mass shootings in the distance at the Ninth Fort and corpses at the round-up area; his father's deportation to Rīga in February 1942; receiving letters from him through Lithuanian and Latvian friends; his mother smuggling food into the ghetto from her workplace; joining a Zionist group guarding community gardens; public hanging of a friend for smuggling; singing in a choir; his mother's involvement in the ghetto underground, through which he met its leader, Chaim Yellin; his mother taking his sister to hide with Lithuanians; and attending an ORT school.
  Mr. E. recalls hiding during the round-up of children; his mother arranging for him to be smuggled out of the ghetto and hidden with a Lithuanian family in April 1944; being moved to a farm in Liepynai in June; the farmer sending him to hide in the forest; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Marijampolė; returning to Kaunas with help from a Soviet officer; living with a Jewish couple for a year; finding personal belongings in the ashes of the ghetto; living in an orphanage for six months; hearing from his father; leaving to join him with a Beriḥah group; capture by Soviets in Vilnius; interrogation by the NKVD; escaping; the Jewish community hiding him, then arranging his travel to join his father in Munich in March 1946; emigration to Israel two weeks later; joining his aunt; and celebrating his bar mitzvah three weeks after his arrival. Mr. E. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences; his father's reluctance to share his experiences; difficulty confirming his mother's and sister's deaths; and writing his memoir over the last twenty-three years. He shows photographs and sings ghetto songs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Shalom E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4007). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:E., Shalom, 1933-
  Yelin, Haim, 1912-1944.
  World ORT Union.
  Beriḥah (Organization)
  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.
  Bar mitzvah.
  Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  Jewish ghettos.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Forced labor.
  Jewish councils.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
  Orphanages.
  Escapes.
  Lithuania.
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Viduklė (Lithuania)
  Liepynai (Lithuania)
  Marijampolė (Lithuania)
  Vilnius (Lithuania)
  Munich (Germany)
  Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Mass killings.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Soviet occupation.
  Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  Kovno ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)