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• Author/Creator:A., Isaac, 1920-
  
• Title:Isaac A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-60) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock, December 2, 1979.
  
• Published/Created:Hartford, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr.) : 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.0060)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Related publication; From prison to pulpit : sermons for all holidays of the year and stories from the Holocaust / by Isaac C. Avigdor. -- Hartford : Horav Pub. ; New York : distributed by Shengold Publishers, c1975.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Rabbi Isaac A., who was born in Galicia, Poland and grew up in the city of Drohobych. He speaks of the prevalence of antisemitism in Poland; the unwillingness of the Jews to perceive the Germans as dangerous; and his and his father's activities as rabbis and spiritual counselors in Boryslav/Drohobych after the German occupation. He details the miraculous survival of his father, who was protected by his fellow prisoners in Buchenwald because he was a rabbi; his own experiences in the Płaszów ghetto--slave labor in an oil refinery, hiding in a bunker, being caught and tortured by the Germans; his deportation to Auschwitz and then to Mauthausen and its sub-camp Gusen, where he worked in the quarries; and the miracles which enabled him to survive. Throughout his testimony, Rabbi A. stresses the ubiquity and significance of religious faith and observance during the German occupation, in the concentration camps, and in the post-Holocaust era.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
  
• Cite as:Isaac A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-60). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:A., Isaac, 1920-
  Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  Gusen (Concentration camp)
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  Jews--Ukraine--Drohobych.
  Forced labor.
  Quarries and quarrying.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Miracles.
  Poland.
  Drohobych (Ukraine)
  Boryslav (Ukraine)
  Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hiding.
  Drohobych ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Occupation:Rabbis.
  
• Also listed under:Laub, Dori, interviewer.
  Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.