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Mr. D. recounts his denunciation and arrest as a Bund member in 1941; interrogation and release; evacuation to Yoshkar-Ola after the German invasion of the Soviet Union; working as a commune bookkeeper, accountant and instructor for the commune district office; moving to Proskurov, Ukraine with his family after its liberation in 1944; learning of the extermination of the Jews; moving to Łódź; discovering the murder of his family and the city's Jews; and living six months in a displaced persons camp in Germany. He describes his sense that Germans pretended ignorance of the persecutions and Holocaust; emigration to Mexico in 1947; and to San Antonio, Texas in 1974. (Abstract)","This testimony is open with permission. (Conditions Governing Access)","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. (Conditions Governing Use)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1986-07-20 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio (Producer)","D., Simon, 1892- (Interviewee)","Kirschberg, Morris (Interviewer)","D, Simon (1351) (Interviewee)","Brauerman, Phyllis (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["2 videocassettes","1:31:07 duration_HH_MM_SS_mmm"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["D., Simon, 1892- (Person or Corporate Body)","Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland (Person or Corporate Body)","Bund (Person or Corporate Body)","Holocaust survivors (topical)","Video tapes (topical)","Men (topical)","Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives (topical)","World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish (topical)","Families (topical)","Soviet Union (geographic)","Łódź (Poland) (geographic)","Vitsebsk (Belarus) (geographic)","Moscow (Russia) (geographic)","Białystok (Poland) (geographic)","Orsha (Belarus) (geographic)","Proskuriv (Ukraine) (geographic)","Ĭoshkar-Ola (Russia) (geographic)","Warsaw (Poland) (geographic)","Mexico (geographic)","Oral histories (document genres) (genre_form)","Aid by non-Jews (topical)","Antisemitism -- Pre-war (topical)","Postwar experiences (topical)","Soviet occupation (topical)","Refugee camps (topical)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["San Antonio, Tex. : (Place of Recording)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["Yiddish (Primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Relation"]},"value":{"en":["Hanna P. 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Mr. D. recounts his denunciation and arrest as a Bund member in 1941; interrogation and release; evacuation to Yoshkar-Ola after the German invasion of the Soviet Union; working as a commune bookkeeper, accountant and instructor for the commune district office; moving to Proskurov, Ukraine with his family after its liberation in 1944; learning of the extermination of the Jews; moving to Łódź; discovering the murder of his family and the city's Jews; and living six months in a displaced persons camp in Germany. He describes his sense that Germans pretended ignorance of the persecutions and Holocaust; emigration to Mexico in 1947; and to San Antonio, Texas in 1974.","This testimony is open with permission.","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. 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