Here is the story of Arnold Fabrikant of Odessa, with an introduction and epilogue narrated by Morley Safer
Three multimedia films
Fighting against the GermansFleeing from the GermansBeing sent to Stalin’s gulag
When German troops swept into Rivne in 1941, they soon began shooting thousands of the city's Jews. Here's a story narrated by two women whose lives were saved by a Ukrainian farmer and his family.
Haya-Lea was born in 1920 in Rovno, which then belonged to Poland. She grew up in a traditional Jewish family, joined a Zionist youth club called Hashomer Hatzair and looked forward to emigrating to Palestine, just like her sister. But the Soviets took eastern Poland in September 1939 and Haya-Lea's membership in Hashomer Hatzair earned her a ten year sentence of hard labor in Siberia. The rest of her family remained behind, not knowing that the Nazis would overrun the town soon after Haya-Lea's deportation to the east.
Haya-Lea survived the Gulag and moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg), where she shared her story with Centropa in 2002. This film is dedicated to Haya-Lea, who died shortly after the interview.