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Oral history interview with Neonila Grigorjeva

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.456.16 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0016

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    Oral history interview with Neonila Grigorjeva

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Neonila Grigorjeva, born in 1926, describes a mass shooting she witnessed at the beginning of the war in her neighborhood, on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Daugavpils; how she was ten at the time and playing with her friends outside; how one of the neighborhood kids ran up to them and said that Jews were being escorted to the Krasavka pond to be shot; how they were curious and ran to watch; seeing the Jews being escorted; those who were present at the shooting site; how drunk policemen excitedly snatched little children from their mothers and threw them in the pit alive and how mothers jumped right on top of their children trying to protect them; how the policemen hit these mothers on the head with rifles; how they also beat up the elderly and threw them in the pit alive; how earrings were ripped off women's ears; how the ground vibrated and moaned days after the shooting; knowing that if she could go back in time she would have never have gone there; and how her memories of the event still haunt her.
    Interviewee
    Neonila Grigorjeva
    Date
    interview:  2003 November 22
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 videocasette (Betacam SP).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Daugavpils (Latvia)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Neonila Grigorjeva in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on November 22, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:58:32
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