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Research interview with Elena Matveyeva

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.445.54 | RG Number: RG-50.653.01.0035

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    Research interview with Elena Matveyeva

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elena Matveyeva, born in 1931, in Velizh, Russia, describes her life before the war; the beginning of the war and her father being taken away; the bombing of Velizh two weeks after the war started; escaping with her family to a small village for a short time and moving back to Velizh; how the Jewish population began wearing the yellow markers; the forced relocation of Jews to a ghetto that was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by Germans and local police; the post-war trials of the local police who guarded the ghettos; the large fire in the ghetto during the winter and seeing Jews being shot as they tried to escape; hearing that many Jewish families played dead in the snow to avoid execution; a German bringing a young Jewish boy her family the night after the fire; taking care of the boy for a single day before he left to find his own people; many Jews being protected and saved by Russians in Velizh; returning to Velizh from Belarus in 1944 during liberation to see an overgrown foundation of a city; how the Germans kicked all of the residents out of their homes and into jail in Velizh; the residents being taken at night to Belarus over the frozen river by horse; how all the men were gone from the city and only women, children, and teens remained; and being happy to be away from the war zone.
    Interviewee
    Elena Matveyeva
    Date
    interview:  2014 April 02
    Geography
    creation: Russia.
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Matveyeva, Elena, 1931-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a European documentation project research 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 research interviews for this project were informally conducted before the formal oral history interviews.
    Funding Note
    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 09:21:29
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