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Oral history interview with Taisiya Korbatova

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.445.21 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0021

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    Oral history interview with Taisiya Korbatova

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    Interview Summary
    Taisiya Korbatova, born in 1932 in the town Dolgarevo (Sebezh raion, Pskov oblast), Russia, discusses the beginning of the war and her father and uncle serving at the front; her father returning disabled; the arrival of the Germans and their takeover of a small village, Mogilno; how the Ukrainians and Latvians worked for the Germans; the disruptiveness of the partisans; hearing how a coworker survived the murder of a large group of Ukrainians and Latvians by partisans; the Germans arresting and deporting her partisan neighbors to unknown locations; German interrogations of a local woman who was ultimately tortured and killed; her mother baking bread for the partisans despite the threats of violence; being taken with her mother to concentration camps in February 1943; how her mother saved a Jewish grocer from persecution and kept him in the basement for a little more than a year; the events that led to her being placed into a concentration camp in Idritsa, Russia and the separation process; life in the camp, including the presence of typhus, the frequency of death, and the camp hospital; breaking her arm in the camp; being forced to walk to the camp in Sebezh; her memories of liberation; being helped by two partisan boys to get out of Sebezh into a safe zone; the battle along the way out of Sebezh and the wounding of her mother, who was taken to a hospital in Velikiye Luki, Russia; the fate of her uncle; and returning home with her parents and rebuilding their house.
    Interviewee
    Taisiya Korbatova
    Date
    interview:  2014 July 11
    Geography
    creation: Sebezh (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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    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.
    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 09:21:12
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