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Cipa R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1708) interviewed by Toby Blum-Dobkin and Gabriele Schiff,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1708

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antisemitic harassment and violence by Ukrainians; moving to Bytom; illegally traveling to Germany; living in Zigenhain displaced persons camp, then in Berlin, and for four years in Kassel; obtaining papers to emigrate to the United States in Butzbach; moving to Bremen; emigration to the United States; and assistance from HIAS.
    Author/Creator
    R., Cipa.
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
    Interview Date
    November 12, 1990.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Borshchiv (Ternopil's'ka oblast')
    Austria
    Nizhneye Krivche (Ukraine)
    Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka (Ternopil's'ka oblast', Ukraine)
    Bytom (Poland)
    Berlin (Germany)
    Kassel (Germany)
    Butzbach (Germany)
    Bremen (Germany)
    Cite As
    Cipa R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1708). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
    Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 37 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Soviet occupation.
    Hiding.
    Bunkers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Antisemitism Postwar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295969
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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