- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Bar, Ukraine in 1926. She recounts moving to Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, then Tomashpolʹ; attending school to eighth grade; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in July 1941; evacuating to Stalingrad (Volgograd) with her parents and brother, then to Goncharovka; working on a collective farm; evacuation to Astrakhanʹ, Chimkent (On︠g︡tu̇stīk), Kazakhstan, then Karamurt; working on a collective farm; studying in Chimkent and working summers on the collective farm with her family; traveling to Makiïvka in 1944; working as a tax inspector; postwar return to Tomashpolʹ; learning all their relatives had been killed in Bar; moving to Chernivt︠s︡i in 1946; working in Zastavna; marriage in 1959; her daughter's birth in 1960; and emigration to Germany in 1994. Ms. K. discusses prewar family celebrations of Jewish holidays, and hardships and hunger during the war.
- Author/Creator
- K., Anna, 1926-
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam
- Interview Date
- December 9, 1996.
- Locale
- Zastavna (Ukraine)
Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Makiïvka (Ukraine)
Astrakhanʹ (Russia)
Volgograd (Russia)
Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
Tomashpilʹ (Tomashpilʹsʹkyĭ raĭon, Ukraine)
Bar (Ukraine)
Ukraine
On︠g︡tu̇stīk Qazaqstan oblysy (Kazakhstan)
Goncharovka (Ukraine)
Karamurt (Kazakhstan)
- Cite As
- Anna K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3733). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Bischizky, Vera, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Russian.
