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Oral history interview with Isaak Zagoskin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.65.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0797

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    Oral history interview with Isaak Zagoskin

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    Interview Summary
    Isaak Zagoskin, born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) on May 24, 1930, describes the beginning of the war when his family was in a settlement outside of Leningrad called Repino; returning to Leningrad and on July 3 and his father voluntary jointed the Red Army; some people being evacuated to the East, and his family staying in the city; the bombing of Leningrad; the citizens in the city being given food cards; how the normal allotment for a child or a dependent was 125 grams of food per day and for those who worked was 250 grams; the winter of 1941-1942, which was extremely hard; people dying from starvation and cold and it was not possible to bury them; the piles of corpses laying on sidewalks; his uncle, an artist named David Zagoskin, and his baby son dying from hunger and the Leningrad Union of Artist getting a coffin to bury them two weeks later; how he, his sister, grandmother, and two aunts survived thanks to his mother, who did incredible efforts to support them; his class being sent to Leningrad’s outskirts to work on fields in the summer of 1943; the fields being about 20 kilometers from the front line and hearing the noises of battles; and his class being awarded the “Medal for the Defense of Leningrad.”
    Interviewee
    Isaak Zagoskin
    Interviewer
    Liliya Meyerovich
    Date
    interview:  2015 March 11

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    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Liliya Meyerovich, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Isaak Zagoskin on March 11, 2015.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:04:53
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