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Oral history interview with Genrikh Tseytlin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.64.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0794

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    Oral history interview with Genrikh Tseytlin
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    Interview Summary
    Genrikh Tseytlin, born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) on March 27, 1933, describes being at a daycare’s “dacha” in the town of Luga (outside of Leningrad) in June 1941; being taken back to Leningrad with the other children when the war started; the daycare being evacuated to a village in the Vladimir Region in August 1941; living in a local school and helping adults work in a field; moving to the east in September 1941 with his grandmother and aunt; going to the town of Yekaterinburg (Ekaterinburg), where they met up with his mother and sister; going to the town of Tashkent, Uzbekistan and then to Tajikistan; experiencing hunger for several years as well as antisemitism; living in Tajikistan until 1945 when he went with his grandmother back to Leningrad; finding that their apartment was occupied by another family and having to go to court to get their apartment back, which took years; graduating from high school; not being admitted to the university where he wanted to study because he was a Jew; and another experience of antisemitism in the Soviet Union after the war.
    Interviewee
    Genrikh Tseytlin
    Interviewer
    Liliya Meyerovich
    Date
    interview:  2015 January 26

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Tseytlin, Genrikh, 1933-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Liliya Meyerovich, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Genrikh Tseytlin on January 26, 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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    2022-07-28 19:51:43
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