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Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 759U

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.24.209 | RG Number: RG-50.589.0209

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    Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 759U
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    Interview Summary
    The interviewee, a Ukrainian woman born in 1930, discusses events in Rudki (Rudky), L'vivs'ka Oblast; how her father carried goods in his wagon for Jewish merchants; the location of the synagogue near the Vishenka River; her comments on the population of Rudki and the movements of different nationality groups after the Soviet takeover in 1939; the destruction of much of the town in retaliation for the killing of a German general; details on the location of German headquarters where the Germans had paved the courtyard with headstones from the Jewish cemetery; witnessing the 1941 round-up of Jews, including women and children, in the main square where they were lined up on their knees; the shooting of these Jews in the Berezina woods near the village Berezina, Lwów województwo, now L’viv (L’vov) Oblast; the confinement of the remaining Rudki Jews and those from Komarno (Komárno, Slovakia) in the Rudki ghetto; a description of the ghetto; the surreptitious delivery of food by Ukrainians to ghetto inmates, including her mother’s passing of cans of milk over the ghetto fence; and how her father was beaten by Germans for giving a potato to a Jew who was transporting the bodies of ghetto victims to the cemetery.
    Date
    interview:  2009 January 15
    Geography
    creation: Rudky (L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yahad-in Unum

    Physical Details

    Language
    Ukrainian French
    Extent
    1 compact disc.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Yahad-In Unum retains copyright on the collection. Researchers agree not to reveal any personal identifiers if disclosed in witness testimony.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Yahad-In Unum donated the oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
    Funding Note
    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 09:07:21
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