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Oral history interview with Gennadiy Zaster

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.116 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0624

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    Oral history interview with Gennadiy Zaster

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gennady Zaster, born on November 8, 1932, discusses his parents; his Latvian father and Jewish mother; his parents’ divorce after two years of marriage; living with his father in Kharkov (Kharkiv, Ukraine); his mother’s remarriage; the beginning of the war; his father’s avoidance of the draft; the death of his stepfather; the air raids; seeing the retreat if the Soviet soldiers in October 1941; seeing the local population greet the German soldiers with bread and salt; the hanging of accused partisans by the Germans; the German occupation; the deportation of his father to Germany in February 1942; being taken in by the mother of his father’s girlfriend; being sent to a children’s home in the village of Okhtyrka in Sumskaya oblast; life in the children’s home; spending time in the forests during the summer; seeing a pile of bodies in the forest on one occasion; being suspected of being a partisan by a German soldier and being interrogated briefly before returning to the children’s home; the liberation of Okhtyrka in 1944; being found by his mother; learning later that his father had been killed during an Allied bombing in Germany; the difficult years after the war; attending Suvorov Military Academy; life under Stalin; experiencing discrimination after attending technical school when he could not advance higher; his children; and being an electrical engineer in the 1960s before quitting to work as a camp counselor.
    Interviewee
    Gennadiy Zaster
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2011 June 04
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by the Thau gift.

    Physical Details

    Extent
    3 videocassettes (MiniDV).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zaster, Gennadiy.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Gennadiy Zaster in Brooklyn, NY on June 4, 2011.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:56
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