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Oral history interview with Dmitriy Chiger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.34 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0034

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    Oral history interview with Dmitriy Chiger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dmitriy Chiger, born in 1924 in Lwow, Poland (present day L'viv, Ukraine), describes the prewar community of Blazhiv, including his relations with the Jewish community; the arrival of German forces; the establishment of the Jewish ghetto; his work for the German forces; hiding his Jewish neighbors; the behavior of the German soldiers in the village; witnessing individual murders and mass shootings of Jews; local collaborators who assisted German forces; local townspeople's negative feelings for Soviet authorities; the public execution of Komsomol members by local policemen; and the dismantling of the ghetto.
    Interviewee
    Dmitriy Chiger
    Date
    interview:  2006 April 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Ukrainian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM)s : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Chiger, Dmitriy.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 09:01:08
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