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Oral history interview with Boris Kravets

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.36 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0036

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    Oral history interview with Boris Kravets

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Boris Kravets, born in 1924 in Ukraine, describes his relocation to the village of Pilipovichi; the disbanding of school there by German forces; seeing a large group of Jews who were surrounded by barbed wire; bringing food to Jewish girls in the group; a local policeman who mistreated the girls by forcing them to act like cows; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in which soldiers shot adults and the stabbed children; the mass grave in which some bodies still moved the day after the massacre; joining a partisan unit; a traitor in his unit who prevented them from freeing prisoners of war; the number of Jews who joined his partisan unit; Germans shooting anyone they thought was Jewish, even if that individual was Ukrainian or Russian; and an incident in which a policeman joined the partisans, and then betrayed them, and retaliation on local policemen by partisans.
    Interviewee
    Boris Kravets
    Date
    interview:  2006 April 19
    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
    Kravets, Boris.

    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 09:01:09
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