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Oral history interview with Maria Kravets

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.37 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0037

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    Oral history interview with Maria Kravets

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Maria Kravets, born in 1929 in Ukraine, describes how Novogrod Volinski was a predominately Jewish town at the beginning of the war; how the Germans destroyed everything on their way through the town; the closing of the school; the beginning of mass killings of Jews in 1942; receiving a beating from German soldiers with a whip; Jews being driven in trucks or walking in columns to the mass shooting site; a Ukrainian woman who shouted support to a column of Jews and then was killed along with them; the mass shooting of Jews by German soldiers; and a German soldier who came to her house for water after the shooting and showed distress at the killing of a pregnant woman.
    Interviewee
    Maria 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, Maria.

    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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