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Oral history interview with Svetlana Golovinchenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.40 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0040

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    Oral history interview with Svetlana Golovinchenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Svetlana Golovinchenko, born in 1930 in Ukraine, describes the arrival of German soldiers in Kiev; the announcement that the Jews from the city should gather; the knowledge among citizens that the Germans were shooting Jews; the threat of death to anyone hiding Jews; the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar; a neighbor who, as a prisoner of war, had to cover the bodies of those killed by Nazi forces; the neighbor’s description of the terrible scenes he had witnessed; the neighbor’s suicide a short time later; hearing some people who crawled out of the mass grave; an incident in which a Jewish girl in hiding was betrayed and dragged by a German soldier behind his horse; soldiers driving prisoners of war along the street to a concentration camp; and giving food to the prisoners of war, but not being allowed to give food to the Jewish prisoners.
    Interviewee
    Svetlana Golovinchenko
    Date
    interview:  2006 April 20
    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
    Golovinchenko, Svetlana.

    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 09:01:10
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