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Oral history interview with Edem Sejdametov

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.42 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0042

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    Oral history interview with Edem Sejdametov

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edem Sejdametov, born in 1929 in Simferopol, Ukraine, describes the German occupation and orders for local townspeople to help dig anti-tank ditches; the requirement for Jews to register with the belief that they would be resettled in Palestine; the belief among non-Jews that the Jewish population was being taken to Palestine; the mass shooting of the city’s Jews by German forces; hearing the machine gun shots and seeing through binoculars people’s bodies, some of whom were neighbors, being thrown into ditches; attempts by some local families to save Jewish children, risking death if they were caught; the hanging of Jews who did not register with German authorities; the killing of Romani people and other ethnic groups by German forces; Islamic leaders convincing the Germans to stop killing Muslims; his mother bringing food to prisoners of war; Germans offering freedom to prisoners of war who joined the German army; some volunteers taking the weapons offered by the Germans and joining the Partisans; and the torture of a captured partisan.
    Interviewee
    Edem Sejdametov
    Date
    interview:  2006 April 22
    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
    Sejdametov, Edem.

    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 09:01:11
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