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Oral history interview with Dmitriy Garmash

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.44 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0044

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    Oral history interview with Dmitriy Garmash

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dmitriy Garmash, born in 1923 in Ukraine, describes the German occupation of Feodocia; hangings committed by the SS and their collaborators, including Tatars, Russians, and Ukrainians who were dissatisfied with Soviet power; the confiscation of weapons by Germans and local police; the mandatory registration of Jews in 1941; the order for Jews to report for relocation to a ghetto; warning his Jewish neighbors and assisting with their escape; seeing people taken away on carts; the mass shooting of Jews by a tank ditch; German soldiers searching for Jews who did not register; lying to a policeman about the identity of a Jewish friend who was staying with him, then helping him escape the town; Germans and Soviets battling over Feodocia; Soviets forces hunting those who collaborated with the Germans after they gained control of Feodocia; the shooting of civilians after the Germans regained control of Feodocia; the hanging of civilians for hiding Jews and committing other illegal actions; forced civilian labor on the construction of trenches; his arrest by German authorities in 1943 and their attempts to force him to confess to hiding Jews; his transfer to a jail in Kyrovska, where the Kubanian guards treated prisoners harshly; an attempt by a guard to shoot him after an attempted escape; his transfer to Simferopol jail; receiving an offer to join the Russian Liberation Army to which he refused; his transfer to an internment camp; and liberation by the Soviet Army.
    Interviewee
    Dmitriy Garmash
    Date
    interview:  2006 April 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Garmash, 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 09:01:12
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