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Oral history interview with Lyubov Ostapenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.51 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0051

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    Oral history interview with Lyubov Ostapenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lyubov Ostapenko, born in 1923 in Ukraine, describes the beginning of the war in Kiev; hearing about the atrocities committed against Jews; warning her Jewish friend not to respond to an announcement by the Germans for Jews to gather; her friend’s belief that the Germans would only use him for work; hearing rumors that Jews in the area were being shot; searching for her sister’s husband, who was Jewish; the shooting of her sister at Babi Yar; her membership in an underground organization; betrayal by a woman from the organization; home imprisonment by German soldiers; interrogation by German soldiers and Ukrainian policemen; the departure of the German soldiers who warned that they would return to arrest her and her family; going into hiding; German soldiers destroying her family’s house and digging in search of guns; seeing the bodies of people who were hanged; witnessing the arrest of her neighbors being by Germans and Ukrainian policemen; and the postwar trial of a Ukrainian policemen who collaborated with the Germans.
    Interviewee
    Lyubov Ostapenko
    Date
    interview:  2008 August 03
    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
    Ostapenko, Lyubov.

    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 09:01:15
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