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Oral history interview with Yuri Dobrovolsky

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.62 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0062

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    Oral history interview with Yuri Dobrovolsky

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Yuri Dobrovolsky, born in 1936 in Ukraine, describes the sight of Jews being driven in carts along the street; adults discussing how the Jews were being taken to be executed; the execution site in which German soldiers set up machine guns; the mass shooting from which he remembers a mother with a child in her arms falling into the ditch; and how after the execution children were running on the site which was spotted with blood.
    Interviewee
    Yuri Dobrovolsky
    Date
    interview:  2008 August 09
    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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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dobrovolsky, Yuri.

    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.
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    2023-11-16 09:01:19
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