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Oral history interview with Vera Babenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.64 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0064

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    Oral history interview with Vera Babenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vera Babenko, born in 1928 in Ukraine, describes witnessing a mass shooting of Jews in 1942; how Jews were rounded up from neighboring villages; the rounding up of the local Jewish population; being forced to watch the shooting in which victims were made to line up along the side of a pit so they could fall in; German soldiers using automatic rifles during the shooting; hearing cries and groans from the pit; how after the execution a German soldier shot one more round of bullets into the pit and laughed; a group of Jewish men left alive so that they could bury the bodies; and the execution of the group of men who were buried in the pit by local townspeople.
    Interviewee
    Vera Babenko
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Babenko, Vera.

    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 09:01:20
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