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Oral history interview with Valentin Savchuk

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.86 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0086

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    Oral history interview with Valentin Savchuk

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Valentin Savchuk, born in 1930 in Ukraine, describes a mass shooting of Jews at the shooting grounds of a local cavalry regiment; the actions of the Jews leading up to and during the shooting; hearing commands shouted in German; seeing some of the victims attempt to run from the shooting site; visiting the site a month later and seeing a pile of rotten clothes; seeing the bodies of members of the underground movement hanging in the middle of the city; hearing gunshots from other mass shootings and seeing people attempt to escape; hearing rumors that German soldiers were going to kill a group of communists; and German soldiers burning the house of his family as a result of their contacts with partisans.
    Interviewee
    Valentin Savchuk
    Date
    interview:  2009 October 29
    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
    Savchuk, Valentin.

    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 09:01:28
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