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Oral history interview with Valentina Burkun

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.94 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0094

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    Oral history interview with Valentina Burkun

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Valentina Burkun, born in 1929 in Kuybyshevo (now Buz'ki Porohy), Ukraine, describes how she was relocated with other peasants in 1943 by German soldiers with dogs and policemen to perform labor near Bogdanovka; being ordered by the Germans to view a mass shooting of Jews near Bogdanovka; details of the mass killing including how Jews were lined up at the edge of a ravine by policemen and then shot; how many Jews were thrown into the ravine alive; the sight of a Jewish family who drowned themselves in a frozen river during the execution; a local policeman who defended the children of local peasants from beatings by German soldiers; receiving a beating after a translator told a commandant that she spoke negatively of him; and an incident in which a young man with a gun shot himself when German soldiers and policemen attempted to arrest him.
    Interviewee
    Valentina Burkun
    Date
    interview:  2009 October 05
    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
    Burkun, Valentina.

    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 09:01:31
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