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Oral history interview with Viktor Matveyev

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.98 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0098

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    Oral history interview with Viktor Matveyev

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Viktor Matveyev, born in 1931 in Ukraine, describes a time period before the German occupation when villagers from Snegirevka helped Jews escape across the river in exchange for money; a transit camp for prisoners of war in the courtyard of the church of Snegirevka; a column of prisoners of war guarded by other prisoners; a selection of Jews and communists from the ranks of prisoners of war for execution by shooting in 1941; forced labor for the remaining prisoners of war in Snegirevka; beatings administered to prisoners of war for drinking water from a well; local women throwing bread to the prisoners of war, and guards shooting those who tried to retrieve the bread; a flood in 1942 which revealed the corpses of executed prisoners; witnessing a group of local Jews being taken away to be shot; being pulled out of school in 1943 to witness the execution, committed by policemen, of a mixed marriage family in which the father was a Jewish and the mother was a non-Jewish Ukrainian or Russian; how the father of the family had to first dig their grave; and the public hanging of several people who committed an act of sabotage on the railroad.
    Interviewee
    Viktor Matveyev
    Date
    interview:  2009 October 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Ukrainian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Matveyev, Viktor.

    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 09:01:33
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