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Oral history interview with Piotr Taran

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.726.111 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0111

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    Oral history interview with Piotr Taran

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Piotr Taran, born in 1925 in Ofatinți, Ukraine (present day Moldova), describes the prewar Jewish community in Ofatinți; a local villager who hid Jews during the war; the mass shootings and drownings of Jews by German and Romanian soldiers, including details of the mass murders; the sight of corpses floating in the Dniester River; a roundup of Jews in Rîbnița by Romanian soldiers; being drafted into the Soviet Army in 1944; and the sight of a mass grave of Jewish victims.
    Interviewee
    Piotr Taran
    Date
    interview:  2008 July 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Taran, Piotr.

    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 09:00:08
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