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Oral history interview with Genya Batasheva

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.8 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0008

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    Oral history interview with Genya Batasheva

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    Interview Summary
    Genya Batasheva, born in 1923 in Kiev, Ukraine, discusses her childhood; the famine in 1933; going to school for accounting and becoming a bookkeeper; the German occupation of Kiev, Ukraine; constructing defense positions in the suburbs of Kiev; the round ups of Jews; the massacre at Babi Yar and the murder of her family; telling guards she was Russian; getting fake identity papers; leaving for Kharkiv, Ukraine with her friend Olga Zacharovna Rozhchenko; working in Omsk, Russia for two years; hearing the news that the Soviets liberated Kiev; receiving a letter from her father and joining him in Barnaul, Russia; daily life in Barnaul; her post-war life; and her immigration to Israel due to Russian anti-Semitism.
    Interviewee
    Genya Batasheva
    Interviewer
    Nathan Beyrak
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Batasheva, Genya, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak coordinated the interview with Genya Batasheva in Israel on April 30, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in February1995.
    Funding Note
    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 08:14:27
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