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Oral history interview with Vladimir Mordchilevich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.209 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0209

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    Oral history interview with Vladimir Mordchilevich

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vladmimir Mordchilevich, born in 1933 in Minsk, Belarus, discusses his family moving to Moscow, Russia in 1935; his father being arrested in August 1937 and his mother in October 1937; being sent to an orphanage near the city of Vladimir, Russia; not encountering antisemitism as a child; being taken back to Minsk by a teacher; the arrival of German troops in 1941; the establishment of the Minsk ghetto; hiding in a barn with others during a pogrom in November 1941; becoming ill with typhus in the ghetto in January 1942; a section for Jews from Germany in the ghetto; life in the ghetto; sneaking out of the ghetto with other children; leaving ghetto to join the partisans with his brother in May 1943; being taken into the home of a peasant woman; being sent to join 106th family partisan unit that numbered around 150 people; the partisan leader Shalom Zorin; activity in the Nalibocki forest near Lida; being placed in a children's home in Minsk in June 1944 and going to school; being transferred to a children's home in Baranavichy Voblast and being found by his mother; post-war antisemitism; living with his mother in Radashkovichy, 40 km north of Minsk; living with his father in Oshmyany in 1948; moving to Tomsk in Siberia in 1951; moving to Minayevka (in Tomskaia oblast') and life there; mining training; being drafted into the army in 1955; life in the army; enrollment in music school; move to Gomel, Belarus; moving to Kharkov (Kharkiv), Ukraine; and immigrating to Israel in the 1990s.
    Interviewee
    Vladimir Mordchilevich
    Date
    interview:  1995 June 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Mordchilevich Vladimir in Israel on June 8, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    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 08:15:32
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