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Oral history interview with Elena Malakhovskaia

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.211 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0211

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    Oral history interview with Elena Malakhovskaia

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    Interview Summary
    Elena Malakhovskaia (b. Lachter), born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1934, discusses her family life; the outbreak of war; the roundup of Jews in the Fall of 1941; attempting to survive using false documents; being placed in a village ghetto near Chechelnik, Ukraine, in the spring of 1942; description of life in the Chechelnik ghetto; escaping from the ghetto to Lipetskaya, Russia; her life in a barn in Lipetskaya with her mother pretending to be Ukrainian; memories of Soviet planes and sounds of explosions; emerging from hiding when Soviet tanks came into the village; returning to Odessa; entering school in 1945; and post-war antisemitism.
    Interviewee
    Elena Malakhovskaia
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yelena Malakhovskaia in Israel on November 2, 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.
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