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Oral history interview with Reuven Chefetz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.228 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0228

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    Oral history interview with Reuven Chefetz

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    Interview Summary
    Reuven Chefetz, born in Brest Oblast in the town of Lakhva in 1924, discusses his family; the three synagogues in Lakhva and the lack of antisemitism; various Jewish organizations in area; the arrival of the Soviets in Lakhva in 1939 and many people being sent to Siberia; entrance of the Germans; establishment of the Lakhva ghetto in the fall of 1941; the Judenrat and Jewish police force in the ghetto; working on the railroad in the town of Luninets, Belarus; attempting to escape from the ghetto and being captured and beaten; the liquidation of the ghetto and the suicide of some of the town’s Jews; escaping during the liquidation; hiding in the forest; moving to the partisan zone; working with partisans attacking German troops; working with partisans in Glusk (Hlusk), Belarus in 1944; joining the advancing Soviet Army and fighting to Warsaw, Poland; fighting in Latvia; being wounded in January 1945 and being sent to a hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania; returning to his unit in Konigsberg, Germany; helping to take the town of Pillau (Baltiisk, Russia); being demobilized in December 1945; returning to Lakhva; living in Pinsk, Belarus; and life in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Reuven Chefetz
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Chefetz, Reuven, 1924-
    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Reuven Chefetz in Israel on April 6, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 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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    2023-11-16 08:15:39
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