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Oral history interview with Genia Gelbershtat

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.234 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0234

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    Oral history interview with Genia Gelbershtat

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    Interview Summary
    Genia Gelbershtat (Repski), born in 1925 in Lakhva, Belarus, describes her Orthodox family; attending a Polish school and not experiencing antisemitism; the Russian entrance; arrival of the German army; going into the Lakhva ghetto; refusing to escape so others wouldn't suffer retributions; the burning of the ghetto and being wounded as she escaped; difficulties remembering how she arrived in a partisan family camp located in a village; scouting areas before partisan attacks; various partisan activities; being sent to a base camp and working in a kitchen; the liberation of Slutsk, Belarus; her release and locating her sister in Lakhva, Belarus; traveling with her sister to displaced persons camp Fohrenwald; joining a kibbutz of partisans; her immigration to Israel; and adjustment to life in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Genia Gelbershtat
    Date
    interview:  1995 May 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Genia Gelbershtat in Israel on May 2, 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 08:15:41
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