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Oral history interview with Chaia Boiman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.240 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0240

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    Oral history interview with Chaia Boiman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chaia Boiman, born in 1924 in Lachwa (Lakhva), Belarus, discusses her childhood family life; participating in a Zionist youth group with her sisters; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1933; Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; confiscation of her father's store; German invasion; her brother's capture while fighting in the Polish Army and his escape and return; her father's assignment to the Judenrat, led by Dov Lopatin, which met at their home; her father's resignation; her father secretly trading for food with non-Jews and supplying it to others; ghettoization in 1942; forced labor; her brothers organizing resistance with Itshak Rokhchin; escaping during the ghetto uprising; joining a partisan unit with her brother and other escapees; several partisan commanders and their activities; building a forest bunker; conflicts with antisemitic partisans; her brother avenging their family's murders through actions against Germans and collaborators; the death of her brother during battle with the Germans; liberation by Soviet troops in Luninets, Belarus; returning home; visiting her brothers' graves in Lakhva; returning home; visiting her brothers' graves in Lakhva; returning to Luninets; her marriage; working in a Soviet field hospital; following the front to Swiebodzin, Poland; traveling to Łódź, Poland; traveling illegally to Berlin, then Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; illegal immigration to Palestine on the Exodus; being captured by the British; being returned to France; transferring to Pöppendorf, Sengwarden, then Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps; legally immigrating to Palestine; reuniting with her brother; the births of two daughters; and learning about the fate of her parents and several siblings. She also shows photographs.
    Interviewee
    Chaia Boiman
    Date
    interview:  1995 May 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Boiman, Chaia, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chaia Boiman in Israel on May 8, 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 08:15:43
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