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Oral history interview with Tzila Pinus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.246 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0246

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    Oral history interview with Tzila Pinus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tzila Pinus, born in 1905 in Chernovtsy, Ukraine, discusses moving to Iasi, Romania, to go to school for midwifery; moving to the town of Khotin, Romania (now Ukraine); Soviets coming to the area in 1940; Germans entering Khotin; death of her husband; being sent to camps in Transnistria; walking and being guarded by Romanian and German troops on horseback; Moldovan peasants providing food; stopping in Sokiryany, Ukraine for two weeks; stopping in Ataki, Moldova; travel to Podolsk, Russia; falling ill with typhus in early November 1941; meeting up with relatives and leaving the marching column; the ghetto in Popovtsy; digging roads; obtaining food by collecting potatoes and knitting for a peasant family; liberation; returning to Khotin; going to Chernovtsy; and her immigration to Israel in 1975.
    Interviewee
    Tzila Pinus
    Date
    interview:  1995 February 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Pinus, Tzila, 1905-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Tzila Pinus in Israel on February 15, 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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