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Oral history interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.250 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0250

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    Oral history interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Kopel Kolpanitzki, born in 1926 in Lakhva, Belarus, discusses his childhood years; living in Sinkevichy during his youth; belonging to several youth movements; war breaking out between Germany and Russia; the German entrance into Lakhva; the establishment of the Judenrat; the passage of anti-Jewish legislation; the establishment of the Lakhva ghetto in the winter of 1941-1942; traveling eastward in an attempt to join the partisans; his sabotage activities as a partisan; meeting up with the Red Army in the forest in 1944; his partisan unit, the general Kopak unit; becoming part of the Red Army; correspondence from father; deserting his unit; traveling from Katowice, Poland to Bratislava, Slovakia, Vienna, Austria, Windsheim, Germany, and Paris, France; his immigration to Israel; being interned on Cyprus; and adaptation to life in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Kopel Kolpanitzky
    Date
    interview:  1995 March 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki in Israel on March 30, 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 08:15:46
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