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Oral history interview with Sophia Zaitzeva

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.256 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0256

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    Oral history interview with Sophia Zaitzeva

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sophia Zaitzeva, born in 1923 in Volochisk, Ukraine, discusses her family life; her brother's birth in 1927; entering university in Kiev, Ukraine in 1940; their move to a village for her father's job managing a sugar factory; traveling to Vinnytsia, Ukraine for a tonsillectomy; living with her family in Monastyrishche, Ukraine when the Germans invaded; the confiscation of their home; the murder of five prominent Jewish leaders; her father continuing to manage the factory; her mother informing people she was not Jewish (she did not "look Jewish"); moving into a ghetto area at the edge of Monastyrishche, Ukraine; receiving assistance from an Ukrainian family; a round-up for a mass killing which included her father; escaping with her mother and brother; letters written by her mother after the war that document the family's experiences during German occupation; her mother obtaining false papers; attempting to join partisans; joining a partisan unit headed by Aleksandr V. Kokarev; becoming an intelligence operative; being captured by a German patrol; being sent with her comrades to a gendarme post in Balta, Ukraine; being held in Balta from January to March 1944; keeping their morale up with songs despite torture; escaping with a group of prisoners; hiding with partisan contacts; returning to Vinnytsia; reuniting with her mother and brother; traveling to Moscow, Russia in 1945; completing law school in Kiev; her marriage; having frequent nightmares resulting from her experiences; and immigrating to Israel. She also shows photographs, documents, and publications.
    Interviewee
    Sophia Zaitzeva
    Date
    interview:  1995 February 16
    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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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zaitzeva, Sophia, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Sophi Zaitzev in Israel on February 16, 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 08:15:48
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