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Oral history interview with Ze'ev Rave

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.279 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0279

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    Oral history interview with Ze'ev Rave

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ze'ev Rave (né Verbaum), born in 1923 in Maniewicze (Prylisne), Ukraine, discusses his early family life and schooling; pre-war antisemitism; belonging to the Hechalutz Zionist movement; attending a technical high school in Lvov (L'viv), Ukraine; the German invasion; hiding with Ukrainian neighbors; escaping north to the forest; receiving assistance from Jewish peasants; joining an anti-German Ukrainian man by the name of Krug, who was given guns by the Russians and told to organize partisans; traveling to a small island surrounded by marshes with Krug (possibly Kruk); returning to Maniewicze to find out the fates of his family members; going back to the island; moving to another location in the forest; stealing weapons; antisemitism against Jewish partisans; demolishing trains and rails between Kovel, Ukraine, Rovno, Ukraine, and Kiev, Ukraine; destroying rails and trains on the Minsk-Pinsk Belarus route; hardships endured by women in the forest; Berl Lorger (name also seen as Berl Lorber Malinka), head of the Jewish unit; Stepan Bandera; liberation by the Russians under the command of General Watutin; arriving in Rovnoje, Ukraine; being sent to Zabludow, Poland; going to the university in Kiev, Ukraine; joining Bricha; arrival in Palestine; and his marriage.
    Interviewee
    Ze'ev Rave
    Date
    interview:  1996 March 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ze'ev Rave in Israel on March 7, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:56
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