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Oral history interview with Natan Raviv

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.299 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0299

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    Oral history interview with Natan Raviv

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Nathan Raviv, born in 1928 in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine), discusses being the older of two children; his aunt's immigration to Palestine in 1933; attending cheder and public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's work as a blacksmith; his bar mitzvah; attending gymnasium in Berehove; returning home after Hungarian occupation; attending a Zionist gymnasium in Mukacheve from 1942 to 1944; German invasion in March; returning home; ghettoization; his aunt's non-Jewish boyfriend smuggling food to them; his mother entrusting valuables with a non-Jewish friend (she returned them to Mr. Raviv after the war); deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June; separation from his mother and sister; his father volunteering himself as a blacksmith and him as his assistant; prisoners committing suicide; overwhelming starvation; his father sharing his bread; praying together on Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur; public hangings; a death march to Gross-Rosen, then Dachau; the deaths of his uncle and father; liberation by United States troops; returning home via Prague; living with a surviving aunt; traveling to Budapest, intending to immigrate to Palestine; receiving assistance from Beriḥah; reaching the Judenberg displaced persons camp; traveling illegally to Milan; joining Hashomer Hatzair; assistance from UNRRA; selling goods in Rome; transfer to Cinecittà; deferring illegal immigration to Palestine, not wanting to be incarcerated again, but not being allowed to remain in Italy; traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, then Buenos Aires in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1948; military draft in the Arab-Israel war; marriage; and the births of two children; the importance of being with his father to his survival; suppressing all emotions in the camps; nightmares resulting from his experiences; losing all belief in God; his unresolved emotional struggles; and continuing to question whether his survival was “worth it.” (Mr. R. notes visiting the camps and shows photographs.)
    Interviewee
    Natan Raviv
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Raviv, Natan.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Natan Raviv in Israel on October 24, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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 08:16:03
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