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Oral history interview with Vasile Ştirbiţchi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.101 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0101

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    Oral history interview with Vasile Ştirbiţchi

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vasile Ştirbiţchi, born in 1927 in Ukraine, describes the prewar Jewish families in Boian village which included some wealthy families; his Jewish classmate; local townspeople who looted Jewish homes and helped gather Jews after the start of the war following rumors that Jews in the city of Cernăuți were shooting at the Romanian army; the murder of a Jewish teacher and her daughter in their home; Romanian soldiers shooting groups of Jews on the edge of a pit; his Jewish neighbor who was discovered while hiding and killed at the pit; hearing the gunfire but not being able to see the shooting as a result of the number of onlookers gathered; the arrival of the head of the Romanian gendarmerie, who ordered the shootings of Jews to stop; the transfer of Jews in horse carts to Transnistria; and an antisemitic song sung by Romanian Nazis.
    Interviewee
    Vasile Ştirbiţchi
    Interviewer
    Diana Dumitru
    Date
    interview:  2011 June 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM)s : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ştirbiţchi, Vasile.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    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 09:01:34
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