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Oral history interview with Emilia Gostiuc

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.102 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0102

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    Oral history interview with Emilia Gostiuc

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Emilia Gostiuc, born in 1929 in Boian (Boiany), Ukraine, describes the nationalistic sentiment during the interwar years in Boian village; the beginning of the war and the arrival of German soldiers in her village; the violent campaign against the Jewish population following the arrival of German forces, including incidents in which local townspeople dragged Jews from their homes and beat them or brought them to the center of the village where they were shot; brutality and murder committed by Romanian villagers against Jews; an incident in which a Jewish woman, hiding in a field, was discovered by a gang of teenage boys who dragged her away; her fear of persecution because of her Polish heritage; a mass shooting of Jews near a pit in the center of the village; how some local townspeople brought Jews they had caught in the village to the killing site; and the looting of Jewish property by local townspeople.
    Interviewee
    Emilia Gostiuc
    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
    Gostiuc, Emilia.

    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.
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    2023-11-16 09:01:35
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