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Oral history interview with Constantin Burla

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.104 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0104

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    Oral history interview with Constantin Burla

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Constantin Burla, born in 1927 in Ciudei village (Chudeĭ), Ukraine, describes the prewar Jewish population of Ciudei, his Jewish classmates; tending cows in a field when he heard gunfire and shouts from a former prison; the sight of victims being thrown out a staircase window; a group of soldiers and townspeople who, covered in blood, dragged corpses to mass pits; the 2 to 3 days during which groups of Jews were brought to the killing site; watching the events of the massacre on each day; entering the former prison afterwards and seeing bullet marks on the walls and blood on the floor; seeing a Jewish classmate driven through the village with other Jews; the shooting of two local Romanian villagers for collaborating with Soviet activists; how one Romanian villager managemd to escape after being thrown into the mass pit; the smell of the mass burial pits; the looting of Jewish homes by local townspeople and people from nearby villages; the rumor that Jews were killed because they fought against Romanian forces; a Jewish man who was hidden by local townspeople and returned to Ciudei after the war; and the postwar trial of local townspeople for their participation in the murder of Jews.
    Interviewee
    Constantin Burla
    Interviewer
    Diana Dumitru
    Date
    interview:  2011 June 21
    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
    Burla, Constantin.

    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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