Overview
- Interview Summary
- Yakov Gincherman describes the shooting massacre of Jews in September 1941 in Nagartav, Ukraine (a Jewish agricultural colony near Bereznehuvate); his parents, who grew up in a small Jewish town in Ukraine; living through the Russian Civil War; his parents’ desire to immigrate to the United States but being unable because they lacked the resources; his parents moving from Vinnyts'ka oblast' to Nagartav in 1923; conditions during the famine in 1933; antisemitism increasing and the closing of the Jewish school in Nagartav in 1937; his father’s work as a tractor driver; his mother taking care of the house and children; his older siblings, Khaya (born in 1919) and Mottle (born in 1921) and his younger brother Anatoliy (born in 1928); the German invasion; his family’s unsuccessful attempt to flee; being told later how German troops and Ukrainian guards assembled Jews and took all their valuables then marched them to a nearby ravine, where they were shot; how the remains were not allowed to be removed from the ravine and properly buried until 1956; a monument that was erected in 1981 dedicated to those buried at the execution site; being sent to training for the Red Army in 1941; graduating in June 1942 as a lieutenant; being sent to the front in Stalingrad and his experiences in the Battle of Stalingrad; being part of a machine gun division; the German propaganda dropped over Russia; being injured twice during the battle; the conditions in the city during the battle; being sent to the Battle of Kursk; being severely injured in July 1943 and honorably discharged from the army; never experiencing antisemitism in the army; being awarded two medals for his bravery in battle; and enrolling in a technical institute in Odessa, Ukraine in 1945; going to Kherson, Ukraine, where he worked for 35 years; getting married in 1950 and his wife’s death in 1994; the antisemitism in Ukraine and the former USSR after the fall of the communist regime; and immigrating to the US in April 1997.
- Interviewee
- Yakov Gincherman
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism--Soviet Union. Antisemitism--Ukraine. Combat. Execution sites. Holocaust memorials--Ukraine--Bereznehuvate (Mykolaїvs'ka oblast') Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives. Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--Bereznehuvate. Kursk, Battle of, Russia, 1943. Mass burials--Ukraine--Bereznehuvate. Mass murder--Ukraine--Bereznehuvate. Massacres--Ukraine--Bereznehuvate. Nazi propaganda. Shooting (Execution)--Ukraine. Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Soviet Union. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Bereznehuvate (Mykolaїvs'ka oblast', Ukraine) Kherson (Ukraine) Kursk (Russia) Odesa (Ukraine) Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933. Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. United States--Emigration and immigration. Volga River (Russia) Volgograd (Russia)
- Personal Name
- Gincherman, Yakov.
- Corporate Name
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman from Anatoly Belaygorod on August 9, 2000. Mr. Belaygorod is the grandson of Yakov Gincherman.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 08:57:25
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Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.
Date: 1941-1997
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Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.
