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Oral history interview with Lya Galperin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.30 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0030

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    Oral history interview with Lya Galperin
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    Interview Summary
    Lya Galperin discusses her childhood in a small town near Kishinev, Romania (Chisinau, Moldova); her family's flight after the invasion of Nazi Germany; a traumatic incident in which Romanian soldiers sexually assaulted the women in their group, after which the family returned to their home town; her family’s imprisonment in the local synagogue; her experiences in the ghetto of Beshard, Ukraine from 1943 until her liberation in 1945; her postwar life in the Soviet Union; her marriage; her life in Riga, Latvia; her mother's attempts at helping the family immigrate to the west; and her eventual immigration to San Francisco, California in 1981.
    Interviewee
    Lya Galperin
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 22
    interview:  1992 May 28
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Galperin, Lya.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lya Galperin on April 22, 1992 and May 28, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 1999.
    Funding Note
    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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    2023-06-14 10:49:42
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