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Oral history interview with Darya Lyogkaya

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.437.66 | RG Number: RG-50.674.0066

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    Oral history interview with Darya Lyogkaya

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Darya Lyogkaya, born in 1929 in the village of Visokiy Polk, Belarus, discusses her Jewish childhood friends; attending school in Parichi; prewar peaceful relations between non-Jews and Jews; the German invasion and bombing of the town; the brutality of German soldiers; incidents in which citizens turned in their neighbors for alleged partisan activities; the execution of suspected partisans and their families; witnessing a roundup of Jews at a hotel; seeing trucks full of Jews and later hearing gunfire; a Jewish friend who survived the mass killing and escaped to Moiseyevka; the burning of the burial pits as Russians forces approached in 1944; being taken with other children to a work camp; attempting to escape the camp; working at the school for German students; and returning to Visokiy Polk after the war.
    Interviewee
    Darya Lyogkaya
    Date
    2012 August 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Lyogkaya, Darya, 1929-

    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 09:24:08
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