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Oral history interview with Abraham Hauptman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.381 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0381

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    Oral history interview with Abraham Hauptman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Abraham Hauptman, born in 1925 in eastern Galicia, in the oil-rich Boryslav region; describes growing up in Skhodnitsa (Skhidnytsia, Ukraine); how Ukrainian antisemitism expressed itself daily all through his elementary school days; his older brother, who was mechanically gifted; his father, who was an equestrian-trained driver and had served as such in World War I; his dislike for the heder but loving Gordonia, the Zionist movement; how there were about 500 Jews in Skhodnitsa; the Russians entering the village on September 16, 1939; survivors from the West bringing stories of pogroms, ghettos, and burnings; how there were pogroms in Skhodnitsa and the Ukrainians assisted; his family returning to Boryslav; the Aktions in Boryslav and the division of the ghetto near the Boryslav district of Potok Górny (Upper Potok); escaping certain death many times; the Judenrat; the establishment of the work camp in Boryslav after the fifth Aktion and how Jews were chosen by the German Keller to work there; Jews being able to get on the “Keller List” in exchange for money; working in the camp without being on Keller’s list; being transferred to work in Grazia, where there were gas cisterns; seeing a flier calling for Jews to revolt (it was after the Warsaw ghetto uprising) and it moved the Jews to go underground in the Opaka Forest; the Drogobych ghetto and the organization and location of the underground first in Smilno and then in Opaka; liberation and the pogrom done by the Banderovtzim; attending school after the war; being spared by the principal from going to the Russian front; his father, whom he believed had been killed, showing up eight months after liberation; his father’s service in the Russian Army along the Russia/China border; immigrating to Israel in 1960; and his praise for his mother.
    Interviewee
    Abraham Hauptman
    Date
    interview:  2000 October 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    13 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hauptman, Abraham, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Abraham Hauptman on October 26, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
    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 08:16:32
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