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Oral history interview with Roza Abramovna Gerasimova

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.4 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0004

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    Oral history interview with Roza Abramovna Gerasimova

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roza Abramovna Gerasimova, born in 1924 in Lakhva, Brest Oblast, Poland (now Belarus), recalls her life in Lakhva prior to 1939 and under Soviet occupation; the German invasion in 1941 and the murder of her father; her family's unsuccessful attempted escape from the German forces and their incarceration and life in the Lakhva and Lenino ghettos; the shooting of inmates in the Lenino ghetto; her escape from the Lenino ghetto during a partisan attack and joining the Korzh partisans; her life in a partisan unit within the Korzh formation and staying mainly in the Ivanovskiy rayon in Brest oblast; and her marriage to a partisan in the unit.
    Interviewee
    Roza A. Gerasimova
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 01
    Credit Line
    Interviews conducted in association with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and with the participation of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot in Israel.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Roza Abramovna Gerasimova on August 1, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in September 1995.
    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 08:28:16
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