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Oral history interview with Ida Moiseyevna Brion

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.6 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0006

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    Oral history interview with Ida Moiseyevna Brion

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ida Moiseyevna Brion, born in Rudnya, Smolensk Oblast, Russia in 1919, recalls pre-war family and Jewish life; the Soviets' 1937 arrest and execution of her uncle; the arrival of Germans in 1941; her attempted escape and her capture; being transported with her brothers by German authorities to Demidovo; the rape of a Jewish girl in Demidovo; her return to Rudnya; the establishment of the Rudnya ghetto; ghetto life and her work there as the only medically trained person; treating people wounded in a bombing; traveling to Yartsevo (IArtsevo) and returning to Rudnya; the execution of ghetto inhabitants; her escape from the ghetto to Smolensk, Russia and subsequently to Gzhatsk (Gagarin) and Mozhaysk; being hidden by a local woman until the liberation by Soviet troops in December 1941; her evacuation to Kotlas, Arkhangelsk oblast, and her work there as a doctor; her arrest on the way to Gorki to resume her medical training and her imprisonment in Arkhangelsk as a spy; her return to the Smolensk Medical Institute; the memorial that was erected in 1965 in Rudnya for the people who were shot there; and her marriage.
    Interviewee
    Ida M. Brion
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Brion, Ida Moiseyevna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Ida Moiseyevina Brion 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 08:28:17
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