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Oral history interview with Naum Mikhailovich Pyekarev

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.10 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0010

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    Oral history interview with Naum Mikhailovich Pyekarev

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Naum Mikhailovich Pyekarev, born March 19, 1929 in Pogost, Starobinskiy Rayon, Minsk Oblast, Belarus, recalls his pre-war family and Jewish life in Pogost; refugees fleeing advancing German troops; the arrival in 1941, in Pogost, of German troops; the Pogost ghetto; the murder, in two separate Aktions in 1941, of the Jewish men and then the Jewish women and children of Pogost; his escape from Pogost to Slutsk; life in the Slutsk ghetto; the Jewish administration of the Slutsk ghetto; his family's and his hiding from pogroms in the Slutsk ghetto; his escape from the Slutsk ghetto and joining the partisans; life with the partisans; linking up with advancing Soviet troops; joining the Soviet Army and advancing to Berlin, Germany; his demobilization in 1951; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Naum M. Pyekarev
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 02
    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

    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Naum Mikhailovich Pyekarev on August 2, 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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