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Oral history interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki, Ben-Zion Dagan, and Ivan Ivanovich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.13 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0013

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    Oral history interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki, Ben-Zion Dagan, and Ivan Ivanovich

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    Interview Summary
    Kopel Kolpanitzki and Ben-Zion Dagan (born 1927) describe growing up in Lakhva, Belarus; family and Jewish life in Lakhva before World War II; the murder of Kopel's sister; relations with gentile neighbors; pre-war anti-Jewish sentiment; the establishment of a ghetto in Lakhva; working for the Germans in Mikashevichy; the murder of Jewish inhabitants and the liquidation of the ghetto; and their escape, with help from gentiles, from the ghetto. Ivan Ivanovich, a school friend of theirs, recalls wagon loads of Jewish corpses; his brother's story of mass executions and how he assisted in the burying of the Jewish victims; and gentiles assisting Jews to escape from the ghetto.
    Interviewee
    Ben-Tzion Dagan
    Kopel Kolpanitzky
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 03
    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
    Hebrew Russian
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki, Ben-Zion Dagan, & Ivan Ivanovich on August 3, 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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