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Oral history interview with Iosef Fayvelevich Dryzhun

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.14 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0014

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    Oral history interview with Iosef Fayvelevich Dryzhun

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Iosef Fayvelevich Dryzhun, born May 24, 1925 in Gorodnoye, Brest Oblast, Poland (Haradnaia, Belarus), recalls his family and pre-war life; the occupation by Soviet forces in 1939; attempting to flee eastward before the arrival of German troops, but being forced back by Soviet border guards; the entrance of German troops into Gorodnoye and the establishment of a ghetto; mass murder of Jewish inhabitants; life in the Gorodnoye ghetto; being informed by local peasants of preparations for mass executions; escaping from the ghetto; living in the woods and joining a partisan unit; assistance given to Jewish inhabitants by members of the Subbotniki religious sect; contracting typhus in 1943; partisan life; joining the Soviet Army, liberating Pinsk, and marching and fighting through Warsaw to Germany; demobilization in 1945; and post-war life.
    Interviewee
    Iosef F. Dryzhun
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 04
    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 Iosef Fayvelevich Dryzhun on August 4, 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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