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Oral history interview with Genya Moyseyevna Kobrina

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.18 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0018

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    Oral history interview with Genya Moyseyevna Kobrina

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    Interview Summary
    Genya Moyseyevna Kobrina, born in 1924 in the village of Kalishki, Lestyanskiy rayon, Vitebsk (Vitsebsk) oblast in Belarus, describes her early life; being raised by her grandmother; attending Jewish schools; her studies at the Vitebsk Medical Institute; the repressions in 1937 when local residents were accused of being Kulaks; how in the pre-World War II period people did not think the war would reach them and that the Red Army would quickly defeat the Germans; the Germans entering her village and burying her family members alive; the arrival of the Karatelniy Otryad; how she and her immediate family managed to escape; going to Cheboksary, Russia with no money or documents; finding a job; being joined by her mother who had been with partisans near Smolensk, Russia; corresponding with her father, who was in the army; her family being able to return to Smolensk after liberation; and life after the war and her feelings about war.
    Interviewee
    Genya M. Kobrina
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 05
    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 Genya Moyseyevna Kobrina on August 5, 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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