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Oral history interview with Khaya Alperina and Yelizabeta Yerushevitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.20 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0020

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    Oral history interview with Khaya Alperina and Yelizabeta Yerushevitz

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    Interview Summary
    Khaya Alperina, born in Gorodok (Haradok, Belarus) in 1912, describes her early life and the war's outbreak as the Germans arrived in the village of Lahoysk (Lahoisk); the police looting Jewish houses and driving Jews to ditches; escaping from the ditch with her children; staying with a woman who was Jewish but had converted to Catholicism; remaining with this woman until the Soviet troops arrived; returning to Beyadry to look for her husband, from whom she had been separated on the day Jews were shot at the ditch; and her life after the war.
    Yelizaveta Yerushevitz, born in 1935 in the village of Beyadry, Belarus, describes the war only vaguely; being driven with her family to a ditch where people were being shot; sitting with her mother on the edge of the ditch when a group of people including her mother and brother suddenly got up and ran toward the woods; and surviving in the woods on food provided to them by strangers. Both Alperina and Yerushevits show the interviewer the place where they think the ditch was located.
    Interviewee
    Yelizabeta Yerushevitz
    Khaya Alperina
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 06
    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 Khaya Alperina & Yelizabeta Yerushevitz on August 6, 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 08:28:22
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