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Oral history interview with Chanoch Davidovich Ginzburg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.23 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0023

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    Oral history interview with Chanoch Davidovich Ginzburg

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    Interview Summary
    Chanoch Davidovich Ginzburg, born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1915, to a very religious family and grew up in the largely Jewish town of Sentyany, Lithuania, which had a rich cultural life, including many schools, clubs, and political parties; studying medicine and returning to Sentyany after receiving his degree; working in a rayon (district) hospital; going to Kaunas, Lithuania in late June 1941 and the war began on his way there; how no real ghetto existed in Sentyany and Jews still lived in their own houses; a series of roundups in Sentyany; all the Jews being marched to the nearby town of Novo-Sentyany and herded into barracks; how it was fairly easy to enter and leave the ghetto; spending several months in the ghetto in Vizy, Lithuania, where he treated typhus patients; deciding in the fall 1942 that he had to leave the Novo-Sentyany ghetto and join the partisans; separating from one unit when attacked by the Germans and joining another unit; going through German lines near Velikye Luki, Russia; continuing east through Russia; being liberated in November 1943 by Soviet troops and subsequently falling ill with typhus; and his post-war career.
    Interviewee
    Chanoch D. Ginzburg
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 07
    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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    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

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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 Chanoch Ginzburg on August 7, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:28:23
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