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Oral history interview with Vera Vladimirovna Smirnova

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.25 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0025

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    Oral history interview with Vera Vladimirovna Smirnova

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vera Vladimirovna Smirnova (née Rozenberg), born in Minsk, Belarus in 1928, describes her family; changing her name after her arrest during the war by the Germans; life in the Minsk ghetto: pogroms, the deaths of German Jews brought there in the summer of 1942, and deaths from disease and hunger; her escape from the ghetto in1943 with her mother and brother; joining the partisans near Lipsk, Poland; a partisan operation, during which she was arrested; her interrogation and her two month imprisonment; being sent to Auschwitz, contracting typhus, and recovering; being sent to Ravensbrück; and being liberated in Neustadt, Germany in 1945.
    Interviewee
    Vera V. Smirnova
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 08
    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
    2 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Conditions on Use
    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 Vera Smirnova on August 8, 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 08:28:24
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