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Oral history interview with Arkady Isakovich Pukhovitzki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.27 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0027

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    Oral history interview with Arkady Isakovich Pukhovitzki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arkady Isakovich Pukhovitzki, born on November 7, 1923 in Vitebsk oblast in the village of Chashniki, describes his parents (father worked in a fishing cooperative and his mother was a seamstress); the good relations between Jews and non-Jews until the Stalinist repressions and purges of the late 1930s; how many of his Russian childhood friends spoke Yiddish; the outbreak of war and life in the Chashniki ghetto, where food was at first sufficient; his work at turf-drying facility; the mass shooting of Jews that took place on February 13-14, 1942, during which his parents and sister were killed; escaping the roundup and going to Gribin; meeting with partisans and local commanders; more details about the shooting and the monument erected after the war on the site where the shootings were carried out; his experiences with the partisans and being assigned to an explosives detail and intelligence scouting unit because of his knowledge of Yiddish and a bit of German; joining the Soviet Army in November 1942; being assigned to an airfield and capturing 11 German soldiers; becoming a teacher after the war and going to Mogilev; and working in banking for 46 years.
    Interviewee
    Arkady I. Pukhovitzki
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 11
    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 Access
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    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    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 Arkady Isakovich Puchovitzki on August 11, 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 08:28:24
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