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Oral history interview with Grigoriy Isaakovich Kugel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.28 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0028

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    Oral history interview with Grigoriy Isaakovich Kugel

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    Interview Summary
    Grigoriy Isaakovich Kugel, born on August 21, 1912 in Pleshnitsy, Minsk oblast, describes his fairly religious family; attending a religious school (cheder) and going to a Yiddish language school for four years; pogroms in his village in 1923 and 1924; going to Minsk in 1930; serving for four years in the army and living in Russia for a time and returning to Minsk; getting married; two beatings he suffered at the time the Germans entered Minsk; being marched to a prison in Minsk and being told he would be taken to a ghetto where he was assigned work in a scrap metal warehouse; the frequent shootings of Jews; being taken to Lublin, Auschwitz, and Budin, where he worked for two years; the approach of Soviet troops as he was taken to yet another camp, Velichka (Wieliczka), for about two weeks; being sent to Dachau and then Leitmeritz (Litomerice) in Czechoslovakia; being sent to Muehldorf briefly; being liberated in Flossenbürg by the Americans in April 1945; and returning to the Soviet side where treatment was poor.
    Interviewee
    Grigoriy I. Kugel
    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
    3 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 Grigoriy Isakovich Kugel 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:28:25
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