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Oral history interview with Sara Yakovlena Kasperskaya

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.30 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0030

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    Oral history interview with Sara Yakovlena Kasperskaya

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara Yakovlevna Kasperskaya, born in the village of Lipin (possibly Lipinki), Belarus on June 5, 1915, describes her early life and family; Germans rounding up Jews in her village and killing 70 percent of them, including her mother; being confined to her home and made to wear a Star of David; how her husband was Russian, not Jewish, and this made her life a bit easier; leaving in 1942 with her children and husband and entering the forest seeking out partisans; being accepted into a partisan unit commanded by Abakumov and working as a baker; being treated well in her partisan unit; leaving her two children, ages 4 and 8, with a family in a nearby village and how they were taken to a German camp where it was known that they were part-Jewish; the partisans moving deeper into the woods to escape the Germans and the brigade joining with Soviet troops in 1944; and searching for and finding her children.
    Interviewee
    Sara Y. Kasperskaya
    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 Sara Kasperskaya 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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