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Oral history interview with Mikhail Aronovich Vayntsel'boym

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.1 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0001

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    Oral history interview with Mikhail Aronovich Vayntsel'boym

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    Interview Summary
    Mikhail Aronovich Vayntsel'boym, born in 1928 in Berdychiv, Ukraine, describes the arrival of the Germans on July 7, 1941, and the establishment of the ghetto in Berdichev; how 900 Jews were shot during the first days of the ghetto and that his mother and sister were killed early on in the occupation; being hidden on the day the police came for the action; how he survived a second occasion in which Jews were marched to be killed; being taken to another family where he lived for half a year; working for a local man taking care of livestock; going to a nearby village and working on a Kolkhoz until the Soviet liberation in December 1943; and his return to Berdichev after the war and his post-war life.
    Interviewee
    Mikhail A. Vayntsel'boym
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Mikhail Aronovich Vayntsel'boym in Ukraine on August 11, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in March 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 08:22:10
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