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Oral history interview with Mikhail Abramovich Bartik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.4 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0004

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    Oral history interview with Mikhail Abramovich Bartik

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    Interview Summary
    Mikhail Abramovich Bartik, born on October 27, 1928, in Tulchin (Tulchyn, Vinnitskaya oblast), Ukraine, discusses the beginning of World War II when his family decided to evacuate but later returned because Komsomol officials assured them that there was nothing to worry about; how most men in Tulchin were mobilized into the Soviet Army; the establishment of a ghetto in Tulchin in December 1941 and many were given injections of various diseases, including typhus and dysentery; being driven with a group of Jews to Pechora to the sanitarium grounds and buildings with no food or water provided to them; sneaking out of the camp and obtaining food from the local populace; Germans coming to the camp in September 1942 to select Jews for work; how weak and sick persons were shot on the spot and others were put in trucks and taken away; being amongst those remaining with his family and being told they would not be shot; how after the war no Soviet official or press would acknowledge that there had been a concentration camp for Jews at Pechora; how most remaining inmates escaped as Soviet troops approached in March 1944; his post-war life, marriage, and efforts to establish monuments to victims in Tulchin and Pechora.
    Interviewee
    Mikhai A. Bartik
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    5 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 Abramovich Bartik in Ukraine on August 13, 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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