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Oral history interview with Charna Gilbovskaya

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.9 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0009

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    Oral history interview with Charna Gilbovskaya

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    Interview Summary
    Charna Gilbovskaya, born in Zhitomir (ZHytomyr), Ukraine on May 20, 1927, discusses her early schooling; the hunger in Ukraine between 1933 and 1934; the war beginning in June 1941; leaving Zhitomir; arriving in Staraya Kotelnya, Ukraine; returning to Zhitomir; pretending to be Ukrainian rather than Jewish for a short time in Zhitomir; the establishment of the ghetto in Zhitomir; escaping from the ghetto; finding shelter with a Ukrainian girl who gave her a birth certificate; obtaining a place in a children's home; assisting partisans by letting them know where the Germans kept their ammunition; the liberation of Zhitomir in 1943; the offer of adoption by Vera Lysenko; sewing uniforms for the army in 1944; her marriage in 1946; and feeling grateful for all those who assisted her during the war.
    Interviewee
    Charna Gilbovskaya
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    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 Charna Gilboskaya in Ukraine on August 15, 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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