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Oral history interview with Alexander Gorbanos

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.11 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0011

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    Oral history interview with Alexander Gorbanos

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    Interview Summary
    Alexander Yakovlich Gorbanos, born in Kharkov (Kharkiv), Ukraine on December 23, 1933, discusses the composition of his family; growing up in the Novoselovka neighborhood in Kharkov; the German occupation of Kharkov in October 1941; hiding with various families; reaching Belgorod, Russia; buying fake passports with the non-Jewish Ukrainian name Kochenko; traveling to a town called Borisovke, Russia, where he ended up in a hospital; leaving the hospital and being arrested by Ukrainian police; being released by Ukrainian police and sent to a collective farm camp near Borisovke; being liberated by Soviet troops in February 1943; working on a collective farm in Voronezh oblast (Voronezhskaia oblast'), Russia; the liberation of Kharkov in 1944 and returning there; attending trade school in 1947; entering military school and the army in 1952; serving in Belarus; and other remarks about his military life.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Alexander Gorbanos
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (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 Alexander Gorbanos in Ukraine on August 5, 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 08:22:14
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