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Oral history interview with Vladimir Izraelovich Lubarski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.20 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0020

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    Oral history interview with Vladimir Izraelovich Lubarski

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    Interview Summary
    Vladimir Izraelovich Lubarski, born in 1927 in the village of Loghkincy, Ukraine, describes his family; their move to Kharkiv, Ukraine; the professions of his parents; the conscription of his father to restore buildings in Kharkiv destroyed by German forces, resulting in his inability to evacuate; remaining in Kharkiv for his father; the German invasion in 1941; his father receiving an order to prepare important building sites for destruction should Kharkiv fall under German occupation; attempting to relocate to the village of Saltov, but finding it under German occupation; returning to Kharkiv; German soldiers entering his apartment and beating his parents; his family leaving the apartment to live with his grandmother; forced labor under German authorities; his relocation to the ghetto; the cruelty of ghetto guards and the poor living conditions there; German soldiers taking Jews away to murder; his family’s escaped from the ghetto; being sheltered by local townspeople; his mother forging passports for them without their Jewish names; the betrayal of his father by a colleague; discovering that his father had been killed; leaving Kharkiv and traveling to New Vodolaga with the new passports; finding the Soviet Army and being given food and shelter by soldiers; living with the soldiers and helping as much as he could; leaving the Soviet Army to stay in the village; working in a camp with German prisoners of war; escaping the prisoner of war camp to the village of Barvenkovo and living with a family there; reuniting with his mother and brother; deciding to go toward the North Caucas, avoiding villages with German soldiers; staying in the village of Vysotskoe for the winter working as herdsman; the beginning of the German retreat; his family leaving the village of Vysotskoe; traveling with his mother to Baku then Tbilisi to stay with friends; leaving both cities as a result of the lack of clothing and food; staying for the remainder of the war in a vacated house which had been occupied by Germans; returning to Kharkiv in 1944; and life after the war, including his studies and family.
    Interviewee
    Vladimir I. Lubarski
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 03
    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 Vladimir Izraelovich Lubarski in Ukraine on August 3, 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 08:22:17
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