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Oral history interview with Zinaida Moseyevna Mudrik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.25 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0025

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    Oral history interview with Zinaida Moseyevna Mudrik

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zinaida Moseyevna Mudrik, born in 1921 in Levency, Ukraine, describes her family, education, and marriage; returning to Levency in 1941 when her husband was drafted to fight in the war; the unsuccessful attempt to evacuate Levency; the expulsion of the Jews from Levency by German authorities; their relocation to a ghetto; German soldiers and policemen robbing her home; forced labor for German forces; German soldiers killing and harming Jews from the ghetto; German soldiers taking Jews from the ghetto to a different location; the birth of her child in the ghetto; how her husband was in a prisoner of war camp but managed to escape after obtaining German documents for himself and his friends; the return of her husband who organized the escape of the remaining Jews from the ghetto; placing the elderly and children from the ghetto in villages; living in the forest in 1942; joining a partisan group; finding weapons for the partisan group; finding a woman to take care of her son for the remainder of the war; many members of her partisan unit joining the Red Army when it approached their village; the last battle fought by the partisan unit near the village of Veselinka in 1944; leaving the forest after the battle; traveling to Kiev, Ukraine; her husband receiving a document that proved he served as a partisan, allowing them to start a new life in Kiev; and their life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Zinaida M. Mudrik
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 12
    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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    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Altruism--Ukraine. Antisemitism. Guerrillas--Ukraine. Hiding places--Ukraine. Holocaust survivors--Ukraine. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos--Ukraine. Jewish refugees--Ukraine. Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine. Mass murder--Ukraine. Theft--Ukraine. Women guerrillas--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Children--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Ukrainian. World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Ukraine. Women--Personal narratives.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Zinaida Moseyevna Mudrik in Ukraine on August 12, 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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