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Oral history interview with Pioter Ravinovich Ravechevich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.28 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0028

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    Oral history interview with Pioter Ravinovich Ravechevich

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    Interview Summary
    Pioter Ravinovich Ravechevich, born in 1923 in Drogichin (Drahichyn), Belarus, describes his family and education; moving to Pinsk in 1939; the bombing of Pinsk at the beginning of the war; the German invasion of the city; German soldiers taking Jew as hostages which they exchanged for items such as gold, silver, and warm clothes; the mass murder of Jewish men and boys in 1941 which included his brothers; life inside the ghetto, including the lack of food and water; the liquidation of the Pinsk ghetto in 1942; his German boss who hid him in his house during the liquidation of the ghetto and provided him with travel documents and found him work for him in Kiev; starvation in Kiev; German forces evacuating Kiev in 1943; some German soldiers knowing he was Jewish but not reporting him; his inability to reclaim his Jewish identity after the liberation of Kiev and Pinsk because of suspicion that he worked with German forces; the death of his family members in the ghetto; and his life after the war, including his attempts to find the German man who saved his life.
    Interviewee
    Pioter R. Ravechevich
    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
    2 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 Pioter Ravinovich Ravechevich 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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    2023-11-16 08:22:20
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