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Oral history interview with Riza Yankelevna Roitman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.29 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0029

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    Oral history interview with Riza Yankelevna Roitman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Riza Ynkelevna Roitman, describes her memories of her childhood in the Ruplaskaya oblast, Ukraine before the German invasion; the events preceding her deportation to the Pechora concentration camp at the end of 1941; the typhus epidemic that afflicted her, her parents, and many of the camp’s inmates; the death of her parents from typhus and her mother’s last words; how she and many other inmates were saved from execution at the last second because of an appeal from the queen of Romania to stop killing Jews; how she and other inmates felt that death was just a matter of time and life was meaningless; her decision to escape the Pechora camp; how she was captured in a nearby village and imprisoned by Romanian police; how the police took her through the streets of her home town and how she began crying once they passed her old house; working for the Romanians with another Jewish girl; how the Romanians fed her soup and bread; being sent back to Pechora; bribing a German guard to save her life; her attempt to escape again with her sister; how towards the end of the German occupation she made a final escape attempt; being captured and put in a jail cell together with another Jewish girl and a drunk Ukrainian vodka thief; the village demanding their release because they felt more free towards the end of the war; her release on March 18, 1944; working as an army nurse until the end of the war; starting a family after the war; and living in Kharkov (Kharkiv).
    Interviewee
    Riza Y. Roitman
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 13
    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 Riza (Roza) Yankelevna Roitman in Ukraine on August 13, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:20
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