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Oral history interview with Roza Aronovna Shkolnik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.31 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0031

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    Oral history interview with Roza Aronovna Shkolnik

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roza Aronova Shkolnik, born in 1924 in Vinnitsa (Vinnytsia), Ukraine, describes her family life before the war; her father’s draft into the Soviet Army; German soldiers forcing her family to perform unpaid labor; trading clothes and other items for food; the killing of Jews by German soldiers in 1941; hiding in a basement from the German soldiers; leaving the basement and discovering that many Jews from Vinnitsa were taken away by German forces, and their houses had been robbed; being taken with a group of Jews; German soldiers beating all of the Jews, including children; telling a German soldier she was Russian in order to secure her release; being required to wear a badge labeling her as Jewish; the ability of local police to kill her at will; starvation as a result of not being able to work for money; being warned that Germans soldiers were going to kill her and her family; registration by the German authorities; expulsion from her home; a neighbor who gave her food and shelter; local townspeople helping her family with food and allowing her to work for money; the deportation of Jews from Vinnitsa; her separation from her mother; her transfer to a prison where she was taken to work; her attempt to escape from the prison during which she was caught by a policeman and transferred to the ghetto; escaping the ghetto; local townspeople helping her reach Mogil'ov; being caught by a policeman and being transferred to Pechora, and then to a camp with other Jews; deaths in the camp as a result of the lack of food and water; escaping from the camp with a friend; traveling from village to village and staying in Mogil'ov; receiving assistance from local townspeople who brought her to a school where she lived with Romanian Jews; living in Mogil'ov until 1944, working in order to buy food; returning to Vinnitsa after the Red Army came to the village; discovering her brother was alive; and her life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Roza A. Shkolnik
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shkolnik, Roza Aronovna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Roza Aronovna Shkolnik 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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    2023-11-16 08:22:21
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