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Oral history interview with Fanya Berkovna Shnaider

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.33 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0033

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    Oral history interview with Fanya Berkovna Shnaider

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Fanya Berkovna Shnaider, born in 1926 in Gvyaden, discusses her early family life; the beginnings of war; evacuation with family; traveling to Novogrod Volynskiy (Novohrad-Volyns'kyĭ), Ukraine with her parents and two my brothers; going to a village near Novogrod Volynskiy to be with her aunt; the execution of village inhabitants and surviving by hiding; going to Kameny Brod (Kam'yanyy Brid) then going back to Novogrod Volynskiy; finding her family and the massacre of Jews shortly thereafter, including her brother and mother; staying in a children's home for a few months in Radomishche; the relocation of the children's home to a new village; escaping from the new village with two Jewish girlfriends; living in a military unit; joining the Red Army; hiding her Jewishness in the military; living in the forest with her military unit; serving with the intelligence section of her military unit because of her knowledge of German; the commander, Kitrichenko; and her post-war education and family.
    Interviewee
    Fanya B. Shnaider
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 10
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Fanya Berkovna Shnaider in Ukraine on August 10, 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 08:22:22
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