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Oral history interview with Sonya Borisovna Yakobova

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.39 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0039

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    Oral history interview with Sonya Borisovna Yakobova

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    Interview Summary
    Sonya Borisovna Yakobova (née Glezer), born in 1922 in Raygorodsk (Raĭhorodok), Zhitomir Oblast, Ukraine, describes her parents; attending school elsewhere and living with her aunt; her siblings and the death of her brother during the famine; becoming a teacher in Novogradskiy rayon; being with her family in Raygorodsk when the war began; the Germans entering their town on July 17, 1941; people being put to work; the murder of the sick and elderly; how some Jews were able to join partisans and escape east; the Jews being moved to several buildings on August 9, 1941; the shooting of some of the Jews on September 10 and running and hiding during the action; the surviving Jews being put to work; the shooting of all the remaining Jews in January 1942 and her escape; hiding in several places with her father; going to Alanovskiy rayon in Vinnytsia Oblast, where they stayed with an Ukrainian man; going to Popivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine in December 1943; going in March 1944 to Berdichev (Berdychiv), Ukraine; returning home to Raygorodsk; marrying and going to Berdichev; the Jewish community in Raygorodsk and the destruction of their synagogue before the war; collaborators during the war; and her memories of the day the Germans arrived in Raygorodsk.
    Interviewee
    Sonya B. Yakobova
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 11
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Sonya Borisovna Yakobova in Ukraine on August 11, 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 08:22:24
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