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Oral history interview with Isaak Beygel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.441 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0441

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    Oral history interview with Isaak Beygel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Isaak Beygel, born in June 1922 in Lyakhivtsi, Ukraine, describes his hometown, which was a small predominantly Jewish village; his parents who were very religious; the difficulties for Jews in the 1920s when going to synagogue was considered anti-Soviet; his memories of the collectivization of farms against the will of farmers, many of whom were imprisoned and had their property taken away; his uncle, Yakov Beygel, who was imprisoned in 1937; studying at Kiev University until he had to stop when the war started; being called to the army in 1942 and serving until 1947; attending the tank institute in 1943 to become a tank operator; going through Belarus and Poland and being wounded near Berlin, Germany; returning to Lyakhivtsi after the war and finding empty streets and burned houses where his parents and grandparents once lived; the killing of all the Jews of Lyakhivtsi, including his parents and grandparents; learning about the massacre of Babi Yar from a friend in Kiev; his experiences in his army battalion while moving through Poland; experiencing more antisemitism after the war than before; and feeling safer practicing Judaism in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Isaak Beygel
    Date
    interview:  1992 February 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Beygel, Isaak.
    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Isaak Beygel on February 12, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    Funding Note
    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 08:45:17
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