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Oral history interview with Raisa Fainghersh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.447 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0447

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    Oral history interview with Raisa Fainghersh

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Raisa Fainghersh discusses her childhood in Bershad, Ukraine; her memories of antisemitism and the threats of pogroms; her marriage and the birth of her daughter; the beginning of the war; her husband being called into the army and later dying in battle; the occupation of Bershad by Nazi troops in 1941 and the anti-Jewish violence that followed; her failed attempt to flee with her daughter and mother; the establishment of a ghetto in Berhad; the implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions; her experiences living in the ghetto; the outbreak of typhus; cooperation among ghetto inhabitants; a betrayal which resulted in a massacre shortly before liberation; her post-war life; her remarriage; the rise of antisemitism in the early 1990s; and her immigration with her family to the United States in 1991.
    Interviewee
    Raisa Fainghersh
    Date
    interview:  1992 February 26
    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
    Fainghersh, Raisa.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Raisa Fainghersh on February 26, 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 08:45:18
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