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Oral history interview with Klaudia Zotman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.504 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0504

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    Oral history interview with Klaudia Zotman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Zotman describes her childhood in Domanevka and Odessa, in the Ukraine; her memories of the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1941; and the invasion by Nazi troops of Odessa. Ms. Zotman describes the order for all Jews to register and then report to the city jail in October 1941, and an incident in men were forced into a building which was set on fire. She describes the family's release and their order to report to Transnistria, an area under Romanian rule, in January 1942. Ms. Zotman describes her experiences in Bogdanovka and other concentration camps and in the ghetto of Domanevka, and the cruelties and atrocities that she witnessed, including the murder of gypsies. She discusses her family's liberatin in March 1944 and their return to Odessa in April 1944; her marriage in 1948 and her family; and her immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Klaudia Zotman
    Date
    interview:  1992 February 13
    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
    Zotman, Klaudia.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Klaudia Zotman on February 13, 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 08:45:29
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