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Oral history interview with Boris Dynin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.677 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0677

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    Oral history interview with Boris Dynin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Dynin's childhood in Chernivitsi, Ukraine, and the antisemitism he experienced there. He recalls when Chernivitsi came under Russian control in 1940, prompting the flight of many people to Romania. Mr. Dynin describes the Jewish community being rounded up and relocated into a ghetto in 1941, and his family's failed attempt to gain passage to Palestine on the the ship Struma, which was destroyed en route to Palestine. Mr. Dynin discusses further relocations of members of the Jewish community to concentration and labor camps, remaining behind and escaping the ghetto, and the attempts of the remaining Jewish community members to raise money to ensure a governor who would be sympathetic to their plight.

    Mr. Dynin describes being inducted into the Soviet Army, sent to a labor camp, later released, returning to his home where he graduated from university, married and had a family, and his immigration to the United States in 1991.
    Interviewee
    Boris Dynin
    Interviewer
    Eva Schlau
    Date
    interview:  1992 February 27
    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
    Russian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Sṭrumah (Ship)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Boris Dynin on February 27, 1992. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 2003.
    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 08:46:21
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