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Oral history interview with Raisa Livshits

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.774 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0774

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    Oral history interview with Raisa Livshits

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Livshits's childhood in Minsk, Russia, her medical school studies and marriage, and her training in a town called Lida. Ms. Livshits describes the onset of the World War II, her unsuccesful attempts to serve as a medical worker, and her return to Minsk on foot, to learn that it had been occupied by Nazi troops and that her mother, sister and husband were gone. She describes the formation of the Minsk ghetto, the conditions there, pogroms and deportations, her escape from the ghetto, and joining the partisans in April 1943, where she worked as a doctor, nurse and surgeon. Ms. Livshits discusses her reunion with her mother, sister and husband after the war, her work as a doctor in the Soviet Union, and her immigration to the United States in 1989.
    Interviewee
    Raisa Livshits
    Interviewer
    Raie Goodwach
    Date
    interview:  1991 October 16
    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..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Raisa Livshits on October 16, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2004.
    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 08:46:48
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