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Oral history interview with Tamara Dmitrenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.5 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0005

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    Oral history interview with Tamara Dmitrenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tamara Dmitrenko, born in 1924 in Ukraine, describes the beginning of the occupation of Odessa by Romanian and German forces in 1941; the raid on and persecution of Jewish families; studying before the war in a German school and having many Jewish friends; an order to keep all doors and windows open in 1941; Romanian soldiers driving Jews out of their homes; Romanian soldiers coming into homes during the night and sexually assaulting women; the relocation of the city’s Jews to the ghetto in Slobodka; attempts of some Jews to go into hiding; the attitude and behavior of the local citizens during the relocation of Jews to the ghetto; life for Jews in the ghetto; local citizens who brought food to Jews in the ghetto; the length of time Jews stayed in the ghetto until they were driven out and murdered; the sight of people who had been hanged; a Jewish woman who initially left her baby with the family of the witness when relocated to the ghetto, and then retrieved it the next day; her mother who brought food to Jews in the local jail; the efforts of an acquaintance to hide her Jewish husband; the lack of water in the city; the sight of a Jewish family being driven out into the street by Romanian soldiers and then hanged; the building of gallows; an escalation of the mass murder of Jews in 1942; the development of the city of Odessa during the occupation; the looting of Jewish belongings and occupation of Jewish homes by local residents; liberation by Soviet forces; and the relationship between Soviet soldiers and local residents.
    Interviewee
    Tamara Dmitrenko
    Date
    interview:  2005 July 27
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (MiniDV).

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    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dmitrenko, Tamara.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2006.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:00:57
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