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Oral history interview with Valentina Brandner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.8 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0008

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    Oral history interview with Valentina Brandner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Valentina Brandner, born in 1925 in Odessa, Ukraine, describes the Romanian occupation of Odessa; living in a suburb of Odessa at the beginning of the war, and then returning to the city; the forced relocation of two neighboring Jewish families from their apartments to the ghetto by Romanian soldiers; her reaction to the deportations; first hearing the word “ghetto” and asking her parents to explain its meaning; the sight of the gallows; her traumatic memory of seeing bodies hanging along the railroad; the reaction of local citizens to the bodies; returning to the suburbs for the duration of the war; and the aftermath of the war in Ukraine.
    Interviewee
    Valentina Brandner
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Brandner, Valentina.

    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 09:00:58
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