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Oral history interview with Lidiya Parokonnaya

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.9 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0009

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    Oral history interview with Lidiya Parokonnaya

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lidiya Parokonnaya, born in Ukraine, describes the beginning of the German and Romanian occupation of Odessa; the atmosphere of fear during the occupation; posters ordering all Jews to report to certain locations within a short period of time; the imprisonment of her Jewish uncle; the actions of her aunt to get him out of prison; how her family hid her uncle; her family’s quartering of a Romanian officer for two years; her uncle’s flight from Odessa as a result of frequent raids by German forces; her uncle’s enlistment into the Soviet Army; the sight of Jewish women and children being forced to march through the streets by Romanian soldiers; one Jewish woman in the march who threw her child to a female bystander, who may have adopted the child afterwards; the sight of people who were killed by hanging; a burned down military warehouse in which Jews were rounded up and killed; and her fears when Soviet soldiers entered the city.
    Interviewee
    Lidiya Parokonnaya
    Date
    interview:  2005 July 28
    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
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Parokonnaya, Lidiya.

    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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