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Oral history interview with Stanislav Ishenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.11 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0011

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    Oral history interview with Stanislav Ishenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Stanislav Ishenko, born in 1927 in Veresy, Ukraine, describes the arrival of German forces in his village in 1941; dead soldiers on the side of the road; violence committed against the Jewish population of Zhitomir; Jews who attempted to escape the persecution; his father’s participation in the rescue of Jews; helping his father transfer refugees between safe houses; the danger of raids from the German police; individuals who assisted in the rescuing of refugees; many of the Jewish refugees joining partisan groups; the evacuation of Jews from Veresy; an incident in which he and his father were almost killed by a German firing squad, only to be saved by one of the women they were hiding who spoke German; the differences between German soldiers and local policemen; a policeman’s warning to his father that he was being watched; his father dispersing the refugees and then joining a partisan group; the sight of people who had been hanged in the center of his village; his postwar years as a soldier in the Soviet Army; and events after the war, including his assistance in the construction of a memorial for Holocaust victims.
    Interviewee
    Stanislav Ishenko
    Date
    interview:  2005 July 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Ukrainian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ishenko, Stanislav.

    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 09:00:59
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