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Oral history interview with Lubov Zhelevskaya-Savchenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.595.18 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0018

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    Oral history interview with Lubov Zhelevskaya-Savchenko

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    Interview Summary
    Lubov Zhelevskaya-Savchenko, born in 1924 in Gubarevka (Hubarivka), Ukraine, describes a roundup of Jews in Kharkov by German soldiers; her Jewish stepmother saving herself by falsifying documents; the hanging of partisan members; German soldiers expropriating their food supplies; her arrest and time in prison; her transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp; life and conditions in Auschwitz, including details about her labor, other inmates, policies of the camp, her illnesses, and the execution of Jewish prisoners; the knowledge of the German retreat in 1945; her transfer to a displaced persons camp at Bergen-Belsen; the imprisonment of concentration camp inmates upon returning to the Soviet Union; her lawsuit against German officials for reparations; and meeting with other concentration camp survivors in Kharkov.
    Interviewee
    Lubov Zhelevskaya-Savchenko
    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
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    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.
    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 09:01:02
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