Overview
- Interviewee
- Jakob Heifetz
- Date
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interview:
1996 July 29
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Pauline Heifetz
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 DVDs.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus--Personal narratives. Jews--Belarus--Lakhva. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Geographic Name
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Lakhva (Belarus) Madison (Wis.) Pocking (Passau, Germany) Pogost-Zagorodskiy (Belarus) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Heifetz, Jakob, 1917-2009. Heifetz, Fania, 1922-2000.
- Corporate Name
- Pocking (Displaced persons camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Pauline Heifetz donated the interview with Jakob Heifetz to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. The interview was conducted on July 29, 1996.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:37:16
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Also in Jakob and Fania Heifetz family collection
Documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy.
Date: 1945-2009
Jakob and Fania Heifetz family papers
Document
Documents, photographs (52), correspondence and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec (later Heifetz) born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy. Documents include medical, labor, and identification records from post-war displaced persons camps, immigration and naturalization documents, and correspondence and records compiled in pursuing restitution claims during the 1960s. The latter include narrative statements from Jakob and Fania Heifetz about their experiences during the German occupation. Photographs include pre-war family images, all undated, but some with Yiddish inscriptions on the verso. During the occupation of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union by the Germans, Jakob fled into the forests where he met Fania, who was shot in August 1942 during a mass execution in Pohost and crawled out of the killing site with two others, who then fled into the forests. Jakob and Fania married during the war, survived and eventually after liberation, moved to the Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany.
Oral history interview with Fania Heifetz
Oral History
