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Oral history interview with Efim Meyerovich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.423 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0423

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    Oral history interview with Efim Meyerovich

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    Interview Summary
    Efim Meyerovich, born in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses attending a Yiddish school in Odessa; training as a machine operator; antisemitism in the Soviet Union; attending a military school for intelligence services in 1940; belonging to the 1821st artillery division of the Soviet Army in 1941; participating in the battle for Moscow; chasing the German army across Poland and Germany; encountering Sobibor concentration camp; being transferred to a special unit because he could speak Yiddish to try and find former residents of the camp; finding four former Jewish prisoners; learning of German atrocities at Sobibor; keeping a silver spoon that had been hidden as a souvenir; becoming very ill with a toothache and hospitalized; knowing of the treatment of Jews because he was moving throughout Europe; demobilizing from the Soviet Army in 1946; returning to Odessa in May 1946; his feelings on the creation of the state of Israel; working as a photographer in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s; and immigrating to the United States in 1979.
    Interviewee
    Efim Meyerovich
    Interviewer
    Leon Friedman
    Date
    interview:  1990 January 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:38:31
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