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Oral history interview with Semyon Usanovich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.571 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0571

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    Oral history interview with Semyon Usanovich

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    Interview Summary
    Semyon Usanovich, born on October 7, 1915 in Grebionki, Ukraine, discusses his religious family; mobilizing into the military three days after the invasion of Russia; being wounded in 1941 near Poltava [PH]; spending two months in the hospital; returning to duty; getting wounded near the town of Shmoleh [PH]; being surrounded by a German unit headed by Marshal Von Paulus; escaping with eighteen others to the Soviet Army because he was afraid as a Jewish POW he would be killed; recovering in Semipalatinsk; demobilizing in 1946; going to Moscow for one and a half years; knowing of the killing of Yiddish writers; postwar antisemitism; and immigrating to the United States in 1979.
    Interviewee
    Semyon Usanovich
    Interviewer
    Leon Friedman
    Date
    interview:  1987 June 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:39:24
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