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Oral history interview with Grigory Weitsman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.851 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0851

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    Oral history interview with Grigory Weitsman

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    Interview Summary
    Grigory Weitsman, born on August 24, 1929 in Olgopol, USSR (present-day Ukraine), discusses his family life in a small Ukrainian shtetl; ghettoization by the Germans in October 1941; Romanians supervising the ghetto of sixty Jewish families for thirty-three months; bribing the Kommandant to avoid deportation; liberation by the Soviets on March 22, 1944; going to Moscow postwar; and immigrating to the United States in 1977.
    Interviewee
    Grigory Weitsman
    Interviewer
    Hanna D. Seckel
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 22
    Geography
    creation: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. The interview was recorded for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in 1985.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:41:07
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