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Research interview with Sergey Panus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.445.43 | RG Number: RG-50.653.01.0024

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    Research interview with Sergey Panus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sergey Panus, born in 1928 in Surazh, Russia, describes his childhood; the Jewish community in Surazh; the Jewish-owned businesses, including the mill, two sausage factories, and a cheese factory; his grandmother working as a cook for a wealthy Jewish family; learning German from a private tutor; his sister, Yekaterina, and her friendship with the Jewish Yuzovich family; Yekaterina attending a special NKVD school to improve her German and learn military vocabulary, Morse code, and encryption; the evacuation of Jews from Surazh to Klintsy at the beginning of the war; the German occupation beginning August 17, 1941 when he was 14 years old, his older sister was 17, and his younger sister was 12; his father being recruited to the army; Jews having to wear yellow fabric signs on their clothing; being told by his sister that he was going to work as a messenger for the partisans; his sister’s work with the partisans; being supervised by Kostyanoy Grigoriy Mikhailovich from Oryol, Russia; his mother’s recruitment into the partisans; the relocation of Jews into a ghetto; a man (Lukyanets Nikolay Nikolayevich) who was sent by partisans to work in the police undercover; the lack of food in the ghetto; healthy Jews being taken to a German hospital to donate blood; being detained by the Gestapo for a week and severely beaten for possessing an anti-Nazi leaflet; the looting of Jewish belongings by the poor; the execution of Jews (approximately 500 people, including 260 local Jews and Jews from Belarus) on March 27, 1942; details on the massacre; and taking pictures of the column of people.
    Interviewee
    Sergey Panus
    Date
    interview:  2014 March 31
    Geography
    creation: Russia.
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Panus, Sergey, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a European documentation project research 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 research interviews for this project were informally conducted before the formal oral history interviews.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 09:21:25
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