Overview
- Interview Summary
- Sheil Barkin, born in 1923 in Daugavpils, Latvia, discusses working as a general laborer on a dairy farm near Novosibirsk before he was old enough to join the army; joining the Latvian Red Army unit when he turned 18; his role as a heavy machine gunner in a Latvian Unit in the Soviet Army; serving on the Eastern Front; being wounded while fighting near Simonovo, Russia; spending the rest of the war recovering in army hospitals and a Latvian hospital in Yaroslavl; receiving the "Order of the Patriotic War" (1st and 2nd class) and the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; returning to Latvia and working in construction; and immigrating to Canada.
- Interviewee
- Sheil Barkin
- Date
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interview:
2014
- Geography
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creation:
Vancouver (B.C.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elen Steinberg on behalf of the Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 digital file : MOV.
1 digital file : MPG.
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- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
- Copyright Holder
- Elen Steinberg
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism. Combat. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish soldiers--Soviet Union. Jews--Latvia--Daugavpils. Men--Personal narratives. Military decorations--Soviet Union. Soldiers--Wounds and injuries. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Belarus. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Soviet Union.
- Geographic Name
- Daugavpils (Latvia) Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941. Novosibirsk (Russia) Soviet Union--Armed Forces. Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Personal Name
- Barkin, Sheil.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Elen Steinberg, Founder of the Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project, donated the interviews with Jewish Red Army veterans to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2020. The interviewees, who are all Canadian residents, were interviewed in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary between 2010 and 2015.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:05:09
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