Overview
- Interviewee
- David E. Malaknov
- Date
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interview:
2005 August 09
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from Ukraïns'kyĭ t︠s︡entr vyvchenni︠a︡ istoriï Holokostu
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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1 digital file : Mixed formats.
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Ukraïns'kyĭ t︠s︡entr vyvchenni︠a︡ istoriï Holokostu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies made these audio oral history interviews available to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The interviews were conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the elderly members of the local ethnic communities in Crimea, including Karaites, Crimean Tatars, and Subbotniks, in 2005-2006.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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Also in Oral history interviews with local populations of Crimea
Collection consists of audio oral history audio interviews with transcripts in Russian conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the elderly members of the local ethnic communities in Crimea, including Karaites, Crimean Tatars, and Subbotniks in 2005-2006. The interviewees describe Jewish life (including their customs, local history, and the relationship between local Jews and the rest of the ethnic communities) before, during, and after World War II.
Date: 2004-2006
Oral history interview with Mikhail Iakovelich Dubinskiy
Oral History
Mikhail Iakovelich Dubinskiy describes the life and customs of Karaim (an ethnic group in Eastern Europe); his family and the time he spent with them during his childhood; playing with friends; the various nationalities living in Bakhchysarai, Ukraine before WWII, including Russians, Jews, Crimeans, Ukrainians, and Armenians; the good relations between the cultures; the beginning of the war; the bombing of Crimea on the second day after the war was announced; having to dig ditches for hiding places; the events surrounding the Germans arriving in Bakhchysarai; Germans setting up curfews and rounding up Jews; the execution of Crimean Jews, Romani, and communists; joining the army in 1944 when Bakhchysarai was liberated; having many friends who were Tatar Roma; how Germans did not persecute the Karaims; and his memories of when the Red Army arrived in Crimea.
Oral history interview with Aĭder Asanov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Fatma Dzhalilova
Oral History
Oral history interview with Anna Semenovna Erokhina
Oral History
Oral history interview with Leonid Asanov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Svetlana Mikhailovna Bulova
Oral History
Svetlana Mikhailovna Bulova, born in 1952, describes her childhood and her family; life in Crimea; her views on the tolerance in towards all nationalities and ethnicities in Crimea; not keeping up with Jewish traditions when she was growing up; having to work a lot during her youth; celebrating major Jewish holidays; how her father would often perform Jewish folk songs and dances for her; her father’s family speaking Yiddish amongst themselves; considering herself Jewish by birth; and the occasional taunting at school of the Jewish students and the disappearance of the hatred as she got older.
Oral history interview with Marieĭ Grigorevna Balkind
Oral History
Marieĭ Grigorevna Balkind (née Vorob'evoĭ), born in 1921, describes her life before the war; going to school to become an accountant; having to evacuate with her entire family when the war broke out in 1941; going first to Kavkaz (Caucasus) then to Kyrgyzstan; living and working in Kyrgyzstan until Crimea was liberated; returning to Crimea; working as an accountant starting in 1944; her parents and their lives; her Jewish family’s lack of observance; her parents speaking Hebrew at home; how Jewish celebrations that were practiced tended to stay within the Jewish community; living well with her multi-cultural neighbors; her life when her family lived on a kolkhoz; how Jews would marry Christians in the kolkhoz, but often with a skeptical eye; seeing Jews who were not able to evacuate being hanged; Jewish life during her youth; how the funeral practices of the Jewish citizens were very similar to Russian funerals; and Jews being pushed out of their jobs during the war.
Oral history interview with Vladimir Petrovich Galdin
Oral History
Vladimir Petrovich Galdin, born in 1948 in Bryansk, Russia, describes growing up in Ukraine; the work Jews did in Crimea; working on a kolkhoz that did not discriminate against Jews nor based on nationality; the Jewish customs celebrated by the community; how a collective of students would often show off their nationalities at different festivals; moving to Crimea, Ukraine; and moving his family to Crimea later.
Oral history interview with Tat'iana Grigor’evna Evreinova
Oral History
Tat'iana Grigor’evna Evreinova, born in 1919 in Terlitza, Ukraine, describes her education and work life; raising two children on her own after divorcing her husband; having to take care of family before the war started; the death of her youngest brother (Somya) during the war at the age of 20 after the amputation of his legs; trying to find her brother’s grave after the war, but not being able to find anything; taking care of her parents’ grave; celebrating all the Jewish holidays, but still not believing in God; her Jewish and Russian neighbors; speaking Yiddish at home with her family; claiming her children as Russian so they would avoid persecution; how Jews on the southern border of Ukraine, who were not able to evacuate, were murdered; moving to Crimea, Ukraine by train; the burial practices many Jewish Crimeans practiced; the daily life of the youth in Crimea; the reasons her marriage ended; not experiencing antisemitism in her career; the racism that is happening in Ukraine today; and how there were no mixed marriages in one of the villages she grew up in.
Oral history interview with Anna Lazarevna Margolina
Oral History
Anna Lazarevna Margolina, born in 1922, describes her education; going to Crimea, Ukraine; her and her family’s lives after the war ended; being part of the Komsomol while she was a student; not being able to visit the synagogue in Kremenchuk, Ukraine because of her participation in the Komsomol; her parents, who were communists and were not religious; her very religious grandmother and her grandfather, who was somewhat observant; how she did not want to listen to her grandmother; her feelings of regret; her parents speaking in Russian and Yiddish; knowing Yiddish, but not knowing Hebrew; not experiencing antisemitism when she was growing up; the death of her husband in Germany during the war; having many Jewish neighbors; and celebrating only Soviet holidays, during which she prepared Jewish food.
Oral history interview with Ol’ga Samuilovna Sandler
Oral History
Oral history interview with Ol’ga Samuilovna Silkina
Oral History
Oral history interview with Iakov Borisovich Superfin
Oral History
Iakov Borisovich Superfin, born in 1947 in the village Klimov (possibly Klymove, Crimea), Ukraine, describes living on a kolkhoz comprised of Jews only; his education; his reluctance to visit Israel; his family and his parents; his father’s participation in WWII; his father’s involvement in the Jewish community before the war; life during the war for his family; being raised very religious and practicing many Jewish traditions; speaking Yiddish at home; his father writing in Hebrew; not speaking any Russian at home; his teachers; his mother preparing very traditional Jewish food for holidays; no longer being very religious; participating in various Jewish activities; how his sister’s husband was saved from being murdered during the war; and all the people from his village who were massacred.
Oral history interview with Mariia Userovna Talerman
Oral History
Oral history interview with Alekseĭ Petrovich Girnik
Oral History
Oral history interview with Grigorĭ Kalinovich Gora
Oral History
Oral history interview with Andreĭ Antonovich Dan'ko
Oral History
Oral history interview with Yoffe Izrailevich Efim
Oral History
Oral history interview with Kuznetsova Alekseevna
Oral History
Oral history interview with Dzhemal Useinov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Petr Semenovich Flurin
Oral History
Oral history interview with Poza Isakovna Khodush
Oral History
Oral history interview with Asie Iunusova
Oral History
Oral history interview with Asie Zmirovna Alieva
Oral History
Oral history interview with Sabe Veliliaeva
Oral History
Oral history interview with Suleiman Isliamov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Shekure Isliamova
Oral History
Oral history interview with Shevkie Kuriaiaeva
Oral History
Oral history interview with Reshat Seytasanov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Valentina Asenova
Oral History
Oral history interview with Asia L'vovna Bryl'
Oral History
Oral history interview with Mariia Federovna Budeĭ
Oral History
Oral history interview with Nina Kondrat'evna Koval
Oral History
Oral history interview with Sofia Naumovna Kozulina
Oral History
Oral history interview with Liubov Sapunkova
Oral History
Oral history interview with Anis Fez'ilov
Oral History
Oral history interview with Aleksandra Shitikova
Oral History