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Oral history interview with Zinaida Khomenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.333.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0773

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    Oral history interview with Zinaida Khomenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zinaida (Zina) Khomenko (née Zaznobina), born June 3, 1928 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (Saint Petersburg, Russia), describes her childhood memories; her Orthodox parents; state-sponsored repressions and purges; the start of the war; extinguishing the flares dropped by enemy planes on the roofs with her friends; the conversion of their school into a hospital; the beginning of the siege of Leningrad; leaving with her mother and others around November 1941 and going to the train station in Lychkovo; the train station being bombed and the death of many people on their train; going to Prokopeva in Belokholunitsky District, where her disabled mother worked as a nurse; experiencing antisemitism; her mother going to Kirov; life in that region; hearing rumors that her mother was dead and her father was missing; returning to Leningrad with her mother before the siege ended; her mother working in the Izhorsk brickyard; her life after the war; attending high school and a university; the persecution of anti-fascists, poets, and writers; and immigrating to the United States in 1989.
    Interviewee
    Zinaida Khomenko
    Interviewer
    Liliya Meyerovich
    Date
    interview:  2014 November 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Extent
    1 digital files : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Khomenko, Zinaida, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Liliya Meyerovich, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Zinaida Khomenko on November 17, 2014.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:45
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