Oral history interview with Batya Borisovna Lifshits
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Batya Borisovna Lifshits in Ukraine on August 11, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in March 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Lifshits, Batya Borisovna.
- Batya B. Lifshits
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Star of David badges.
- Jews--Segregation.
- Altruism--Ukraine.
- Mass murder--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Ukraine.
- Communist -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine.
- Berdychiv (Ukraine)
- Jewish refugees--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Ukraine.
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
- Youth movements
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives.
- Soviet Union
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Holocaust survivors--Ukraine.
- Antisemitism.
Genre
- Oral History