"The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor"

Identifier
irn42641
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.337.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yuri Prizov

Yuri Prizov donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor" written by Yuri Prizov, with copies in English and Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Prizov describes his childhood, initially in Zaysan, Kazakhstan, and later near the Polish border, as well as his memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the family's escape east, to the region of Karachay-Cherkassia, in the Caucasus, as well as the massacre of Bogdanovka (near Stavropol), where his mother's family lived; posing as non-Jews, and life in Grozny after the war. In the memoir, he described the ways in which his mother, Maria Prizova, saved Yuri and his sisters until the partisans liberated the area of Klukhori (Karachaevsk) and Zelenchukskaya.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Mr. Yuri Prizov

Subjects

Genre

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