Oral history interview with Ivan Polovinkin
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Ivan Polovinkin in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on November 26, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2006.
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
- Polovinkin, Ivan.
- Ivan Polovinkin
Corporate Bodies
- Latvijas Aizsargu organizācija
- Russian Army of Liberation
Subjects
- Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Latvia.
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- Mass burials--Latvia.
- Altruism--Latvia.
- Paramilitary forces.
- Shooting (Execution)--Latvia.
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- Daugavpils (Latvia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Latvian.
- War criminals--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Latvia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History