Oral history interview with Irina Lukianovna Skakun
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, and it was conducted in Transnistria for the Museum's Moldova Documentation Project on November 26, 2007.
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
- Skakun, Irina Lukianovna.
- Irina Lukianovna Skakun
Subjects
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Moldova--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moldova.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Căzănești (Moldova)
- Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Moldova.
- Moldova.
- Torture.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Moldovan.
- Starvation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Moldova.
- Romania--History--1914-1944.
- Vinnyts'ka oblast' (Ukraine)
- Jews--Persecutions--Moldova.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Oral History