Oral history interview with Vladimir Gekhter
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
The Women's Auxiliary of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago conducted the interview with Vladimir Gekhter on October 30, 1990 as part of an oral history project to document the experiences of Jews who fled the former Soviet Union. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in June 1995.
Archival History
Women's Auxiliary of Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from the Women's Auxiliary of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Vladimir Gekhter
- Gekhter, Vladimir.
Subjects
- Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
- Antisemitism--Soviet Union.
- Engineers--Belarus.
- Skokie (Ill.)
- Personal narratives.
- Engineers--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Collective farms--Belarus.
- Antisemitism in higher education.
- Siberia (Russia)
Genre
- Oral History
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