Oral history interview with Sonya Leybovna Birman
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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 Sonya Leybovna Birman in Ukraine on August 9, 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
- Sonya L. Birman
- Birman, Sonya Leybovna, 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Subjects
- War crime trials--Ukraine.
- Stara Kotel'nia (Ukraine)
- Mass murder--Ukraine--Stara Kotel'nia.
- Jews--Ukraine--Stara Kotel'nia.
- Hiding places--Ukraine.
- Holocaust survivors--Ukraine.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Ukraine--ZHytomyr.
- Andrushivka (ZHytomyrs'ka oblast', Ukraine)
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- ZHytomyr (Ukraine)
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Shooting (Execution)--Ukraine--Stara Kotel'nia.
- Women guerrillas--Ukraine.
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History