Oral history interview with Vera Vladimirovna Smirnova
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (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 Vera Smirnova on August 8, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in September 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Interviews conducted in association with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and with the participation of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot in Israel.
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
Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
People
- Vera V. Smirnova
- Smirnova, Vera Vladimirovna.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
- Belarus--History--1917-1991.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
- Women prisoners.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Belarus.
- Minskaia voblasts' (Belarus)
- Women guerrillas--Belarus.
- Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Typhus fever.
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Pogroms--Belarus--Minsk.
- Lipsk (Poland)
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History