Oral history interview with Mariya Kushnir
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.
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
- Mariya Kushnir
- Kushnir, Mariya, 1926-
Subjects
- Jewish children--Crimes against--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Soviet Union.
- Mass burials--Soviet Union.
- Kantemirovka (Russia)
- Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Russian.
- Soviet Union--History--1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Soviet Union.
- Altruism--Russia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Soviet Union.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Russia.
- Mass murder--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union.
- Police--Soviet Union.
- Guerrillas--Soviet Union.
- Massacres--Russia (Federation)--Novostepanovskiĭ.
- Novostepanovskiĭ (Russia)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Genre
- Oral History