Recording Content:
[MDV 770 was recorded before MDV 398 in the temporal sequence of the interview recordings]
The tape is a formal interview in Kopayhorod with Dora Iosifovna Yatskova, born in 1924 in Murafa. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 398) It was recorded in Kopayhorod. She begins the interview by talking about her family. Her father was the director of a Yiddish school and taught Chemistry and Biology in Kopayhorod until it was closed in 1934.
Her family moved from Murafa to Kopayhorod in 1931. She has a brother, Hershele Kremer, who lives in Israel. Then the conversation moves to her life during the war. She and her family were imprionsed in a number of ghettos, such as the the Kopayhorod ghetto for three years until 1944. The tape concludes with a discussion of her prewar life. Yatskova worked as an accountant, before working as the cultural director of the House of Culture in Kopayhorod.
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Interview with unknown woman in Russian |
00:13:44
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Beginning of the interview with Dora Iosifovna Yatskova |
00:15:39
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Personal information and family |
00:28:15
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Family and Jewish cultural life |
00:44:00
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Childhood memories and life today |
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