Eyewitnesses’ testimony

Oleksandr Trubakov

04.08.2011

Oleksandr Trubakov

 

On the third of February I was arrested by ukrainian police at my apartment and was taken to the Gestapo which was placed on the Korolenko street, 33, where I was kept in the ward number 17. That was intended for Jewish only. 

Davy`d Budny`k

04.08.2011

Davy`d Budny`k

September 21, 1941 I was arrested by the country constabulary on the street and put into the cinema building number 5, and then sent to a temporary prison for prisoners of war, which was located on the Kerosy`nna Str.

Dina Pronichyeva

03.08.2011

Dina Pronichyeva

Before the start of Patriotic War I lived with my family in Kyiv and worked as an actress in central Kyiv Puppet Theater. I am Jewish by nationality, my maiden name is Mstyslavska. In 1932 I married Pronichyev, he was Russian.

Our family consisted of me, my husband, Pronichyev Victor, his mother Catherine A. and two children: daughter Lidiia, she was 3.5 years, and son Volodymyr, he was 1.5 years. We lived on the Vorovs'koho street 41/27. My father, mother, two brothers and a sister also lived in Kyiv on the Turhyenyevs'ka street 27/2.

Shelia Polishchuk

02.08.2011

Shelia Polishchuk

When the war started, I was 10 years old. Although from the very first days of the occupation of Kyiv my mother and I experienced that the Nazis opposed to Jews, we went to the Babyn Yar on the 29th of September. But we realised before it was too late and did not go to the point of no return.

Then was the arrest, escape, wandering through the villages, where we found out that there was the ghetto in Zvenyhorodka. My mom and I was born in that town, also there lived my grandmother.