Reference Type: Aggregated Database
Author: Nathan Beyrak
Year: 2004
Title: Oral history interview with Spiridon Tătaru
Date Accessed: 25.09.2014
Type of Work: video recording, interview
Short Title: Oral history interview with Spiridon Tătaru
Keywords: Jewish Minority, Holocaust survivors, Oral History
Abstract: Spiridon Tataru, born in Hotin, Romania (present day Khotyn, Ukraine), describes the his family; the prewar Jewish community of Hotin; his father's Jewish colleague; his time as a sailor; the beginning of the war; his imprisonment by the Soviets in 1941; the expulsion of the Jews of Hotin to the ghetto in Cernăuţi (Chernivtsi, Ukraine); assisting in the rescue of a young Jewish girl from the ghetto; visiting the ghetto and seeing dead bodies there; the bombing of Bucharest, Romania; assisting a Jewish family escape to England; the destruction of the synagogue in Hotin; and his thoughts regarding the Holocaust.
URL: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517758
Name of Database: Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project
Database Provider: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Language: Romanian