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His Father
His mother
Her Father
Her Mother
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Your Father
Your Mother
Demyan Barsky ?-1948
Malya Barskaya (nee ?) ?-1915
Your brothers and sisters
Yekaterina Barskaya 1904-1976 Grigory Barsky 1910-1984
You Galina Veniaminovna Barskaya 1914
Your Spouse Semen (Natan) Natov 1910-1944
Your Children Roman Semenovich Natov 1938
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You and your family
Your full name Galina Barskaya (Jewish name: Hannah Reizl)
Where and when were you born? Mozyr (today Belarus), 24th December 1914
Where else did you live? Kiev, Kremenchug
Your educational level? Technical college
What sort of work do/did you do? Worker; tool-maker; pioneer leader; personnel inspector
What was the level of religiosity in your parents’ home? How were you raised? Not religious
What is your mother tongue? Russian
How many languages do you speak? Russian, Ukrainian
If you were in an army, tell us which army and the dates None
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Where were you during the Holocaust? In evacuation in the town of Pervouralsk, Urals Mountains (today Russia)
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Your brothers and sisters Their names Yekaterina Barskaya Grigory Barsky Where and when were they born? Yekaterina: Mozyr (today Belarus), 1904 Grigory: Mozyr, 1920 What is their mother tongue? Yiddish
Their educational level? Yekaterina: illiterate Grigory: naval college Their occupations? Yekaterina: worker Grigory: submarine officer Where do/did they live? Yekaterina: Lugansk Grigory: Vladivostok (today Russia) Where else did they live? Kremenchug
Do they have children? Yekaterina: two sons Grigory: one son Where and when did they die? Yekaterina: Pervouralsk (today Russia), 1976 Grigory: Vladivostok, 1984
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Your spouse Name? Semen (Natan) Natov (changed from Radulsky because of assimilation)
Where and when was he/she born? Kiev, 1910
Where else did he live? Pervouralsk (today Russia)
Is he/she Jewish? Yes
What is his/her mother tongue? Yiddish
His/her educational level? Construction technical college
Occupation? Engineer; Champion of the USSR in draughts
Where and when did he/she die? Killed at the front in Belarus in 1944
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Your children Their names? Roman Natov
Were they raised Jewish/do they identify themselves as Jews? No – no knowledge of Yiddish and no identification as a Jew.
Where and when were they born? Kiev, 1938
Where else did they live? Pervouralsk (today Russia)
Their educational level? Agricultural Academy
Their occupations? Engineer
How many grandchildren do you have? None
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Your father
His name? Demyan Barsky
Where and when was he was born? No information
Where else did he live? Lugansk, Kremenchug
Where and when did he die? Orsk (today Russia), 1948
What sort of education did he have? Cheder
What sort of work did he do? Butcher
What was his level of religiosity? Non-religious
What was his mother tongue? Yiddish
Army service: Which army and what years? Tsar’s Army: 1914-1915
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Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Brother Grigory (?-1919): kived in Kremenchug with his family, married to Olya (the interviewee was raised in their family) No information on other brothers and sisters Where was he during the Holocaust? In evacuation in Orsk (today Russia)
If he survived, what did he do after? Lived in Orsk and worked at a meat factory
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Your father’s family
His father
Your father’s father name? No information
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His mother
Your father’s mother’s name? No information
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Your Mother
Her name? Malya Barskaya (nee ?)
Where and when was she was born? No information
Where else did she live? No information
Where and when did she die? Mozyr (today Belarus), 1915
What sort of education did she have? No information
What sort of work did she do? No information
What was her level of religiosity? No information
What was her mother tongue? Yiddish
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) No information
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Your Mother’s family
Her father
Your mother’s father name? No information
Where and when was he born? Kishinev (today Moldova)
Where else did he live? No information
Where and when did he die? No information
What sort of education did he have? Cheder
What sort of work did he do? Painter
What was his level of religiosity? Religious, attended the synagogue, kept Jewish traditions and the kashrut, observed Jewish holidays What was his mother tongue? Yiddish
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Army service: Which army and what years? No information
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) No information
Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before
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Her mother
Your mother’s mother’s name? No information
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