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"It Was Not Allowed": A Narrow Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union
EX438_2741 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, recalls her early childhood in Minsk: how religion was forbidden, but antisemitism was still pervasive. More from this...
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"It's Not A Storm, It's A War!": Remembering The Beginning Of WWII In...
EX438_2742 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, describes the invasion of Brest-Litovsk in 1939. More from this narrator: Inessa Slootskin
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Children's Stories In The Woods: Visiting My Father Among The Partisans...
EX438_2743 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, talks about going into hiding with her family during WWII, and how her father wanted to join up with a partisan...
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"The Lie": My Father's Disappearance From The Belorussian Partisan Unit...
EX438_2746 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, relates the story of her father's suspected murder by his own anti-Semitic compatriots among the partisans. She also relates...
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"I Was The Main Breadwinner": My Experience Hiding In Belorussian Forest...
EX438_2747 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, describes her scrabble for survival after her father's death, alone in the forest with her mother and grandmother.More from...
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The Partisan's Son
EX438_2748 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, describes the horrors perpetrated by both Germans and partisans alike.More from this narrator: Inessa Slootskin
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"City of Ruins": A Communal Apartment in Minsk After WWII
EX438_2751 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, describes the complications of living in a communal apartment in Minsk after World War Two.More from this narrator: Inessa...
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Narrowly Escaping Mass Murder
EX438_3640 Inessa Slootskin, retired environmental protection engineer and child survivor of the Holocaust, recalls a time when she and her mother miraculously and mysteriously escaped certain death...
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Sneaking Around Germans to Safety During WWII
EX438_3639 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer and child survivor of the Holocaust, remembers a time when her mother took a chance on trusting someone who said he could get...
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Leaving Minsk for Missouri
EX438_2752 Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, talks about her family's journey from the Soviet Union to the United States, and the welcome they received from the local...
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