Interview

Pesia Kolodenker was born in Tulchyn in 1927. She is the sister of Lev and Aleksandr Kolodenker, as well as the husband of Nisen Kiselman. Her mother was a candy wrapper, before becoming a homemaker. She survived the war in the Tulchyn ghetto and Pechera concentration camp.


Other Interviews:

A Piece of Bread
Transport of Corpses
At the Yiddish School
Bris

A Wealthy Family

Tulchyn, Ukraine

Pesia Kolodenker talks about the harsh realities in the Pechera concentration camp, fighting off diseases and starvation on a daily basis. Yet despite dealing with these dreadful extraordinary living conditions, Pesia points out that she, being a young girl, had ordinary thoughts. She describes her encounter with a beautiful Russian-speaking sixteen year-old girl from Bukovina .

A significant part of the clip is in not in Yiddish, as Pesia remembers this episode in the Russian language.