Bobrovy Kut

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Below is a transcript of an audio interview of Helen Blum who grew up in Bobrovy Kut, Ukraine about her life there, her emigration to Chicago after WWI, and her life after that.  Please click on the square in the bottom right corner of the window below to make the transcript full screen (otherwise it is too small to read). 

Here is the audio that goes along with the transcript above. The sound quality is not great as it was copied from audio cassette.

Below is a film by Boris Shusterman. It tells about the tragedy that happened to most of the Jews who remained in the town during WWII. 

"September 16 in Bobruvy Kut" documentary by Boris Shusterman. 

This version is has been revised since the previous version which was posted on youtube.

REVISED VERSION IS TOO LARGE TO LOAD HERE YET, IN THE MEANTIME CHECK OUT YOUTUBE...PLEASE NOTE YOU CAN CHOOSE SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, HEBREW/עִברִית, OR RUSSIAN/русский:

"Bobrovy Kut is a Jewish village in the south of Ukraine, where on September 16, 1941, during the Holocaust, more than 900 Jews were thrown into a well. This film is dedicated to my grandmother Rahil Lea Shusterman, and to more than 900 Jews: women, elderly, kids – who once lived in Bobrovy Kut village of Kalinin district, the Herson province (Ukraine, back then the USSR), who were thrown while still alive down the village well by the Evgenievka hamlet on September 16, 1941." See youtube for music credits etc.