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Two weeks after Kiev was occupied German mobile killing  squads kill around 33,000 Jews in a ravine called Babi Yar, after Ruvim Stein's mother and sister were killed he was able to escape and hide in a water pipe.

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A jewish student from Kiev, Ukraine

After hiding from the Nazis in a water pipe he found his way to Mikhail's home where his family would let him hid in a cave until later getting a new birth certificate. He then left to a remote village in the east that was later liberated by Soviets. He joined the Soviet army later reconnecting with the bobrovsky family in 1951.

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Mikhail Bobrovsky was a student in Kiev, Ukraine that helped hide a jewish student by the name of Ruvim Shtein in a cave in their basement.

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Babi Yar after Babi Yar massacre occurred 

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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.170 | RG Number: RG-50.657.0001

Ruvim Izrailevich Shtein, born January 15, 1926 in Koziatyn in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, discusses his experience as one of the very few survivors of the Babi Yar Massacre in Kiev, Ukraine; being in the crowd that entered the killing site; and how he escaped by jumping in a drainage pipe that ran below the surface of today's Dorohozhytska Street.

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Interviewee

Ruvim Izrailevich Shtein

Credit Line

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marjorie Rouse

Record last modified: 2022-07-28 20:11:42
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43095

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Oral history interview with Ruvim Izrailevich Shtein

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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.170 | RG Number: RG-50.657.0001 Ruvim Izrailevich Shtein, born January 15, 1926 in Koziatyn in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, discusses his experience as one of the very few survivors of the Babi Yar Massacre in Kiev, Ukraine; being in the crowd that entered the killing site; and how he escaped by jumping in a drainage pipe that ran below the surface of today's Dorohozhytska Street.