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"THE WORLD IS VERY FRAGILE"
Klawdia Naumnowa Lotkina
An Interview of 20 minutes length
filmed by Thomas Josef Roth
with Klawdia Naumnowa Lotkina
in the Ukrainian city Poltava.
Lotkina is a Holocaust survivor who
witnessed the crimes committed by
members of the German army and
special forces in the Poltava Oblast.
She was hiding to survive during the occupation and tells in the interview
about the atrocities that she observed.
She ends the interview with the words:
“The world is very fragile,
it needs to be protected.“
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OCTOBER 2024:
The interview has become part of
the permanent collection of the
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C. where it
can be viewed by registered researchers.
POLTAVA MEMORIAL FILM by Thomas Josef Roth
This short film is a small cinematic memorial dedicated to the Jewish citizens of
Poltava in Ukraine who were murdered in the 1940s by members of the German
army and special forces. Two historians summarize the basic facts of the occupation time and several elderly citizens of Poltava recount the events that they witnessed. Central to the film is an open field that was previously used by Soviet units for mass executions of Ukrainians, and later by the Nazis for the same purposes.
Schools and other educational institutions in Ukraine can download and use the film
for free. Please contact dokhausberlinfilm@gmail for VIMEO link and password.
A Ukrainian school teacher sent this message after showing the film to her students:
The post-production of this film was supported with
a grant by the Hessische Kulturstiftung (Cultural Foundation of the State Hesse) in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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