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"THE WORLD IS VERY FRAGILE"
                                                                                           

Klawdia Naumnowa Lotkina

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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.“

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:

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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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