1 Family Tree Paternal grandfather Paternal grandmother Maternal grandfather Maternal grandmother Dmitry Deribizov 1870s-1930s Praskovja Deribizova (nee Belyaeva) 1870s-1942 Isay Goldberg 1870s -1910s Sonya Goldberg (nee Vingelnikova) 1870s-1920s Father Boris Deribizov 1900-1941 Mother Malka Deribizova (nee Goldberg) 1905-1997 Siblings None Interviewee Sophia Deribizova 1930 Spouse None Children None
The interviewee and his family 2 Your full name Sophia Deribizova (never married) Where and when were you born? Leningrad, 1930 Where else did you live? Tashkent (today Uzbekistan) Your educational level? Graduated from the Hydrometeorological Institute, Leningrad What sort of work do/did you do? Teacher at Hydrometeorological Training College, Tashkent (Uzbekistan); employed by Leningrad Weather Bureau; geographical scientist at the State Hydrology Institute What was the level of religiosity in your parents home? How were you raised? We were not religious. What is your mother tongue? Russian How many languages do you speak? - Where were you during the Holocaust? In evacuation in Yaroslavl region, then Pyatkovo village in Siberia
3 Siblings Their names? None Spouse Name? None Children Their names? None
4 Father His name? Boris Deribizov Where and when was he was born? Warsaw (today Poland), 1900 Where else did he live? Ulan-Ude, Chita, Leningrad Where and when did he die? Leningrad, 1941 What sort of education did he have? Graduated from the Leningrad Soviet Commerce Institute What sort of work did he do? Economist What was his level of religiosity? He was Russian but he was not religious. What was his mother tongue? Russian Army service: Which army and what years? Red Army in the Civil War
5 Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) 3 sisters and 2 brothers, all in Chita: Lidia Deribizova (1894-1936): equipment operator, died in exile in Khabarovsk. Daughter Olga lives in St Petersburg. Konstantin Deribizov (1896-1919): executed in Chita by the Whites during the Civil War Liubov Deribizova (1898-1968): librarian, married, Siberia. Nikolay Deribizov (1902-1938): worked on the railroad, shot by the NKVD in Chita, two sons remained. Tatyana Deribizova (1904-1962): dressmaker in Charbin (China). Emigrated to Australia and died there. Director of a retirement home for former Russian citizens. Husband was Chinese, Vladimir Yao, died in Japan. They had two sons: Vladimir (died in Irkutsk, 2000) and Konstantin (lives in Rostov-on-the-Don). Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before
6 Paternal grandfather Your father s father name? Dmitrij Deribizov Where and when was he born? Tambovskaya oblast, 1870s Where else did he live? Warsaw (today Poland), Ulan-Ude, Chita Where and when did he die? Chita, 1930s What sort of education did he have? What sort of work did he do? Railroad employee What was his level of religiosity? He was a very religious Orthodox Christian. What was his mother tongue? Russian
7 Army service: Which army and what years? Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before
8 Paternal grandmother Your father s mother s name? Praskovja Deribizovа (nee Belyaeva) Where and when was she born? Tambovskaya oblast, 1870s Where else did she live? Chita, Warsaw (today Poland) Where and when did she die? Leningrad, 1942 What sort of education did she have? What sort of work did she do? Housewife What was her level of religiosity? Orthodox Christian What was her mother tongue? Russian Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.)
9 Where was she during the Holocaust? Died during the blockade of Leningrad in 1942
10 Mother Her name? Malka Deribizovа (nee Goldberg) Where and when was she was born? Nerchinsk, 1905 Where else did she live? Leningrad Where and when did she die? St Petersburg, 1997 What sort of education did she have? Graduated from the Training College for Grain Production, Leningrad What sort of work did she do? Economist; pre-school teacher at a boarding school; employee of the Scientific Research Institute for Excavating Equipment Production What was her level of religiosity? She was not very religious, she celebrated the Jewish holidays at home and went to the prayer house on major Jewish holidays. What was her mother tongue? Russian
11 Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) 1 brother and 4 sisters, all born in Nerchinsk and died in Leningrad. Yakov Goldberg (1892-1965): book-keeper, married, no children. Rakhil Yoffe (nee Goldberg) (1895-1942): housewife, husband, Genrikh Yoffe, he died in 1945 from dystrophy, no children. Shifra Golumb (nee Goldberg) (1900 1982): book-keeper, husband, Gdali Golumb, daughter died at the age of 5. Liya Goldberg (kept maiden name) (1903 1968): archivist, husband, Levi Golumb. Son Gdali died in the Leningrad blockade. Debora Goldberg (1907 1993): budget planner, accountant, daughter Irina, died in 1989. Where was she during the Holocaust? In evacuation in Yaroslavl region, then Pyatkovo village in Siberia If she survived, what did she do after? Worked as economist in Leningrad
12 Your mother s father name? Isay Goldberg Where and when was he born? Place unknown, 1870s Where else did he live? Nerchinsk Where and when did he die? Nerchinsk, 1910s What sort of education did he have? What sort of work did he do? Owned a hardware store What was his level of religiosity? He sometimes went to the prayer house, celebrated Jewish holidays at home. What was his mother tongue? Yiddish
13 Army service: Which army and what years? Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) 4 brothers, all of them were co-owners of the hardware store in Nerchinsk. Abram Goldberg: no information. David Goldberg: worked in sales, died in the 1930s. Levi Goldberg: no information. Pinkhas Goldberg: his son Yosef lives in Ekaterinburg, Ural. Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before
14 Your mother s mother s name? Sonya Goldberg (nee Vingelnikova) Where and when was she born? Poland, 1870s Where else did she live? Where and when did she die? Nerchinsk, 1920s What sort of education did she have? What sort of work did she do? Housewife What was her level of religiosity? She sometimes went to the prayer house, celebrated Jewish holidays. What was her mother tongue? Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.)
15 Where was she during the Holocaust? Died before