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Oral history interview with Vladimir Izvestnyi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.456.29 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0029

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    Oral history interview with Vladimir Izvestnyi

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vladimir Izvestnyi, born in 1928 in Dekšis, Latvia, describes the German capture of Riga in 1941; the treatment of local townspeople under German occupation; the murder of his brother; restrictions placed on the Jewish community under the German occupation; the mass murder of the Jews of Balvi; his participation in the partisan movement in 1943 and 1944; his work as a KGB investigator, including his work on cases regarding Latvian collaborators with Nazis; and his knowledge of Salaspils concentration camp.
    Interviewee
    Vladimir Izvestnyi
    Date
    interview:  2004 March 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Izvestnyi, Vladimir.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Vladimir Izvestnyi in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on March 1, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:58:37
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