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Oral history interview with Bronius Grižas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.199 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0199

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    Oral history interview with Bronius Grižas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bronius Grižas, born in Svėdasai, Lithuania in 1918, discusses witnessing the imprisonment of the town’s Jewish population in the synagogue; witnessing German forces burning the town’s synagogue; sexual assault; the roundup and transport of the Jewish population to a killing site; seeing villagers stealing the clothes of the victims; a mass shooting in the Jewish cemetery; seeing the burial pits; and details of the burial process.
    Interviewee
    Bronius Grižas
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2007 December 19
    Geography
    creation: Svėdasai (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Lithuanian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Grižas, Bronius.

    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.
    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 08:42:55
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