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Oral history interview with Elena Tumasonienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.222 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0222

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    Oral history interview with Elena Tumasonienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elena Tumasonienė, born in Šeduva, Lithuania in 1924, discusses being told antisemitic stories as a child; studying nursing in Kaunas, Lithuania when the war between the Soviets and Nazi Germany began; local Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers) arresting pro-communists; Jewish prisoners in the ghetto performing forced labor; having three Jewish girls work on their farm; watching transports of Jewish people being removed from the town; the town’s priest’s attempt to save five Jewish people by baptizing them; their deaths; looting; and the perpetrators’ fate after the war.
    Interviewee
    Elena Tumasonienė
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2008 June 26
    Geography
    creation: Šeduva (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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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Tumasonienė, Elena.
    Corporate Name
    Baltaraiščiai (Group)

    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 08:43:04
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