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Oral history interview with Gabrielus Žemkalnis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.224 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0224

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    Oral history interview with Gabrielus Žemkalnis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gabrielus Žemkalnis, born in Kačerginė near Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, discusses the outbreak of war between the Soviets and Nazi Germany; witnessing the Lietukis Garage Massacre; joining an anti-fascist movement at the age of 15; publishing an underground newspaper; being arrested and sent to concentration camps in Germany; his release at war’s end; and his mother and father’s role in hiding Jewish people during the war.
    Interviewee
    Gabrielus Žemkalnis
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2008 June 27
    Geography
    creation: Vilnius (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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Žemkalnis, Gabrielus.

    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 08:43:05
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