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Oral history interview with Elena Rimulaitienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.234 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0234

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    Oral history interview with Elena Rimulaitienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elena Rimulaitienė, born in Tytuvėnai, Lithuania in 1926, discusses the size of her village's prewar Jewish community; witnessing the burning of sacred objects in the synagogue; the arrest of Jewish men first and then women and children seperately; hearing that Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers) were the perpetrators of a mass shooting; seeing the burial pits following the shooting; looting; and learning after the war that a village family saved a Jewish man.
    Interviewee
    Elena Rimulaitienė
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2009 March 19
    Geography
    creation: Tytuvėnai (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
    Rimulaitienė, Elena.

    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 08:43:09
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